Phoenix Wedding DJ: Lady Antebellum: The Billboard Cover Story

August 27th, 2011 by admin

Phoenix Wedding DJ have had many request for Lady Antebellum lately.

Brides have asked Phoenix Wedding DJ to use Lady Antebellum songs for special events.

Here at Phoenix Wedding DJ services will continue to play Lady Antebellum as requested.

Below Phoenix Wedding DJ has attached a great by Billboard.com
http://www.billboard.com/#/features/lady-antebellum-the-billboard-cover-story-1005330382.story

he members of Lady Antebellum are excited and eager to talk.

In a small lounge at Starstruck Studios, a leading Nashville recording studio, singer Charles Kelley stretches his tall, lanky frame across the carpeted floor. Hillary Scott, the trio’s other lead singer, sits on an L-shaped leather couch facing a large TV and a menacing pair of speakers. Instrumentalist and backing singer Dave Haywood has pulled up a chair to be close to the conversation. With not a single mobile device in sight, the conversation is flowing.

Video: Lady Antebellum, “Just a Kiss”

Pop success hasn’t changed Lady Antebellum’s direction or attitude. The trio, formed in 2006, is staying true. They’ve tasted big-time mainstream success, but they won’t let it sidetrack them. “We can’t feel like we’ve got to live up to that every time,” says Kelley, the most philosophical of the three. “Because it just happened out of nowhere.”

The “it” Kelley refers to is 2009’s “Need You Now,” the career-making single written by Lady Antebellum and Josh Kear. It propelled the group into another stratosphere of the music business. The song spent five weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart at the end of 2009 and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2010. It helped make the album of the same name the second-best-selling set of 2010 and made Lady Antebellum one of the brightest acts in any genre of music. A mix of country tradition and pop accessibility, with a rare blend of male and female singers, Lady A’s music transcends geography and generation.

The tenuous nature of the music business helps drive Lady Antebellum’s work ethic and intensifies the trio’s appreciation of success. Scott’s mother, country singer Linda Davis (a soloist and one-half of Skip & Linda) won a Grammy Award for the 1993 duet with Reba McEntire “Does He Love You,” but has seen the highs and lows of the business. “I’ve watched my mom get signed and dropped by three or four different labels my whole life,” Scott says.

Lady Antebellum’s third album, “Own the Night,” out Sept. 13 on Capitol Nashville, has the difficult task of following up its predecessor. Released on Jan. 26, 2010, “Need You Now” shocked the industry with first-week sales of 481,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The title track pushed “Need You Now” to sales of 3.1 million units in 2010, second that year only to Eminem’s “Recovery,” and 3.6 million units through Aug. 14 (plus another 5.7 million digital tracks). More impressive than the sales numbers were the five Grammy Awards, including record and song of the year, the act took home in February.

Haywood leans forward in his chair, elbows on knees, and recalls the impact of those Grammys. “We definitely put a little pressure on ourselves to want to go back in and make sure we make this great,” he says.

Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum Big Winners at 2011 Grammys

But the awards and sales don’t drive this trio, says Gary Borman, the group’s manager and principal at Borman Entertainment. “They are hardworking people. But they’re driven not by an ethic to work. They’re driven by a passion to work.”

Five weeks before street date, Capitol Nashville chief Mike Dungan is delighted about the way that “Own the Night” is setting up. “The demand for this album is really strong,” he says with excitement.

He, of course, understands the expectations. “Are we going to hit that number again? I don’t know,” Dungan says. “But any fraction of that number would be a crime if that’s seen as a letdown, because that was an absolutely spectacular moment that comes around rarely.”

But there are indications that “Own the Night” will come out of the gate strong. The album’s first single, “Just a Kiss,” released May 2, rose to the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in mid-August. Pop radio is onboard, too. The song is No. 22 on the Hot 100 and No. 23 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. “You could tell it was a big song from the beginning,” Dungan says.

Video: Lady Antebellum perform “Just a Kiss” live at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards

A second single, the album’s title track, was released Aug. 15 and debuted at No. 40 on Hot Country Songs. During the week of release, the group will do a flurry of TV appearances — both morning and late-night shows — and will appear on “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 1.

And Lady Antebellum’s ace in the hole could be its digital marketing.

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