Keith Urban’s new album, High, debuts at No. 10 on this week’s Top Country Albums Chart, the 11th Top 10 hit record of the country star’s celebrated career. “I love making music, and I’m as passionate about that as I was when I started,” Urban told Billboard. Urban first charted on the Top Country Albums…… read more

On Tuesday (October 1), Billy Strings announced on Instagram that he will offer refunds to fans after missing his headlining sets at Colorado’s Renewal Fest over the weekend. Strings left the festival in order to be with his wife Ally Apostol as she went into labor with their first child, with the couple eventually welcoming…… read more

In a new interview with Time magazine, Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff shared that he is currently working with the newly-married Lana Del Rey on her highly-anticipated country album, Lasso. Antonoff has been working closely with Del Rey ever since her Grammy-nominated 2019 album, Norman F**king Rockwell. “We have… yeah,” Antonoff disclosed when asked if he’s…… read more

On Friday (September 27), Steve Erickson released his career compilation, Retrospective. The 15-track album draws from the standouts of Erickson’s previous four albums, It’s About Time, Music Tonight, Moving On, and his critically acclaimed 2024 record, Crooked Road. The Asheville, North Carolina based singer-songwriter fluidly blends folk, Americana, blues, and country, while capturing the meditative,…… read more

Megan Moroney has just announced that she will be releasing her new deluxe album, Am I Okay? (I’ll Be Fine) on Friday (October 4). The newly expanded edition of Moroney’s July record, Am I Okay?, features three brand new songs, “Break It Right Back,” “Bless Your Heart,” and the track that inspired the new album…… read more

Barbra Streisand paid tribute to her musical collaborator and Hollywood co-star Kris Kristofferson in a series of Instagram posts following the country music legend’s death on Saturday (September 28). Streisand shared three separate posts dedicated to her memories of working and singing alongside Kristofferson. Streisand recalled the first time she saw Kristofferson sing while she…… read more

One of the highlights of last Thursday’s People’s Choice Country Awards was Brad Paisley debuting his rollicking new song, “Truck Still Works.” It turns out that current song has creative roots tied to Paisley’s 2004 hit single, “Mud on the Tires,” which went to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Paisley again worked…… read more

Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning, and Lainey Wilson have been named as co-hosts for the 2024 CMA Awards. This will mark Bryan’s fourth consecutive time hosting the CMAs, with former NFL quarterback Manning joining him the past two years. This will be Wilson’s first time hosting the CMAs, now in its 58th year. “I could not…… read more

Luke Bryan released his highly-anticipated new album, Mind of a Country Boy, on Friday (September 27), the country superstar’s first full-length album since 2020’s Born Here Live Here Die Here. While there are plenty of rowdy, good-time tunes that Bryan has become known for on his new record, there are also plenty of moments where…… read more

Jake Worthington released his new collaboration with Miranda Lambert, “Hello S—ty Day,” on Friday (September 27). The 28-year-old rising country star admitted that he had to work up “the gumption to ask” Lambert, a fellow Texan and one of his “musical heroes,” to join him in writing the new song together. The duo’s musical partnership…… read more

Over the weekend, thousands of songs and music videos by artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Mariah Carey and hundreds more were removed from YouTube. The drastic and surprising move comes after YouTube failed to come to terms on a new agreement with the publishing rights organization SESAC. “We have held…… read more

Kris Kristofferson, country music icon and celebrated Hollywood actor, died on Saturday (September 28) at the age of 88. Kristofferson died peacefully at his home in Maui while surrounded by his family. No cause of death has been disclosed. Kristofferson was a native of Brownsville, Texas, who wrote classic country songs like “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’…… read more

Luke Bryan’s new docuseries, It’s All Country, is set to premiere on Hulu on November 15. The six-episode series follows Bryan around Nashville as he has revealing discussions with fellow country legends. The 48-year-old country superstar gets his famous guests – including Sheryl Crow, Shaboozey, Kane Brown, Wynonna Judd, and Luke Combs – to open…… read more