When the Academy of Country Music Awards kick off Sunday night, there’ll be a new duo at the hosting helm: Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan. Gone is longtime host Reba McEntire. She will be back as a presenter. But the focus will be on the two unpredictable friends, who have guaranteed to provide laughs and surpises. Blake spoke […]
Usually when you see Kenny Chesney, it’s on a big stage in a huge stadium. This was very different. A small group of music reporters and radio programmers gathered in a second floor loft in Nashville’s Cannery Row to get a sneak peak at Kenny’s new album, “Life On a Rock.” The setting definitely fit […]
Chris Young co-hosts the Countdown this week. His current hit is “I Can Take It From There.” Chris is about to hit the road with Brad Paisley’s Beat This Summer tour. He spent last year with Miranda Lambert. Chris just returned from a short tour of Europe. He also has great stories about Darius Rucker, […]
Imagine being ten years old and meeting one of your musical heroes. Then fast forward ten more years, and that hero is inviting you to play on his album. That is what happened to Hunter Hayes. He told the story to Lon Helton on Country Countdown USA: “Brad was doing an interview at a radio […]
Hunter Hayes makes his countdown co-hosting debut this week. His current hit, “Somebody’s Heartbreak,” is in the Top 5. He is nominated for a bunch of ACM Awards. He is on tour now with Carrie Underwood. During the show, Hunter reacts to comments from a bunch of his friends, including Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Rascal […]
You’ve probably seen the promo for Season 4 of The Voice. The one where Blake, Adam, Shakira, and Usher jump in a car and sing old songs like the scene in “Family Vacation.” It also looks a lot like a video Keith Urban made with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch to promote their tour. […]
Back in November, Miranda Lambert opened a store she called The Pink Pistol in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Of course, she enlisted help from her husband, Blake Shelton. When Blake co-hosted Country Countdown USA, he explained to Lon Helton why he was hanging that sign: “They had me down there helping, moving furniture around the store before […]
Blake Shelton is a happy guy! Married to Miranda Lambert, star of a successful TV series, and the CMA Entertainer of the Year. He told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that all of that played a part on his new album, “Based On a True Story.” “I’m very content right now. It’s funny, what people […]
Alan Jackson performed a sold out show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium this week. What made it even better was that 100% of the money went to a local charity: The Colon Cancer Alliance. Of course Jackson had a special connection to the charity. His wife Denise was diagnosed with the disease three years ago. Before […]
It’s rare when a new artist makes it to the Top 10 with their very first single. But newcomer Kacey Musgraves is now in our Top 10 with her debut song “Merry Go Round.” Her album containing that song was released today. It’s titled “Same Trailer, Different Park,” taken from the first verse of the […]
