Morgan Wallen’s “I Got Better” has climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, marking his 12th leader and dethroning his own “What I Want” after a 20-week rule. The song’s rise to the top of the chart was fueled by 13.2 million streams, a 31 million radio audience, and the release of…
Ava Ahlander, a 23-year-old concertgoer from Seattle, tragically died while evacuating the REDWEST Festival in Salt Lake City on Saturday (October 11) due to severe weather. The event, which was set to be headlined by Post Malone, was postponed and attendees were urged to seek shelter, so Ahlander took refuge in her car. But she…
In a new interview with People, Ryan Bingham revealed that he is working on a new album that will likely be released in 2026. The new material is inspired by a positive creative headspace fueled in part by his wife, actress Hassie Harrison, who he says has “brought a spark and a fire back” into…
Clint Black reveals in a new interview with People that he got “emotional” when he found out that he has been named the 2025 BMI Icon Award recipient, an honor previously bestowed on legends like Toby Keith, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Dolly Parton. “It was pretty moving,” Black, 63, recalls about being…
Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman and her family moved from Nashville to South Carolina this summer to help care for her mother Barbara, who has battled Parkinson’s disease for 20 years. They moved into a home they built outside Greenville, South Carolina, on a lake where Schlapman spent much of her childhood, and an hour…
Chris Stapleton’s Traveller Whiskey, produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery, has become the official whiskey of Major League Baseball. The partnership debuted during the 2025 National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers, which began on Monday (October 13). The collaboration was revealed in a promotional video featuring Stapleton’s distinctive voice narrating…
Keith Urban’s guitarist Maggie Baugh will miss his homecoming concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday (October 17) due to a scheduling conflict, as she will be performing a solo show in Carmel, Indiana that same night. Although Baugh, 25, is Urban’s touring guitarist, she is also focused on building her solo career, including a…
Reid Perry took to Instagram on Monday (October 13) to announce that he has decided to leave The Band Perry in order to shift his focus to artist management. “To the fans, you’ve always been my favorite part of this. I’ve decided to leave TBP. I’ll be missing seeing you in the crowd at a…
Sabrina Carpenter continues to explore her country music influences, surprising fans during her headlining set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday night (October 11) by bringing out The Chicks to perform their No. 1 smash, “Wide Open Spaces.” The 13-time Grammy winning trio also joined Carpenter for a rendition of her chart-topping…
Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart after selling a record-breaking 4.002 million equivalent album units – including 3.48 million pure album sales – in its first week, marking the largest single-week sales and album consumption figures since Luminate first began tracking data in…