Chuck Howard is an icon of entertainment leadership in the Country Music Business in Nashville. Under Howard’s direction as VP of A&R, Curb Records improved Billboard Label ranking from 13 to #1 label, three years in a row. A 23% market share of albums and a 75% share in singles sales. He has to numerous awards to mention. However, below lists a few of his music business accomplishments as a Producer and Music Publisher with Curb Records.
- 100+ Top-Ten hits, and 24 Number 1 hits in his career.
- 80 Million units sold as a Producer, 92 Gold Albums, 52 Platinum Albums
- Over 26 BMI Million-Airs Awards
Movie Business
In 2010, he decided his cycle in the music business was ending and became interested in doing music videos and that led him to do movies. His first movie, “Decision” in 2011 was made for $50k and had a return of $600K. He was hooked. The next six movies (Luke Warm, Changing Seasons, A Matter of Time, 11 Seconds, Online and Forgiven) were self-funded so he could learn all aspects of the movie industry first hand. Some of them have been released, and some are being held back for an APP SVOD in development.
In 2016, He released “I’m Not Ashamed” with Pureflix which did $2M in the box office and another $2M of ancillary monies and was nominated For GMA Movie of the year. Then Pureflix asks Chuck to Partner and Produce a series of films (“Prayer Box” and “Bethlehem Ranch” to date) to go directly to Pureflix’ s SVOD database. In 2018, he released “Beautifully Broken” as the Head Producer / Writer / Music Producer / Distributor in a Theatrical release In August. To date, it has done $1.2M in Box Office and estimating to double that in ancillary sales.
A Few Awards
“How Do I Live” – Billboard pop hot 100 (32 weeks in top 10) broke the 1943 “Paper Doll” by The Mills Brothers (30 weeks)and becomes the longest-running record in the history of the Billboard chart (69 weeks) and Billboard AC chart – #1 (11 weeks) – top 10 (36 weeks) – only country single ever to reach #1 on Billboard dance chart – longest #1 record on any chart in the history of Billboard.
Billboard award biggest record for the first 100 years of Billboard -“How Do I Live”
