Month: October 2024

For the past 50 years, The Grammys have aired on CBS. But starting in 2027, they’ll have a new home.

The award show, known as Music’s Biggest Night, is moving to ABC, Hulu and Disney+, where it will remain through 2036. The Recording Academy will produce multiple Grammy-branded music specials as part of the deal.

The announcement comes ahead of the Grammy nominations, which will be announced Nov. 10 via a livestream event that starts at 11 a.m. ET.

In the first year of the agreement, in 2027, ABC will not only air The Grammys, but also the Super Bowl and the Oscars. The network is also home to the CMA Awards and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

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Tiera Kennedy has dropped a two-track set, Evergreen, featuring the original title track and a cover of “Auld Lang Syne.” “There’s a special energy around Christmas that makes you want to turn on the fireplace, grab some hot chocolate, and cozy up and celebrate life with friends and family so I hope people feel that when they listen to this project,” Tiera shares.

Mickey Guyton has announced that she’s playing a show at Nashville’s The Blue Room on Nov. 12. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT at Mickey’s website.

Are you as much of a country boy as Luke Bryan? You can find out by taking a Mind of a Country Boy quiz now at lukebryan.com/mind-of-a-country-boy-quiz.

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Bailey Zimmerman may have burst onto the country scene two years ago, but he’s already a big name in the U.S. and beyond.

And when we say beyond, we mean Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand – and they’re all places he’s played shows to.

“People in Australia and New Zealand and Canada and all over the world are singing [my music]. It's like, holy cow,” Bailey shares with the press.

“It’s such a blessing to get to wake up every day and know that you have a world full of friends and family – it's truly insane,” the singer says.

Bailey’s latest single, “Holy Smokes,” is now in the top 40 and making its way up the country charts.

His tour schedule for the rest of 2024 is limited because he’s intentionally taking time off the road to work on new music.

Bailey tells ABC Audio in a recent interview, “I’ve kind of just been focusing on songs, writing the songs and giving myself time to write more songs since I’ve been touring so much. I’m just going to start writing a bunch of songs and put some out as I go and just keep doing what my stomach tells me to keep doing.”

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When it comes to a favorite Halloween costume, Ashley McBryde‘s is synonymous with her favorite spooky-season memory in Music City.

“My friends and I take Halloween really seriously, and we try to have a themed party every year. One year we did superheroes only. We did it in East Nashville where [it] was super likely there would be children stopping by for candy,” Ashley recalls to the press.

Ashley and gang formed a whole superhero team.

“We had Thor, and we had the Green Arrow, we had two different versions of Batman – we had 1960s Batman, we had the Dark Knight Batman. We had Penguin, we had the Hulk. I got to be Wonder Woman,” she recounts. 

The highlight of Ashley’s night wasn’t her outfit – it was interacting with the little ones who came for trick-or-treating.

“We'd sit on the porch and kids would come by and they would see superheroes, and they would tell their parents, ‘Mom! It's Batman!’ And they would run up on the porch and we'd give them candy, and some of them were dressed as superheroes, too!” Ashley recalls.

“We would say, ‘We've been fighting crime all night, where have you been!’ and they were like, ‘We've been getting candy!'” shares Ashley. “That was, hands down, my favorite Halloween, so that gets to be my favorite costume.”

Ashley’s currently on the road opening for Cody Johnson on his The Leather Tour. Tickets are available now at ashleymcbryde.com.

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Sam Hunt‘s back with a new track on Friday.

The song’s called “Liberty,” and it’ll be Sam’s first new release since April’s Locked Up EP.

A preview clip of “Liberty” is up on Sam’s socials and offers the lyrics: “Had a dream that I was eight years older/ Burying the dog with my eight-year-old/ We were looking for areas where the creeks meet/ Blue skies on a nice day/ He said, ‘Look, Daddy, it’s a bald eagle.'”

You can check out the snippet on Sam’s TikTok and presave “Liberty” to hear the full song as soon as it’s out.

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Hot off the heels of her debut Madison Square Garden headlining show, Kelsea Ballerini has added six new dates to her 2025 arena tour.

On top of the earlier announced shows, Kelsea will now hit Kansas City, Missouri, Omaha, St. Louis, Tulsa, Greenville and Charleston.

Tickets go on sale Friday at kelseaballerini.com.

Kelsea’s MSG show spanned two hours and featured performances of tracks from her new album, PATTERNS, as well as her hit singles, including “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Peter Pan” and “Miss Me More.”

The night wrapped with an acoustic performance of “To the Men That Love Women After Heartbreak,” a bonus track available exclusively on the digital album in her merch store.

“I promised myself when I started, no matter what venue I was playing, no matter how big or how small, I would sing a song just me and my guitar,” Kelsea said onstage. “I want to close the show tonight how it all started, with just me.”

In an Instagram post Wednesday, Kelsea shared, “A sold out evening at madison square garden. i'm truly on the floor over this. thank you from every ounce of my being for showing up. for the night, for the music, for each other. wow wow wow. to the moon, no suit.”

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United Way Worldwide and Paramount Global have teamed for the United Way Benefit for Hurricane Relief, a star-studded concert that’ll air on CBS and CMT on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET.

Tyler Hubbard, Chris Janson, Brittney Spencer, gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds and American Idol‘s Clay Aiken are set to perform, while Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini, Zac Brown Band, Carly Pearce, Jackson Dean and more will appear with “special messages,” according to a press release.

Proceeds from the one-hour special will go to hurricane relief and long-term recovery efforts and help those ravaged by the hurricane across southeastern U.S.

For more information and to make a donation, visit unitedway.org.

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