GRAMMY winner Brad Paisley was among the top winners at the 49th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on Nov. 6 in Nashville, earning awards for Songwriter/Artist of the Year and Publisher of the Year for Sea Gayle Music, an independent publishing company he co-founded with songwriter Chris DuBois and producer Frank Rogers.
More than 5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the UK in February, a 37 percent increase compared to February 2009, according to a comScore report.
Overall music sales — including albums, singles, music videos, and digital tracks — increased 2.1 percent to a record 1.5 billion units in 2009 in the United States, following 10.5 percent and 14 percent respective gains in 2008 and 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
