Country Music Archives

Apple announces Apple Music Radio

18/08/2020

Apple announces Apple Music Radio renaming Beats 1 to Apple Music 1 and adding two channels, Apple Music Hits and Apple Music Country. The new live radio channels are available in 165 countries and feature exclusive original shows from the world’s top music hosts and artists. Beats 1, the flagship global radio station, will be renamed Apple Music 1, and two additional radio stations will launch: Apple Music Hits, celebrating everyone’s favourite songs from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, […]

Country Music streaming grew by 36% in US in 2019

25/02/2020

Country Music streaming grew by 36% in US in 2019 with radio listeners having more contemporary tastes than on-demand streamers according to a recent report from P1 Media Group. Yet despite the general trend to playing more contemporary music, Country Radio missed the immense popularity of Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ which spent 19 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The findings were based on MRC Data/Nielsen Music Top 500 most played […]

Country Music listening increases in the US

07/02/2020

Country Music listening increases in the US with daily listening up 8% in the second half of 2019 according to a recent report from the Country Music Association (CMA). The CMA has launched a new Country Music consumer research dashboard called TRENDWATCH which is a monthly snapshot of ‘key music engagement behaviours’. Karen Stump, CMA Senior Director, Market Research said, “The fact that Country Music is garnering more daily listeners means we are connecting more frequently […]

SOURCE: Country Music Association of Australia

Country music value in Australia doubles in 20 years

02/09/2019

Country music value in Australia doubles in 20 years according to an in-depth study by the Country Music Association of Australia. The Economic and Cultural Value of Country Music in Australia 2018 follows on from the first study into country music in Australia conducted 20 years ago. The report is the result of nine months of industry research including detailed responses from 4,329 country music fans and 582 artists. The key findings reveal that the […]