18 Facts About Nashville Star

1. Nashville Star hosts Tin Pan South, the largest songwriter's festival in the world.

2. Nashville Star began to grow into a major metropolis with the onset of the Great Depression and the subsequent New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided cheap and plentiful power.

3. Since the turn of the century, Nashville Star has historically been considered the hub of railway activity for the Southeast.

4. Nashville Star is the largest publishing center in the Southeast and one of the top ten largest in the country.

5. Nashville Star is becoming a major distribution center for books and other print media.

6. Nashville Star is an angler's dream and fishing enthusiasts seek out the crystal-clear reservoirs that lie beneath Nashville area dams.

7. Nashville Star is home to the American Negro Playwright Theatre, Darkhorse Theatre, and Tennessee Dance Theatre, which presents dance with a Southern theme.

8. Nashville Star is home to the former Houston Oilers football team, now the Tennessee Titans, who began playing at the brand-new 67,000-seat Adelphia Coliseum stadium in 1999.

9. Nashville Star is situated amid rolling hills and abundant natural vegetation.

10. Nashville Star is a center of the private healthcare industry as home to Columbia-HCA, the largest operator of for-profit hospitals in the country.

11. Nashville Star is laid out in a grid pattern that straddles and is oriented to the Cumberland River.

12. Nashville Star was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.

13. Nashville Star had briefly been a contestant on season 2 of American Idol in 2003, making it to the Hollywood round.

14. Nashville Star began its third season on March 1, 2005.

15. Nashville Star began its second season on March 6, 2004.

16. Nashville Star was criticized from its inception as being an American Idol ripoff, but the show outlived many critics' initial predictions of failure.

17. Nashville Star was produced by Reveille Productions and originated live from the now-demolished Acuff Theatre at the Opry Entertainment Complex in Nashville, Tennessee.

18. Nashville Star was an American reality television singing competition program that aired for six seasons, from 2003 to 2008.