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2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees (Country Music Association) Tim McGraw will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2026, along with singer/songwriter Paul Overstreet and bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers. Tim is the 2026 modern era artist, with 60-plus top-10 hits to his credit and nearly 30 number ones. "Everything good in my life has come from country music,” he says. "From my best memories as a kid, […]

Morgan Evans' 'Steel Town' (Solrise Records / Virgin Music Group) Morgan Evans' sophomore album is titled Steel Town as an homage to the coastal city of Newcastle, Australia, where he grew up. Glance at the cover, which shows him sitting at the edge of the ocean as a huge ship passes in the distance, and you'd assume that's where the photo was taken. With a deadline looming, however, there was no time to […]

Lee Brice will release "When the Kingdom Comes" on April 3, ahead of the June 5 release of his album Sunriser. Jennifer Nettles will star in the new musical she wrote, Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, this summer in New York City. Tickets are on sale now for the show's June 28-July 26 run at Perelman Performing Arts Center.Time is running out to see Rosanne Cash: Time Is a Mirror at the Country […]

Gabby Barrett (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) Gabby Barrett previewed what's ahead for her musically and picked up some accolades for a couple monster hits at the annual Warner Records luncheon during Country Radio Seminar this week in Nashville. She performed "The Easy Part," which she co-wrote with HARDY, and debuted an unreleased song, teasing that Chris Stapleton had previously had it on hold. Afterward, the head of the label presented Gabby with two […]

'Hot Ones' (First We Feast/Hot Ones) Talk about a bet that paid off: Luke Combs spent all the money he had to pay for his debut single, "Hurricane," to be mastered. That's one of the things he reveals as the guest on the latest episode of Hot Ones.“Interestingly and luckily enough, it was the only song that was in any state close enough to putting out," he said. "So, it was basically […]

Ashley McBryde's 'Wild' (Warner Records Nashville) Ashley McBryde's fifth studio album, Wild, will arrive on May 8. “When people hear this record, I hope it wakes up the part of them that I’m singing about in ‘Wild’—the part that still believes in those unrealized dreams and untaken risks,” Ashley says. “I believe that wild little kid is still alive inside of all of us, and that’s the version of everyone that […]

The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green make up the first round of artists confirmed to perform at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2026, the show returns to its longtime home in Las Vegas at MGM Grand Garden Arena. It'll also be back in its traditional time slot on May 17, when it streams live on Prime Video at 8 […]

Taylor Swift and Vince Gill perform at the Country Music Hall Of Fame Museum's "All For The Hall" at Club Nokia on Sept. 23, 2010 in Los Angeles. (John Shearer/WireImage) Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, and she's got five years to go before she's eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. On Friday, her name just may come up as […]

Trisha Yearwood (Disney/Randy Holmes) Trisha Yearwood is hosting her second Band As One Nashville Concert for the Cure on Sunday, and expectations are high for several reasons. The first is the progress Trisha's seen since losing her mother to breast cancer in 2011. "I've watched friends in treatment [for the same cancer as my mother] take a drug ... that helped them survive longer, that I know could've helped her, you know, and so I […]