The Top 100 Airplay Albums on Americana Radio in 2017
The Americana Music Association has announced their 2017 Top 100 Albums of the Year based on reporting to the Americana Airplay Chart from Americana stations during the period of Dec. 6, 2016 through...
View ArticleAmericana Debuts New Songs & Albums Charts
On Tuesday, January 16th, The Americana Music Association launched its brand new charting system with the help of technology company CDX. The new system will more easily and more accurately report the...
View ArticleNominees Announced for the 2018 Americana Music Awards
The Americana Music Association has announced their nominees for the 2018 Americana Music Awards. In a ceremony held at the Country Music Hall of Fame on Tuesday afternoon (5/15), nominees in six...
View ArticleAmericanaFest Adds to Already-Stacked 2018 Lineup
The Americana Music Association has just announced an additional 99 artists to go with the previously-announced 74 artists that have been selected to perform at the 2018 AmericanaFest. This brings the...
View ArticleTyler Childers Offers Critical Assessment of the Term “Americana” After...
After making some remarks about keeping the back door open and allowing people like himself in, and making reference to his mispronounced name, Tyler Childers delivered a directed and pointed diss to...
View ArticleDefinition is Americana’s Greatest Challenge, Not Diversity
2018 was a high water mark when it came to the amount of diversity showcased by the organization and its community. But still the criticism for Americana's lack of diversity have grown louder,...
View Article2018’s Top 100 Americana Albums and Songs on Radio
The Americana Music Association has released the Top 100 Albums and Songs for 2018 according to the amount of radio play each album and song received. The annual report gives listeners a glimpse into...
View ArticleNominees Announced for 2019 Americana Music Awards
The Americana Music Association has announced the 2019 nominees for their annual Americana Music Awards to be held this September at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. In a video hosted by The Milk...
View ArticleTyler Childers: “We’ve Not Fixed The Problem of Bad Country”
Tyler Childers is getting ready to release his major label debut Country Squire on Friday, August 2nd, and ahead of the release, he's doubling down on both his distaste for much of modern country, and...
View Article2019 Americana Music Awards Winners and Recap
The 18th Annual Americana Music Awards transpired Wednesday night (9-11) at the Country Music Mother Church, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, with lots of love spread out among a diverse list of...
View ArticleThe Top 100 Americana Albums and Songs on Radio in 2019
The Americana Music Association has released the Top 100 Albums and Songs for 2019 according to the amount of radio play each album and song received. The annual report gives listeners a glimpse into...
View ArticleTyler Childers On His Music: “I’m Calling It Country”
Hanging out at the Grammys was not the only high-profile appearance Tyler Childers made recently. The Kentucky native was featured on NPR's World Cafe on Monday during a 30-minute segment, and once...
View ArticleAfter New Billboard Distinction, The Time for Americana is Now
On Friday (5-13), it was announced that Billboard would finally be adding an Americana chart to their weekly albums chart roster. This is 10 years after the Grammy Awards began to recognize Americana,...
View ArticleTakeaways from Billboard’s Inaugural Americana Albums Chart
Americana may not have a definitive, universally-recognized definition. But it now has it's own classification on Billboard's weekly album's chart, which is a new layer of legitimacy for the genre if...
View ArticleAmericanaFest Announces 2nd Round of 2016 Performers
The AmericanaFest keeps piling on names for their annual gathering, causing you to seriously question your September plans if they don't involve trekking to Nashville to take in this years festivities....
View ArticleGeorge Strait to Present Jim Lauderdale with Americana Honor
It has been announced that "King" George Strait will make a rare public appearance after his official touring retirement to present Jim Lauderdale with the Wagonmaster Award named for country music...
View ArticleAmericanaFest Announces Full 2016 Lineup
The AmericanFest has announced their full list of 2016 performers after announcing the first 68 names in early May, another batch of performers in June. The over 200 acts will be performing at 14...
View ArticleAmericana & Classic Country Make Big Inroads Into Nashville Radio Landscape
Just in time for throngs of Americana fans to flock to the city for the annual AmericanaFest the third week of September, a new radio station has launched just south of the city in Murfreesboro, and...
View Article2016 Americana Music Awards LIVE Blog
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Saving Country Music’s 2016 Americana Music Awards LIVE blog! As the festivities stream live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, we’ll tag along to leave our...
View ArticleAfter Big Americana Wins, Jason Isbell Slays Robert’s with Merle Haggard Covers
After the awards, Jason Isbell did like so many artists of country music's storied past once did after playing at the Country Music Mother Church. He ambled out of the backstage exit into the famous...
View ArticleSCM’s Biggest Takeaways from AmericanaFest 2016
List making either before or after events has become a dubious enterprise of mainstream outlets just looking to troll the fan bases of independent performers to get these performers to dutifully post...
View ArticleJim Lauderdale Heads to Texas for “This Changes Everything” (review)
Jim Lauderdale decided that since he'd never made a Texas country record, he'd head down to Austin and assembled a hot shit band of Texas pickers and players, and record himself a Texas country project...
View ArticleAfter Historic Sales Week, Americana Positioned to Become Major Rival to...
One of the reasons we feel so surprised at Americana's success and so many have been so slow to recognize it is because it has been a slow and steady process. Because of Americana's model of...
View ArticleNominees for UK and International Americana Awards Announced
Americana music isn't just for Americans, and even though this may confuse an already much-argued etymology for one of America's (and the world's) most fastest-growing genres, significant efforts...
View ArticleAmericana Music Association Announces Top 100 Radio Albums of 2016
The Americana Music Association has announced their year-end Top 100 Albums of the Year based on the records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of December 1, 2015 through...
View ArticleSo Now Alt-Country and Americana Are Part of the Alt-Right?
These days, as country music continues to improve in the mainstream, and we're seeing incredible support for independent country music like never before, one of the biggest issues emerging in country...
View ArticleFive Years After Linda Chorney, The Grammy Awards Still Can’t Get Americana...
This year many of the artists, labels, managers, fans, and even many of the individuals involved in the Grammy nomination process are feeling let down like many years, and are scratching their heads on...
View ArticleThe Difficult Task of Translating Americana’s Diversity From the Stage to the...
I remember saying it myself when the Carolina Chocolate Drops first came on the scene. Excellent band, and great to see some diversity represented in country and Americana music in a way that...
View ArticleAmericanaFest Announces 2017 Initial Lineup
The Americana Music Association has just announced the initial 100 names of showcasing artists who will be gracing stages all around Nashville September 12th-17th for the 2017 AmericanaFest. Eventually...
View ArticleAmericana Music Awards Announce 2017 Performers & Broadcast Partners
The 16th Annual Americana Music Awards will transpire on Wednesday, September 13th at the Mother Church of Country Music, The Ryman Auditorium, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Central as part of the week-long...
View Article2017 Americana Music Awards LIVE Blog
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Saving Country Music’s 2017 Americana Music Awards LIVE blog. As the festivities stream live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville (link below), we’ll tag along to...
View ArticleZephaniah OHora Impresses at AmericanaFest
The life of the classic country fan living in the modern world is all to often one of disappointment. Of course there are plenty of the old records to reminisce back upon, or artists who attempt their...
View ArticleBeloved Drummer Gets Big Boost from 2017 AmericanaFest
You may have not known his name or who he was, but it would be hard not to notice the tall, lanky, dreadheaded dude in big white glasses behind the drums backing up a dozen or so different independent...
View ArticleNew Americana Radio Chart Hopes To Add More Transparency / Accountability to...
As the Americana genre continues to expand market share for the independent industry, and is aided by the success of big stars such as Jason Isbell, so expands the need for better infrastructure and...
View ArticleNew ACM Awards Date Directly Conflicts with AmericanaFest Awards
Originally scheduled to occur on Sunday, April 5th in Las Vegas, the ACM Awards will now be held at The Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Cafe on September 16th, 2020....
View ArticleThe Americana Music Awards Announce 2020 Nominees
AmericanaFest has been officially cancelled for 2020. But the crown jewel of the event---the Americana Music Awards---will move forward at the Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday, September 16th as...
View ArticleNew Grammy Americana Award Only Partially Solves Problem
The new award will give one more opportunity for Americana artists (and some country artists by proxy) to be nominated and win in what has become one of the most crowded categories in all of the Grammy...
View ArticleCompendium of Country Music Definitions, Subgenres, Terms, & Eras
Country music is country music, and the best definition of what country music is, is that you know it when you hear it. It's self-evident. But the genre has birthed many subgenres, many stylistic...
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