Billboard, the leading global destination for charts, news, business, lifestyle and innovations in music, today announced country singer and songwriter Kelsea Ballerini as the 2015 Women in Music “Rising Star” artist. The award recognizes an artist whose chart dominance and exceptional talent demonstrates a clear path to success.
CMT today named Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, and Sam Hunt as the top country artists of the year to be honored during the “CMT Artists of the Year” special, the definitive year end party, premiering LIVE from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, on Wednesday, December 2 at …
Hyundai and The Recording Academy® announced the launch of the fourth annual GRAMMY Amplifier® program. GRAMMY Amplifier is an innovative online music initiative providing aspiring artists with the opportunity to realize their passion and further their musical careers through one-of-a-kind experiences that serve to showcase their talent.
Three-time GRAMMY® winner Zac Brown has been added to the list of performers for “Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert.“
Capitol Records Nashville’s Mickey Guyton releases her version of “Do You Want To Build A Snowman?” from Disney’s Frozen with two national TV performances.
Multi-Platinum-selling country music star Scotty McCreery released his brand new video for “Southern Belle” across all platforms. View the new video HERE.
Eric Church sent his surprise Mr. Misunderstood album to his fan club, the Church Choir, on Wednesday (11/4). It was unannounced, unexpected and a huge treat for those fans, as well as for radio, who also received the new album.
Chris Stapleton’s Traveller album climbs to the top of both the Billboard Top 200 and Country Album charts this week. The collection of songs, including his latest single “Nobody to Blame,” “Tennessee Whiskey,” “Traveller” and “Fire Away,” sold more than 177,000 total albums, 153,000 of which were pure album sales. …
Garth Brooks is the most successful male country-recording artist ever and one of the world’s bestselling artists of all time. Although he “retired” in 2001, he has since returned to music, and launched the biggest comeback since Sinatra with a release of his first album of new material in 13 …
After celebrating CMA week with an official induction into CMT’s “Next Women of Country” and performances at Nashville’s inaugural Off The Record event and Rolling Stone Country’s THE DRIVER tour preview, Columbia Nashville singer/songwriter Maren Morris wrapped the week with the official digital release of her self-titled EP for purchase.
With just days to go until the release of his new album I’m Comin’ Over on November 13, fans are invited to make a date with Chris Young in the new year and join him on the 2016 “I’m Comin’ Over” Tour, presented by AEG Live.