While both album sales (-11%) and track sales (-23%) dipped in 2016 compared to 2015’s numbers, audio/video streaming results increased 57% from 14.1 billion streams in 2015 to 22.1 billion streams in 2016, according to Billboard and Nielsen Music. With more than 175 million streams, Florida Georgia Line’s “H.O.L.Y.” topped the list of the most-streamed…… MORE
This thing is prehistoric! Looks more like a dinosaur!… ~ CJ… MORE
Kane is taken and he’s finally letting the world know.… MORE
Last year Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard got mixed up in the spirits business by unveiling their own line of whiskey called Old Camp Whiskey. What many people don’t know is that the guys weren’t just putting their name behind the brand, they were taking a very hands-on approach with Old Camp—mixing…… MORE
Singer/songwriter Josh Kelley and his actress wife, Katherine Heigl, welcomed the addition of a baby boy, Joshua Bishop Kelley Jr., to their family on Dec. 20, 2016, according to People magazine. Josh and Katherine, who have been married since 2005, also have two daughters, Adalaide, 4, and Naleigh, 8. While we don’t have any pics…… MORE
The Recording Academy rolled out its first wave of performers for the 2017 Grammys with a TV spot that aired Saturday night (Jan. 14) during the NFL playoffs. Good news for country music fans: Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban will take the stage, along with Metallica, The Weeknd and John Legend. More performers will be…… MORE
Carrie Underwood picked up the milestone 25th No. 1 single of her career with “Dirty Laundry,” which ascended to the top of the Mediabase chart this week. The tune, which was written by Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley and Hillary Lindsey, is the fourth single from Carrie’s 2015 platinum-selling album, Storyteller. Previous Storyteller singles “Smoke Break,”…… MORE
They basically just do all the work for you! This dad is a genius!… MORE
Dierks Bentley enlisted the help of his wife, Cassidy, for the seductive new video for “Black,” which was shot over four days in Iceland. “We’ve been talking about Iceland as a location since before I even released the album last year, but I never thought we’d actually go. The next thing I know, there’s a…… MORE
Kristian Bush is squeezing out every bit of “new” that the “new year” has to offer. In addition to scoring the new musical, Troubadour, a romantic comedy set in Nashville in the 1950s that opens in Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre on Jan. 18, the former Sugarland patriarch is releasing a new single, “Sing Along,” on January…… MORE
