New Artists

• Troy Olsen debuts today

  EMI Records Nashville’s flagship artist Troy Olsen releases his self-titled 4-song EP today. In addition to Olsen’s debut single, Summer Thing, the “Troy Olsen EP” features Let Me Take You There, Ghost Town Train and Truth or Consequences. Olsen has…

  11 May 10 / Category: Artists / New Artists

   

• Bundy visits Chelsea Tuesday

  Laura Bell Bundy makes her debut appearance on Chelsea Lately Tuesday, May 11. Bundy and CMT’s Evan Farmer will announce the final nominees for the “2010 CMT Music Awards” tomorrow from New York at 9 a.m. Eastern on people.com. She…

  11 May 10 / Category: Artists / Buzz! / New Artists

   

• iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy picks first single

  Nickelodeon’s iCarly star Jennette McCurdy announced today that Not That Far Away McCurdy asked her fans to help pick the first single through a poll on AOL’s The Boot featuring six snippets of songs from her album. The song, written…

  11 May 10 / Category: Artists / Music / New Artists

   

• I Think Shania Twain’s Songs May Already Be Written

  Artists are artists. And if they aren’t expressing themselves in song, they have to find other ways to do so. Earlier this week, Shania Twain chose to pour her heart out in a…

  17 Jun 09 / Category: New Artists / Shows

   

• Chris Young

  An air of high expectation and inevitability has always surrounded Chris Young. Anyone who heard him sing, and anyone who experienced his poised and engaging stage show, inevitably decreed that this tall fellow with the friendly smile had what it…

  24 May 09 / Category: Music / New Artists / New Releases

   

• NASHVILLE SKYLINE: New Sounds From Holly Williams and Del McCoury

  (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)

  This has been a listening week for me. Here are some of the sounds I’ve been enjoying.

  Del McCoury, Del McCoury: Celebrating 50 Years: The great bluegrass innovator celebrates his…

  24 May 09 / Category: New Artists / New Releases