Billboard magazine has taken note of rising country music star – and Belmont University graduate – Josh Turner, whose song Long Black Train is rising up the country charts. In the story, which notes that Turner is the only new artist who debuted in 2003 to have the debut album go “gold” so far. Gold certification is awarded to albums that sell at least 500,000 copies. Turner describes the writing of the song, which he wrote while still a student at Belmont in 1999…
Radio/TV Celeb Sean Hannity Coming to the Curb
Popular radio talk show host and FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity is bringing his “Hannitization Tour 2004” to Belmont University’s Curb Center, Friday, March 12th. Hannity Sean will speak at 6:30 p.m. that day and then sign copies of his new book, Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism. WLAC-AM, the radio station that broadcasts Hannity’s show in the Nashville market, says tickets will cost $15 and $20, and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19th at Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.com.
Quoted: Thom Storey
Dr. Thom Story, chairman of the Media Studies department at Belmont University, is quoted in this front-page story in today’s Nashville City Paper about the acquisition of two newspaper in the Nashville suburbs of Franklin and Murfreesboro by Gannett, owner of the The Tennessean.
Reporter to Speak on Urban Journalism at Belmont
Urban affairs reporter Clyde Hughes of The Toledo Blade will speak at Belmont University on Wednesday, Feb. 18, on doing urban Journalism in the digital age, as part of the university’s ongoing New Century Journalism Speakers Series. Hughes has worked as a staff writer and sports reporter at The Blade since November, 1989. He founded the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association in 1990. It is the local affiliate of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Quoted: Don Cusic (Again)
Donald F. Cusic, professor of music business at Belmont University, was quoted at length in a story in the Sunday, Feb. 15 edition of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper about the cost of music CDs for consumers, and the industry trends at work in a recent announcement by Universal Universal Music Group that it would cut prices for its CDs. The story explores why prices at the retail level seem not to have come down.
Nashville’s Newest Star-to-Be Has Belmont Connection
The Lancaster News, in Lancaster, S.C., profiles hometown girl and Belmont University graduate Julie Roberts, perhaps the next major recording star on Nashville’s famed Music Row.
Mercury Records is expecting big things from Lancaster native Julie Roberts, who is getting major Nashville buzz as her first single,
Papers Note New Business Program
The Nashville City Paper reported today on the launch of the new undergraduate program in International Business at Belmont’s Massey College of Business Administration. The Tennessean also ran a “business brief” on the program today.
Belmont Project Up for Two Dove Awards
In Bright Mansions, an album featuring the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers that was produced by Belmont University’s student-run Acklen Records label, has been nominated for a Dove Award in two categories.
The album, in the running for a Grammy
Quoted: Don Cusic
Donald F. Cusic, professor of music business at Belmont University, is quoted in a Kansas City Star story about celebrity sex scandals.
