Country

CMT has decided to launch a summertime concert event and they have partnered with Jason Aldean in doing so. Aldean will be the first featured artist that the event has and we’re sure the network hopes to continue this event for many years to come. The details for the event are that Jason Aldean will be performing on June 19 in Chicago and CMT will record and air the concert […]

Every week we look at the Mediabase chart for country music and every week we see a new artist and song at the top. This week that song is “Somewhere on a Beach” by Dierks Bentley. He rose from two to one over the past week, swapping places with Chris Young & Cassadee Pope’s latest hit, “Think of You.” There are two new artists and songs at the bottom of […]

The full list of CMT Music Award nominees has not yet been released, but we have six awards to digest. We talked about three on Tuesday, so let’s take a look at the final three: Group/Duo Video of the Year, Breakthrough Video of the Year, CMT Performance of the Year. Remember, the award show will be aired live on June 8 and you only have until June 6 to vote […]

The CMT Music Awards have announced their first batch of nominees for this year’s award show and there are plenty of artists to talk about. Unlike other award shows, some of these awards have over 10 eligible to win! The 2016 CMT Music awards will be shown live on CMT on June 8. Voting is available to the public, which you can do once per category with voting ending at […]

Country music consistently has great fans and followers and that’s exactly what we witnessed when looking at Billboard’s calculations for their top 40 paid artists. Of those 40, eight are from the country format, which is pretty impressive if you ask us. At the top of the list is Taylor Swift, but Kenny Chesney is “right behind” her. Although he finished 2015 as the second highest earning artist, he’s almost […]

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is months away, but it’s never too early to know who will be performing at this wonderful event. This amazingly large festival will stretch over for two weeks and will be one you won’t want to miss. On the final weekend of September (30th to October 2nd) and October 7-9 at Austin’s Zilker Park, you’ll see some of the best acts in the business. […]

The Mediabase chart is out for this week and we see yet another drop from the top for last week’s number one artist. This time the victim was Florida-Georgia Line and their song, “Confession.” It has dropped all the way down to five and it doesn’t sound like it’ll reach that peak again considering the songs around them. Chris Young & Cassadee Pope are the new numbers ones thanks to […]

Thomas Rhett Akins, Jr. has had some big shoes to fill given his father is the famous and successful Rhett Akins. He’s doing just fine as Thomas Rhett though. His latest album, “It Goes Like This,” has given radio at least five singles. Thomas was born in Valdosta, GA, and was no stranger to country music and its stars, as his famous father often had Brooks and Dunn and other […]