Jimmie Allen will premiere the music video for his new single “Down Home” today, March 18, at 6pm ET/5pm CT. Fans can tune in HERE for the live premiere at that time. The video was co-directed by Allen & Chris Beyrooty and shot between Allen’s hometown of Milton, DE and nearby town of Lewes, DE to keep the spirit of his relationship and memories created with his late father alive.
New Track Launches Ahead of Next Run of Underwood’s REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency After teasing fans with a series of mysterious posts beginning the night before her birthday this past week, 7-time GRAMMY® Award winner Carrie Underwood’s highly-anticipated new single, “Ghost Story,” is available today. The lyric video for the cinematic track is also available now.
The super-sleuths at AllAccess and Nashville Business Journal have let it be known that all signs point to the country power couple making plans to open a bar and restaraunt at 411 Broadway in downtown Nashville. While Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood have not made any public announcement to that effect, the paperwork is all in place.
The RECORDING ACADEMY has unveiled its first group of artists to perform at this year’s 64TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS. On stage at the SUNDAY, APRIL 3rd show on CBS will be GRAMMY nominees BROTHERS OSBORNE, BTS, BRANDI CARLILE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X with JACK HARLOW, and OLIVIA RODRIGO. The show will be broadcast live from the MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA in LAS VEGAS. BROTHERS OSBORNE are up for two GRAMMY AWARDS, Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Country Album. BTS is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. CARLILE, a six-time GRAMMY winner, is nominated for Record Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best American Roots Performance, and has two Song Of The Year nominations, one for “Right On Time” and the other for “A Beautiful Noise” with ALICIA KEYS. Seven-time winner EILISH is nominated for seven awards: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Music Video, and Best Music Film. LIL NAS X is nominated for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Melodic Rap Performance and Best Music Video. HARLOW, performing with LIL NAS X, has two nominations for his work on LIL NAS X’s “Montero”, Best Melodic Rap Performance and Album Of The Year. First-time nominee RODRIGO is up for seven GRAMMY AWARDS: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Music Video.
Kelsea Ballerini and Anthony Mackie to host “2022 CMT MUSIC AWARDS” on Monday, April 11th on CBS Country music’s only entirely fan-voted awards show to air LIVE from Nashville; 2022 Nominations to be revealed Wednesday, March 16th “CMT MUSIC AWARDS EXTENDED CUT” to air Friday, April 15th on CMT with all-new performances and bonus content.
ENCINO, CA-based PITMAN CASTING is seeking contestants for a new CBS series, “SUPERFAN,” specifically “die-hard fans” of music artists including SHANIA TWAIN, KELSEA BALLERINI, LITTLE BIG TOWN and PITBULL. In each episode of the fan competition series, a famous music artist or band “will compete alongside a group of their biggest fans in a series of fun games to see who is the true #1 fan. That fan will win an ultimate fan prize package,” according to PR materials for the show. Additional participating artists will be announced soon.
Congratulations to MCA NASHVILLE’s PARKER MCCOLLUM for taking the #1 spot on the MEDIABASE Country singles chart this week with his hit, “To Be Loved By You.” This marks MCCOLLUM’s second #1 single.
*Update* As of Feb 2nd, 2023 it is reported that the new owners of the building WILL BE KEEPING THE SHOP OPEN following renovations. The first floor of the building will have it’s street-facing storefront restored and remain a record shop, while the upper floors will become home to additional businesses. This follows a heartfelt outpouring of fan and artist support, that included a change.org petition with over 20,000 signatures!
Examining country music’s evolution through the lens of a new generation of Black artists, the film will feature interviews and performances from Jimmie Allen, Blanco Brown, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, Shy Carter, Mickey Guyton, Willie Jones, Valerie June, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Allison Russell, Brittney Spencer, and Frankie Staton.
TUNE IN TO THE “57TH ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS” LIVE TONIGHT EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO AT 8:00 P.M. EST / 7:00 P.M. CST / 5:00 P.M. PST
