Music

The CMT Music Awards are finally happening later this month and the first set of performers for the telecast have now been revealed.

Dolly Parton is ready to get folks in the Christmas spirit with her new album, “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” which drops Friday. Well, now she’s found another way to do so, with a new holiday movie for Netflix. 

Kane Brown is sharing his vision of the future in the new video for his latest single “Worldwide Beautiful.” 

Luke Combs continues to add to his honors this year. The singer was just named the winner of the Nashville Songwriter Awards’ songwriter-artist of the year award.

Country music legend Mac Davis is dead following heart surgery – the news was confirmed by his manager.

Garth Brooks unveiled a new "Inside Studio G" yesterday, which he’s calling "Inside Studio G 360." The new Facebook live show features Garth surrounded by screens of fans, who could ask questions, kinda like a big Garth Zoom chat.

Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell just dropped a brand new track in which they depict a couple having an honest, difficult conversation about abortion in “The Problem.” The track’s release coincides with International Safe Abortion Day and proceeds from its sales will go to the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive justice organization based in Alabama.

Because of the ongoing Coronavirus issues, social distancing restrictions have made it impossible to attend a concert of your favorite artist. Unless that artist is Kane Brown.

Carrie Underwood’s Christmas album “My Gift” is out now, and it features a collaboration with John Legend on the original holiday tune “Hallelujah,” which John wrote with Toby Gad.

As we told you, Trisha Yearwood performed her song “I’ll Carry You Home” during the In Memoriam tribute at the ACM Awards earlier this month. Well, now she’s sharing a very personal video for the song. 

This was a big weekend for new country music, with several artists releasing new tunes.

Congratulations are in order for Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and wife Hayley. The couple welcomed their third child, son Atlas Roy, on Thursday. 

After months of no audience performances, the Grand Ole Opry is ready to welcome back music fans. The Opry has announced they will be bringing back fans starting October 3^rd, although it will be a limited capacity of only 500 socially distanced guests.

Gary Allan, Jordan Davis, Caylee Hammack and Josh Turner are among the artists set to perform on a new concert series that will air on The Outdoor Channel.

Carrie Underwood’s new holiday album “My Gift” drops today and she’s found even more ways to bring holiday cheer to her fans. The singer just announced she’ll star in an exclusive holiday special for HBO Max.

While the coronavirus may have kept the 35^th annual Farm Aid concert from being live this year,  fans will still get to enjoy some great performances this weekend.

As we told you, the 2020 CMT Award nominations were announced earlier this week and Blanco Brown received two nods, Video Of The Year and Breakthrough Video Of The Year for “The Git Up.”

Scotty McCreery is out with the brand new song “You Time,” which was inspired by his wife Gabi.

Miranda Lambert has chosen “Settling Down” as her new single from her latest album “Wild Card.” 

The CMT Music Awards are set to go down October 21^st, and now the nominees are out.