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Lainey Wilson was the big winner for Female Video of the Year at the 2024 CMT Music Awards on Sunday night (April 7). She took home the award for her “Watermelon Moonshine” music video. Wilson is not one to hide her emotions, and she gave an impassioned speech after Gayle King announced her win. She

Shaboozey, the Nigerian-American musician with a couple prominent features on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, is embracing this big release date moment and announcing his own new album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, out May 31.  The genre-bending rapper/singer/producer/filmmaker has been trickling out new music from the LP over the past few months, including “Annabelle,”

Katy Perry will be leaving American Idol at the end of this current season — a surprise to some of her fellow judges. During a sit-down withTaste of Country Nights, Luke Bryan shared some of the behind-the-scenes details of her departure, including his reaction when he heard that it was official. “I had heard whispers that she

Two-time GRAMMY-winning artist Tori Kelly releases her highly anticipated brand-new album TORI. today. Get it at all DSPs HERE. To commemorate the release of TORI., the multi hyphenate will release a vinyl version of the album on April 26, and is available for pre-order at https://www.torikellymusic.com. Executive produced by Jon Bellion, the diverse 15-track album is Tori Kelly’s fifth studio album and first in partnership with Epic Records.

The late songwriter recorded ‘Ships That Don’t Come In’ with Luke Combs for Hardy’s ‘Hixtape’ album When Hardy dropped the Joe Diffie-themed third volume of his Hixtape series on Friday, he did so with an army of country cameos: Blake Shelton, Chris Young, Clint Black, Darius Rucker, Hailey Whitters, and Koe Wetzel all turn up

Jelly Roll and his wife Bunnie Xo‘s plane was forced into an emergency landing on Thursday night (April 4). The frightening re-route delayed — but will not cancel — their trip to the 2024 CMT Music Awards. Jelly Roll, his wife and crew were flying via private jet to Austin for Sunday’s (April 7) CMT

“With all the rhetoric surrounding the LGBTQIA+ community these days, it is so encouraging to have real allies like Willie that aren’t afraid to stand proudly next to us,” Peck says Who said the gays couldn’t say yee haw? On Friday, Orville Peck premiered the video for his duet of “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond

If old school country music gives you that good buzz, now you know why. According to a therapist with the Sims Foundation — an organization that provides mental health and substance use recovery services — listening to music from your high school days “binds to brain” more than anything you hear as an adult. So, that’s

CMT will also release a one-hour special dedicated to the late country hitmaker Lainey Wilson, Sammy Hagar, and more will honor Toby Keith at the 2024 CMT Music Awards. Brooks & Dunn, Lukas Nelson, and Roger Clemens will also pay tribute to the late country hitmaker, who died in February at age 62 from stomach

Luke Bryan has charted more than 30 No. 1 songs at country radio across his career, and fans love them all — but there’s one Luke Bryan song that will never get played at Luke Bryan’s house. During a recent chat with Taste of Country Nights, the country megastar dished on the song that can’t get played in

Controversial singer will perform at the network’s music awards ceremony this weekend Less than a year ago, CMT pulled Jason Aldean‘s controversial “Try That in a Small Town” music video, ostensibly because the song dealt in white-power tropes and the clip featured footage shot in a place where a Black man was once lynched. Reps

Vince Gill took a moment to honor Blake Shelton‘s late brother, Richie, as well as late country great Toby Keith in a show-stopping rendition of his song “Go Rest High on That Mountain” during his set at the All for the Hall concert in Oklahoma. The veteran country singer was a special guest during Shelton’s event on

Call it Queen Bey’s impact: Cowboy Carter saw Beyoncé dive deep into her country roots — and with the album, which Rolling Stone named an instant classic, she helped introduce thousands of fans to some of country music’s legends. New data from Spotify provided to Rolling Stone on Monday reveals that music streams for artists

Loretta Lynn‘s granddaughter Emmy Russell took the American Idol stage once again on Sunday (March 31). Whether or not she moved on feels like an afterthought after her vulnerable performance. In February, Emmy Russell earned a trip to Hollywood with a performance of an original called “Skinny.” Finding her true voice has been the 24-year-old’s

Iconic hitmaking sisters The Veronicas return with Gothic Summer, their first international album release in 10 years. After a much needed disconnect, Lisa and Jessica Origliasso soon found themselves in the throes of an unexpected 6th album. Gothic Summer was born. “Gothic Summer is about alternative realities, its more subconsciously motivated and metaphorical than our previous records,”

The Black country singer, a pioneer of the genre, thanked Beyoncé for including her on the album On Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé shines a spotlight on country pioneer Linda Martell, whose 1970 LP, Color Me Country, was the first major country album released by a Black woman. Martell speaks the intro to “Spaghettii,” talking about the

Although it’s been years since Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani divorced, the singer still worries about how the entire process has affected their children. “I feel bad for my kids, that’s it,” Rossdale tells the Amy & T.J. Podcast. “I wish I could have found a way to not have that in their lives. It

These boots were certainly made for walkin’! On Friday evening, Nancy Sinatra celebrated Beyoncé sampling her iconic 1965 single “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” on the Cowboy Carter standout “Ya Ya.” “To have a little piece of one of my records in a @Beyonce song is very meaningful to me because I love her,”

A 47-year-old stepmother on Reddit was furious after learning that her much older husband, 65, plans to leave their home to his 30-year-old daughter from a previous marriage in his will. “After my husband’s retirement party, the discussion of wills and inheritance came up and my husband informed me that he is leaving our marital

Girl group KARMA are giving us TLC vibes. They released their brand new single ‘Can’t Live In The Past’ which also features Temmora. The group took to YouTube to explain the meaning behind the song; The song “Can’t live in the past” suggests that dwelling on past mistakes or regrets is unproductive. It encourages embracing

From country icons Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson to featured guests Miley Cyrus and Post Malone, every star who worked on Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter shared their excitement for joining Queen Bey on her country album released Friday. Rising stars such as Raye and Tiera Kennedy expressed their gratitude to Beyoncé, and even Nancy Sinatra, who

Until now, all that most people knew about Riley Strain was that he was 22 years old, tall and from Missouri. His obituary offers a more thorough look at his passions, ambition and commitment to service. Riley Strain’s body was found in the Cumberland River on March 22 after he went missing in Nashville on March

On the heels of the explosive release of their highly anticipated collaborative album WE DON’T TRUST YOU, Future and Metro Boomin share the official music video for “Young Metro” with The Weeknd. Watch the official music video HERE and get the album at all DSPs HERE.   WE DON’T TRUST YOU arrived on Friday as a celebration of the historic partnership of two culture-shifting legends

She ain’t sorry! On Friday, Beyoncé released her album Cowboy Carter, which features a modern reimagining of Dolly Parton‘s classic “Jolene” and an interlude from Miss Parton herself. Queen Bey’s new version serves as a continuation to Lemonade‘s “Sorry,” just with a renaming for the infamous “Becky with the good hair.” Track nine hears an

Riley Strain’s family have ordered a second, private autopsy on the college student’s body amid continuing questions after he was pulled from the Cumberland River on March 22. A spokesman for the family has cast doubt on the preliminary findings, saying Strain’s family “deserves more answers than we have.” What Happened to Riley Strain? Strain

Most music fans today are aware there’s a long-running argument about whether the writers of the songs we love are fairly compensated for the profits made out of them. The internet brought the argument into the light, but it wasn’t really new. Since the era of recorded music began – and actually, long before that,

Beach-loving Kenneth Arnold Chesney (aka Kenny Chesney) was born on March 26, 1968 in Knoxville. He attended East Tennessee State University, where he graduated in 1990. After graduation, Chesney decided to pack up and move to Nashville, where he would pursue his dreams of making it in music. When Chesney got to Music City, he became

Maren Morris, Robert Plant, and Alison Krauss are set to play at the Independence Day event — held outside Texas for the first time in 14 years Willie Nelson‘s 4th of July Picnic is moving to Philadelphia. (Well, actually the aptly named Freedom Mortgage Pavilion across the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey.) On Tuesday,

You’ve never heard Carrie Underwood sing like this. Actually, you may never want to hear the hitmaker sing like this. Although, some will find the context for this performance to be adorable, hilarious or even brilliant. A cover of “Jesus Take the Wheel” is one of four clips the new Taste of Country Mornings team breaks down

After purchasing the outdoor brand with Morgan Wallen earlier this year, Church will play the inaugural fest in Winnsboro, South Carolina At the start of the year, Eric Church announced that he and Morgan Wallen had teamed up to purchase Field & Stream, the long-running outdoors magazine and brand. He also teased that a Field