This year’s Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will air live from 8:30 a.m. ET to noon ET on Nov. 28 on NBC.
The star-studded multigenre lineup features country music’s Dan + Shay, Walker Hayes, Dasha and The War And Treaty.
Bishop Briggs, Kylie Cantrall, Chlöe, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Idina Menzel, T-Pain and Rachel Platten are also on the performers’ bill.
Today anchors Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker will host the holiday special.
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Kelsea Ballerini‘s PATTERNS has become her best-charting album.
The 15-track project debuted at #4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and #1 on the Top Country Album chart.
“I could cry til i throw up. thank you for truly the craziest few weeks of my life,” Kelsea shared in an Instagram carousel featuring photos from PATTERNS‘ release week, including backstage shots at Madison Square Garden and The Kelly Clarkson Show.
“Thank you for unpacking patterns with me. thank you to every brilliant human that has been a part of the process of bringing it out into the world,” she adds. “i nap now.”
PATTERNS‘ lead single, “Cowboys Cry Too” featuring Noah Kahan, is in the top 40 and making its way up the country charts.
Tickets to Kelsea’s 2025 arena tour are available now at kelseaballerinilive.com.
Here’s the full track list for PATTERNS:
“Patterns”
“Sorry Mom”
“Baggage”
“First Rodeo”
“Nothing Really Matters”
“How Much Do You Love Me”
“Two Things”
“We Broke Up”
“WAIT!”
“Beg for Your Love”
“Deep”
“Cowboys Cry Too” (with Noah Kahan)
“I Would, Would You”
“This Time Last Year”
“Did You Make It Home? (outro)”
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Gabby Barrett has teamed with musical group The Piano Guys for her rendition of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.”
Out now, the song’s the second preview of Gabby’s forthcoming debut Christmas album, Carols and Candlelight, and follows “I”l Be Home for Christmas,” which dropped in October.
“This song has always been one of my Christmas favorites and The Piano Guys really made it special,” Gabby says of their piano- and cello-driven version on Instagram.
Carols and Candlelight arrives Friday.
Here’s the Carols and Candlelight track list:
“Mary, Did You Know?”
“I'll Be Home For Christmas”
“Christmas to Remember”
“The First Noel”
“Baby, It's Cold Outside” (feat. Cade Foehner)
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (feat. The Piano Guys)
“Go Tell It on the Mountain” (for KING & COUNTRY feat. Gabby Barrett)
“O Holy Night”
“Last Christmas”
“Grown-Up Christmas List”
“Silent Night”
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Dan + Shay have dropped a goofy music video for “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.”
Filmed at night, the visualizer follows Dan + Shay as they rollerblade around in a Santa jacket, Christmas hat and shorts while singing their version of the holiday classic.
“THE ROLLERBLADING SANTAS are rolling through your neighborhood to remind you that the date is November 1st and that means IT'S OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS,” Dan + Shay share on Instagram.
“PS – No Santas were injured (too badly) during the making of this music video,” they say.
“I've never felt older than I did on those blades,” Shay Mooney adds in the comments. “I was DYING. Back of an 80 year old.”
You can find Dan + Shay’s “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” on It's Officially Christmas: The Double Album, out now.
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Senior Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Brendan Carr is criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ “Saturday Night Live” debut, with the Republican calling her appearance a “clear and blatant effort” to evade the Equal Time rule. The FCC’s “equal-time rule” was established in 1934 and required radio and television broadcast stations to provide the same amount of time for competing political candidates. There are exceptions to the rule such as newscasts, documentaries and political debates.
Taking to social media, Carr stated that the FCC’s “equal time” requirements mandate opposing candidates to get the same air time, and alleged that NBC structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements by timing it so close to Election Day. Carr wrote on X: “this is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election, unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”
Harris, 60, made a surprise appearance on this weekend’s ‘Saturday Night Live’, coming face-to-face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph in the show’s cold open where she urged sought to encourage voters to back her on Nov. 5. The segment lasted just under three minutes.
NBC is licensed by the FCC for broadcast television, which gives them access to a limited spectrum and means that they are subject to more stringent rules. SNL’s executive producer Lorne Michaels indicated in an interview published earlier this month that given the Equal Time rule, he was to planning to bring on either former President Donald Trump or Harris to the program. Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter: “You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions. You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states and that becomes really complicated.”
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Four people were killed and 17 were injured in a crash along I-96 near Webberville, Michigan late Saturday night.
The accident involved a semitractor-trailer which crashed into more than a dozen vehicles overnight, according to state police, where traffic on I-96 had been temporarily halted late Saturday as utility crews were completing work on power lines in the area.
The semitruck with a trailer was heading westbound around 11:45 p.m. and crashed into more than a dozen stalled vehicles, with Michigan State Police said in a statement on the social media platform X: “It appears the driver of the semi-truck did not see the backup and could not stop his vehicle in time.” The impact caused the semitruck and several vehicles to catch fire.
Police confirmed four deaths and said 17 people, including the driver of the truck, were injured and transported to hospitals. On Sunday, Michigan State Police confirmed that the victims were a 29-year-old man from Carson City who was driving a Ford pickup and three relatives from Lansing who were in a Chevy Trax. They were identified as a 20-year-old female, a 43-year-old female and a 47-year-old male.
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A star-studded collaborative project sure sounds exciting when it’s all recorded and ready for release, but getting there takes a whole lot of hard work and planning.
That’s why Brooks & Dunn stayed out of the scheduling process for REBOOT II and gave the task of booking artists to their manager. Once the ducks were in a row and an artist jumps onboard, they’d get an update.
“[I got] a call one day, ‘Hey, man, I got Jelly Roll, [he] wants to do ‘Believe.” And I was like – ‘with a full orchestra’ – I’m like, ‘Ahhh!'” Kix Brooks recounts.
“We didn’t know all at once what we were going to do or who was on it,” he says. “Over the course of the year, it’s just different people, you know, that, again, for managers and people’s schedules and all that kind of stuff, the logistics are just a nightmare.”
Kix adds, “Quite frankly, we didn’t even want to know about it. And I’m sure most acts probably didn’t either. It’s great that everybody just eventually agreed and they figured out how to make it work, because once we got in the studio, it was nothing but a party.”
REBOOT II arrives Nov. 15.
Here’s the full track list for REBOOT II:
“Play Something Country” with Lainey Wilson
“Neon Moon” with Morgan Wallen
“Rock My World (Little Country Girl)” with Marcus King Band
“Ain't Nothing Bout You” with Megan Moroney
“Brand New Man” with Warren Zeiders
“Believe” with Jelly Roll
“She Used to Be Mine” with Riley Green
“She Likes to Get Out of Town” with The Cadillac Three
“Boot Scootin' Boogie” with Halestorm
“Ain't No Way To Go” with Mitchell Tenpenny
“How Long Gone” with The Earls of Leicester
“I'll Never Forgive My Heart” with Jake Worthington
“She's Not the Cheatin' Kind” with Hailey Whitters
“Hard Workin' Man” with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
“Hillbilly Deluxe” with HARDY
“Indian Summer” with ERNEST
“Drop in the Bucket” with Thousand Horses
“Only In America” with Corey Kent
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Morgan Wallen‘s latest song “Love Somebody,” is the No. 1 song in the United States. Released Oct. 18, ‘Love Somebody” follows the success of Wallen and Post Malone’s hit track “I Had Some Help,” which opened at No. 1 in May, and led Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart for six weeks. “Love Somebody” opens with 31 million streams and 15 million radio airplay audience impressions, per data from Luminate.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” moves to No. 2, counting 72.2 million impressions in the latest tracking week. In addition, on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Yeat earns his first No. 1 album, “Lyfestyle,” logging 89,000 equivalent album units earned and 60,000 album sales. “Lyfestyle” is the American rapper and songwriter’s best opening-week in sales, exceeding the cumulative sales of his entire album catalog so far, as reported by Billboard.
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” moves up two slots to No. 2 with 79,000 equivalent album units earned, with Jelly Roll’s “Beautifully Broken,” slipping to No. 3 after its No. 1 debut last week.
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Morgan Wallen‘s latest song “Love Somebody,” is the No. 1 song in the United States. Released Oct. 18, ‘Love Somebody” follows the success of Wallen and Post Malone’s hit track “I Had Some Help,” which opened at No. 1 in May, and led Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart for six weeks. “Love Somebody” opens with 31 million streams and 15 million radio airplay audience impressions, per data from Luminate.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” moves to No. 2, counting 72.2 million impressions in the latest tracking week. In addition, on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Yeat earns his first No. 1 album, “Lyfestyle,” logging 89,000 equivalent album units earned and 60,000 album sales. “Lyfestyle” is the American rapper and songwriter’s best opening-week in sales, exceeding the cumulative sales of his entire album catalog so far, as reported by Billboard.
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” moves up two slots to No. 2 with 79,000 equivalent album units earned, with Jelly Roll’s “Beautifully Broken,” slipping to No. 3 after its No. 1 debut last week.
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R.E.M., the War on Drugs, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes and Jason Isbell are among the dozens of artists contributing new, rare or live tracks to the 136-track digital download LP, Cardinals at the Window.
According to the Bandcamp website, all of the proceeds from Cardinals at the Window will be split evenly among Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and BeLoved Asheville.
The project also features new songs from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, MJ Lenderman, the Go-Betweens, Sharon Van Etten, Little Brother, Sylvan Esso, the Mountain Goats, Hotline TNT, Six Organs of Admittance, Archers of Loaf, Flock of Dimes and Real Estate.
Libby Rodenbough, one of the compilation’s organizers, shared: “In the aftermath of a ‘natural disaster,’ it’s important to situate this manifestation of ecological collapse within a history of inequitable exploitation of land and people. This is a region that has suffered in the name of human progress for a long time. I hope we’re going to take this opportunity to start building a different kind of world in western North Carolina and beyond.”
Added North Carolina music industry veteran Rusty Sutton: “Give what you can. Hug your friends and family. Use our experience to illuminate what, unfortunately, this new future will be like for us all: always on the precipice of climate disaster. It’s a stark, cold reality, and we’ll only get through it together. A friend of mine who stayed behind to spearhead aid efforts in his neighborhood shared these words earlier, and I think they’ll live with me forever: ‘Our terrain wasn’t meant to handle this storm, but our community was built for the aftermath.’”
Cardinals debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart, and in the top 10 on both Top Album Sales (No. 5) and Americana/Folk Albums (No. 8).
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