QUICK HITS: Range + Nashville + Tanya Tucker • Wavetick licensing launches • Chartmetric adds Smart Filters

Range Media Partners has added a Nashville office, and Range Music is announcing their newest signing, the legendary Tanya Tucker.

She joins their roster of country artists, writers, and producers, including Midland, Hailey Whitters, Luke Grimes, Yola, Ryan Bingham, Geoff Warburton, Russell Dickerson, Brent Cobb, Dylan Gossett, Stephen Wilson Jr., Shaboozey, Drayton Farley, and more. Range also represents Jack Harlow, Saweetie, Cordae, Pentatonix, and more.

Nashville-based industry veterans Shawn McSpadden and Will Lowery, who joined Range in 2023, will be joined in the Music City by co-founding managing partner Jack Minihan, who has relocated to Nashville from Los Angeles. Matt Graham, Range Media Partners co-founder, and Kyle Wilensky, artist manager and head of touring, will also split their time between Nashville and Los Angeles.

• Wavetick, an online music licensing marketplace, has launched its full product after a Beta phase. The company, founded by music tech entrepreneur Sharooz Raoofi offers 87.5% creator-seller sales income while also simplifying licensing.

Having already attracted some 600,000 individual sound sample downloads, the platform has no upfront cost. It enables sellers to receive instant payouts via Paypal while retaining license core rights, keeping a share in future publishing, and setting their own pricing and currency.

• Chartmetric has launched Smart Filters. The new feature transforms artist discovery workflow for Premium users, allowing them to easily scan through 10M artists across 100+ attributes. By leveraging AI and natural language processing, Smart Filtering enables users to specify filtering instructions in any language, simplifying the search process dramatically.

Bruce Houghton