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'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026' performers (Courtesy DCP) There are always a lot of musical performances on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, but this year's edition of the ABC special is especially stacked.The live special starts at 8 p.m. ET and will feature countdowns from New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and beyond. All in all, more than 85 songs will […]

Ashley McBryde on ABC's 'CMA Fest presented by SoFi' (Disney/Larry McCormack) Ashley McBryde is switching on a new charity initiative.The Light On Fund, named after her hit "Light on in the Kitchen," will support causes close to Ashley's heart, including mental health care for veterans, children in foster care, ASL interpretation at live music events and rehab resources for creatives.Notably, Ashley is launching the initiative on Dec. 2, which is […]

Megan Moroney attends the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Nov. 19, Nashville, Tennessee (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) Megan Moroney will be getting a special honor at Variety's upcoming Hitmakers gala, which celebrates the artists who've broken through or achieved major success in 2025.Megan will be named Storyteller of the Year at the Saturday event in LA, thanks to her CMA-nominated album Am I Okay? Other honorees announced Tuesday include Bailey Zimmerman's "All the […]

Lainey Wilson Hosts ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ live from Nashville airing November 19 on ABC; streaming next day on Hulu. (Disney/Robbie Klein) Worlds collide! The CMA entertainer of the year may be singing with a legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band.The bad boys of Boston, Aerosmith, are teasing a new version of a song that appears on their new top-10 EP, One More Time.  “A 'Wild Woman' feature coming soon,” […]

Lainey Wilson Hosts ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ live from Nashville airing November 19 on ABC; streaming next day on Hulu. (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) Amazon Music has released its annual year in review, including a list of the most-streamed tracks by users in 2025, and plenty of country hits made the cut.Amazon Music customers in the U.S. were streaming multiple Morgan Wallen tracks this past year, including the Tate McRae […]

Scotty McCreery's "White Christmas" (Triple Tigers) If you think the world couldn't possibly need another version of the Irving Berlin classic "White Christmas," Scotty McCreery humbly asks that you let him plead his case. You see, Scotty's take on the much-recorded tune takes inspiration from both The Drifters and Elvis Presley. "I was almost nervous to record the song because I love it so much during Christmastime," he tells ABC Audio. "And I […]

Zach Top performs on the 59th Annual CMA Awards, November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee (Disney/Frank Micelotta) We'd never lie: Zach Top is getting his own denim line.He's teaming with Kimes Ranch for the new collaboration; the first piece, the ZTKR01 jean aka the "Zach," is the first release from the collection. They'll be available at the Kimes Ranch Booth inside the Las Vegas Convention Center during the National Finals Rodeo […]

Lady A's 'On This Winter's Night (Volume 2)' (Big Machine) With a new holiday album, On This Winter's Night (Volume 2), and a Christmas tour, Lady A will be all over your TV in December.You can watch the group sing "Wonderful Christmastime" on The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular Monday at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. On Tuesday night they'll be performing one of the original songs on the album, […]

Rex Linn and Reba McEntire attend the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards at Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star on May 08, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage) Reba McEntire and her fiancé, Rex Linn, got engaged in December 2024, but didn't tell anyone until September of this year. It's no wonder that Reba doesn't want anyone to think they went off and got married without telling anyone.While […]