This week’s co-host is Parker McCollum, who co-hosts for the first time. Parker will hit the road starting in June with Thomas Rhett. He’ll also play a stadium show with Eric Church. But before all that, he will get married to his fiancé Hallie Ray: “We’re getting married in about five weeks. So it’s coming up quick!” Parker’s tour with Thomas […]
This week’s co-host is Kelsea Ballerini. Her current Top 5 is “Half of My Hometown” featuring Kenny Chesney. The song is nominated for ACM Music Event of the Year, and Kelsea will perform on the awards show on March 7th. Last week, Kelsea attended a movie premiere in Nashville with Tim McGraw & Faith Hill. She told Lon, “I was […]
This week’s co-host is Kane Brown. He & his wife Katelyn are now the parents of a 2 month old baby girl named Kodi Jane. “She’s so sweet, just an easy baby, just eating and sleeping, that’s about it.” They kept the baby a secret until she was born. Lon asked Kane why: “When I first asked […]
This week’s co-host is Morgan Wallen, who is in the Top 5 with Sand In My Boots, and also launches his first headline tour this week in New York City. The tour was supposed to start last week, but was postponed because of ice storms: “It’s a little disappointing when that happens, but we’ve got them rescheduled.” On Sand In […]
This week, Lon Helton is off, and in his place is Brad Paisley, who co-hosts with Jimmie Allen. The two have a Top 5 this week with “Freedom Was a Highway.” They did the co-hosting in Brad’s bar, and it turns out that was the place where Jimmie first played Brad “Freedom” almost exactly two years ago. […]
This week’s co-host is Thomas Rhett, Thomas & his wife Lauren just welcomed their 4th daughter, Lillie, in November. Lon asked Thomas about the new baby: “When Lillie was born, minus the lack of sleep, not a whole lot has changed. Our older kids are in such a rhythm, they all kind of help out, but man I love […]
This week’s co-host is Jordan Davis, who is in our Top 5 this week with “Buy Dirt.” Jordan told Lon, “For us, Buy Dirt is about faith, family, and friends. That’s what we wanted it to be.” Jordan says that he waited 12 days for Luke Bryan to agree to sing on it: “I reached out to him, and […]
This week’s co-host is Michael Ray. He begins by telling Lon he spent the holidays with his family in Florida. “I got to see my nieces and nephews. It makes you fall in love with Christmas once again, I got to relive it with them. They bring such a cool innocence to it. The title song to […]
This week’s co-host is Jon Pardi, who told Lon that he took some time off during the holidays: “We took some time off and wanted to stay home. The whole month of December, we were home. We had Christmas at the house. It was nice.” Jon was on the road a lot last year, and got to […]
Toby Keith co-hosts the Countdown this week. His new album 35 MPH Town will be released this Friday October 9. He talks about recording a new song, “Rum Is The Reason” with Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. He will have a TV special taped in his home town that airs during the World Series. He’s […]
