According to a recent Huffington
Post article, the music used in the
"Nashville" television series has been as popular, if not more, than
the stars themselves. The music from the show has been selling like crazy with
over 800,000 digital singles sold and two soundtrack albums reaching Top 20
spots on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. None if this was a surprise to Steve Buchanan, the show’s architect and president of the
Grand Ole Opry. Buchanan actually envisioned
the show as a vehicle for showcasing Nashville
music. “There’s a demand for purchasing the music that you hear on TV,”
Buchanan says. (Saving
Country Music)
The show has been a showcase for Nashville’s varied and
diverse talent pool. It has reached beyond country and included a snapshot of
the real Nashville music scene, from Florida Georgia Line to Jerry Lee Lewis
all the way to Jim Lauderdale and the Civil Wars.
Music supervisor Frankie Pine is
impressed with what Music City has to offer. "There's just incredible
writers in Nashville," she notes. "Giving these writers a spotlight
is what I think our show really does.” (US
News)
ABC is happy with the musical array,
and makes sure that all “facets of Nashville music” is included. According to
Dawn Soler, ABC's senior vice president of music, every episode is an
opportunity to showcase Nashville’s musical diversity. (US
News)
Canadian transplant, Lindi Ortega has seen her
fortunes rise after an appearance on the show. After licensing two rockabilly tracks in earlier episodes
last season, the producers asked her to appear on the show as
herself. She sang
“The Day You Die,” off her 2012 album, Cigarettes & Truckstops, and
after the episode aired, sales of the song skyrocketed and Ortega’s fans
had her “trending” for days. (SF
Examiner)
Rumor has it, the success of “Nashville” has
spawned an actual Nashville based reality show called Crazy Hearts:
Nashville slated for the A&E network. The show is about aspiring
country artists and industry insiders. (Hollywood
Reporter) Sounds kind of familiar!
This is definitely great news for Nashville. What's great about these new shows, is the fact that they are making the artist and their music popular, but they are also bringing more jobs their for TV production. The more successful the area gets, the more productions will begin to come their. This opens the door for concerts, music videos, and even films down the road. I think it's cool that world will have an opportunity to be able to get educated about the different styles of music and how some originated in that area.
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