Encino, CA (April 8, 2015) – The Academy of Country Music announced today that fan voting is now open for the ACM Entertainer of the Year and ACM New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl’s awards. Country music fans have the power to choose the winners by casting their votes now with voting partner […]
Zac Brown co-hosts the Countdown this week. His current Top 5 hit is “Homegrown,” from the new album “Jekyll & Hyde.” He explains why he considers this the most important album of his career. Zac is also about to kick off a huge world tour. He updates us on his 10-month old son. Plus, what happened to […]
Darius Rucker & Lady A’s Charles Kelley co-host the Countdown this week. Lon is still in Maui. Darius & Charles co-wrote “Homegrown Honey,” and the two are also great golfing buddies. They talk about this year’s Pebble Beach Golf Tournament, where Charles was paired with actor Ray Romano. Darius talks about his new album “Southern […]
Darius Rucker will release his fourth solo album on March 31st. It’s called “Southern Style,” and he previewed the album with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “For me it’s a record about growing up and living in the south. There’s a song on the record called ‘Southern Style,’ and I thought it was the perfect way to […]
It’s been two years since Chris Young’s current album, “A.M.” was released. He told Country Countdown USA that he’s been in the studio working on some new songs, and has made a few changes: “I’m actually working on new stuff right now, which is a lot of fun, I’m co-producing it with a new guy, […]
Chris Young co-hosted this week’s Countdown in Maui, and he told host Lon Helton that it had been a long time since he’d been there: “I’ve been to Hawaii before, but I was a teenager. So getting to play a couple shows, and you & I are hangin’ out here is kind of nice! I […]
Nashville, Tenn. (March 27, 2015): Kenny Chesney– clad in a dark sleeveless Grace Potter and the Nocturnals t-shirt – hit Nashville like a house a-fire. From the opening of the New Orleans funeral drum corps/street preacher noir film until the last ringing note of Joe Walsh’s hard-charging “All Night Long,” the East Tennessean showed how […]
This week, Chris Young co-hosts the Countdown with Lon from Maui. They caught up with each other as Chris was traveling to a festival in Australia. Chris’s current Top 5 hit is “Lonely Eyes.” He’s been on the road all year with Lee Brice. He gives us a sneak peak at some of the new […]
The location was the historic Acme Feed & Seed, near the Cumberland River in Nashville. Many years ago, it was a farmer’s feed & supply store. Now it’s an upscale restaurant that counts Alan Jackson among it’s owners. Today it was the site for a party celebrating three big milestones for Eric Church. First, his […]
Back in January, Brett Eldredge played a pretty cool gig: The Super Bowl pre-game tailgate party in Phoenix. He talked about the experience with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “I was riding in that lion that Katy Perry rode in on. I was inside it. No, I’m just kidding! I wish I was! I saw that […]
