"Music is moving faster than ever, [while] the charts are going slower than ever," said one exec at the recently concluded Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.
Clay Hunnicutt, Ginny Rogers Brophey, Gregg Swedberg and Big D & Bubba are among this year's inductees.
"Birth, marriage, death — it's precisely that," says songwriter Bobby Braddock.
Declines in subscriber and advertising revenue in 2024 reinforce the company's pivot away from streaming and towards a focus on core in-car listeners.
Board member Kelli Turner will serve as interim president/CEO, effective immediately.
"I think about it all the time: How do I elevate but still keep the base?" asks one artist.
"Burning Down" has been a mainstay at pop radio, particularly since the arrival of its Joe Jonas remix in December.
Ferradas was previously at Dale Play Records.
Country Radio Seminar will run at the end of February in Nashville.
Two businessmen purchased WKIT-FM from the writer after he announced that the station and two others would go silent.
