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Mar 03
Justin Moore, Gavin Adcock and The Red Clay Strays will headline the Born & Raised Music Festival Sept. 17-19 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Tickets go on sale Wednesday. Walker Montgomery has signed with Jay DeMarcus’ Red Street Records. The son of John Michael Montgomery and the nephew of Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery, Walker’s debut single will …
Mar 03
Ella Langley (Disney/Connie Chornuk) Ella Langley’s current victory lap will continue later this month as she headlines a special Spotify South by Southwest concert. The “Choosin’ Texas” hitmaker’s currently enjoying a second week atop Billboard‘s all-genre Hot 100, as the song returns three weeks after it initially hit #1. She’ll play Spotify 20: Live at Stubb’s …
Mar 03
Carly Pearce (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal) The Song Suffragettes will give Carly Pearce their Yellow Rose of Inspiration Award March 30 at their 12th Anniversary Show. Carly will deliver an intimate performance and participate in a question and answer session as well. There’ll also be two writers’ rounds that night at The Listening Room, with Elizabeth Nichols, …
Mar 03
Megan Moroney (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Broadcasting Inc.) Megan Moroney and Ella Langley are currently making history as the first women ever to top the all-genre Billboard 200 and Hot 100 at the same time. It has happened before, however — just never with two female artists. The first time was April 30, 1977, when the Eagles’ …
Mar 03
‘NASHVILLE’ Encore Tour (SteadiBeat Touring) The cast of the TV show Nashville is reuniting for two special shows in Music City. The drama’s stars Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio were previously scheduled to play Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium on Jan. 25, but it was postponed because of the ice storm. That …
Mar 03
Ella Langley (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) Ella Langley and Megan Moroney have teamed up to accomplish an impressive first for women in country music: This week, the two each sit atop one of Billboard‘s all-genre charts for the first time in history. Ella returns to the Hot 100 for a second time with “Choosin’ Texas,” after …
Mar 03
Josh Ross (Disney/Connie Chornuk) Josh Ross says the sly undertone of his top-30 hit “Hate How You Look” draws from his real-life experience. “I call it like my cheeky song in the sense that, like, I’ve been in the situation where I’ve broken up with somebody, then I like see them down the road and I’m …
Mar 02
Lone Star State native Cody Johnson released his new song, “Blame Texas,” on Monday to coincide with Texas Independence Day. Drake Milligan’s added fall dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom to his Tumbleweed World Tour. His new album, also named Tumbleweed, drops March 13. Morgan Wallen’s follow-up radio single to his …
Mar 02
Rascal Flatts (Tibrina Hobson/CBS) Rascal Flatts wrapped the last weekend of their Life Is a Highway Tour with stops in Lexington, Kentucky; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Buffalo, New York. In all, Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney played 21 cities, taking Chris Lane and Lauren Alaina along for the ride. “It’s been such a …
Mar 02
Megan Moroney’s ‘Cloud 9’ (Sony) Megan Moroney has scored her first #1 album on the all-genre Billboard 200, as Cloud 9 debuts at the top of the chart. The third studio offering from the “Beautiful Things” hitmaker sold 147,000 equivalent album units in its first week out, the biggest week for a country album by a woman …
