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Justin Moore's "Time's Ticking" (Blue Highway Records) Justin Moore now wears the crown as the artist with the longest trip to #1, as "Time's Ticking" rather ironically takes its place atop the Billboard Country Airplay ranking. Justin's 11th #1 took 67 weeks to make it to the pinnacle, unseating Michael Ray's "Whiskey and Rain" and Travis Denning's "After a Few," which both had a 65-week run to the top. Scotty McCreery's "In Between" logged […]

Cody Johnson performs on ABC's ‘CMA Fest presented by SoFi' (Disney/Connie Chornuk) When Cody Johnson recorded his current top-10 hit for Leather Deluxe Edition, it was a decision he made quite intentionally, because he connected so much with the message of "The Fall.""I was in the mode of cutting an album and saying, 'This is what I want people to hear,'" he recalls. "I want people to know that the […]

Josh Ross, "Give 'Er Hell' (Universal Music Canada / MCA / CORE Records) Josh Ross' current single, "Hate How You Look," is climbing the chart, and he's just dropped a new single called "Give 'Er Hell." The Canadian singer says in a statement, "I’ve had moments where things weren’t going my way, and this song came from that place. It’s about digging deep, trusting yourself, and giving it everything no […]

Zach Bryan performs during BST Hyde Park, June 29, 2025 in London, England. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns) Zach Bryan was supposed to perform Friday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma — about a 30-minute drive from where he was born — but he's now been forced to cancel the show due to inclement weather.In a Instagram post Friday afternoon, Zach wrote, "To my fellow Oklahomans: I am being forced by my team to cancel […]

(L-R): 'Six Months Later' producer Kristian Bush, co-writer Ben Williams, Megan Moroney, co-writers David 'Messy' Mescon and Rob Hatch Megan Moroney celebrated the success of her single "6 Months Later" Thursday night in Nashville — two months after it first topped the charts.At the celebration — where many attendees wore pink to go with the aesthetic of Megan's #1 album Cloud 9 and drank pink champagne — Megan said, "I feel […]

George Birge, "Whatever That Was' (Corey Miller) George Birge has dropped a new single about looking back on a youthful romance and yearning to capture that feeling again.In the song, "Whatever That Was," George sings, "Maybe it was autumn, maybe it was 18/ spinning on whiskey and wintergreen/ maybe it was was speakers singing 'Stars Go Blue'/ Oh but then again, maybe it was you. ... All I know is […]

Lainey Wilson performs on the 59th Annual CMA Awards on ABC, Nov. 19, 2025 (Disney/Frank Micelotta); Brandon Lake performs on ABC's 'CMA Fest presented by SoFi,' June 26, 2025 (Disney via CMA/Acadia Evans) Just in time for Easter, Lainey Wilson and Brandon Lake have released a faith-based duet."'The Jesus I Know Now' with my good friend @laineywilson is OUT NOW," Brandon wrote on Instagram. "I hope it reminds you that, like my […]

Ella Langley's 'Dandelion' (SAWGOD/ Columbia Records) Ella Langley's Dandelion track list has now sprouted on Instagram.In addition to the songs from the album Ella has already released — "Be Her," the title track and "Choosin' Texas" — it includes a duet with the project's executive producer, Miranda Lambert, on the song "Butterfly Season."The album's 18 tracks include an "intro" and an "outro" version of the traditional folk song "Froggy Went […]

Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney perform during the 68th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons, Jan. 31, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Dan + Shay have dropped the song they call "the most important release of our career so far.""Say So" has a theme of suicide prevention, and as per Variety, it was inspired by the death of the duo's friend Ben Vaughn, […]