Clear Channel Nashville - on life support?

[Kent]

One point that the made a couple of times on the announcement video; was how easy it was going to be working with Country Artist. Are CHR performers that hard to work with?

CHR artists have a reputation for having a sense of entitlement and lack of appreciation for the support they get from radio and their fans. Of course, not all of them are like this, but at least a few have given all of them a bad reputation.

As kr0nic points out, country artists are known for being easy to work with. Part of this may be because I've been told getting the promoters to embrace you is much tougher if you have a more traditional country sound. Radio, though, will continue to play you so long as your material tests well with its audience. So, country artists depend on radio a lot more once their foot is in the door, especially if they sound more like Alan Jackson than Taylor Swift. However, there are a few who are every bit as difficult as the stereotypical CHR performer!

 

[jetfli]

Or, to say it in a more localized venacular, as a group, working with country artists is usually more like working with just good ol' down home folks who haven't gotten above their raisin'. CHR artists are all over the map in terms of their vanity and may see you as just one more hired servant here to promote their fame and/or debauchery.

And if I may add one more, CCM artists are some of the very best with which to work, but a certain handful can be among the worst. Among the latter are those who seem to believe God answers to them ~ and are right up there with the most ego-centric of CHR artists.

 

[TheBigA]

The other thing is that country music in Nashville is very different from what it is in Austin. So moving him to Nashville will get him closer to the people he's playing. Other than Eli Young Band and Jack Ingram, the Austin crowd doesn't get a lot of airplay on the big CC stations around the country, so it's a good thing he's moving.