The video for Keith Urban‘s latest single, “Wild Hearts,” premieres Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET.
Blake Shelton is headlining Highway to Henryetta, a concert benefiting the Henryetta Live Foundation that supports educational and community initiatives in Henryetta, Oklahoma. The concert is on June 11, tickets are available now.
Ingrid Andress announced on Twitter that she is cancelling the European leg of The Feelings Things Tour. She also shared that she is actively working on her new album
Tanya Tucker will perform a special show at the Ryman Auditorium on April 10 in honor of the 50th anniversary of her classic hit, “Delta Dawn.” Tickets go on sale Friday at 1 p.m. ET.
On Tuesday, the hit country singer revealed that he will be a guest mentor on season 20 of the ABC show. Jimmie made the announcement from one of his favorite places, Disney, broadcasting live from the Aulani Disney Resort & Spa in Hawaii with Minnie Mouse posing in the background.
“I cannot wait for you guys to see the talent they have in store for you,” he shares.
Jimmie is no stranger to the American Idol stage. He auditioned in 2011 for season 10 of the hit show and made it to the Hollywood round, where he was eliminated. He also performed on American Idol last year with contestants Alanis Sophia and Cecil Ray.
Jimmie will share mentoring duties with Bebe Rexha, known for her hit “Meant to Be” featuring Florida Georgia Line, who’s also been tapped as a guest mentor this season.
Jimmie’s fellow country superstar Luke Bryan returns as a judge when American Idol season 20 premieres on February 27 on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
Mickey Guyton had a stacked Super Bowl weekend that included crossing paths with royalty.
After her game-opening performance of the national anthem at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, where the Cincinnati Bengals faced off against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, Mickey ran into none other than Prince Harry during the weekend’s festivities.
“I met Prince Harry. He was just lovely. I even curtsied in my track suit,” Mickey writes in an Instagram post that also features a photo of the two posing in the backstage area. In the pic, the country singer is donning red sweatpants and a sweatshirt while the masked-up Duke of Sussex is wrapping his arm around her.
2 Broke Girls star Beth Behrs and former Nashville actor Sam Palladio were among those who shared their praise in the comments, with Mickey’s country peers like Lindsay Ell, Grand Ole Opry host Natalie Stovall and Reyna Roberts also commenting on the royal meeting.
Mickey’s rendition of the national anthem also drew praise, with the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry and Brothers Osborne commending her performance.
Reba McEntire is breaking the chain in an upcoming DVD and CD collection.
Next month, Reba will release a CD and DVD combo titled My Chains Are Gone, in which she presents gospel classics. The DVD features a live recording of Reba’s debut solo headlining show at the Ryman Auditorium in 2017, where she performed a series of hymns including “How Great Thou Art,” “I’ll Fly Away” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” along with original songs “Back to God” and “God and My Girlfriends.”
Fans will also get to see the country legend perform with her peers, teaming up with Trisha Yearwood and Kelly Clarkson on “Softly and Tenderly,” while gospel group The Isaacs sing “In the Garden/Wonderful Peace” and “It Is Well with My Soul.”
The My Chains Are Gone CD adds a duet with Lauren Daigle on an acoustic rendition of “Back to God.”
Both the DVD and CD will be released on March 25, with a special broadcast of performances from the DVD airing on UPtv the same night at 8 p.m. ET.
Third time’s a charm for Jimmie Allen, as he tops the chart with his latest single, “Freedom Was a Highway.”
Jimmie and his duet partner, Brad Paisley, have claimed the #1 spot on country radio this week, making for Jimmie’s third consecutive #1 single and Brad’s 25th overall. In Jimmie’s catalogue, it follows his debut single, “Best Shot” and its follow up, “Make Me Want To,” off his debut album, Mercury Lane.
“Yo @bradpaisley this song was a fun one. I appreciate you doing this song with me and giving it that BP Swag. Thank you to country radio for supporting this song,” Jimmie writes on Instagram, thanking members of his team, band and crew. “To all the people that have requested this song, bought and streamed it thank you!!!!”
“Honored to ride shotgun with you @jimmieallen. I'll be the Sally Fields to your Burt Reynolds anytime,” shares Brad alongside a photo of he and Jimmie posing with a bottle of Brad’s American Highway bourbon brand.
“Freedom Was a Highway” first appeared on Jimmie’s 2020 EP, Bettie James, and later on Bettie James Gold Edition.
Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Kelsea Ballerini, Walker Hayes and Chris Stapleton are on the star-studded list of performers set to take the stage at the ACM Awards next month.
There will also be collaborative performances from Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde of their duet, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl,” which is nominated for Music Event and Video of the Year, and Parmalee and Blanco Brown featuring Brooke Eden, who topped the charts last year with “Just the Way.”
Breland, who’s featured with Hardy on Dierks Bentley‘s single “Beers on Me,” will perform his new song, “Praise the Lord,” which recently went viral on TikTok. Additional performances will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 57th annual show will be co-hosted by Dolly Parton and 2021 ACM New Male Artist of the Year, Jimmie Allen, and New Female Artist of the Year Gabby Barrett.
The commercial-free show will be streamed live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Amazon Prime Video on March 7 at 8 p.m. ET.
One body has been found in the search for a plane with eight passengers that crashed Sunday, Feb. 13, east of Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks. The U.S. Coast Guard do not believe there were any survivors.
On Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that crews are searching for a plane with eight people aboard that crashed Sunday off the coast of North Carolina. The Coast Guard said in the statement that the Pilatus PC-12 single engine passenger airplane crashed approximately 4 miles east of Drum Inlet, N.C., on Sunday. The continues for the other seven passengers and plane. There are three debris field associated with the crash — some as far as 15 miles offshore — but the fuselage has not been found.
Four of the eight people aboard were believed to be teenagers, and the group was said to be on their way back from a hunting trip. The Coast Guard statement said that the aircraft was last seen “behaving erratically on radar,” according to an air traffic controller at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s report to the Coast Guard in North Carolina.
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On Monday, a federal judge in New York said he will dismiss a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times filed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff said that Palin’s lawyers did not prove the publication knowingly wrote false or reckless information in the 2017 editorial at the center of the lawsuit.
Palin sued the Times over a 2017 editorial that falsely suggested there was a link between her political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting spree that left former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. injured, and six other people dead. Palin testified last week that the editorial in question was “devastating” when it was published. The Times corrected the information in the editorial the morning after it was published. It has not lost a defamation case in a U.S. courtroom in at least 50 years.
However, Judge Rakoff said Palin’s lawyers did not meet the legal threshold required to prove defamation. He said he will let the jury continue to deliberate. If it returns a verdict that finds the Times did not defame Palin, Rakoff would then accept the verdict. If the jury comes to the opposite conclusion, the judge would then set aside that verdict and enter his own in favor of the publication.
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The title of his new album,? Blue in the Sky, ?reflects the optimistic state he’s at in life right now, but the singer says he was initially unsure of what to call the album until he heard the opening line of “Tequila on a Boat,” his duet with Chris Lane.
“There’s not really a song title that wraps its arms around how I’m feeling or this group of songs. So we were kicking around ideas, we’re talking months on end here, and ‘blue in the sky’ is the first line of ‘Tequila on a Boat.’ I’m like, ‘well is there a lyric that we can name the album after,'” he explains. “That was the one that raised its hand because of where I am, and I think where this album points, and that’s just very optimistic.”
But the Tullahoma, TN native had to walk through darkness before he could get to the light, going through a breakup only to discover who he truly is. The positive spirit on the other side helped inspire the album.
“Going through a relationship, break up, coming out on the other side of it and finding myself more than I ever have before and being comfortable in my own skin and what I want out of life,” he describes of his journey. “I’m in a very happy place, an optimistic place with my life personally, but also with what’s going on with my music career. It’s just awesome. It’s all good news and I truly believe we all have a choice every day to notice the blue in the sky, and that’s really what that lyric in that title reminds me to think of.”
Dustin is bringing “Party Mode” to country radio as his next single. He launches a tour of the same name on March 17.
Scotty McCreery pays tribute to George Strait in his latest single, “Damn Strait,” with the music video for the song filmed at the iconic Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas. Gruene Hall is special for Strait since it is where he was a regular before he officially signed a record deal and became “The King of Country Music.”
The music video shows footage of McCreery and his band members performing on the stage with several photos of Strait throughout the years. The single was co-written by Jim Collins and Trent Tomlinson and appears on McCreery’s fifth studio album, Same Truck. Said McCreery about the song: “‘Damn Strait’ is both a classic country heartbreak song as well as a tribute to George Strait. I knew I wanted to film it at a place that paid respect to both elements of the song. When my director Jeff Ray suggested Gruene Hall, where George performed regularly with his Ace in the Hole Band before becoming the legend that he is today, I knew that was the perfect location.”
McCreery is currently on his headlining Same Truck Tour, featuring support from artists including Tenille Arts, Callista Clark, Kameron Marlowe and King Calaway.
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