Michael Knox
CollegeMusicRadio.com CEO/President.
Knox Management
Knox Music Group

September 2009 UPDATE: Currently Michael Knox produced the new Jason Aldean GOLD Record “Wide Open”, with sales of more than 100,000 copies in its first week to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard Country chart and No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200. The first single "She's Country" which was performed on the 42nd CMA Awards, reached the Number #1 spot on the Billboard and R&R Country Music Chart in May of 2009 and was certified GOLD with more than 900,000 singles sold.  

Knox produced Jason Aldean’s current GOLD selling FOUR Week Number #1 HIT single “Big Green Tractor” which was the number one Ringtone on iTunes for 5 consecutive weeks.

Knox is also working with newcomers Josh Thompson with current Top 40 single “Beer On The Table” for Columbia Records Nashville, Frankie Ballard (Warner Brothers Records), Bush Hog and Shalacy Griffin (Knox Music Group).Michael Knox is also Producing the new Trace Adkins record for Capital Records Nashville to be released early 2010.

Michael Knox Bio

Few people in Music Row history have turned creativity into chart success as well as Michael Knox. When he was an executive for Warner/Chappell Music (1992 - 2002), Knox was responsible for writer and artist development and song placements that left his stamp on more than 150 million records. Along the way, he has proven himself to be one of Nashville's most original business minds and one of its most successful groomers of talent.

"I don't do things in a traditional way," Knox says. "I want to be the guy who may do the unexpected because it taps into the heart of the creative process."

The result has been a truly impressive level of success. While at Warner/Chappell he was responsible for the catalogs of Marv Green (BMI's 2001 Songwriter of the Year, and writer of BMI/ACM/NSAI song of the year "Amazed"), Jeff Stevens, Steve Bogard, John Rich (Big & Rich), Vicky McGehee (BMI Songwriter Of the Year), Multi-Platinum Artist Gretchen Wilson, Blue Miller (producer of India Arie) Wendell Mobley, Terry McBride and Capital Recording Artist Emily West, and 2006 Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist Jason Aldean among many others, and for a co-venture with Encore Entertainment that produced ASCAP's 2001 Song of the Year ("The Way You Love Me") and Songwriter of the Year (Keith Follese), and a venture with Extreme Writers Group (Rodney Clawson).  Knox also co-produced Danni Leigh's Decca Records release in 1998. With monster hits as a songplugger by Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Gary Allan, Collin Raye, Tracy Byrd, Clay Walker, and many others--more than 300 cuts in eight years--all reflect his pivotal role in bringing together artist and song.

Currently Knox has produced Jason Aldean's self -titled Platinum album on Broken Bow Records, including the Top Ten hit single "Hicktown", Top 5 Single "Amarillo Sky" and the Billboard and R&R Number One (#1) hit single "Why".

He also produced Aldean's current GOLD album "Relentless" with it's Top 10 hit single "Johnny Cash", Top 5 hit single "Laugh Until We Cried" and Top 15 single "Relentless".  With first week sales of 98,000 copies, Aldean's sophomore album "Relentless" debut in 2007 at #1 on Billboards Top Country Albums.

The new Jason Aldean record "Wide Open" to be released April 7th 2009 and the first single "She's Country" which was performed on the 42nd CMA Awards is currently in the Top 10 on Billboard and R&R Country Charts. "She's Country" is Aldean's fastest moving single to date...Recently Knox has moved into a new territory, Producing and Managing newcomers Crossin Dixon, a new band on Broken Bow Records, with the singles "Guitar Slinger" and "I Love My Old Bird Dog" which reached #1 on the CMT Pure Country Network play list.

Also in 2008 Knox produced the Road Hammers current USA Top 50 debut singles "I Don't Know When To Quit" and "I've Got The Scars To Prove It" for Montage Records, and Knox also appeared in The Road Hammers reality series which aired on GAC, and CMT Canada, the Lila McCann single for BBR "That's What Angels Do", and he is working with newcomer Shalacy Griffin.

Knox came by his intimate knowledge of the music business honestly. The son of early rock 'n' roll legend Buddy Knox ("Party Doll" 1957), he had a front-row seat on history. I'd like to be known as a creative guy who happens to know how to run a business," he says. "I like getting in a room with writers and artists and being part of what facilitates their creativity."

"I truly believe," says Knox, "that the best music out there is music that normally doesn't get heard. There's a generation of brilliant talent out there that's not sure yet where to go or where they fit. Those are the people I want to work with."