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    • Jan 4, 2007
    Nielsen SoundScan reports 2006 country album sales slipped 0.5% from 75.3 million CDs to 74.9; music overall dipped 4.9%. Rascal Flatts' "Me And My Gang" was the second best-selling album in any genre; Carrie Underwood's "Some Hearts" was #3
    Jan 12, 2007
    Country Aircheck reports James Stroud is leaving the Universal Music Group, where he co-chaired the company and its multiple labels. Among Universal's artists: Josh Turner, George Strait, Sugarland, Shania Twain and Lee Ann Womack
    Mar 16, 2007
    Willie Nelson announces a new label, Pedernales Records, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. His partners include manager Mark Rothbaum and producer James Stroud; first signing is 40 Points, featuring sons Lukas and Micah Nelson
    Aug 5, 2008
    Sony buys BMG's half of Sony BMG for $1.2 billion. The resulting Sony Music Entertainment combines the rosters of Columbia, RCA, Arista and BNA
    Dec 31, 2008
    Nielsen SoundScan reports country album sales for 2008 totalled 47.7 million units, down 24% from 62.7 million in 2007. The industry as a whole dropped 14%. Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was the best-selling country CD
    Jun 3, 2009
    Radio & Records magazine folds abruptly after 36 years as one of the music industry's leading publications
    Jan 6, 2010
    U.S. consumers bought 46.13 million country albums in 2009, Nielsen SoundScan announces. That marks a 3.2% drop from 2008, while total album sales slid 12.7%. The top-selling album in any genre: Taylor Swift's "Fearless," which moved 3.2 million
    Jan 5, 2011
    Country album sales totalled 43.7 million in 2010, a 5% drop from 2009, Nielsen SoundScan announces. That compares to a 12.7% drop for the music industry overall. The year's best-selling country album: Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now"
    Jan 4, 2012
    Nielsen SoundScan announces 42.9 million country albums were sold in 2011, a 1.8% decline from 2010. The year's best-selling country release: Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party," which sold 1.6 million
    Nov 2, 2017
    The Country Music Association issues press guidelines requiring red-carpet journalists to avoid questioning artists at the CMA Awards about gun violence and politics, under threat of being removed from the venue. After protests from Brad Paisley and Maren Morris, the CMA rescinds the policy a day later



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