The Country Music Association has revealed the recipients of the 11th annual CMA Triple Play Awards, an honor presented to songwriters who pen three No. 1 songs within a 12-month period based on the Country Aircheck, Billboard Country Airplay and Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. In total, 16 songwriters will receive trophies this year: Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Ross Copperman, Justin Ebach, Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley, Michael Hardy, Shay Mooney, Jon […]
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January 8, 2020
KANE BROWN, LUKE COMBS AND OLD DOMINION’S MATTHEW RAMSEY AND TREVOR ROSEN AMONG SONGWRITER RECIPIENTS OF 11TH ANNUAL COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION TRIPLE PLAY AWARDS
December 16, 2019
LUKE COMBS WRAPS 2019 TOUR WITH TWO SOLD-OUT SHOWS AT NASHVILLE’S BRIDGESTONE ARENA
ACM, CMA and CMT Award-winning artist Luke Combs wrapped his massive “Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour” this past weekend with two sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Following the landmark performances, The Tennessean declared Combs “country music’s newest giant,” while The Boot asserted, “Combs’ Nashville concerts showed that his superstar trajectory is still only at its beginning.” In […]
December 16, 2019
Mitchell Tenpenny Wraps ANYTHING SHE SAYS TOUR With Sold Out Show in New York City
Mitchell Tenpenny wrapped his headlining ANYTHING SHE SAYS TOUR in New York City’s Webster Hall last night in front of a sold-out crowd. The tour launched this fall playing 14-cities across the U.S. with additional sold out dates in Anaheim, Detroit, and his hometown Nashville, where he was presented with a Double-Platinum plaque for his No. 1 debut […]
December 16, 2019
MIRANDA LAMBERT AND TRIO PISTOL ANNIES NAMED TO MULTIPLE YEAR’S AND DECADE’S BEST LISTS
Miranda Lambert and trio Pistol Annies (Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley) are wrapping a whirlwind 2019 with year’s- and decade’s-best accolades rolling in from multiple media outlets. Lambert’s latest album Wildcard is lauded as one of the year’s best by critics at Variety, GQ, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Slate, Stereogum, Paste, Taste of Country, Sounds Like Nashville, The Boot, Saving Country Music, That Nashville Sound, and PopCrush. Album cuts “Mess With My Head” and […]
December 13, 2019
ARISTA NASHVILLE’S ADAM DOLEAC DROPS “NEON FOOLS” TRACK
Arista Nashville’s latest signing Adam Doleac released the track, “Neon Fools,” today. This sultry ode to love that’s a bad idea was written by Andy Skib, Thomas Finchum and Doleac, “Neon Fools” is available HERE. Preceding his debut single, “Famous,” which officially impacts country radio on Mon., Jan. 13, “‘Neon Fools’ is about two people who […]
December 10, 2019
SONY MUSIC NASHVILLE ANNOUNCED AS BILLBOARD 2019 TOP COUNTRY LABEL
Billboard has confirmed that Sony Music Nashville is the 2019 Top Country Label. As reported in the Dec. 9 issue of Billboard Country Update, currently posted on Billboard.com and soon to be in print in the Billboard 2019 Year In Music issue dated Dec. 21, below is the final list of No. 1 and Top 10 country chart year-end positions that […]
December 10, 2019
Mitchell Tenpenny Extends Headline ANYTHING SHE SAYS TOUR After Run of Sold-Out Dates
Mitchell Tennpenny, who was named this morning as a performer for the Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) 2020 New Faces of Country Music®Show, is revealing a second leg to his headline ANYTHING SHE SAYS TOUR . Special guests include RCA Nashville rising duo Seaforth (Tom Jordan, Mitchell Thompson) and Arista Nashville’s Adam Doleac. The first leg wraps this weekend after a run […]
December 5, 2019
Brad Paisley Thinks He’s Special…And 6.3 Million Television Viewers Agree…Wins the Night for ABC
Country music superstar Brad Paisley’s first ever network variety show, Brad PaisleyThinks He’s Special, aired Tuesday night on ABC with 6.3 million viewers and was the most watched show on ABC for the evening, according to Nielsen. Viewers took to social media in support of the engaging show. Brad Paisley Thinks He’s Special had over 390,000 social interactions across Instagram, […]
December 3, 2019
JAMESON RODGERS ANNOUNCES HEADLINING GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY TOUR 2020
Rising country star Jameson Rodgers has announced his headlining GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY TOUR 2020, set to kick off Feb. 14 in St. Louis, MO. The 18-city trek wraps with a hometown show for Rodgers at The Lyric Theatre in Oxford, MS, which he previously sold out in 2018. “2019 has been a whirlwind year […]
December 2, 2019
MATT STELL’S “EVERYWHERE BUT ON” IMPACTS COUNTRY RADIO, BECOMES THIS WEEK’S MOST-ADDED SONG
RECORDS/Arista Nashville breakthrough entertainer Matt Stell officially impacts country radio today with his new single “Everywhere But On,” garnering 56 combined adds on Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase stations. The most-added song this week, “Everywhere But On,” is the title track of Stell’s debut EP (listen HERE ) and the name of his first headline tour which kicks off January 24 (dates listed below). The new […]