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BREAKING NEWS
Country News – November 28,
2021 with Shannon McCombs
You’ll hear Garth
Brooks talk about his new Nashville Honky Tonk! Cody Johnson
has some things to say about his new album. Alabama
announces June Jam for 2024. Plus, Sammy Kershaw
has new music!
UK NEWS
On the BBC Radio 2 Playlist
2 December 2023
B List:
Taylor
Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)
(From The Vault) added to the “B” List
C List:
Foy
Vance feat. Ed Sheeran, Elton John
& Keith Urban - Guiding Light (Anniversary Edition) [C-C]
Sheryl Crow - Alarm Clock added
to the “C” List
HOTDISC TOP 40 (Sunday 3rd December 2023 chart)
The Hotdisc
monthly promotional album is digitally distributed to a massive list of DJs,
journalists, promoters, agents and other key people in the business. Every act
on Hotdisc receives feedback on how their track is performing in the Hotdisc
Top 40, which is compiled by the DJs themselves (songs are scored 1 – 10; with
or without comment or airplay).
This week the late
Raymond Froggatt’s Teach Me, Pa (Live) enjoyed a fourth successive week
atop both the Hotdisc Top 40 & British & Irish charts. New tracks from
the promotional disc #300 and seasonal favourites impacted the chart.
TW LW WOC Title Artist
1 1 4 Teach Me, Pa
(Live) Raymond Froggatt (UK) ** No.1 (4 weeks) **
2 NEW 1
Merry Christmas (Real World) Denny Strickland
3 2 5 Puttin' Up
Hay Alex Miller
4 NEW 1 Closing Your Eyes (Falling Apart) HMB
Players
5 NEW 1
Silent Night Frank Jennings
6 3 5 Matamoros Frank
Jennings (UK) ⬇
7 4 9 House Where
Love Grows Parker & Dallaire ⬇
8 5 9 Back
To My Boots Mia Brown ⬇
9 6 5 I'm Sorry Nicola
Harris (UK)
16 NEW 1 Kiss Me This Christmas American Blonde
UK CHART NEWS
Take That secured the
biggest opening week for a British act on the Official Albums Chart in 2023, as
THIS LIFE became the group’s ninth Number 1.
Boasting UK chart units of 116,163 units (107,574 CDs, 4,905 vinyl albums, 301 cassettes, 1,987 digital downloads and 1,396 sales-equivalent streams) in its first seven days, 97% of which are on physical formats, the ninth studio album from Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald surpassed 2023’s previous fastest-selling record by a British act; Lewis Capaldi’s second album Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, which earned 95,000 chart units in its first week on sale.
Take That have previously enjoyed Number 1 success with
Everything Changes (1993), Nobody Else (1995), Greatest Hits (1996), Beautiful
World (2006), The Circus (2008), Progress (2010), III (2014) and Odyssey
(2018).
Take That’s fans do not appear to streaming fans and the
album was not playlisted on Spotify
‘Windows’ (1,499,094 Spotify streams) was released
Sept 22, 2023 available for streaming for nearly 10 weeks.
‘This Life’ (674,628 Spotify streams) was released
on Nov 3, 2023 and "A" playlisted by BBC Radio 2 for 4 weeks!
‘Brand New Sun’ (471,568 Spotify streams) was released
on Oct 17, 2023
Exiting the Top 10: Rockstar (5-64, 2,368 sales units) by Dolly Parton.
Jack Harlow extended his
reign atop the Official UK Top 100 Singles Chart to three weeks, with Lovin On
Me registering 4.63% growth week-on-week to 55,128 units (1,843 digital
downloads, 53,285 sales-equivalent streams).
Other Christmas oldies climbing the Top 40 were: Rockin’
Around The Christmas Tree (31-14, 18,260 sales) by Brenda Lee.
Official UK
Top 100 Albums Chart (Week Ending 7 December 2023)
1 December 2023 – 7 December 2023
TW LW WOC Artist Title ( Peak )
1 NE 1 Take That ~ This Life
2 2 5 Taylor Swift ~ 1989 (Taylor's Version)
3 4 6 The Rolling Stones ~ Hackney Diamonds
4 16 108 Michael Bublé ~ Christmas
5 6 12 Olivia Rodrigo ~ Guts
29 37 21 Taylor Swift ~ Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
41 45 107 Taylor Swift ~ Red (Taylor's Version)
64 5 2 Dolly Parton ~ Rockstar
85 84 32 Taylor Swift ~ Fearless (Taylor's Version)
Official
UK Top 100 Singles Chart (Week Ending 7 December 2023)
1 December 2023 - 7 December 2023
TW LW WOC Artist Title ( Peak )
1 1 3 Jack Harlow ~ Lovin On Me
2 4 9 Noah Kahan ~ Stick Season
3 2 16 Cassö, Raye and D-Block Europe ~ Prada
4 3 11 Tate McRae ~ Greedy
5 14 92 Wham! ~ Last Christmas ***
6 16 127 Mariah Carey ~ All I Want For Christmas Is
You ***
14 31 69 Brenda Lee ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas
Tree ***
33 24 14 Zach Bryan ft Kacey Musgraves ~ I
Remember Everything (Peak: 19, 14 weeks - 07/09/2023 to 01/12/2023)
Official UK Country Album Top 20 Chart (Week Ending 7 December 2023)
1 December 2023 - 7 December 2023
Chris Stapleton with HIGHER held at No.1 (3 weeks; #1 peak)
Taylor Swift with FEARLESS (Taylor’s Version) was a non-mover at No.2
(138 weeks; #1 peak)
Luke Combs with GETTING’ OLD held at No.3 (36 weeks; #1
peak)
Far From Saints with Far From Saints moved 5-4 (24 weeks; #1
peak)
Lisa McHugh with WATCH ME fell 4-9 (5 weeks; #3 peak)
Margo Price with Strays II made a debut at No.17
COUNTRY ALBUM
RELEASES (Major)
(1 Dec 2023) Brett
Kissel - The Compass Project - North Album (Live) (Big Star Recordings) CAN
13 songs, 56:39
(1 Dec 2023) Eric
Paslay - Perfect Stranger (EP; Paso Fino Records) 6 songs, 19:28 | Debut #5
UK iTunes Country Album Chart
(1 Dec 2023) Love and
Theft - Need To Breathe (Curb Records) 12 songs, 39:06
BILLBOARD/ MEDIABASE Charts
Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 9, 2023)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (30 non-consecutive weeks) ** ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan
Wallen
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks) ** “I
Remember Everything” Zach Bryan
featuring Kacey Musgraves
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Save Me” Jelly Roll With Lainey Wilson
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (14 weeks on the
chart) ** “I Remember Everything” Zach Bryan
Featuring Kacey Musgraves
Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Night At A Time’ is the highest grossing country tour (#4 all genres) in Billboard Boxscore's year-end list, amassing a staggering $260 million in 2023.
Spanning 44 shows, Morgan's tour gathered a
total attendance of 1,325,792 people, averaging over 30,000 guests at each
show.
In the runners up slot was Luke Combs
(#13 all genres), whose world tour brought in $133 million, nearly $100 million
less than Morgan’s tour. But Luke actually drew in more fans with fewer shows:
Luke only performed 42 shows on his tour, yet brought in 1.4 million fans, for
an average of nearly 34,000 per show.
The most impressive showing may be the artist
in third place though. While George Strait (#17 all genres) only played 11 shows, a quarter of what Luke and Morgan
performed, he still managed to rake in nearly as much as Luke with $107
million.
Rounding out the list of the top 5 tours were Shania Twain‘s
Queen of Me Tour (#22 all genres) which brought in nearly $85 million and Eric Church
with his Outsiders Revival Tour netted over $50 million.
Topping the all-genre Year-End Tours was Beyonce
grossing $570.5 million. Her Renaissance Tour ran from May 10 to October 1 this
year, during which it grossed $579.8 million and sold 2.8 million tickets,
according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. For her record-breaking
first live tour in seven years, Queen Bey reigns at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top
Tours Chart.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s
Version) returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 9), as the set rises 2-1 for its third total
week atop the tally. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Nov. 11-dated chart and
spent its second week in the lead, before dipping to No. 2 for the next two
weeks and bouncing back to the top on the new chart. The set earned 141,000
equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 30 (up 3%),
according to Luminate.
Brenda Lee danced merrily to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100
songs chart with her holiday classic “Rockin’
Around the Christmas Tree.” The song rewrites
multiple records as it tops the chart for the first time – 65 years after its
release. Lee, meanwhile, adds her third No. 1 – and her first since 1960.
Plus, four other carols return to the Hot
100’s top 10: Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” up from No. 12 to No. 4; Wham!’s
“Last Christmas” (13-5); Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (16-6); and Andy
Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (28-10).
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” drew 34.9 million streams
(up 69%, as it wins top Streaming Gainer honors on the Hot 100) and 20.7
million radio airplay audience impressions (up 35%) and sold 3,000 downloads
(up 39%) in the Nov. 24-30 tracking week, according to Luminate.
Jelly Roll’s “Save Me”
(Bailee& Buddy/Broken Bow/BMG/Stoney Creek), with Lainey
Wilson, ascended to No. 1 on Billboard’s
Country Airplay chart (dated Dec.9). The
collaboration increased by 8% to 34.6million audience impressions Nov. 24-30,
according to Luminate.
**
No.1 (1 week) / Most Increased Audience ** “Save Me” Jelly Roll With
Lainey Wilson 34.578 million audience (+2.689 million gain) / 8477 radio plays (+900)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.57 “Let Your Boys Be Country” Jason Aldean
Debut
No.59 “Make Me Wanna Smoke” Runaway June
Hot County Songs
**
No.1 (10 weeks) ** “I Remember Everything” Zach Bryan
Featuring Kacey Musgraves
**
Airplay Gainer” ** No.6 “Save Me” Jelly Roll With Lainey Wilson
** Sales Gainer ** No.23 “I Can Feel It”
Kane Brown
**
Streaming Gainer ** No.38 “I'm Not Pretty” Megan Moroney
**
Hot Shot Debut ** “Tucson Too Late” Jordan Davis
Debut
No.49 “This Town's Been Too Good To Us” Dylan Scott
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
Congratulations to Jelly Roll (Jason
DeFord), Adrian Michaels, Shelley Hargis, Scotty O’Brien and the Stoney Creek promotion
team on taking “Save Me” with Lainey Wilson to No.1. Its 9,604 spins represented the largest one-week total in the Mediabase
era.
Jelly Roll becomes the 18th artist in R&R/
MB/CA chart history to reach the top with each of his first three releases, and
just the second to do so in one calendar year. Wynonna Judd’s first three solo
singles all went to the top in 1992. Wilson also makes history with this No.1,
becoming the first female artist to reach the top four times in one calendar
year, thanks also to her two solo No. 1s and No. 1 collaboration with Hardy. Songwriters are David Ray and DeFord.
“Save Me” (Curb) moved 2-1 logging 9,604 radio spins (+967), 42.292 million audience impressions
(+2.643 million) with 33840 Total Points from 155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the published
chart dated December 4, 2023. BLOG POST
Dylan Marlowe & Dylan Scott + Justin Moore Tie As Most Added
Kudos to
Lauren “LT” Thomas and the Columbia crew on scoring 17 adds for “Boys Back Home” by Dylan Marlowe & Dylan Scott.
Also with 17 adds, kudos to Chris Palmer, Ashley
Sidoti and the Valory crew on
returning Justin Moore’s “This Is My Dirt” to the top of the Add Board for a second non-consecutive week.
NEWS
(29
Nov 2023) Won Thing At A Time: Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" is the most-streamed
song of the year in the U.S. on Spotify, among all genres, and his One
Thing At A Time is the most-streamed album among the service's
U.S. users. Wallen also notched the year's fifth most-streamed album with Dangerous: The Double Album. Taylor Swift ends
the year as Spotify's most streamed artist in the U.S., with Wallen taking
third.
Bearing Fruit: Morgan Wallen dominated Apple Music's just released year-end charts, which spotlight the biggest
songs of 2023 across Apple Music and Shazam. Wallen's "Last Night"
tops the "Top Songs of 2023: Global" chart, becoming the first
country song since 2019's "Old Town Road" to do so. A total of 11
Country songs made the 100 position Global Songs chart this year, up from four
last year. They include eight titles from Wallen, two from Luke Combs and one
from Zach Bryan.
Wallen also had Apple's No. 1 country album of the year with One Thing At A Time. Taylor Swift is the
service's all-genre Artist of the Year for 2023.
(3
Dec 2023) World Records: British actress/model Nathalie Cox (CountryLine)
and Australian singer/songwriter Sinead
Burgess have joined The Big 615 lineup on TuneIn with
their own shows airing weekdays 1-7pm and 7pm-1am CT,
respectively. "It is beyond anything I could ask for being able to
join the incredible team the incomparable [Garth Brooks] has lovingly put
together to share in the love of country music, including my friend [Storme Warren],"
Burgess shared on social media. Listen here.
(3 Dec 2023) Signage: Former BMLGR/19 Recordings artist Laci Kaye Booth has signed with Geffen
Records. She inked her previous label deal in 2020 after her
run on season 17 of American
Idol, where she was a top five finisher. Her first Geffen single,
"Cigarettes," dropped Dec 1st.
AMERICANA NEWS
(29 Nov 2023) NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Following the Miami Book Fair, PRINE ON PRINE; Interviews & Encounters keeps rolling along. Having met an unprecedented critical reception from The Chicago Tribune to Variety, No Depression to CBS News and beyond, the collection tracks the storied American songwriter’s career from young working class kid in Chicago through his ascendance as one of the most iconic voices in Americana, folk, country and rock music of the last half century continues selling out print runs, anchoring conversations among its contributors and expanding the understanding Prine’s life and evolution.
Following the
Thanksgiving feast, fans of the songwriter, Grammy and Austin City Limits Hall
of Fame 2023 inductee can enjoy a special two-hour episode of “Buddy and Jim
Radio” on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country Channel 62. Debuting Saturday
night, November 25.
GOSSIP
(28 Nov 2023) Kelly Clarkson has scored another win in her
divorce from her ex-husband and former manager, Brandon Blackstock.
According to a new report, a labor commissioner in California has ordered
Blackstock to return more than two million dollars to Clarkson after concluding
that he charged her improperly during the time he managed her career.
(30 Nov 2023) Fans have been speculating about the
timeline of Taylor Swift and Joe
Alwyn's relationship following the release of her song You're Losing Me. It
was revealed in April that the Shake It Off singer and British actor had broken
up after six years together, however, it has never been confirmed specifically
when they split. Taylor's frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff seemingly gave a
rare insight into the relationship by revealing that Taylor wrote the breakup
song in December 2021.
(3 Dec 2023) Dolly Parton
was "nervous" about doing Glastonbury because she thought it
was mainly a "rock audience".
The 'Jolene' hitmaker - who has just released her
first rock album 'Rockstar' after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame - headlined the Sunday afternoon legends' slot at the world-famous music
festival in England in 2014 and she didn't know if her storytelling-style of
show would go down well.
She told Classic Rock magazine: "I felt a little
nervous about doing Glastonbury, because I knew it was mostly a rock audience.
They were having their fun, just wanting to get into the music, dancing and
feeling it. And I was thinking: 'So much of my music is slow and storytelling.
I'm not sure about this.'
MUSIC NEWS
Musicians and listeners are starting to realize the life of a viral one-hit
wonder is not all that it’s cracked up to be as trends shift back to
releasing and listening to full-length albums. It wasn’t that long ago that
record labels where fighting over artists who had their 15 minutes (more like
seconds) of fame on TikTok. Large deals were handed out in hopes that the next
wave of talent had arrived. The problem was that almost none of those deals
ever worked out, as the viral music star of the time couldn’t sustain success
beyond one song. Read more...
(2 Dec 2023) BILLBOARD Taylor Swift Will Earn Over $100M
From Spotify This Year: After topping this year's Spotify Wrapped,
Swift will earn more money than any artist ever has on the platform. In 2023,
Taylor Swift has towered above her musical peers on multiple fronts. And
earlier this week, she racked up another major achievement when she was named
Spotify‘s top-streamed artist of 2023. As part of its annual year-end Wrapped
rundown on Wednesday (Nov. 29), Spotify announced that Swift had racked up 26.1
billion streams globally on the service since Jan. 1, topping the likes of
three-time champ Bad Bunny as well as The Weeknd, Drake and Peso Pluma.
The Vinyl Record Manufacturing Association
(VRMA) and the Vinyl Alliance have joined forces to oppose Luminate and
Billboard’s upcoming changes to how music sales are calculated from independent
retailers. Data from Luminate is used throughout the music industry including
in the calculation of the Billboard Charts. Starting in the first week of
2024, Luminate says that data on vinyl, CDs, and cassettes will reflect only
sales at indie stores in the United States and Canada that participate in their
new program. Until now, because only a small number of record stores
report, sales have been algorithmically adjusted to get a more accurate number
of total sales. That could mean that sales from 95% of independent stores
will go unreported.
Have you been working
hard on releasing your music just for it to sit stagnant on Spotify? Here are seven different ways to switch up your current strategies and
boost your streams…Whether you are a musician, producer, PR person, or indie
record label, the question of how to get more streams on Spotify is one you
have probably tried to answer. With very little income coming from Spotify
streaming — not to mention Spotify’s new scheme to steal your revenues — it’s
understandable that you wouldn’t want to spend too much time on learning how it
works and might look for shortcuts. But as much as you may want instant
success with minimal effort, resist the temptation to purchase fake streams or
any kind of other paid short cut. In the long run, this will only hurt you and
your music, and it could get you banned for life from the platform. Here are a
few suggestions on how to get your music on Spotify and increase your streams
and followers organically for maximum return on your time investment.
(4 Dec 2023) Spotify to Lay Off 17%
of Global Workforce
Spotify is laying off 17% of its global workforce in order to cut costs, CEO Daniel Ek said on Monday.
Ek made the announcement in an internal memo sent to staff, which the company
posted on its website. “I recognize this will impact a number of individuals
who have made valuable contributions,” Ek wrote in the memo. “To be blunt, many
smart, talented and hard-working people will be departing us.” Spotify
currently employs over 9,000 people globally, meaning the layoffs will
eliminate around 1,500 workers. Though the music streamer has
accomplished steady subscriber growth, boasting 220 million paying subscribers,
it has continued to struggle to become profitable.
AWARDS
(3 Dec 2024) Deck The Y'alls: Performances on CMA Country Christmas will include Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood's "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," Jordan Davis' “O Come All Ye Faithful," Lady A's “What Christmas Means To Me," Ashley McBryde and Lindsey Stirling's “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," Jon Pardi's “Beer for Santa," The War And Treaty's “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and Zach Williams and Lainey Wilson's “Go Tell It On The Mountain."
(4 Dec 2023) A-Round We Go: Submissions for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards open for all categories Jan. 8 and close Jan. 26 at 7pm CT. First round voting for both main and radio awards will open Feb. 26; voting will close for main categories March 4 and for radio categories March 11. A second round of voting will be conducted for main categories from March 18-25. Final round voting for radio categories will run from March 18-April 1, and from April 15-22 for main categories.
Criteria updates include a minimum of three eligible submissions is now required to award any category. For New Male, Female and Duo/Group categories, an artist is eligible if they "have released a single that reached the Top 50 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs or the Mediabase Country charts."
TOUR / LIVE EVENTS
(28 Nov 2023) Tour Support: Brothers Osborne's 35-date Might
As Well Be Us Tour kicks off March 28 in Milwaukee.
Joining on select dates are Stephen
Wilson Jr., The
Cadillac Three, Zach
Top, Jackson
Dean, Madeline
Edwards and Caylee
Hammack.
Kylie Morgan's second headlining run, the Making It Up As I Go Tour,
launches Feb. 29, 2024 in Grand Rapids, MI.
(29 Nov 2023) Performances from Nov
29th’s Christmas At Graceland on NBC included Kane Brown's "Blue Christmas," Lainey Wilson's
"Santa Claus Is Back In Town," Kacey Musgraves' "Can't Help Falling In Love"
and The War and
Treaty's "If I Can Dream."
Speaking of Wilson, she's featured on the latest release for Apple Music's Lost & Found, Skip Ewing and Dean Dillon's "I Would If I Could."
(30 Nov 2023) Fit For A King: Elle King has been added as a performer for New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash (12/31), airing live from Nashville's Bicentennial Park on CBS and Paramount+. King will also co-host the special with Entertainment Tonight's Rachel Smith. Previously announced performers include Lainey Wilson, Thomas Rhett and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The five-hour special is expected to include almost 50 performances.
(30 Nov 2023) Festive All: The Reklaws, Elle King, Flatland Cavalry, Ernest, Meghan Patrick, Lonestar, Jake Worthington and Hailey Benedict will join previously announced headliners Luke Combs, Hardy and Dallas Smith at Country Thunder Alberta Aug. 16-18, 2024.
(4 Dec 2023) Tour Support: WMN's Cole Swindell will launch his Win The Night Tour May 16 in London, ON, with the 18-date tour wrapping July 20 in Bonner, MT. Support includes Dylan Scott, Meghan Patrick, Jon Langston, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Restless Road..
(4 Dec 2023) The last nine dates of Miranda Lambert’s Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas residency take place March 20-April 6; onsale starts Friday (12/8) here. The final nine performances going on sale include the following: March 2024: 20, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30 | April 2024: 3, 5, 6. Designed exclusively for Bakkt Theater and promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment, “Miranda Lambert: Velvet Rodeo The Las Vegas Residency” gives fans an up close and personal opportunity to experience live performances of Lambert’s numerous chart-topping songs and beloved album cuts. “As someone who’s lived on a bus and toured from city-to-city for more than half my life, having a Vegas residency has been such a fun change of pace creatively,” shared Lambert. “The band and I are excited to keep this party going!”
(4 Dec 2023) BMLGR's Brett Young will
headline an international tour in May, with dates scheduled in Norway, Sweden,
Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. These include a headlining spot at
London's Highways 2024 festival
May 18. Tickets on sale Friday (Dec 8) BLOG POST
Big Loud Texas' Dylan
Gossett will make 10 stops on his No Better Time Tour, in
between previously announced shows supporting Midland. Gossett's solo
dates kick off Feb. 26 in Dublin, Ireland. Tickets on sale Friday (Dec
8) here.
PRESS RELEASES
(29 Nov 2023) NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – Wyoming native Ian Munsick hauled
his fiddle across the country in 2023 while bringing his sky high voice to the
forefront, performing in theaters and selling out his first set of headlining
arena shows. Now the Warner Music Nashville recording artist prepares to take
the affable performance style that has resonated with fans in small towns and
cities alike to 27 cities in 2024, today announcing his Boots,
Buckles & Bolos spring 2024 tour presented
by Xtreme Concepts, kicking off Jan. 19 in Grant,
Oklahoma.
Spanning from Baltimore, Maryland to Morrison,
Colorado; Fort Myers, Florida to Madison, Wisconsin and more, Munsick will be
joined by a rotating lineup of guests including Ben
Chapman, Ryan Charles, William Clark Green, Tyler Halverson, Meghan
Patrick, Peytan Porter, The Munsick Boys, The War And Treaty, Treaty Oak
Revival, Chancey Williams, Charlie Worsham and Jake
Worthington.
(4 Dec 2023) Multi-award-winning artist Keith Urban is set to make a special appearance at "Bob Kingsley's Acoustic Alley" during CRS 2024. The show will take place on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Urban, a recent inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023 and a true luminary in country music will close out the evening’s writers rounds.
In addition to Urban's performance, two more
rounds are scheduled for the evening, featuring some of the industry's finest
songwriters. Stay tuned for announcements regarding the other writers joining
this event. The event will be hosted by Fitz from Country Top 40. Radio Ink
will also present its "Top Country PDs" awards during the event,
adding to the excitement of the night.
(4 Dec 2023) LOS ANGELES,
Calif. – Three-time GRAMMY Award-winner Darius Rucker was honored
with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 4, 2023.
After being introduced by former Universal Music Group Nashville Chairman/CEO Mike Dungan, Rucker shared, “This is stuff you don’t even dream about when you’re from South Carolina…all I ever wanted was to be a singer, but you never dream that this stuff is going to happen.”
“Usually, you’re going record to record or tour to tour, and when this happens,
you get to sit down and think about the whole thing,” Rucker shared with Variety as he
reflected ahead of receiving the Hollywood Walk of Fame honor. “You think about
when the band started, in a dorm at University of South Carolina, and then all
the hard work, playing for seven years before you got a record deal. You think
about going to Nashville and being told it was never going to work. You think
about the first No. 1 [record] you ever had. “You think about all that stuff,
and you have to believe in fate, because one step to the left or one step to
the right, and I’m not here talking to you. So you just thank God everything
happened the way it did.”
(Dec 5, 2023 - Nashville, TN) On Saturday, December 16th, multi-Platinum selling singer-songwriter, Chris Janson, will take the stage at "Fox & Friends" for a performance of his thrilling cover of classic Christmas tune, "Holiday Road." The timeless track, released via BMLG Records/Harpeth 60 and produced by Chris Janson and Julian Raymond, showcases Janson's signature vocals and also his combustible skills at the drums. Fans can also check out Janson's live performance of "Holiday Road" during the upcoming "Christmas at the Opry" special airing on NBC on Thursday, December 7th at 8pm ET/PT (airing the next day on Peacock).
(5 Dec 2023) Hailing from Denton and Austin, Texas, respectively, Eli Young Band and George Birge have teamed up to
record a tender-hearted new cover of the 1994 hit song “Amy’s Back in Austin.”
The melodious new single is the third release from the upcoming tribute album
God Blessed Texas, which pays homage to American country music band Little
Texas. A feature exclusive interview in People Magazine.
The new music will be available Dec 1 for streaming and
download. Stream and download the music now HERE.
BIRTHDAYS
Birthdays in the week ahead
December 4: Lila McCann (1981), Amie Comeaux (1976; the late died December 21, 1997 (aged 21), Kerry Fearon (Irish singer, Keep It Country TV), Jelly Roll (Jason Bradley DeFord, 1984)
December 5: Ty England - (1963), Gary Allan (1967)
December 7: Sunny Sweeney (1976), the late Dawn Sears (Dec 7, 1961; died Dec 11, 2014 (aged 53)), Laura Oakes (UK), Neil Mason (The Cadillac Three)
December 8: Marty Raybon (Shenandoah/Raybon Bros) - (1959), Sam Hunt (1984)
December 8: “AJ” Alexander John Dean-Revington (The Wandering Hearts), Ashley Campbell (1986)
December 10: Kevin Sharp (1970)
BABY NEWS
(29 Nov 2023) Crib Note: Monument's Caitlyn Smith and husband Rollie Gaalswyk welcomed their third child, Jacob Roland, Sunday (Nov 26). He joins big brothers Thomas Miles and Lewis James. Smith shared on Instagram, "Tom and Louie are so excited about their new baby brother ... God is so good and I am beyond grateful."
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