America Wants Americana Monitored

• The Americana Music Association℠ in conjunction with CDX Nashville, a leading digital music distribution and tracking company, today launches a monitored Americana Radio Airplay Albums Chart and debuting a Singles Chart. The data for both charts will be based on monitored Americana radio airplay.

This new partnership enables CDX Nashville to implement their unique monitored airplay system to the Americana format. Utilizing their own patent-pending song recognition technology, the service will monitor terrestrial broadcast station signals that are being streamed over the Internet as well as take into account internet-based radio streams. Song detections will be tracked in real-time and then reported to paid subscribers through the CDX TRACtion web-based interface.

The data presented in CDX TRACtion will provide the basis for the new Americana Radio Airplay Albums Chart and Singles Chart, which will be published on americanamusic/radio.org and will continue to be emailed on a weekly basis to anyone who joins the mailing list, beginning today.

Michele Rhoades, who oversees radio development at the Association, remains as Chart Editor. For more info, contact Michele at m.rhoades@americanamusic.org or CDX Nashville VP Joe Kelly at joe@cdxcd.com.