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Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Stevens is recovering at home from a March 29 fall that left him with a broken neck. According to a news release, he's "fully mobile and in good spirits," though he has to wear a neck brace for a month. His latest album, Favorites Old & New, comes out Friday. Jamey Johnson remembered Merle Haggard with his cover of 2010's "Pretty When It's New" on […]

Thomas Rhett (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) With just six words, Marshmello solved the mystery that Thomas Rhett started last week with a "teaser" that was simply a video of him eating marshmallows out of the bag with an instrumental music bed behind it."Where We Go available everywhere Friday," the DJ/producer said in a joint post on both artists' accounts.The update was accompanied by a photo of the two leaning against a truck bed, […]

Ella Langley (Disney/Frank Micelotta) Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" is proving to have staying power the size of the state it mentions, as the track returns to #1 on Billboard's all-genre Hot 100.This is the fifth nonconsecutive week the song has reigned at #1 on the chart, dating back to its first in mid-February. The April 1 release of the song's star-studded music video, shot in Forth Worth, Texas, helped with […]

Country Splash (Courtesy Country Splash) Riley Green, Jon Pardi, Tucker Wetmore and Diplo will headline Country Splash Sept. 4-6 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.The first country music festival ever to be held on the beach in Cabo will feature nightly shows, sunset acoustic performances and artist-led wellness experiences like Diplo's beach yoga, plus a Saturday and Sunday daytime Pool Party with country DJ sets by Diplo. “Country Splash was designed to bring […]

Justin Moore's 'This Is My Dirt' (Blue Highway Records) Justin Moore manages to top both major Country Airplay charts this week, as "Time's Ticking" rises to #1 on the Mediabase tally, as well as the previously reported Billboard ranking.“It’s beyond exciting, and humbling, to celebrate our 14th number 1 with 'Time’s Ticking,'" Justin says. "I was proud of the song when we wrote it. I’m thrilled to see it resonate […]

The 61st ACM Awards (Academy of Country Music) Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and Kacey Musgraves have been added to the performance lineup as the 61st ACM Awards return to the traditional Sunday time slot on May 17. Kacey will do a song from her upcoming sixth studio album, Middle of Nowhere, which drops May 1. The Academy of Country Music didn't reveal what Miranda or LBT will sing. They join previously […]

Ella Langley's 'Dandelion' (SAWGOD/ Columbia Records) Ella Langley not only chose the title of her second album very deliberately, she decided on Dandelion long ago."I'm so excited for these new songs," she tells ABC Audio. "We've been working so hard on it. ... I've known the title for this record, I mean, over a year now. It's been like a year and a half.""So it's really been a long process, but […]

Charley Crockett's 20-song Age of the Ram is out now. It's the culmination of his three-album Sagebrush Trilogy.The latest song from newcomer Emily Ann Roberts, titled "My Future," will arrive on Friday. Corey Kent's set to drop his new track, "Wannabe," on April 17, but you can preview it now on TikTok.  Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Cody Johnson's "Footlights" (Cojo Music/Warner Records Nashville) Cody Johnson's paying tribute to Merle Haggard on what would've been his 79th birthday. It's also the 10th anniversary of his passing. The reigning CMA male vocalist of the year recorded his own version of the legend's self-penned "Footlights," which opens his 1979 album, Serving 190 Proof. Though it wasn't a single, the song about the life of an entertainer would become one of […]