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Disney/Randy Holmes Blake Shelton recently racked up a big career milestone: his song "Texas" became his 30th #1 hit, and Blake tells ABC Audio that once he realized he was close to that number, he did everything he could to achieve it.Blake says he didn't realize he was close to hitting 30 until "Pour Me a Drink," his collaboration with Post Malone, went to #1."I started reading all these news blurbs […]

Academy of Country Music Cody Johnson heads into Thursday night's 60th Academy of Country Music Awards tied for the most nominations of any male artist with Morgan Wallen, at seven each. While the Texan would obviously love to win 'em all, he does try to look at each category objectively."I really do look at other artists and go, 'Man, she probably deserves that'... or 'he really should get that,'" Cody tells ABC Audio. […]

Big Loud / Mercury Records Morgan Wallen's British fans are in for a treat: Billboard reports that he's scheduled a one-night-only show in London.The May 28 concert at London's Roundhouse marks Morgan's only show outside of North America this year -- at least, so far. Last year, he headlined the BST Hyde Park Summer Festival in London. Fans can access tickets by pre-ordering his new album I'm the Problem from […]

Luke Combs is the sole country headliner for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, which runs over two weekends: Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-13. Three-day tickets for both weekends will go on sale Tuesday at 12 p.m. CT at aclfestival.com. One-day tickets will be available at a later date; payment plans are available.Brad Paisley is teaming with Fender Guitars for a new signature model, the Limited Edition Brad Paisley 1967 "Lost […]

Disney/Randy Holmes Sure, it'd be great if your son was a chart-topping, award-winning country star. But there is a downside, which Riley Green's mother has had to come to grips with: all the female fans who are interested in him romantically."My mom has an Instagram, unfortunately, so she sees things that are mentioned. I think she gets some messages — she told me she got some applications for daughter-in-law sent […]

Disney/Scott Kirkland In the early 2000s, singer/songwriter/producer Akon was all over the pop charts, either with his own songs or with tracks he produced for other artists. In April, Akon told TMZ that he was "redoing my whole catalog in country,” adding that his hits were being rerecorded by country artists and that he'd be a featured performer. Well, you can hear a snippet of one of them right now.Josh Ross […]

Spidey Smith Morgan Wallen's new album, I'm The Problem, is dropping May 16, and he'll be releasing one more song from it before the whole project arrives.Morgan posted a video on his Instagram Story in which he announced the song will be out on Friday, May 9. "It's a song I wrote for my son. It's called 'Superman' and it's special to me for obvious reasons.""I wanted it to have its own […]

John Medina/Getty Images Brantley Gilbert is going to cover more of the U.S. in Tattoos.He's extending his Tattoos tour into the summer, with dates scheduled through Sept. 11, including several festivals. Brantley wrote on Instagram, "The Tattoos Tour ain't over! We're coming to a town near you this summer... Presales begin today, 5/6 at 12 PM local time. General onsale begins this Friday, 5/9 at 10am local time."Brantley's special guests […]

Adrienne Raquel for ELLE Kelsea Ballerini is up for two ACMs this Thursday, including Female Vocalist of the Year, but she's also gracing the digital cover of ELLE's May 2025 Women in Music issue. In her cover story, Kelsea says that her split from Morgan Evans is so far in the past that she doesn't even want to be associated with the concept anymore.Thanks to her 2023 intensely personal breakup EP Rolling […]