We round up your weekly country music news and uncover the moments that you might have missed from the previous week. This country music news will also be available on the podcast tomorrow on Spotify and on iTunes.
1.Announcement of Destination Country’s second fan event
We’re thrilled to announce that our second fan experience event will be with none other than Willie Jones. Head on over to Destination Country to enter the competition to win a pair of tickets.
2. Gretchen Peters Announces New Record
3. Shay Mooney and wife welcome baby number 2
Shay Mooney and wife Hannah welcome second baby boy, Ames Alexander Mooney.
4. Maddie & Tae’s Taylor Dye marries songwriter Josh Kerr
Taylor Dye, of Maddie and Tae, marries Josh Kerr.
5. Tim McGraw signs again with Big Machine Records
6. Willie Nelson Announces Seventieth Studio Album First Rose of Spring
7. Frankie Ballard and wife welcome baby daughter
8. Kalie Shorr debuts new emotional video for ‘Escape’
9. Hunter Hayes sings on The Bachelor
10. Maren Morris becomes first woman with multi-week number one since 2012
2 weeks at number 1. If I can be honest, I really thought the only way this could ever happen is if I was the feature artist on a guy’s song. Sitting here seeing my name at the top of a chart at all is rare, but to break this 8 year streak just feels so unbelievable. Thank you.😭 pic.twitter.com/lOKVovtFbj
— MAREN MORRIS (@MarenMorris) February 16, 2020
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O&O, ‘Dancing on the Floor’ – fun, rock-tinged track that takes O&O in a new brave direction
RaeLynn, ‘Keep Up,’ – fun, sassy track from the queen of fun
Ashley McBryde, ‘First Thing I Reach For’ – emotional, yet again McBryde knocks it out of the park
Jimmie Allen & Noah Cyrus, ‘This is Us’ – Allen is headed in the right direction – stardom
Caylee Hammack, ‘Small Town Hypocrite,’ – favourite of Hammack’s tracks so far, raw, real, emotional, powerful
Adam Hambrick, ‘Midnight in Montgomery,’ – Wow. Hambrick is the king of emotional songwriting.
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