Music News (5/23/18)

Nominees Revealed For 30th Annual MusicRow Awards

MusicRow has announced the nominees for the 30th Annual MusicRow Awards, Nashville’s longest-running industry trade publication honors.

Download the PDF and see the complete list of nominees.

Subscribed members of MusicRow received ballots on Friday, May 18. Voting closes on Friday, May 25. To subscribe and receive your ballot and invitation, click here.

 
Home Team Publishing Signs Parker Welling

Parker Welling

Home Team Publishing, which was founded by Thomas Rhett, his manager Virginia Davis, and his father and fellow songwriter Rhett Akins and Roc Nation in 2017, has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Nashville native Parker Welling.

Welling is an accomplished singer and songwriter landing nine out of eleven songs on Russell Dickerson’s debut album Yours. In addition to having co-written his anticipated follow-up single “Blue Tacoma,” Welling penned the RIAA certified platinum title track “Yours” the debut single for Dickerson which made a Billboard record-breaking 39-week climb, peaking at a multi-week No. 1 and spending nine weeks in the top five.

Welling joins songwriter Eric Olson signed to Home Team Publishing.

 
Round Hill Music, Moraine Music Group Sign SHEL

Pictured (L-R): Dianna Maher, President, Moraine Music Group; Sarah Holbrook, Hannah
Holbrook, Eva Holbrook, Liza Holbrook; Mark Brown, Senior Vice President, General
Manager, Round Hill Music Nashville; Amanda Hruska, Senior Director,
Administration, Round Hill Music Nashville

Round Hill Music has signed SHEL to a joint venture with Moraine Music Group.

The indie/folk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, includes four sisters – Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza Holbrook, whose names form the acronym SHEL.

SHEL are also Music Ambassadors at this year’s Nashville Film Festival, which included an opening night performance at 3rd & Lindsley.

 
Arista Nashville Signs Carlton Anderson

Pictured (L-R): Sony Music Nashville’s A&R Manager Margaret Tomlin, A&R Representative Jillian Whitefield, EVP/COO Ken Robold, Director Digital Sales and Streaming Alaina Vehec, SVP A&R Jim Catino, VP Sales and Streaming Caryl Healey Atwood, EVP Promotion and Artist Development Steve Hodges, Carlton Anderson, VP Arista Nashville Promotion Josh Easler, Sony Music Nashville’s Chairman and CEO Randy Goodman, Senior Director Partnership Marketing Nicole Marinake, VP A&R Taylor Lindsey, Director National Promotion Lauren Thomas and EVP Marketing/New Business John Zarling.

Sony Music Nashville has announced the signing of artist and songwriter Carlton Anderson to Arista Nashville.

Anderson, who is signed as a writer to Warner/Chappell Music, is spending time with the Sony Music Nashville team as he prepares to launch his debut single.

Anderson grew up in Cypress, Texas, and began working in the oil fields at 16 (two years before he was of legal age to do so), and also worked at a grocery store to save enough money to purchase a guitar and a small PA, so he could begin playing in dancehalls and honky tonks around Texas.

Eventually, he saved enough money and the necessary co-sign from his grandparents to attend Nashville’s Belmont University. He would go on to play at Swingin’ Doors Saloon for the next five years, as he continued developing his songwriting skills.