Chris Stapleton earns the most adds on the Mediabase and MusicRow radio charts for his latest single “Joy Of My Life.” He brings in 52 new station adds on Mediabase this week and 25 on MusicRow for the past two weeks. “Joy Of My Life” was written by John Fogerty and produced by Stapleton and Dave Cobb.
This follows his success from the 64th annual Grammy Awards where he won three awards for Best Country Solo Performance (“You Should Probably Leave”), Best Country Song (“Cold”, and Best Country Album (Starting Over).
Stapleton’s “All-American Road Show” kicked off in March and will have tour dates every month through October. Various guests will accompany Stapleton, including Willie Nelson, Elle King, Margo Price, Yola, and more.
Warner Music Nashville has announced the addition of Jen Danielson and Jamie Graves to its streaming team, led by Sr. VP Tim Foisset. They will start on Monday, April 11.
Danielson joins WMN from Pandora, where she served as the head of country music programming for three years. Prior to her time at Pandora, she spent more than 10 years in music programming and artist relations at CMT. As Sr. Director, Streaming, Danielson will work with Pandora and Amazon Music.
“I am thrilled at the opportunity to work with so many people that I admire in this business, along with artists who top my personal playlists,” Danielson says. “During my time at Pandora, I saw firsthand that the Warner streaming team is committed to being great partners. While it is bittersweet to leave the tight-knit trio of Beville Dunkerley, Alina Thompson and myself, I’m excited to continue to work with them in a different capacity and to expand my relationships with all DSPs.”
Graves began his career at Universal Music Group in 2013. His seven years included a stop at Capitol Christian Music Group and spanned radio promotions, commercial partnerships and digital marketing. He most recently led the streaming and digital marketing efforts at Monument Records. As Director, Streaming, Graves will work with Spotify and Apple Music.
“I’m beyond excited to start this new journey with the Warner Nashville family,” Graves shares. “I’ve been a big fan of how Warner continues to innovate and their ability to sign truly incredible artists. Thank you to Tim for the opportunity to join such an amazing team.”
“Jen and Jamie are two of the most well-respected people within the Nashville streaming community,” adds Foisset. “They bring our team high-level experience and fresh perspective. I am confident that they have the tools to further elevate our relationships and find innovative ways for us to amplify Warner Music Nashville artists.”
Additionally, WMN confirmed that three-year team member Jenni Tay will exit the company for a new opportunity in mid-April.
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Husband and wife duo Thompson Square have signed with Quartz Hill Records.
The move reunites the multi-Platinum duo, comprised of Keifer and Shawna Thompson, with veteran label head Benny Brown. Alongside Brown they found the biggest success of their career with No. 1 hits in three countries, including “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” “If I Didn’t Have You” and “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About.”
Thompson Square’s first release on the new label is the upbeat new single, “Country In My Soul,” available everywhere now. Co-written by 2022 ACM Song of the Year winner Lainey Wilson alongside Daniel Ross and James McNair, the track marks Thompson Square’s first single since 2019’s “You Shoulda Been There,” and will impact country radio on April 25.
“We really got back to our roots with the new music. In fact, roots is kind of what this song is all about. We’ve lived a lot of life in the last few years–we had a baby, we both lost parents–and our new music reflects a well-lived life, both the ups and the downs,” the couple share.
The digital release also includes b-side tune “Are We Gonna Dance,” co-written by David Lee Murphy and Jim Collins, the writers behind the pair’s debut hit, “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not.”
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Jillian Jacqueline will release her debut album, Honestly, on June 10 through her new deal with Virgin Music.
Ahead of the full album release, Jacqueline has dropped “Better with a Broken Heart,” a duet featuring Brothers Osborne‘s TJ Osborne. Penned by Jacqueline alongside album co-producer Tofer Brown and songwriter Adam James, the track was the first song she wrote during the pandemic.
“I’m thrilled to have TJ of the Brothers Osborne singing with me on it,” says Jacqueline. “I’ve always loved that resonant voice of his, with this emotional tremor to it. He really nailed it in the studio, and hearing us together on the chorus just gives me chills.”
Co-produced with Tofer and Bryan Brown, the eleven track album includes emotionally potent duets with Nashville notables Charlie Worsham as well as Osborne. The album also sees her reunite with superstar songwriter Lori McKenna and includes co-writes with singer-songwriter Madi Diaz and Trevor Rosen of Old Dominion.
“It feels like a fresh start for me,” explains Jacqueline. “After 14 years in Nashville, this is my first fully realized album, one that runs the gamut of me as a person and an artist. The passion of making this record was really a creative rebirth, putting me back in touch with what I’ve always loved about music.”
So far in her career, Jacqueline has garnered nearly 100 million streams with a sequence of initial EPs and singles, including “Reasons;” “God Bless This Mess,” which she co-wrote with McKenna; and “If I Were You” featuring Keith Urban.
Honestly Track List:
1. The Ocean featuring Charlie Worsham (J. Jacqueline, Tofer Brown, Hillary Lindsey)
2. When It Rains (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown)
3. Bandwagon (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Trevor Rosen)
4. Hummingbird (J. Jacqueline, Daniel Tashian, Andrew Deroberts)
5. Better with a Broken Heart featuring TJ Osborne (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Adam James)
6. Magic (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Shane McAnally)
7. Sure (J. Jacqueline, Lori McKenna, T. Brown)
8. Compliment (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Madi Diaz)
9. Hurt Somebody Else (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Justin Parker)
10. Iconic (J. Jacqueline, T. Brown, Kate York)
11. Honeymoon (J. Jacqueline, Rob Persaud, Alex Reid)
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Carrie Underwood is heading into summer with brand new music as she announces her latestalbum, Denim & Rhinestones, out on June 10. The title track from the project and an accompanying lyric video are available everywhere now.
The new single was penned by Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Kear, and Hillary Lindsey, and co-produced by Garcia and Underwood. Garcia co-wrote Underwood’s hit songs “Love Wins,” “Southbound,” and “Drinking Alone,” while Lindsey and Underwood have collaborated on a string of previous hits, including “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “So Small,” “Last Name,” “Smoke Break,” “Church Bells,” and “Cry Pretty.” Kear co-wrote Underwood’s signature hits, “Before He Cheats” and “Blown Away,” and co-wrote “Two Black Cadillacs” with Underwood and Lindsey.
Underwood co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on the project, and worked with more recent co-writers on the album as well, including Michael Hardy and Lydia Vaughan, the latter of whom co-wrote “If I Didn’t Love You,” Underwood’s multi-week No. 1 smash duet with Jason Aldean.
“We cover a lot of ground on this album,” Underwood explains. “We have a lot of songs that have a bit of a ‘throwback’ feel, but they sound super fresh. I grew up listening to so many different kinds of music and that is extremely evident in this body of work. These are musical influences that are all in me and work their way out, and I just decided this time not to get in their way. I think this whole album ended up being a big reflection of me as a person and as an artist.
“After spending over two years with My Gift and My Savior, which were such passion projects and so close to my heart, putting together ‘Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency’ was really the catalyst for this album. I was just ready to have fun and to write songs that make me happy to listen to and happy to sing.”
The album announcement comes on the heels of Underwood’s 8th Grammy win for Best Roots Gospel Album for My Savior at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards where she also performed the first new single from the album, “Ghost Story.”
Denim & Rhinestones Track List:
1. Denim & Rhinestones (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsey)
2. Velvet Heartbreak (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
3. Ghost Story (David Garcia, Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsey)
4. Hate My Heart (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Michael Hardy, Hillary Lindsey)
5. Burn (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey)
6. Crazy Angels (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Lydia Vaughan)
7. Faster (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
8. Pink Champagne (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey)
9. Wanted Woman (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Miller)
10. Poor Everybody Else (Carrie Underwood, Chris DeStefano, Josh Miller)
11. She Don’t Know (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
12. Garden (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Miller)
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Jason Aldean hits No. 1 on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Radio Chart just a few weeks ahead of releasing the second half of his double album, Macon, Georgia, on April 22.
“Trouble With A Heartbreak” appears on the Georgia half of his album and features Kurt Allison, Brett Beavers, Tully Kennedy, and John Morgan as writers.
Aldean was the recipient of the 2022 Artist Humanitarian Award presented by the Country Radio Broadcasters at this year’s CRS Honors ceremony. His “Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour” will launch in June with support from Gabby Barrett, Dee Jay Silver, and John Morgan, who recently signed to Night Train Records, Aldean’s imprint within BBR label Group.
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Apple Music has made Thomas Rhett’s full career-spanning discography, including his recently released sixth studio album Where We Started, available to stream in Spatial Audio exclusively on the platform. Spatial Audio on Apple Music is a premium listening experience that makes songs feel as though they’re happening all around and above the listener.
“I listened to my first bit of music in Spatial [Audio], and all of a sudden, it’s like you’re listening to music in 3D. That’s the best way I know how to describe it,” Rhett told Apple Music Country host Kelleigh Bannen in a recent interview. “I mean, obviously, I think the new stuff is cool because I feel like every record we make is just so much more detailed and there’s so many parts that, if you’re not intently listening, you might miss something amazing that the bass player did or something amazing the piano player did, or a drum fill that the drummer did that kind of gets lost in the wash. But when I heard my catalog in Spatial [Audio], I was like, ‘Holy crap, these people can play music.’
“Every time you turn your head, it stays centered somehow,” he adds. “You can hear guitar solos blasting in your right ear, but you hear your vocals so clear in the left, but then the guitar’s in the top right hand corner and the bass is in the lower left hand corner, and then it completely flip-flops. It is like listening to music in 3D. That’s the best way I can describe it.”
In conjunction with the release of his new album, Rhett recently announced Where We Started Radio, a new weekly radio series airing on Apple Music Country. Each week, he will break down the making of Where We Started, pulling back the curtain on his own creative process and looking back on how a 20-year-old emerging songwriter with a new record deal became a chart-topping country artists. Guests include famed producer Dann Huff, fellow artists Riley Green and Parker McCollum, Rhett’s wife Lauren Akins, and his father, the celebrated songwriter Rhett Akins.
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will give fans their take on the Bob Dylan songbook later this spring. On May 20, the band will release Dirt Does Dylan, a ten-track album highlighting some of the gems from Dylan’s vast catalog.
In preparation for the full album, Dirt Band’s cover of “I Shall Be Released,” which Dylan originally recorded with The Band during their infamous Basement Tapes sessions, is available everywhere now. The new rendition sees blues-rock duo Larkin Poe lending their voices and lap steel guitar skills to the mix.
The new project will feature three new band members: fiddle specialist Ross Holmes, singer-songwriter and bass player Jim Photoglo who wrote the Dirt Band’s “Fishin’ in the Dark,” and Dirt Band founder Jeff Hanna’s son Jaime Hanna on vocals and guitar. Produced and recorded by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board Studio in Nashville, Dirt Does Dylan finds the band playing alongside Jason Isbell, The War & Treaty, Steve Earle, Rosanne Cash, and more.
The group originally formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band and scored their first charting single in 1967. Their first major hit came in 1971 with “Mr. Bojangles.” In the 1980s, the Dirt Band reeled off 15 straight top 10 country hits, including chart-toppers “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” and “Fishin’ in the Dark.”
The band will be criss-crossing around the country through this fall on their headlining tour. For a full list of upcoming dates, click here.
Dirt Goes Dylan Track List:
1. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You
2. Girl from the North Country
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
4. Country Pie
5. I Shall Be Released (ft. Larkin Poe)
6. She Belongs to Me
7. Forever Young
8. The Times They Are A-Changin’ (ft. Rosanne Cash, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, and The War and Treaty)
9. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
10. Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
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The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate country legend Loretta Lynn‘s 90th birthday on Opry Country Classics on Thursday, April 14 at the Grand Ole Opry House.
The birthday celebration will feature performances by Lynn’s sister and fellow Opry member, Crystal Gayle, as well as The Gatlin Brothers, Elizabeth Cook, Maggie Rose and the Opry debut of duo Twitty and Lynn.
Lynn, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, was born on April 14, 1932 in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. She made her Opry debut on Oct. 15, 1960, was officially inducted as a member on Sept. 25, 1962, and went on to become one of the institution’s most celebrated legends. Of her countless accolades, Lynn has been honored with three Grammy Awards, eight CMA Awards, membership into the Country Music and Songwriters Halls of Fame, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She was the first female artist to win the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year prize in 1972.
Twitty and Lynn, who will make their Opry debut at the celebration, is a duo comprised of the grandchildren of Lynn and her frequent duet partner and country legend, Conway Twitty. Tayla Lynn and Tre Twitty have taken to the road to honor their grandparents with their tributes to Lynn and Twitty.
Tickets for “Loretta Lynn’s 90th Birthday Celebration” are on sale now at (615) 871-OPRY and opry.com.
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Pictured (L-R): Kenton Bryant; Shawn McSpadden, Manager at Red Light Management; Abbey Adams, GM/SVP of Red Door Music Group; Gina Venier; Rian Ball; and Mike Walker. Photo: Jordan Walker.
Red Door Music Group has celebrated a great deal of achievements since its founding in 2020. Now they’re adding the announcement of two new signings.
In partnership with its joint-venture partner, Warner Chappell Music, the publishing house has inked a new deal with ASCAP songwriter Mike Walker. A Belmont graduate, he has had releases with such artists as Luke Bryan, Chase Rice, Morgan Wallen, Ryan Hurd, Lee Brice and more.
Abbey Adams, GM and Senior Vice President of Red Door Music Group, says, “I have been a fan of Mike’s writing for years. I always loved his voice, but I have especially come to appreciate his craft in writing lyrics. I am super excited to be working with him. I think Mike will be a writer we’ll still be talking about generations from now.”
Also joining the Red Door Music Group/Warner Chappell Music family is BMI songwriter Kenton Bryant. A Kentucky native, he came to Nashville eager to learn the craft of songwriting from the best Music City has to offer.
“I was blessed to have the best mentor a young songwriter in Nashville could ask for: Jonathan Singleton. I learned the value of a great song, what it takes to be a studio musician, and most importantly, how working hard pays off,” Bryant shares. “I’m forever grateful for those lessons and proud to be able to call him one of my best friends and someone I’ll always be excited to share my music with.”
Rian Ball, RDMG’s first signing, is celebrating two of his penned songs being released by K-Pop artists in 2021, including “Amnesia” by Kai and “Supplier” by Super Junior D&E. Additionally, Jimmie Allen‘s newest single, “Down Home,” is Ball’s first country radio single. Co-written with Allen, Tate Howell and Cameron Bedell, this song is a heart-felt tribute to Allen’s late father. Ball is also one of the three songwriters in The Boat Boys, along with Holden James and Zack Dyer, who are on tour this spring with Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line.
Additionally, RDMG’s Gina Venier recently released her eighth single through Red Door Music Group/Warner Chappell Music. The song “Nora Jane” tells the true story of Venier’s journey of coming out to her family.
“I feel like people can relate to me when I feel nervous about bringing a girl home to my family. I’ve had people come up to me after I sing it live and say things like, ‘I have a Nora Jane’–and they have a story of their own to tell,” Venier explains. “It feels good knowing that people feel like I am telling their own story too.”
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