Country Music News

One of the highlights of last Thursday’s People’s Choice Country Awards was Brad Paisley debuting his rollicking new song, “Truck Still Works.” It turns out that current song has creative roots tied to Paisley’s 2004 hit single, “Mud on the Tires,” which went to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Paisley again worked…

Cody Johnson took to Instagram on Monday to reveal dates and locations for his 2025 Leather Deluxe World Tour. Johnson’s highly anticipated tour gets underway on January 17 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, before hitting up Charlottesville, VA, St. Louis, MO, Moline, IL, and Milwaukee, WI later that month. CoJo will bring…

Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning, and Lainey Wilson have been named as co-hosts for the 2024 CMA Awards. This will mark Bryan’s fourth consecutive time hosting the CMAs, with former NFL quarterback Manning joining him the past two years. This will be Wilson’s first time hosting the CMAs, now in its 58th year. “I could not…

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” notched a 12th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Shaboozey’s crossover hit first topped the charts back in July, and its nearly three-month reign is twice as long as any other No. 1 this year, doubling up on the six-week chart-topping run of Post Malone’s “I Had…

Keith Urban released his new album, High, back on September 20, marking his first release in nearly four years. Urban recorded an album featuring darker, more reflective numbers a year and a half ago, but he scrapped the project, titled 615, and started working on what would eventually become High. “The end result was 13…

Luke Bryan released his highly-anticipated new album, Mind of a Country Boy, on Friday (September 27), the country superstar’s first full-length album since 2020’s Born Here Live Here Die Here. While there are plenty of rowdy, good-time tunes that Bryan has become known for on his new record, there are also plenty of moments where…

Luke Combs’ single, “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” is spending its second week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. The hit song that Combs co-wrote for the soundtrack Twisters: The Album is the 13th of his 18 Country Airplay leaders to top the charts for multiple weeks. “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” marks another…

Jake Worthington released his new collaboration with Miranda Lambert, “Hello S—ty Day,” on Friday (September 27). The 28-year-old rising country star admitted that he had to work up “the gumption to ask” Lambert, a fellow Texan and one of his “musical heroes,” to join him in writing the new song together. The duo’s musical partnership…

Over the weekend, thousands of songs and music videos by artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Mariah Carey and hundreds more were removed from YouTube. The drastic and surprising move comes after YouTube failed to come to terms on a new agreement with the publishing rights organization SESAC. “We have held…

Future’s Mixtape Pluto debuts at No. 1 on this weeks’ Billboard 200 chart. The collection becomes the rapper’s third chart-topping record in 2024 alone – joining his prior collaborations with Metro Boomin, We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You – and the 11th No. 1 album of Future’s career. Elsewhere in the…