2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees (Country Music Association)Tim McGraw will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2026, along with singer/songwriter Paul Overstreet and bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers. Tim is the 2026 modern era artist, with 60-plus top-10 hits to his credit and nearly 30 number...Read more

Morgan Evans' 'Steel Town' (Solrise Records / Virgin Music Group)Morgan Evans' sophomore album is titled Steel Town as an homage to the coastal city of Newcastle, Australia, where he grew up. Glance at the cover, which shows him sitting at the edge of the ocean as a huge ship passes in the...Read more

Lee Brice will release "When the Kingdom Comes" on April 3, ahead of the June 5 release of his album Sunriser. Jennifer Nettles will star in the new musical she wrote, Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, this summer in New York City. Tickets are on sale now for the show's June 28-July 26...Read more

Gabby Barrett (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images)Gabby Barrett previewed what's ahead for her musically and picked up some accolades for a couple monster hits at the annual Warner Records luncheon during Country Radio Seminar this week in Nashville. She performed "The Easy Part," which she co-wrote with HARDY, and debuted an unreleased song,...Read more

'Hot Ones' (First We Feast/Hot Ones)Talk about a bet that paid off: Luke Combs spent all the money he had to pay for his debut single, "Hurricane," to be mastered. That's one of the things he reveals as the guest on the latest episode of Hot Ones.“Interestingly and luckily enough, it was...Read more

Ashley McBryde's 'Wild' (Warner Records Nashville)Ashley McBryde's fifth studio album, Wild, will arrive on May 8. “When people hear this record, I hope it wakes up the part of them that I’m singing about in ‘Wild’—the part that still believes in those unrealized dreams and untaken risks,” Ashley says. “I believe...Read more

The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green make up the first round of artists confirmed to perform at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2026, the show returns to its longtime home in Las Vegas at MGM Grand Garden Arena. It'll...Read more

Taylor Swift and Vince Gill perform at the Country Music Hall Of Fame Museum's "All For The Hall" at Club Nokia on Sept. 23, 2010 in Los Angeles. (John Shearer/WireImage)Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, and she's got five years to go before...Read more

Trisha Yearwood (Disney/Randy Holmes)Trisha Yearwood is hosting her second Band As One Nashville Concert for the Cure on Sunday, and expectations are high for several reasons. The first is the progress Trisha's seen since losing her mother to breast cancer in 2011. "I've watched friends in treatment [for the same cancer as my mother]...Read more

Brooks & Dunn (Disney/Connie Chornuk)Even though they're the reigning CMA vocal duo of the year and the bestselling country duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn had never traveled across the pond to play the Country to Country festival — until 2026, that is. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn took the...Read more

Willie Nelson's 'Dream Chaser' (Legacy Recordings)Willie Nelson will release his 79th solo studio album, Dream Chaser, on May 29. His 156th record overall continues his musical partnership with writer/producer Buddy Cannon, which has yielded nearly 20 projects in the past 13 years. The 10-track album includes a rare co-write with the legendary...Read more

Jordan Davis performs in Berlin, Germany. (Frank Hoensch/Redferns)Jordan Davis is quite the world traveler these days. He recaps his half a dozen international shows so far this year in a new Instagram video set to his #12 hit "Turn This Truck Around." "Ripped through Europe and the UK on the Ain’t Enough...Read more

Bailey Zimmerman & Brandon Lake's "Just Believe (Live)" (Atlantic/Warner)Bailey Zimmerman's collab with Brandon Lake was just released on Friday, but the response has been so great that they've already released a new live version. "SPEECHLESS… thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to 'Just Believe' over and over,"...Read more

Luke Combs (Jon Morgan/CBS)Luke Combs believes the moment is now for a country artist to play the Super Bowl halftime show. "It’s time," he says on a new episode of The Zach Sang Show. "Whoever’s having those conversations to have, I don’t know, like, it’s above my pay grade. I don’t...Read more

Vincent Mason (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)Roswell, Georgia, native Vincent Mason is undergoing a major life change these days, as he enjoys the top-20 success of his debut single, "Wish You Well.""I'm just glad it's going well. Being on country radio is really cool," he tells ABC Audio. "For me, growing up in...Read more