Luke Bryan will per­form on Good Morn­ing America’s ‘Sum­mer Con­cert Series’’ on Fri­day, July 13. Now in its fourth year, the series takes place in New York City’s Cen­tral Park with per­for­mances from some of music’s biggest artists. Fans can catch Luke’s per­for­mance between 7–9 a.m. on ABC.

“I have a big smile on my face every time I talk about being on Good Morn­ing America’s Sum­mer Con­cert Series,” Luke said. “Life’s good. To be a kid from Lees­burg, Geor­gia, and to now be at the point in my career where I’m per­form­ing on Good Morn­ing Amer­ica in the heart of New York City at one of the most rec­og­niz­able places in the world makes me super excited. It’s gonna be fun.

Kenny Chesney’s new album, Wel­come To The Fish­bowl, has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Coun­try Albums Chart after sell­ing more than 193,000 units. This is Kenny’s eleventh con­sec­u­tive album to debut at No. 1. The album also debuted at No. 2 on the all-genre Bill­board 200 Chart, beat out only by pop star Justin Bieber’s new album.

First week sales of Wel­come To The Fish­bowl passed first week sales of his last three albums, includ­ing the crit­i­cally acclaimed Hemingway’s Whiskey which pro­duced five No. 1 sin­gles and a Top 5 hit. “This dra­matic increase in sales is a real tes­ta­ment to the strength of his new music, as well as the con­tin­ued momen­tum of his career at every level,”

Judge Grants Curb Records A Post­pone­ment In McGraw Law­suit
A judge in Nashville has granted Curb Records a post­pone­ment in its ongo­ing law­suit with Tim McGraw. It’s the lat­est round in a legal bat­tle that began when Curb sued the singer for breach of con­tract, claim­ing that he deliv­ered his album “Emo­tional Traf­fic” too soon and thereby vio­lated a clause in his con­tract that says he must wait 18 months between albums. McGraw responded with a coun­ter­suit, alleg­ing that Curb has kept him in a per­pet­ual state of “invol­un­tary servi­tude” by mak­ing him wait to release his orig­i­nal contracted-for albums, instead forc­ing the release of a series of great­est hits pack­ages. Curb has released a total of seven dif­fer­ent hits pack­ages on McGraw. In Novem­ber 2011 a judge ruled that McGraw was free to record with another label while await­ing the dis­po­si­tion of the law­suit, effec­tively releas­ing him from his con­tract with Curb. The singer announced a new deal with Big Machine Records in May. Thursday’s rul­ing will allow Curb Records more time to dis­cover addi­tional evi­dence as to when McGraw’s new record­ings were made. The label con­tends that until an appeal is decided, the singer is still an artist under con­tract to Curb Records, that Big Machine has no legal right to sign McGraw, and that any result­ing record­ings are actu­ally the prop­erty of Curb Records.