This one's for you: Thomas Rhett stars in his own beer commercial

Valory Music Co. You should soon start seeing Thomas Rhett in his own Budweiser commercial. The ACM Male Vocalist of the Year shares the spotlight with beer-drinkers all across the country, who submitted videos of themselves raising cans and bottles featuring the brand’s latest patriotic packaging. “Budweiser has some of the most iconic commercials of all time,” …

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2017 CMT Music Awards: The Grey Carpet

CMTWednesday evening on the not-so-red carpet, Chris Lane echoed the sentiments of many who’ve come before him: the CMT Music Awards are not your mama’s awards show! “The whole show, the whole vibe of the show is just a big party… It’s just a good time, there’s no doubt about it.” The “Fix” hitmaker admitted he was …

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Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood among the big winners at the 2017 CMT Music Awards

CMTKeith Urban was the big winner at the 2017 CMT Music Awards, airing live from Nashville’s Music City Center on Wednesday. He picked up four trophies, including Video of the Year for “Blue Ain’t Your Color” — which also earned him Male Vocalist honors. Keith also won for Collaborative Video of the Year, along with …

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Dustin Lynch to debut “sexy new look” Friday night at CMA Music Festival

BBR Music Group Friday night, Dustin Lynch is set to make his very first appearance on the main stage at CMA Music Festival. The Tullahoma, Tennessee native will perform in front of 70,000 fans at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium — but there’s more. He’ll also debut a sneak peek of the new video for his latest single, “Small …

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Preds fever sweeps Carrie Underwood's fan club party at the Grand Ole Opry

ABC/Image Group LA Carrie Underwood kicked off a busy week of CMA Music Festival with a longstanding tradition: her fan-club party at the Grand Ole Opry. In addition to a command performance, Carrie also gave her most-devoted supporters a Nashville Predators rally towel, a nod to the fact that her husband, team captain Mike Fisher, is just …

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Halfway Down: CMT narrows its nominees for Video of the Year from 14 to seven

CMTCMT’s gargantuan list of fourteen nominees for the Video of the Year trophy has now been cut in half. The remaining contenders for the highest honor at tonight’s CMT Awards are Carrie Underwood, Cole Swindell, Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and the all-star cast from CMA’s “Forever Country” mashup. Final voting will take place tonight at CMT.com during the 2017 CMT …

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The baby boom continues: FGL's Tyler Hubbard to be a dad

Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images via ABC2017 is turning out to be the year of a country music baby boom, and now Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard is joining the phenomenon. “We’ve had such a hard time not telling everybody for the last few months because we are SO excited…” Tyler shared on Instagram, along with a couple Polaroids …

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Why Brantley Gilbert's unique gender reveal brought on the tears

ABC/Image Group LA Brantley Gilbert and his wife Amber are having a little boy. In a gender reveal that was distinctly Brantley, the “Weekend” hitmaker fired a rifle at a target, which resulted in a cloud of blue smoke that revealed the gender of their little one. Brantley admits he was caught off-guard by the emotional reaction of …

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Rascal Flatts heads to center court to sing national anthem tonight at NBA Finals

BMLGIt’ll be a homecoming for two-thirds of Rascal Flatts tonight, as the trio heads to Ohio to sing the national anthem before Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Both Jay DeMarcus and Gary LeVox are natives of the Buckeye State. They’ll perform “The Star-Spangled Banner,” along with Joe Don Rooney at center court at Quicken Loans Arena. You can watch the Cleveland Cavaliers …

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The first taste of album #2: Kelsea Ballerini releases “Legends”

Black River EntertainmentThe lead single from Kelsea Ballerini’s much-anticipated sophomore album is here, and she’ll perform it for the first time Wednesday night on the CMT Music Awards. You don’t have to wait that long to hear it, however. “Legends” is available to stream or download now. “‘Legends’ is one of the first songs I wrote …

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