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Breaking artist Jameson Rodgers is ready to take over country radio with his debut River House/Columbia Nashville single “Some Girls,” hitting airwaves today (6/3).

Written by top tunesmiths Michael Hardy, Jake Mitchell, and C.J. Solar, the song has already earned more than 13 million on-demand streams and was among the top-added songs today with 33 stations on board.Listen to the track here.

The song’s accompanying music video, directed by Dustin Haney, is also available now. Watch here.

On the heels of the highly-anticipated release, Rodgers is slated for a slew of CMA Fest appearances, including his debut set on the Nissan Stadium stage Saturday night (6/8). He will appear with his fellow CMA KixStart Artist Scholarship recipients for a panel discussion on the CMA Close Up stage that day, and will perform at the Spotify House at Ole Red downtown Thursday (6/6). Other appearances include the SiriusXM Music Row Happy Hour at Margaritaville and a signing in the Sony Music Nashville booth inside Fan Fair X. See below for complete schedule.

Mississippi native and former college baseball player Jameson Rodgers initially made his mark in Nashville as a behind-the-scenes songwriter, scoring cuts with Florida Georgia Line as he was working on his own music. After independently releasing his self-titled EP in 2016, Rodgers enjoyed a breakthrough streaming hit with his song “Midnight Daydream,” which presently has over 13 million spins. He followed that with another EP in 2018, garnering millions of streams for the tracks “Missing One” and “Some Girls.” Written by Michael Hardy, Jake Mitchell and C.J. Solar, the anthemic “Some Girls” is Rodgers’ first single released to country radio since signing a label deal as a partnership between River House Artists and Sony Music Nashville. He’s been chosen to participate in the CMA’s inaugural KixStart Artist Scholarship program for mentorship and support. Rodgers is also support on newly-minted superstar Luke Combs’ Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, playing more than 60 arenas and amphitheaters throughout the year. He is currently at work on his debut full-length album with producers Mickey Jack Cones, Chris Farren, and Jake Mitchell.

ACM and CMT Music Award nominee Mitchell Tenpenny is set to kick-off the summer of 2019 surrounded by thousands of country music fans in Nashville.  As his current single, “Alcohol You Later,” continues its steady airplay and streaming chart climb, the singer-songwriter prepares to take the stage at the CMT Music Awards and at multiple CMA Music Fest events next week. And, just in time for the week-long music celebration, Tenpenny drops “Alcohol You Later” (Acoustic) version which is available HERE.

Nominated for the coveted “Breakthrough Video of the Year” award for his No. 1 Platinum-certified smash “Drunk Me,” Mitchell Tenpenny will perform the hit song at the 2019 CMT Music Awards on the Ram Trucks Side Stage at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The awards show will air live on Wednesday, June 5 at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT on CMT. Winners are selected by the fans, with voting now open at www.vote.cmt.com.

The powerhouse vocalist and Nashville native recently launched his new Night Owls fan club, and Tenpenny invites anyone interested to join for free. He also announced his inaugural Night Owls fan club party on Friday, June 7, at Ascend Amphitheater following his performance as part of the CMA Fest: Firestone Country Roads Stage at the same venue. In addition to tickets to the show, fans will enjoy a private meet and greet before the concert and will also be the first to receive “BAOYS” (“Be Aware of Your Surroundings”) newly branded merchandise inspired by and created in honor of Tenpenny’s late father who offered “BAOYS” special life advice to him often. This marks Mitchell’s second Ascend Amphitheater appearance within a month, as he was special guest at Old Dominion’s sold-out “Make It Sweet Tour” date on May 3. Link here to sign up for the fan club free and you chance to attend the Night Owls fan club party HERE.   Additional Mitchell Tenpenny CMA Music Fest events include Sony Music Nashville booth signing at Fan Fair X at Music City Center, Thursday, June 6, 3 pm; Spotify House at Ole Red, Thursday, June 6, 7:30 pm; Riverfront Stage at Riverfront Park, Friday, June 7, 11:30 am; and CMA Close Up Stage at Fan Fair X, Friday, June 7, 2:15 pm.    Mitchell’s current single “Alcohol You Later,” written by Mitchell, Michael Lotten and Sam Sumser, is the follow up to his hit “Drunk Me.” Both songs can be found on his Telling All My Secrets album available HERE.  Also, a newly released a new version of his CMT Music Awards nominated hit entitled “Drunk Me” (R3HAB Remix) is available  HERE.

Multi-platinum artist Kane Brown scored his fourth No. 1 single with his co-penned, fan-favorite track, “Good As You.” The song topped the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck charts in the U.S. this week after its three-week run at the No. 1 slot and Gold-certification in Canada. Written by Brown, Brock Berryhill, Shy Carter, Taylor Phillips and Will Weatherly, “Good As You” is the follow-up single to the singer/songwriter’s Platinum-certified No. 1 airplay and streaming hit, “Lose It,” which was preceded by Brown’s multi-week chart-topping hits “Heaven” and “What Ifs” off his record-breaking debut album.

A multi-nominee at next week’s CMT Music Awards, Brown’s “Good As You” music video is up for the coveted Video of the Year Award and “Lose It” is nominated for Male Video of the Year. The “Good As You” video, which features “This Is Us” star Lonnie Chavis in a semi-autobiographical narrative of Brown’s life, has resonated nationally with press and fans alike. Kane shared the inspiration for the video’s concept, highlighting his intention to honor his mother and nana and how they raised him. Fan voting is open now at CMT.com , and fans may vote multiple times a day for “Good As You” and “Lose It.” Additionally, Brown will make his debut on the CMT performance stage on next week’s CMT Music Awards (airing June 5, 7 PM CT on CMT). 

Brown continues to shatter records, first becoming the first artist in Billboard history to top all 5 Billboard Country charts and most recently, with his record-breaking attendance Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo performance. There, he set a new record for the biggest country artist debut in Rodeo Houston history with 75,126 fans in attendance, and, with the new 4X Platinum certification of “Heaven,” became one of only five country acts with multiple 4X Platinum hits (joining Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt and Taylor Swift). Within his sophomore chart-topping album Experiment, Brown debuted #1 on both the Billboard  200 and Top Country Albums chart, becoming the only male country artist in more than 24 years to debut at the top of the Billboard 200, and only one of three country artists to top the Billboard 200 chart in all of 2018. Ranked by The New York Times as one of the Top 10 Best Albums of the Year, Experiment is available to stream and download HERE. For more information, visit kanebrownmusic.com.

RECORDS/Arista Nashville recording artist, Matt Stell, is excited to release his seven-song Everywhere But On EP on all platforms today, May 24.

The highly- anticipated collection, co-produced by Stell and Wide Open Music’s Ash Bowers, includes the lead single, “Prayed For You.”  Written by Stell, along with Bowers and Allison Veltz, named as one of Rolling Stone‘s “10 Best Country Songs to Hear Now,” and dubbed “Career changing” by Music Row, the hit has already amassed more than 47 million on-demand streams and in excess of 400,000 consumption units and counting.  Stell co-wrote every track on Everywhere But On, including “Home In A Hometown,” which features fellow country standout Jimmie Allen. Check out the new project HERE.

Described as “articulate, quick-witted and aware that ‘Prayed For You’ was the answer to his prayers” (The Tennessean), Stell has been named one of Taste of Country‘s Artists to Watch and a CMT Discovery Artist.  He will celebrate his EP release day (5/24) on the road at the “Kick Off To Summer” with Country 94-7 with a free and open to the public show in Lake Como, NJ. For tickets and information click HERE.

Adding to the exciting summer, he will be returning to the Opry stage on Wednesday, June 12, after making his Grand Ole Opry debut on April 27. For Opry tickets and information, click HERE. 

In advance of the release of Everywhere But On, Stell released  a music video for the title track. Directed by Austin Peckham  and filmed in Nashville, TN and Pensacola Beach, FL, the moody clip depicts Stell, brooding over a heartache he cannot find a way to outrun. See it HERE.

About Matt Stell: After playing college basketball for Drury University for four years, breakthrough country artist Matt Stell stood at a crossroads. One road led to Cambridge, MA where Stell was accepted into Harvard University’s Extension School Pre-Med program. The other road pointed toward Nashville and a career in country music. Stell made the choice to follow his dreams of writing and performing. The 6’7” Center Ridge, Arkansas native and self-taught vocalist and guitar-player made the move to Music City in 2014, landing a publishing and management deal with Wide Open Music and a record deal with music industry powerhouse Barry Weiss’s RECORDS/Arista Nashville. His debut single, “Prayed For You,” written by Stell along with Ash Bowers and Alison Veltz, has already amassed more than 47 million digital streams, making waves on Billboard’s Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs Charts and spinning on SiriusXM’s The Highway in addition to having been featured on Spotify’s Hot Country, New Boots, Wild Country, and Country Kind Of Love Playlists, Amazon’s “The Weekly One,” and Apple’s A-List Country Playlist. The CMT Discovery Artist and Taste of Country Ones To Watch artist’s official music video for “Prayed For You” premiered viaPeople, stars Savannah Chrisley and her fiancé, Nic Kerdiles has racked up more than 4.6 million views. See it  HERE.

“Prayed For You” along with “Home In A Hometown,” a collaboration with Jimmie Allen, can be found on Everywhere But On. Catch Matt at a number of major country music festivals this summer including CMA Fest (Nashville, TN), LakeShake (Chicago, IL), and Watershed (George, WA) and learn more at mattstell.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,YouTube@MattStellMusic.

Today, Maren Morris and Apple Music announce the upcoming release of a brand new EP titled Maren Morris: Reimagined featuring lovingly reworked acoustic renditions of three of her biggest hits with influential Nashville producer Dave Cobb.

As a companion to the EP, Apple Music will also be releasing a special short film that takes fans behind the scenes in the studio as Morris—a country music powerhouse known for experimenting with elements of pop and dance music—shares the meaning behind “GIRL” “The Bones,” and “The Middle” while giving each song a new, vocal-centric treatment. 

On songwriting, Maren says: “You can’t walk in with any ego. It’s just about going in and getting the best song. That’s why so many of my closest friends I met though these co-writes. it’s because you learn so much so quickly in a co-write with somebody because you’re like, hi, nice to meet you. Let me bear my soul to you for the next several hours.” 

About the EP and working with Dave Cobb, she says: “I think the mark of a good song is you can rearrange it up and it still is a very defining song. Dave you know, his production is so–rootsy and very soulful and Americana and he just understands that sound so intensely. I love the way it turned out.”

The Maren Morris: Reimagined EP and the companion film will be available exclusively on Apple Music beginning May 31. 

Maren’s GIRL is still the No. 1 Day 1 and Week 1 Female Country Album worldwide on Apple Music and holds the record for the top pre-added country album globally by a female artists to date on Apple Music.

Catch up on all things Maren on Apple Music HERE.

Hailed for his stripped-down authenticity, RCA Records Nashville artist/songwriter Ryan Hurdhas released “To A T (Stripped),” a deeply romantic piano version of his current single, which is climbing the country radio charts. Find it HERE. 
With career streams exceeding 100 million worldwide, Hurd has a gripping point of view and an eager audience for “To A T” – in all its incarnations. The song already hit No. 1 on the SiriusXM The Highway’s Hot 30 Countdown and has caught the attention of entertainment tastemakers including men’s lifestyle playbook Esquire and Maxim.

Hurd co-wrote the sultry single with Laura Veltz and Nathan Spicer with attention-grabbing bass, sonic guitar work, and drop-you-in-your-tracks harmony from creative muse and wife, Maren Morris.

Hurd’s ascension seems obvious. He was named the only country artist on Sirius XM’s all-genre “Future Five” for 2019. He was tapped by AOL as one of their country artists set for a breakout year, Amazon Music’s Best of 2018, and named an Artist to Watch by VEVO, Pandora, CMT, The Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone Country, which lauded him for “generating major buzz” and “making waves.”

The praise is earned. Hurd is one of Nashville’s most multi-dimensional young songwriters. He has had co-pen credits on some of the format’s biggest hits including “Lonely Tonight” (Blake Shelton), “You Look Good” (Lady Antebellum), and “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” (Luke Bryan).

Now he’s releasing his own music, including “Michigan For The Winter,” “To A T,” and “Diamonds Or Twine,” which is available on all digital retailers and streaming platforms (HERE) .

Hurd is headlining his own “To A Tour” with capacity crowds at some of the most respected music rooms in the country. On June 9, he will make his CMA Music Festival debut on the Riverfront Stage and later this fall he will be opening several dates on the Old Dominion “Make It Sweet Tour.”

Ryan Hurd’s “To A T Tour” (Old Dominion dates in BOLD): 
May 31 – Innsbrook Pavilion, Glen Allen, VA
June 1 – PNC Waterside Pavilion, Solomons, MD
June 2 – Patriotic Festival, Virginia Beach, VA
June 6 – Taste of Country Music Festival, Hunter, NY
June 7 – Bottle & Cork, Dewey Beach, DE
June 9 – CMA Music Festival, Nashville, TN
June 13 – Battery Park at Hard Rock Hotel, Sioux City, IA
June 23 – LakeShake, Chicago, IL
July 13 – Raleigh County Memorial Airport, Beaver, WV
July 18 – Blame My Roots Festival, CITY
July 19 – Power Plant Live!, Baltimore, MD
July 24 – Olmsted Country Fair, Rochester, MN
July 26 – Red Willow County Fair, McCook, NE
Aug. 9 – Boots & Hearts Music Festival, Oro Station, Canada
Aug. 17 – Country Jam & Campout, Thornville, OH
Aug. 31 – Seven Peaks Festival, Buena Vista, CO
Sept. 27 – Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC  
Nov. 1 – Yuengling Center, Tampa, FL  
Nov. 3 – The Amp St. Augustine, St. Augustine, FL 
Nov. 8 – Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, RI 
Nov. 9 – The Oncenter War Memorial Arena, Syracuse, NY
Nov. 14 – BOK Center, Tulsa, OK 
Nov. 15 – CenturyLink Center, Bossier City, LA  
Nov. 16 – The Theater at Grand Prairie KSCS Country Fest, Grand Prairie, TX 
Nov. 21 – Ford Center, Evansville, IN
Nov. 22 – BB&T Arena at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Nov. 23 – TaxSlayer Arena, Moline, IL
Dec. 4 – The Joint, Las Vegas, NV
**Schedule is subject to change and additional dates may be added.

For more on Ryan Hurd and to catch him on tour, visit www.RyanHurd.com.

Today, CMT announced that GRAMMY Award-winning, best-selling country duo Brooks & Dunn will take the stage with some of the brightest young talent in country music during a special public taping of “CMT Crossroads,” the network’s flagship music series. The hour-long show will tape in downtown Nashville on Tuesday, June 4 and will premiere on CMT on Friday, June 28 at 10 p.m. ET.

“CMT Crossroads: Brooks & Dunn and Friends” will tape as an outdoor public event, adding to an exciting week of live music ahead of the “CMT Music Awards,” which airs LIVE from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 5 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT.  

Fans are invited to attend the “CMT Crossroads” taping on Tuesday, June 4, at the corner of 5th and Broadway in downtown Nashville. The taping begins at 8:30 p.m. CT and fans should arrive early, as the event is standing-room only and entrance is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Artists joining Brooks & Dunn onstage during “CMT Crossroads,” performing tracks from the duo’s No. One REBOOT album include:

• Luke Combs (“CMT Performance of the Year” and “Video of the Year” nominee)
• Brandon Lancaster of LANCO (“Group Video of the Year” nominee)
• Brett Young (“CMT Performance of the Year” nominee)
• Cody Johnson
• Jon Pardi
• Midland (“Group Video of the Year” nominee)

Last month, Brooks & Dunn debuted at No. One on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with their collaboration project REBOOT. The 12-track album features a collection of classic Brooks & Dunn hits, in addition to new collaborations with rising stars in country music, many of whom are nominated or featured performers at this year’s CMT Music Awards, including Kane Brown, Luke Combs, LANCO, Ashley McBryde, Midland, Kacey Musgraves, Brothers Osborne, Thomas Rhett and Brett Young.

“CMT Crossroads” shows the far-reaching roots of country music by pairing country artists with musicians from other genres. Each episode features a different set of stars playing together, swapping stories and sharing their common love of music. For more information, check out CMT Crossroads on Facebook and use the hashtag #CMTcrossroads.

The series debuted January 13, 2002 with Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams and since has showcased dream musical partnerships including Ray Charles and Travis Tritt; Bon Jovi and Sugarland; Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire; Def Leppard and Taylor Swift; Sting and Vince Gill; John Mayer and Keith Urban; Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood; Stevie Nicks and Lady Antebellum; Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves; Alicia Keys and Maren Morris to name a few. “CMT Crossroads” is produced by CMT’s Margaret Comeaux and Switched On Entertainment’s John Hamlin.

For more information, visit cmt.com.

CMA and ACM-award winner Luke Combs will release his highly anticipated new EP,The Prequel, June 7 via River House Artists/Columbia Nashville. Pre-save/pre-add HERE. 

Produced by Scott Moffatt, the EP features five new songs co-written by Combs including lead single, “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which recently premiered worldwide at country radio (stream/purchase here). The song is currently No. 2 on Billboard’s Country Streaming Songs chart with 11 million streams—setting the record for the best first week of streaming ever for a country song—and No. 1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart. “Beer Never Broke My Heart” also recently set the record for most adds on the Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart with 149 adds and debuted at No. 15 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart—the top entrance by any artist since September 2012 and Combs’ highest debut to date. In celebration of the new music, Combs recently performed the track on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Watch/shareHERE. Additionally, watch the song’s official music video HERE. 

The release of The Prequel adds to an already monumental year for Combs, who is nominated for two awards at the 2019 CMT Music Awards: Video of the Year (“She Got The Best of Me”) and CMT Performance of the Year (“Beautiful Crazy” from CMT Crossroads with Leon Bridges). The awards ceremony will broadcast live on CMT from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 5 at 8:00pm ET/7:00pm CT. ​

Additionally, Combs recently made history as the first artist to simultaneously top all five Billboard country charts for multiple weeks: Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales (dated March 9, March 30 and April 6). Moreover, Combs’ previous 2x platinum single, “Beautiful Crazy,” spent seven-straight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart—tying the second longest run atop the chart since its launch in 1990. “Beautiful Crazy” Beautiful Crazy” is also the first country single shipped to radio already platinum-certified since Taylor Swift’s “Red” in 2013, has more than 390 million on-demand streams and makes Combs the first artist ever to send his first five singles to the top of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. 

Continuing his landmark year, Combs sold out venues in 25 of the 29 cities on his newly confirmed “Beer Never Broke My Heart” fall tour in the first weekend tickets were on-sale. He broke records at Bozeman’s Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, Bloomington’s Grossinger Motors Arena and Bossier City’s CenturyLink Center for the fastest sell out times in venue history. Additional sold-out shows include Kansas City’s Sprint Center, Portland’s Moda Center, Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center, Phoenix’s Talking Stick Resort Arena, Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena among several others. Special guests throughout the tour include Morgan Wallen, The Cadillac Three and Jameson Rodgers. See below for complete tour details. 

The Prequel is Combs’ first release following his double Platinum certified debut album, This One’s For You, which was released June 2, 2017 and has spent a total of 35 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart—the longest reign for a solo male artist in over 25 years. The album also spent 16 weeks at No. 1 in 2018—making it the highest selling country album last year with 1.1 million equivalent album units sold and the only country album to surpass 1 million album units. It’s also the most-streamed country album of 2019 so far. Additionally, Combs was awards Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist, and Top Country Album at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, New Male Artist of the Year at the 2019 ACM Awards, Country Artist of the Year at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, New Artist of the Year at the 52nd Annual CMA Awards, was nominated for Best New Artist at the 61st GRAMMY Awards and was the recipient of a CMA Triple Play Award for writing three No. 1 songs in a 12 month period. 

THE PREQUEL TRACK LIST
1. Beer Never Broke My Heart (written by Luke Combs, Randy Montana, Jonathan Singleton)
2. Refrigerator Door (written by Luke Combs, Jordan Brooker)
3. Even Though I’m Leaving (written by Luke Combs, Wyatt B. Durrette III, Ray Fulcher)
4. Lovin’ On You (written by Luke Combs, Thomas Archer, Ray Fulcher, James McNair)
5. Moon Over Mexico (written by Luke Combs, Ray Fulcher, Dan Isbell, Jonathan Singleton)

“Raised On Country,” Chris Young’s fastest-rising single of his career is also the namesake of his headlining “Raised On Country World Tour 2019,” sponsored by USAA.

The tour kicked off the North American leg this weekend at Atlanta’s Ameris Bank Amphitheatre with energetic crowds singing along to Chris’s hit-stacked 90-minute set, including “Hangin’ On,” “Gettin’ You Home,” “You,” “I’m Comin’ Over,” “Tomorrow,” “Think Of You” and more from among his eleven No. 1 singles plus his latest hit, “Raised On Country,” and never-before-heard songs from his upcoming 8th studio album.

“It is so great to see Chris continue to grow as a bona fide headliner, and we couldn’t be happier to be in business with Chris and his entire team,” said Brian O’Connell, Live Nation President of Country Music Touring, US Concerts Division.

The Atlanta date was Chris’s first headlining stop in the city since 2015 and kicked off a three-day “Raised On Country World Tour 2019” run with special guests Chris Janson and Dylan Scott, including Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavilion and Washington, DC’s Jiffy Lube Live. The tour continues this week with amphitheater dates in Darien Center, NY (5/24), Saratoga, NY (5/25) and Holmdel, NJ (5/26) over Memorial Day weekend.

For a complete list of tour dates, including additional Chris Young concert stops for 2019, VIP package details and to purchase tickets, please visit chrisyoungcountry.com.