Blake Shelton Hits No. 1 on Top 20 with “Boys ‘Round Here”
Blake Shelton tops GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown this week with his latest video, “Boys ‘Round Here.” Tim McGraw‘s “Highway Don’t Care” (with Taylor Swift and featuring Keith Urban) and Thompson Square’s “If I Didn’t Have You” round out the Top 3 while new videos from Lady Antebellum and Pistol Annies make their countdown debuts [...]
Top 10 Country Tweets of the Week
Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, Kellie Pickler gets a well-deserved break while her husband Kyle Jacobs and GAC’s Storme Warren celebrate with her Mirror Ball trophy, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert reflect on Moore, Oklahoma, Brad Paisley isn’t impressed with his Nashville appearance and Chris Young mans the grill pre-show. Here are [...]
Carrie Underwood Wraps Tour with $1 Million Red Cross Donation
Carrie Underwood wrapped her Blown Away Tour in Abbottsford, BC Thursday night with a one million dollar donation to the American Red Cross for disaster relief. The charitable contribution comes from the tour’s concert proceeds. While the charitable component was established when the tour launched in the spring of 2012, it has a very personal [...]
Travis Tritt Releases Duet with Daughter Tyler Reese
Travis Tritt will celebrate Father’s Day by releasing “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough,” a remake of the Patty Smyth and Don Henley hit he recorded with his 15-year-old daughter, Tyler Reese. The single will be available June 16 and is featured on his new album, The Calm After…, out July 9. “We were driving home [...]
Alabama Announces All-Star Cruise
Alabama has announced their first “Alabama & Friends Festival at Sea,” a musical cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl. The four night luxury cruise will take place October 24-28 and travel from Miami to Nassau and Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Diamond Rio, Craig Morgan, Randy Travis and Meghan Linsey of Steel Magnolia along with DJ DU, Joe [...]
Top 20 Visits Fort Campbell for a Special Memorial Day Episode
In honor of Memorial Day, GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown is paying a visit to Fort Campbell army base in Clarksville, Tennessee. Craig Morgan, a proud Army Veteran, joins host Nan Kelley for the visit as she chats with recent Silver Star recipient SFC Matthew Loheide and S.O.A.R. program founder MSG Michael Byers. Top 20 [...]
Watch Little Big Town’s “Your Side of the Bed” Music Video
Little Big Town debuted their brand new video, “Your Side of the Bed,” Thursday morning during a visit to Good Morning America. Directed by Becky Fluke, the heart wrenching video takes place at the historic Tennessee Theater and The Oliver Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee over the course of one night. “Your Side of the Bed” [...]
Tim McGraw, Brantley Gilbert & Eli Young Band Honor Our Military
This Memorial Day, country stars are taking time to pay tribute to our service men and women who sacrifice for our freedoms. Tim McGraw has been a longtime supporter of the troops and believes everyone should remember them , not just on Memorial Day but every day. “It doesn’t matter what your politics are, it [...]
Darius Rucker Does It All
By Kip Kirby © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Darius Rucker wasn’t expecting interruptions during his Grand Ole Opry set on the night of Oct. 2. He was nearly through with his performance, playing songs from his upcoming third album True Believers and enjoying the response from the sellout [...]
Blake Shelton Helps JC Penney Raise $50,000 for Tornado Victims
Following the announcement of his benefit concert for the victims of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado, Blake Shelton and his fans helped raise $50,000 just by sharing a link on Facebook. For every share of the jcp cares post, JC Penney donated $1 up to $50,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Giving Program. In under [...]
