The CMF currently employs more than 70 full-time professionals and is "the world's largest research center devoted to a single form of popular music.
"[1] "The Country Music Foundation, Inc. (CMF) is dedicated to preserving and teaching the evolving history of country music—from its early, traditional roots to its present-day manifestations as a community-based music and a thriving form of popular culture.
The Country Music Foundation is still housed with the Hall of Fame and Museum at its new location at 222 5th Avenue South in Downtown Nashville when the new building opened in 2001.
It moved locations in 2001 to the new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown Nashville.
The CMF regularly produces and consults for other labels' historic performances, and itself issued the first historic recording on their Country Music Foundation Records label, which preceded later releases including: —