Airplay Direct chooses Nashville

A four-year-old digital music startup out of Atlanta says it will make Nashville home. Today's story is here.

Can't see the forest for the Titans

Tennessee Titans Fans: San Francisco-based StubHub, the online ticket marketplace, says it'll plant a tree in Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee for each NFL Playoff or SuperBowl ticket purchased, or folks can donate directly to the forest fund, with every dollar donated planting one tree. More on the deal here. Note: In Nashville, Highnotes startup CEO Scott Welch was an exec with Stubhub, before its sale to Amazon.com, story here.

Nashville as Music Crossroads

Beyond what we published last week, Scott Welch, the Nashville music-talent manager and Highnote entrepreneur, told us that songs, artists and videos on Highnote will be ranked by highly intelligent technology that will track about 300 different aspects of visitor behavior and demographics. He also said he believes Nashville will become increasingly attractive as the nation's Music capital, partly because he sees "live performance" as the future of the industry, and Nashville (not Indiana) is geographically the nation's Music crossroads. Here's Thursday's story.