Nashville Cast

The talents of the NASHVILLE performers and songwriters are on display as cast members – including Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere and Charles Esten – lend their voices to each song, produced by Buddy Miller. Fans have clearly embraced the musical journey as 4.8 million digital tracks from NASHVILLE have been sold to date.

Big Machine Records, along with ABC Studios, Lionsgate and Opry Entertainment — the entertainment powerhouses behind the show — have released seven season soundtracks and created both live and televised events such as NASHVILLE: On The Record Parts 1 and 2, whose LIVE recordings from the taping garnered the #1 spot on the iTunes Country Albums chart. Hits Daily Double muses, “music is a big part of what gives Callie Khouri’s prime-time drama its traction.”

The synergy created through actors and songs has also allowed country music to expand its reach in the U.K. Journalist Mark Hagen explains, “with Nashville, suddenly people are seeing country music in a very different light […] more modern, more cosmopolitan, and it gives people who aren’t invested in today’s country a sense that it’s something very different…”

NASHVILLE airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.