Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley was 13 years old when Garth Brooks released his “Double Live” album in 1998. The effect of the album can be seen in Brian’s bio, where he lists his 3 main influences as Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, and Casting Crowns. In December 2010, Florida Georgia Live was just getting started. […]
Florida Georgia Line’s Brian & Tyler are Lon’s co-hosts this week. They actually have three songs in the Top 5! Their own song, “Dirt,” plus two they wrote. They co-wrote “Burnin’ It Down” for Jason Aldean and joined Cole Swindell on “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight.” FGL’s new album, “Anything Goes,” will be released next week […]
Luke Bryan isn’t just a country superstar, selling out stadiums, and having #1 hits. He’s also a father of two young boys: Bo & Tate. He talked about them this week with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: I see Tate celebrated his 4th birthday last month: “Yep, we those big blow up water slides, had […]
If you missed any of Luke Bryan’s five stadium shows this summer, or want to go again, here’s good news: Luke will be playing stadiums again next year. He broke the news to Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “I’ll keep all of my surprises to myself, but we got a great touring package next year. […]
When you go to a Luke Bryan show, you expect to see him put 100% of himself into his performance. But twice this summer, Luke got so excited, he actually fell off the stage! Luke talked about it with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “Yes, the year of falls for Luke Bryan. I fell in […]
You know an artist is busy when it takes 6 months for him to celebrate a #1 song. But in Thomas Rhett’s case, it wasn’t only HIS schedule that was filled. Sometimes it takes a lot of people to make a #1 song, and some of them are also on the road a lot. The #1 […]
Luke Bryan co-hosts the Countdown with Lon this week. He’s in the middle of his 6th annual Farm Tour, traveling around the southeast. Lon was at Luke’s huge show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, and they talk about that. They also talk about Luke’s buddy, Cole Swindell, who wrote Luke’s current hit “Roller Coaster,” as well […]
On Wednesday, Dierks Bentley was in Nashville celebrating his 12th #1, “Drunk On a Plane.” The next day, he was off on a three show run, wrapping his 2014 Riser Tour. Then Sunday, he was back in Music City to host his 9th annual Miles & Music benefit concert and motorcycle ride. Just another week in […]
This week, Lady Antebellum releases their latest album “747.” The trio told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton they were looking to break some new ground. (Lon) You have a wide variety of sounds on this new album: (Hillary) That’s what we were trying to do with this album, which was stretch ourselves, reinvent ourselves, and find […]
We know that Cole Swindell sold t-shirts for Luke Bryan. But we didn’t know if he was any good at it. Now we know! Two years ago, Luke was on tour with Jason Aldean. So when Jason co-hosted the Countdown, he told Lon Helton this story about a young Cole Swindell: Jason: The thing I […]
