The nominees in the 2021 American Music Awards have been announced, and the names include some of the biggest artists in country music. The nominations commenced on Thursday morning (Oct. 28), when initial artists were revealed during ABC’s Good Morning America and Spotify’s morning show, The Get Up. The balance of the nominees were subsequently announced
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Jameson Rodgers says one of his favorite songs on his new album is a hopeless heartbreaker called “One Day.” The mid-tempo song is a jagged blade that pierces the chest and twists with the final line of each chorus. It’s the kind of song you’d expect from someone who’s been through a breakup recently, but the newly married Rodgers
Not much stands in the way of Blake Shelton, but Ariana Grande did. In 2016, years before they began working together on NBC’s The Voice, both released albums at the same time: Shelton’s If I’m Honest dropped the same day Grande released Dangerous Woman. “I released the album, and I had some momentum going at that point musically,”
Reba McEntire‘s Living & Learning Spotify podcast returned for Season 2 on Monday (Oct. 25), and she kicked off the season with a particularly special guest: Her boyfriend, actor Rex Linn. McEntire and Linn started dating in early 2020, but they met much earlier: In 1991, both were on the set of the Kenny Rogers TV
Brandi Carlile‘s current single, “Right on Time,” is eligible for nominations at the 2022 Grammy Awards — but not in the all-genre awards show’s Americana categories, or even in its country ones. Instead, the singer-songwriter revealed on Instagram on Tuesday (Oct. 26), the Recording Academy has opted to consider the song in its pop sector. Per
The competition is heating up on The Voice Season 21, and Monday (Oct. 25) brought the first night of the Knockout Rounds. Winding down to the final minutes of the two-hour program, Team Kelly’s Girl Named Tom went up against the talented Holly Forbes, showcasing their stellar sibling harmony on Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman.” Before their performance, the band
Kelly Clarkson and Chris Stapleton have teamed up for a brand-new Christmas song, “Glow.” The stunning, ebullient tune spotlights the powerhouse vocalists’ strong deliveries and complementary harmonies. “Nothing has changed, I still wish you could be / Wrapped up in my arms, spending Christmas with me / When it gets cold is when I notice the
Rising star Brittney Spencer is set to hit the road for her first-ever headlining run at the end of 2021. Her In a Perfect World Tour — which is named after a line from “Sober and Skinny,” a song she put out over the summer — kicks off Dec. 2 at Rockwood Music Hall in
Scotty McCreery‘s megahit from 2017, “Five More Minutes,” will find new life this holiday season as it lends its name to a Hallmark Christmas movie. The film, which was inspired by the song, will air on Hallmark’s Movies & Mysteries channel on Nov. 20 at 10PM ET. “Five More Minutes” isn’t a Christmas song, though
Fifteen years ago today, on Oct. 24, 2006, Taylor Swift’s life was about to completely change. It was on that date that the then-16-year-old released her self-titled debut album on Big Machine Records. Swift released her first single, “Tim McGraw,” on June 19, 2006. The song, which Swift wrote with Liz Rose, peaked at No.
Olivia Newton-John has been battling Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for years, and in a new interview on the Today show, she says she’s “feeling pretty good” due to medical cannabis. The pop superstar and actor appeared on the show on Oct. 20 to talk to Hoda Kotb about the 40th anniversary of her iconic
Eleven years ago today, on Oct. 23, 2010, Blake Shelton officially became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The singer was introduced by Jeannie Seely and inducted by Trace Adkins. Shelton, an avid Twitter user, was invited to join the Opry via a tweet on Sept. 28, 2010, during the Country Comes Home concert that
Jessie James Decker has announced a full scale tour for next spring. Her 2022 The Woman I’ve Become Tour includes 24 stops across the country. Decker and opening act Adam Doleac will begin on April 14 in Detroit and stay on the road through early June, finishing at the Mission Ballroom in Denver, the city in
Brandi Carlile joins Elton John to celebrate the “Simple Things” in a new collaboration. The song features the two in jubilant, knowledge-dispensing harmony over a jaunty, piano-driven melody. “Simple things / Hard to learn / Fire’s hot / Burn, burn, burn,” goes the song’s chorus. “Simple truths / Hard to see / Not what you want, but what
“No thanks will come your way when you’re living in the center of a circle made to break,” Yola sings early on in “Be My Friend,” a compelling track from her newest album, Stand for Myself. In addition to warning powerfully against complacency, the lyric asks for meaningful connection across social, political and cultural division, a
Chris Stapleton has pushed two scheduled shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena back to December, per doctor’s orders. This Thursday’s (Oct. 21) concert in Cincinnati is also being postponed. The news comes four days after the singer and CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee rescheduled a show for Sioux Falls, S.D. Stapleton has laryngitis and isn’t
In his new music video for “Heart on Fire,” Eric Church travels back in time for a journey through his own impressive career. Directed by Reid Long, the clip shows Church inserting a VHS tape labeled “2006-2019,” which then flashes a warning that reads: “DO NOT MANIPULATE COPYRIGHTED MUSIC VIDEOS.” As the video progresses, fans can see that those words were
The battle pairings on Season 21’s The Voice are coming to an end, which means emotions are running high as coaches continue to whittle down their teams from 11 to 10. On Tuesday night (Oct. 19), Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Ariana Grande listened on as the final Battle Round performers took to the
Kacey Musgraves brought “Breadwinner” — a moody, mid-tempo track that warns against getting into a relationship with a guy who will be intimidated by his partner’s success — to life on the stage of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday night (Oct. 18). Acerbic, jaded and full of lessons learned, the poppy earworm
Unlike his peers Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney and Faith Hill, who offered a more traditional sound on their early recordings, Keith Urban started out as a soft rock- and R&B-loving pop-country pace-setter. Fans could hear it all the way back in 1999, on his self-titled American debut (not to be confused with his lesser-known Australian debut from