Zac Brown co-hosts this week. His current Top 5 hit is “Sweet Annie.” Zac & Lon look back on an exciting year, when Zac won a Grammy, headlined a two-day music festival in Nashville, released an album with Foo Fighter’s Dave Grohl, and found out he was going to be a dad again! Whew! Plus, […]
The Band Perry’s Kimberly Perry announced her engagement to baseball player J.P. Arencibia back on October 1st. The proposal was a surprise. But apparently the engagement ring was not. Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton asked if she had input in the choice: “Yeah Lon, I did, I had a lot of input.” Brother Neal added, […]
Nashville, TN – January 9, 2014 – Multi-Platinum entertainer Jason Aldean announced the details of his 2014 BURN IT DOWN TOUR that will kick off May 1 in Roanoke, VA and continue on to roughly 50 cities through the end of the year. Red-hot duo Florida Georgia Line and breakthrough artist Tyler Farr are also […]
The Band Perry will co-host the Countdown this week. Their current hit is “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.” They begin the North American leg of their We Are Pioneers Tour this week. Kimberly is engaged, and she talks about getting married later this year. The trio looks back at their recent tour of Europe, as […]
Rascal Flatts met with the Nashville media this week to introduce their new single, “Rewind.” The song is the first single from a new album that will be released later this year. The guys spent most of last year working on the new music, and were seeking to “reinvent” themselves. During this 20 minute press […]
One band congratulates another this week on Country Countdown USA. The Eli Young Band co-hosted the show, and when it came time to play the #1 song, it was the first chart-topper for the new band Parmalee. So we called Parmalee lead singer Matt Thomas to give him the news. Mike Eli told Matt: “It’s […]
The Eli Young Band’s latest hit is “Drunk Last Night.” It’s actually the first single from a new album called “Ten Thousand Towns,” and it’ll be released on March 4th. The guys previewed the new album when they co-hosted Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton. Mike Eli told Lon, “We’re done with the new record. […]
The Eli Young Band will co-host the Countdown this week. The guys spent last year on the road with Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Nation Tour, and they tell some backstage stories from the tour. They also preview Darius Rucker’s True Believers Tour, which kicks off this month, featuring Darius, EYB, and David Nail. Plus we speak with […]
Florida Georgia Line’s debut song “Cruise” is the #1 song of 2013, according to Mediabase and Country Aircheck. Country Countdown USA host and Aircheck Publisher Lon Helton broke the news to Tyler Hubbard & Brian Kelley at the end of the Top 70 of 2013 Countdown. The duo was obviously stunned by the news: “Wow, […]
As we approach the end of 2013, it’s a good time to look back at all of the amazing things that happened in country music. The triumphs and the tragedies. The hits and misses. The weddings, engagements, and babies. Plus all of those chart facts that we feature each week in Country Countdown USA. The […]
