The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green make up the first round of artists confirmed to perform at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2026, the show returns to its longtime home in Las Vegas at MGM Grand Garden Arena. It'll...Read more

Taylor Swift and Vince Gill perform at the Country Music Hall Of Fame Museum's "All For The Hall" at Club Nokia on Sept. 23, 2010 in Los Angeles. (John Shearer/WireImage)Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, and she's got five years to go before...Read more

Trisha Yearwood (Disney/Randy Holmes)Trisha Yearwood is hosting her second Band As One Nashville Concert for the Cure on Sunday, and expectations are high for several reasons. The first is the progress Trisha's seen since losing her mother to breast cancer in 2011. "I've watched friends in treatment [for the same cancer as my mother]...Read more

Brooks & Dunn (Disney/Connie Chornuk)Even though they're the reigning CMA vocal duo of the year and the bestselling country duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn had never traveled across the pond to play the Country to Country festival — until 2026, that is. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn took the...Read more

Willie Nelson's 'Dream Chaser' (Legacy Recordings)Willie Nelson will release his 79th solo studio album, Dream Chaser, on May 29. His 156th record overall continues his musical partnership with writer/producer Buddy Cannon, which has yielded nearly 20 projects in the past 13 years. The 10-track album includes a rare co-write with the legendary...Read more

Jordan Davis performs in Berlin, Germany. (Frank Hoensch/Redferns)Jordan Davis is quite the world traveler these days. He recaps his half a dozen international shows so far this year in a new Instagram video set to his #12 hit "Turn This Truck Around." "Ripped through Europe and the UK on the Ain’t Enough...Read more

Bailey Zimmerman & Brandon Lake's "Just Believe (Live)" (Atlantic/Warner)Bailey Zimmerman's collab with Brandon Lake was just released on Friday, but the response has been so great that they've already released a new live version. "SPEECHLESS… thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to 'Just Believe' over and over,"...Read more

Luke Combs (Jon Morgan/CBS)Luke Combs believes the moment is now for a country artist to play the Super Bowl halftime show. "It’s time," he says on a new episode of The Zach Sang Show. "Whoever’s having those conversations to have, I don’t know, like, it’s above my pay grade. I don’t...Read more

Vincent Mason (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)Roswell, Georgia, native Vincent Mason is undergoing a major life change these days, as he enjoys the top-20 success of his debut single, "Wish You Well.""I'm just glad it's going well. Being on country radio is really cool," he tells ABC Audio. "For me, growing up in...Read more

Chayce Beckham currently has nine more shows on his Old Fashioned Tour, amid being in the studio working on new music. Hannah Dasher's Scattered, Smothered & Covered EP drops March 27, featuring classics by Tammy Wynette, Earl Thomas Conley and Hank Williams Jr. Her first cookbook, named for her viral video...Read more

Kip Moore's 'Reason to Believe' (Virgin) Kip Moore's seventh studio album, Reason to Believe, was recorded during the loss of his mentor and first producer, Brett James, and is named for a song he particularly loved.For Kip, it's particularly personal.“I felt like I was describing more of who I am as...Read more

Lainey Wilson (Disney/Robby Klein)Unless you're in Austin for the Tuesday premiere of Lainey Wilson's Netflix documentary, you'll have to wait more than a month to see it. But you can get a sneak peek at Keepin' Country Cool on YouTube."I knew whenever I had written my first song that I loved...Read more

Zac Brown (Casey Durkin/NBC)Zac Brown Band's "Give It Away" is the 2026 anthem for March Madness. "This song's about just living in the moment and just bringing the best of what you've got every single second," Zac says of the track from ZBB's Love & Fear album, which he wrote with...Read more

Ella Langley (Catherine Powell/NBC)Fans from all genres are still "Choosin' Texas," and that's setting records for Ella Langley. The Alabama native tops the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for a third time this week, tying Taylor Swift's record for the most weeks ever by a title that hit #1 on the Hot Country...Read more

Kenny Chesney (Disney/Frank Micelotta)Kenny Chesney is the flagship artist on the new Hey Now Records. The Nashville-based label comes out of a meeting of the minds between Kenny's longtime manager, Clint Higham, former Warner Music Nashville head John Esposito and Big Machine veteran Kris Lamb. “When Clint, Espo and Kris came to...Read more