Blake Shelton Announced for CRS 2022 “The Artist Interview,” Sponsored by BMI

(Nashville, Tenn. – Aug. 16, 2021) Award-winning country superstar, Blake Shelton, has been announced as the featured artist for “The Artist Interview,” sponsored by BMI, at CRS 2022. Shelton will sit down with Country Aircheck Publisher/CEO and host of Westwood One's Country Countdown USA, Lon Helton, and will speak candidly on his epic career, artistic process, and what's on the horizon.    

CRS Board President, Kurt Johnson comments, "This is one you definitely don't want to miss! Blake speaks his mind, often surprises, and always, always makes you laugh. Come to CRS and enjoy some quality time with one of our biggest superstars."

Blake Shelton continues to add to his superstar status with his new album Body Language, available everywhere now. The album’s flagship single “Happy Anywhere” (featuring Gwen Stefani) summitted the Country Digital Song Sales chart and marked his 28th country radio chart-topper. Prior to “Happy Anywhere” Shelton celebrated a Platinum-selling, multi-week No. 1 with “Nobody But You,” which has now surpassed 260 million streams. “Nobody But You” made its TV debut on the 62nd GRAMMY Awards, where Shelton was also nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for his smash “God’s Country.” The 4x Platinum smash earned the 2019 CMA Award and 2020 ACM Award for Single of the Year. As his award wins approach the hundreds, Shelton remains a force in the industry with ACM (5), AMA (3), CMA (10), CMT (11) and People’s Choice Awards (6), among many others. He will make his long-anticipated return to the road this month on his “Friends and Heroes 2021” tour with very special guest Lindsay Ell and special appearances by Martina McBride, Tracy Byrd and Trace Adkins.

As a coach for the Emmy Award-winning television show The Voice, Shelton is an eight-time champion, most recently with his contestant Cam Anthony. The Grand Ole Opry member also remains focused on his Ole Red partnership with Ryman Hospitality, with locations currently in Tishomingo, Nashville, Gatlinburg and Orlando. A noted humanitarian, Shelton has helped raise millions of dollars for children’s hospitals, disaster relief organizations, food banks and more in his home state of Oklahoma and throughout the entire country.  In 2019, Shelton was awarded the CRS Artist Humanitarian Award for his continued outreach in helping to raise millions of dollars for countless causes. For more information, please visit www.BlakeShelton.com and follow @BlakeShelton.

Registration for CRS 2022 opens tomorrow, August 17 at 10 a.m. CT at the Early Bird Rate of $549 per person. Registration will be available for purchase at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

CRS is also proud to announce a unique and limited incentive: every CRS 2022 early bird registration will include a complimentary edition of the not-yet-published “Bob Kingsley’s BOOK OF RECORDS,” a collectible, high-quality coffee table book chronicling the living history of the late Bob Kingsley’s first-hand documentation of his decades-long, Hall of Fame Country radio career counting down the hits. This book features Bob’s personal accounts of the formats’ most engaging artists, songwriters, producers, and executives, plus fresh interpretations from his wife and business partner Nan Kingsley, along with industry friends.

In tandem with the recent donation of the Kingsley Archive to the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum, all proceeds from the print and audiobook – narrated by fellow Country Radio Hall Of Famer Blair Garner - will be allocated to the Museum’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. This treasure trove of stories will not be available to the public until December 7. Longtime listeners, industry friends, and fans can pre-order the book here via the Museum’s e-commerce platform. 

Effective August 19, the rate will increase to $649 per person. Following the success and popularity of CRS 2021: The Virtual Experience, CRS will also be offering a virtual track featuring livestream sessions and on-demand content from the 3-day event. Musical performances will only be available in-person and not available through the virtual experience. The Early Bird rate for a CRS Virtual pass is $99 per person, and effective August 19, the rate will increase to $129 per person.  In-person ticket holders will also be provided access to the virtual track.A ticket to the annual New Faces of Country Music® Showcase is only included with in-person registration packages and will only be available until full capacity is reached. New Faces tickets are limited, and in previous years, they have reached capacity within hours of being on sale. Anyone interested in a New Faces ticket is encouraged to register at 10 a.m. CT on Aug. 17. 

CRS host hotel, Omni Nashville Hotel, will also be accepting reservations starting Aug. 17. A link to make reservations will be available at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

While attendees can expect to see the return of many of the most popular events and programming CRS has to offer, CRS is dedicated to expanding the seminar’s scope and is dedicating an entire day to streaming. A one-day pass to attend the CRS Streaming Summit on Wednesday, Feb. 23 will be available for $249 per person. 

More announcements surrounding the agenda will continue to be released in the coming weeks.  Most recently, CRS announced the launch of a new series, "CRS Heads Of State," that will occur during the three-day event. Featuring a mix of the industry’s most prominent leaders and highest-profile CEOs, "CRS Heads Of State" will start and end each day, and will share prominent leaders giving their unique insight and global perspective on the current status of the music and broadcast businesses, how they have emerged post-pandemic, and ways their respective companies plan to achieve continued success in the near future.

To keep up with the latest developments surrounding CRS 2022, visit www.CountryRadioSeminar.com for more information, and follow CRS on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.