Jay Frank is currently the SVP of Music Strategy for Country Music Television, a division of MTV Networks. At CMT, he oversees the implementation of music across all platforms, including TV, web, mobile and VOD. The new synergy he is developing is changing the face of country music as he identifies future country hits through [...]

Jeff Price, CEO, Founder and President of TuneCore launched the digital music distribution company in 2005 with the goal of serving artists. Four and a half years later, TuneCore is the world’s largest distributor of music. American Songwriter interviewed Price to find out exactly what TuneCore does and why. (Be sure to check out TuneCore’s [...]

What is the mission of TuneSat, and when was the service launched? For the past 75 years, the tracking and reporting of music usage has been a tedious manual process.  This manual process gives way to major inefficiencies and discrepancies between how much music is used in media versus what is actually reported.  TuneSat conducted [...]

Kella Stephenson, director of The Kella Stephenson Company, handles financial management for a number of Nashville songwriters, including Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus Take The Wheel”) and James Slater (“In My Daughter’s Eyes”). What exactly do you do, Kella? I do business management and financial planning for songwriters. That entails everything from paying their power bill to [...]