Country Music News

Lainey Wilson has announced that her Bell Bottoms Up bar in downtown Nashville will be opening on May 31. The Grammy award-winning country music star is launching the three-story bar/restaurant on Broadway Street in Nashville this summer in partnership with TC Restaurant Group. The 27,000-square-foot area will mainly be a live music venue, featuring two…

Country music superstar Martina McBride has been chosen as a judge for the new talent competition, “Second Chance Stage.” Besides McBride, the other judges of “Second Chance Stage” include acclaimed stage and screen actor Taye Diggs and “Saturday Night Live” cast member, comedian and actress Heidi Gardner. Sports broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author…

Chris Stapleton and Dua Lipa have officially released “Think I’m In Love With You,” their surprise duet performance from the 2024 ACM Awards. Stapleton and Lipa surprised everyone at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards last Thursday night, when they paired up to perform a collaborative version of “Think I’m in Love With You,”…

The Recording Academy has announced the 2025 Grammys will take place on February 2 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Nominations for the 2025 Grammys will be announced on November 8. Only those…

Reba McEntire invited Lainey Wilson to join the Grand Ole Opry during the finale of NBC’s “The Voice” earlier this week. The country music veteran extended the invitation to become the next member of the Grand Ole Opry after the current ACM Entertainer of the Year finished playing her new single, “Hang Tight Honey.” “Lainey,…

Wynonna Judd and Lainey Wilson have teamed up for a cover of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ classic “Refugee.” The track, produced by Cactus Moser, arrives as the fifth single shared from the highly-anticipated Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty. The cover is also accompanied by a video featuring behind-the-scenes footage of…

Celebrating his 39th birthday on Monday, Jon Pardi announced additional dates on his headlining Mr. Saturday Night Tour. The 16-date North American leg of the tour will begin in Baltimore on September 5. Priscilla Block, Meghan Patrick and Larry Fleet will support Pardi on select dates. The U.K. and European phase of the tour, in…

Country star Tyler Hubbard has earned his second solo No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, thanks to “Back Then Right Now.” The single increased 6% to 29.5 million audience impressions May 10-16, according to Luminate. “Back Then Right Now” was written by Hubbard alongside Jessie Jo Dillon, David Garcia and Geoff Warburton. The track…

Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Malone earned his sixth No. 1 and Wallen scored his second. The song bowed with 76.4 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate. According to Billboard, this is the most streams for a song in…

Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, has earned a fourth straight week atop the Billboard 200. The surprise double album earned 260,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the May 10-16 tracking week, according to Laminate. Swift dropped her highly anticipated album via Republic Records on April 19, and within a few…