ASCAP songwriter Jason Sever has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Missi Gallimore’s Amped Entertainment. Sever, who penned Dustin Lynch’s “Seein’ Red,” joins a roster that includes Chris Lindsey, KK…

Matthew West has extended his exclusive publishing agreement with Combustion Music, in conjunction with his Story House Collective. Most recently, West earned his 11th No. 1 hit with Combustion, with…

It’s official: 2019’s ACM Songwriter of the Year is Shane McAnally. The trophy was handed out on Friday night (April 5), during the ACM Party for a Cause Stories, Songs…

Provident Label Group/Sony Music have signed Matthew West to their roster. In conjunction with their new partnership is the newly-created imprint Story House Music, which mirrors West’s management company, Story…

Chris Stapleton, Dan + Shay, and Kacey Musgraves lead the nominees for the upcoming 54th Academy of Country Music Awards, to be held Sunday, April 7 in Las Vegas. Reigning…

The concert promoter and venue operator Live Nation will run a forthcoming amphitheater in Williamson County, to be built at the base of an old limestone quarry. Live Nation Entertainment…

NBC is adding another music competition to its roster with Songland, a series that will focus on songwriters and give them a change to have tracks recorded by top artists….

Hit-making country songwriter Shane McAnally is taking to arbitration his dispute with ASCAP over approximately $1.3 million that he says the performance rights organization owes him. McAnally decided to leave…

This week, Nashville-based company SMACKSongs, led by writer/producer Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Michael McAnally Baum, Robin Palmer and Robert Carlton, was honored with five CMA Triple Play Awards. McAnally was…