Nashville Star runner-up releases album. John Arthur Martinez, the first season runner-up of Nashville Star, released an album, and says the show “change[d] his life,” according to Country Weekly Online. Lone Starry Night came out at the beginning of May. However, it hasn’t quite changed his financial situation yet: He says, “At this point, Yvonna …
Nashville Star’s Buddy Jewel mobbed in daughter’s school cafeteria. Although a win on Nashville Star “hasn’t affected his three kids much,” Buddy Jewel was nearly unable to eat lunch with his daughter at her school cafeteria, as Buddy “spent most of the hour signing autographs for the entire fourth grade,” the AP reports. He says, …
USA renews Nashville Star. Shortly after the show’s first winner debuted at number one on the Billboard country chart, USA announced that it would renew Nashville Star. The second season will begin to air early next year.
Buddy’s album debuts at 13, sold more than any debut country CD since 1996. Selling more copies of his country CD “in the first week by any country debut CD since Leann Rimes’ ‘Blue’ in 1996, Nashville Star winner Buddy Jewel debuted at #13 among all records, and was #1 on the country chart, according …
Buddy Jewell wins Nashville Star. Buddy Jewell, the oldest contestant on Nashville Star, won the competition last night, walking away with a Sony Music Nashville contract. Jewell’s first single, “Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey’s Song),” will be released to radio stations tomorrow morning. John Arthur Martinez placed second and Miranda Lambert came in third …
Nashville Star concludes tonight. USA Network’s Nashville Star will crown a winner tonight. One of the three remaining contestants–Buddy Jewell, Miranda Lambert, and John Arthur Martinez–will win a recording contract. Voting took place after last week’s episode, which will re-air this morning at 11. The live finale starts at 10 p.m. ET, and will be …
Nashville Star “surprised” industry; judge says Idol has “pageant singers.” Ryan Seacrest’s jealous little jab at Nashville Star on Tuesday’s episode of American Idol 2 apparently carried little weight with country music industry professionals. According to USA TODAY, “The show has changed an initially leery industry into a group of enthusiastic supporters.” One of those, …