Florida Georgia Line and Darius Rucker Take Top Spots on Singles Chart

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A little bit of leap frogging around on this week’s Top Country Singles Chart, but no new songs appear.   Billboard Country Songs Chart (May 2, 2013): 1. ’Cruise’-Florida Georgia Line 2. ‘Wagon Wheel‘ –Darius Rucker 3. ‘Boys ‘Round Here‘ –Blake Shelton 4. ‘ Mama’s Broken Heart ‘ –Miranda Lambert 5. ‘Get Your Shine On‘ Read More

Tim McGraw’s HomeFront Program Awards 31 Homes to Veterans during Summer Tour Stops

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Tim McGraw is extending his HomeFront program and will award more home to veterans as he makes his way through the country on his summer tour. Read about this great initiative in the press release: Last year, McGraw teamed up with Chase and Operation Homefront to launch the program which has awarded over 30 newly Read More

Toby Keith Drops in on US Troops during USO Tour

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Toby Keith has once again embarked on a USO tour to visit and entertain US troops and their families on faraway JSOC bases. Between April 28 and May 7, Keith is visiting bases in the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii to help lift the spirits of troops and their loved ones during seven performances. “It feels Read More

New Music Video: ‘I Want Crazy’ – Hunter Hayes

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Hunter Hayes is setting out to repeat the #1 success of ‘Wanted’ and ‘Somebody’s Heartbreak’ with a song that feels like the logical next chapter of the love story, ‘I Want Crazy.’ Check out the new music video below.     Read More

Randy Rogers Band Releases New Album, Trouble

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Texas country quintet Randy Rogers Band has released new album, Trouble, today on MCA. It is their 8th studio effort and has already produced the Texas radio hit, ‘Fuzzy.’ The respected band with a stellar live reputation has so far charted 7 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and their previous release, 2010’s Read More

Thompson Square’s ‘If I Didn’t Have You’ Reaches #1 on Mediabase Country Singles Chart

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Country duo Thompson Square recently retained their ACM Vocal Duo of the Year crown and now celebrate a new #1 hit as ‘If I Didn’t Have You’ tops the Mediabase Country Singles Chart. Florida Georgia Line are poised to take over next week as ‘Get Your Shine On’ moves up to #2, Kenny Chesney flies Read More

Kenny Chesney Spreads the Love with a Fund for Boston

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Kenny Chesney has long combined his chart-topping success with humanitarian efforts. The singer has now teamed with Boston Medical Center in establishing the Spread the Love Fund. The new fund will help pay for post-acute care for victims of traumatic injuries from the Boston Marathon bombings at BMC or other Boston hospitals. Chesney started things Read More

Songwriters Circle: Craig Wiseman

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No interview series on songwriting is complete without Craig Wiseman. He is one of the most successful songwriters in Nashville, which would already be reason enough to include him, but also has a deep understanding of the publishing business. In 2003, he founded independent publishing company Big Loud Shirt which went on to Grammy-winning success Read More

There Is Still No Stopping Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Cruise’

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Florida Georgia Line‘s ‘Cruise’ is not yet slowing down. The smash hit still sits at #1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song chart. It has remained on that chart for 45 weeks now. That’s more than double the length of the second longest in the top 10, which, by the way, is their own ‘Get Read More

UCN Interview – Lenny Cooper: “The new album feels totally like me.”

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For me, interviews have always been about going beyond the new single or album, and finding out someone’s story. And Average Joes’ Lenny Cooper has quite a tale to tell. Growing up in rural North Carolina, Cooper and his friends spent their free time mud bogging. Only just 17, he wrote a song called ‘Mud Read More