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Billboard's Country Artist of 2012

Tay­lor Swift is dom­i­nat­ing another list as she is at the top of two out of three of the Bill­board 2012 Year-End Coun­try Charts. She was named the #1 Coun­try Artist, and also earned the Top Coun­try Album with Red – which sold more than 1.2 mil­lion copies in its first week. Tay­lor admits that […]

 

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Grammy Nods Extra Perk

Eric Church recently won the CMA Album of the Year for his project Chief, and now he has been nom­i­nated for two Grammy awards. His #1 hit “Spring­steen,” which is fea­tured on Chief, is up for Best Coun­try Solo Per­for­mance, and Best Coun­try Song. Eric admits that mak­ing music always comes first – awards are […]

 

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Justin Ready To Headline

Justin Moore is cur­rently on the road with Eric Church’s Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour, and he has a lot more to pre­pare for in 2013. In a recent inter­view with Coun­try Weekly, Justin revealed that he is hit­ting the road in March for his own head­lin­ing tour. He did not men­tion open­ing acts or […]

 

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Grammy Nominations

The Grammy Awards nom­i­na­tions were announced live last night by the Record­ing Acad­emy. Here are the con­tenders in key races: Coun­try Solo Per­for­mance: “Home” – Dierks Bent­ley, “Spring­steen” – Eric Church, “Cost of Livin’” – Ron­nie Dunn, “Wanted” – Hunter Hayes, “Over” – Blake Shel­ton and “Blown Away” – Car­rie Under­wood. Coun­try Duo/Group Per­for­mance: “Even If […]

 

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Giving Back To Haiti

Garth Brooks and Trisha Year­wood are doing what they can to give back to those in Haiti. Accord­ing to Coun­try Weekly, the cou­ple recently trav­eled to the coun­try for the sec­ond time in two years, to help Habi­tat for Human­ity. Their goal on the trip is to build more than 100 more homes in Leogane, […]

 

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Reba In High Demand

Fans can expect more laughs and valu­able lessons from Reba McEn­tire, as ABC has ordered five addi­tional episodes of her new series, Mal­ibu Coun­try. The coun­try singer por­trays a sin­gle mom who has to uproot her fam­ily from Nashville to Cal­i­for­nia, after learn­ing about her husband’s affair. Reba hopes moth­ers in par­tic­u­lar, can relate to […]

 

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Favorite Country Female

Tay­lor Swift has her 5th con­sec­u­tive win for Favorite Coun­try Female at the Amer­i­can Music Awards. Swift exclaimed, “This is unreal!” The other coun­try win­ners from last night: Favorite Male Artist — Coun­try: Luke Bryan Favorite Band, Duo or Group — Coun­try: Lady Ante­bel­lum Favorite Album — Coun­try: Car­rie Under­wood — “Blown Away” ALSO… “X-Factor” host […]

 

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Reba Tops Charts

Reba McEn­tire is top­ping the charts again – this time with her new TV show. Over nine mil­lion peo­ple watched the pre­miere of “Mal­ibu Coun­try” on ABC Fri­day. It was the No. 1 show in its time slot. The show gave ABC its high­est num­bers in the 8:30 p.m. times­lot in almost five years.

 

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Luke Bryan Choked

Lit­er­ally! Luke Bryan says he required the Heim­lich maneu­ver after chok­ing on a piece of pizza recently. Bryan tells Peo­ple Coun­try that “it was pretty freaky there for about 30 sec­onds.” The pizza got lodged in his air­way and he says he “went down.” For­tu­nately a friend who was with him picked him up and […]

 

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Toby To Have Surgery

Toby Keith Hav­ing Gall­blad­der Surgery It’s hard to keep tough-as-nails Toby Keith down for more than a few days. The proof is in his bounce-back rate. This week, the ‘I Like Girls That Drink Beer’ hit­maker will undergo a minor out­pa­tient pro­ce­dure to have his gall­blad­der removed. And by Fri­day (August 3), he’ll resume his […]