Category: <span>News</span>

by CMT.com Staff 5m ago Only one more day until the new season of Music City premieres on CMT. You’ve seen the new teasers and some of the new faces set to shake things up beginning tomorrow night. But that’s not all. “You’re gonna see some loose ends come together in season two that you...

by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago This is genius. Luke Combs wanted to boost his Instagram followers from almost a million to an actual million. So on New year’s Eve, he wrote on Twitter — where he has almost 240,000 followers — that if he could reach his goal before 2018 was over, he’d reward everyone...

by Lauren Tingle 5m ago Keith Urban is becoming a staple of a Nashville New Year’s Eve after headlining another Music City Midnight celebration. This year marked more than three years of Urban headlining the annual event. The Tennessean reports between 175,000 to 200,000 people welcomed 2019 at Monday night’s (Dec. 31) Bicentennial Mall concert...

by Alison Bonaguro 22m ago Did you miss it? There was a father-daughter hogfish outing, a shoelace argument, a wedding remake, a Bevo v. Uga incident, and so much more. If you unplugged over the holidays, you might’ve overlooked some solid social posts from the country stars. But we never unplug. So we were watching...

by Edward Morris 9h ago Christmas is still in the air — chartwise. This first week of 2019, Gene Autry’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Other Christmas Classics moves up from No. 2 to No. 1 on Billboard’s top country albums rankings. And while Dan + Shay’s “Speechless” holds the airplay summit for the third...

by Alison Bonaguro 6m ago After a few years of talking about all the ways women can support other women in country music, Kelsea Ballerini has taken a step in the right direction. She put country newcomer Carly Pearce’s latest single “Closer to You” on a New Year’s playlist for Glamour. “This one is for...

by CMT.com Staff 38m ago The list of incredible albums in country, Americana, bluegrass and the like this past year was too great to name individually or rank in any of kind of official list (It’s hard, y’all. So very hard.). But for us at CMT.com, there were a few records that we kept spinning...

by CMT.com Staff 7m ago 2018 was a monumental year for ballads, breakup anthems, bold declarations, and honky-tonk swagger, and picking a best-of list seemed more daunting than ever before. So, the staff at CMT.com compiled a list of our personal favorite songs of the year instead. Some you may recognize a few hits, some...

by Alison Bonaguro 50m ago First there were the nightly prayers. “Every night when I put Brad to bed, I would say, ‘Let’s pray, please make this world a better place in any way you can,’” Brad Paisley’s mother Sandy told the Tennessean. Then there were the actions. Sandy and Doug Paisley made sure their...

by Edward Morris 35m ago Country music has never been shy about celebrating (and immortalizing) its own. So many of the 2018 headlines focused on awards. But far too many concerned losses, the deaths of musical stalwarts who were crucial in defining and popularizing the genre. Then, late in the year, there was the mind-numbing...