Greatest hit collections from genre superstars Brad Paisley and Tim McGraw have been previously reported on, but new details, including the track-listings have been revealed. Expect big sales from both of these fourth quarter releases, which are likely to end up under a lot of Christmas trees.

On November 30th, Curb Records will release, Number One Hits, a two-disc set featuring 22 of McGraw’s chart-topping singles. The collection will also feature two bonus tracks – a dance mix of his breakthrough 1994 hit, “Indian Outlaw,” and “Felt Good on My Lips,” McGraw’s latest single.

Number One Hits traces McGraw’s remarkable career – from his very first chart-topper, 1994’s “Don’t Take The Girl,” to this year’s “Southern Voice,” which was used in the Academy Award-nominated film The Blind Side, which co-starred Sandra Bullock and McGraw.

McGraw co-stars alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester in Country Strong, hitting theaters nationwide on January 7th, 2011, and earlier in Nashville. McGraw duets with Paltrow on “Me And Tennessee,” a song written by Paltrow’s husband, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and included on the Country Strong soundtrack, due out October 26th. McGraw also appears with William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen and Dwight Yoakam in the new independent comedy Dirty Girl.

The track listing for Number One Hits is as follows:
Disc 1:
1. Live Like You Were Dying
2. Don’t Take The Girl
3. It’s Your Love (with Faith Hill)
4. Just to See You Smile
5. Something Like That
6. My Next Thirty Years
7. The Cowboy in Me
8. She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
9. I Like It, I Love It
10. Watch the Wind Blow By
11. Please Remember Me
12. Real Good Man

Disc 2:
1. Southern Voice
2. My Best Friend
3. Everywhere
4. Grown Men Don’t Cry
5. Back When
6. Angry All the Time
7. Last Dollar (Fly Away)
8. Unbroken
9. Where the Green Grass Grows
10. Not a Moment Too Soon
11. Indian Outlaw (Dance Mix) (Bonus Track)
12. Felt Good on My Lips (Bonus Track)

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Brad Paisley has delivered one of the year’s hottest country tours with his H2O World Tour, and Paisley’s live chops will be on display as performances from the tour come together with hit studio favorites for the November 2 release of the double-disc Hits Alive. In live or studio versions, the collection includes 15 of Paisley’s 17 No. 1 songs and four that hit the Top 5, plus the instrumental “Time Warp” and Brad’s current single, “Anything Like Me.”

Featuring 21 songs, the two discs sport 24 total tracks, some presented both in live and studio versions. Disc one features 13 studio hits plus a new take on Paisley’s “Online” – blending studio and live renditions – while disc two includes previously unreleased live versions of ten favorites, plus the closing “Online (Reprise).”

A track listing is as follows:

Disc 1:
1. Mud on the Tires
2. Ticks
3. Anything Like Me
4. The World
5. Little Moments
6. When I Get Where I’m Going (Featuring Dolly Parton)
7. Celebrity
8. Then (Piano Mix)
9. I’m Still a Guy
10. He Didn’t Have to Be
11. Alcohol
12. Whiskey Lullaby (Featuring Alison Krauss)
13. We Danced
14. Online

Disc 2:
1. Water
2. American Saturday Night
3. Waitin’ on a Woman
4. I’m Gonna Miss Her
5. Mud on the Tires
6. She’s Everything
7. Time Warp
8. Letter to Me
9. Then
10. Alcohol
11. Online (Reprise)

The original songwriter demos to some of country music’s biggest hits are being released today by Warner Bros. Records. Some of Nashville’s best songwriters are represented in the two-volume series. And the CD/digital booklet for Original Songwriter Demos contains the stories behind each hit as told by the writers.

It is available online at www.originalsongwriterdemos.com as well as at all digital retailers. Several Nashville shops will also carry the project including The Bluebird Cafe, The Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Grand Ole Opry Gift Shop.

Track listing for the Original Songwriter Demos:
Volume 1
1. The Dance – Garth Brooks (Tony Arata)
2. Strawberry Wine – Deana Carter (Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison)
3. Something Like That – Tim McGraw (Rick Ferrell, Keith Follese)
4. Independence Day – Martina McBride (Gretchen Peters)
5. Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts (Jeff Hanna, Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd)
6. It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere – Alan Jackson (Jim Brown, Donald Rollins)
7. She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy – Kenny Chesney (Jim Collins, Paul Overstreet)
8. I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack (Mark Sanders, Tia Sillers)
9. Amazed – Lonestar (Marv Green, Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo)
10. The House That Built Me – Miranda Lambert (Tom Douglas, Allen Shamblin)

Volume 2
1. Check Yes Or No – George Strait (Dana Hunt, Danny Wells)
2. If Tomorrow Never Comes – Garth Brooks (Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks)
3. It’s Your Love – Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (Stephony Smith)
4. If You’re Going Through Hell – Rodney Atkins (Dave Berg, Annie Tate, Sam Tate)
5. I Swear – John Michael Montgomery (Gary Baker, Frank Myers)
6. How Do I Live – LeAnn Rimes (Diane Warren)
7. Ain’t Nothing ‘Bout You – Brooks & Dunn (Rivers Rutherford, Tom Shapiro)
8. Every Day – Rascal Flatts (Alissa Moreno, Jeffrey Steele)
9. How Forever Feels – Kenny Chesney (Wendell Mobley, Tony Mullins)
10. Jesus Take the Wheel – Carrie Underwood (Hillary Lindsey, Gordie Sampson, Brett James)

It’s release day for Sugarland, who are on the road celebrating and promoting their adventurous fourth album, The Incredible Machine. The duo, known for pushing country’s music boundaries, drew from a myriad of influences for the new project which weaves together pop/rock anthems, upbeat country, and even throws in a dash of reggae on the lead single “Stuck Like Glue,” already certified Gold. Among Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush’s inspiration was the ‘80s culture of their youth, citing John Hughes films, and music by The Pretenders and Blondie.

Past success—totaling 8 million albums sold—encouraged Sugarland to slide further away from what might be considered mainstream country on the new album. Bush credits the fans, record label UMG Nashville, and the industry. “It’s as if the industry and the culture have singled out the biggest risks we’ve taken on a record, a song like ‘Stay’ for example, and celebrated those,” he says. “They’ve embraced us at those times. We’ve tried to learn from that and this is what we’ve made…In the story of who we are, this album is more us than we’ve ever been.”

Sugarland stopped by CMT Radio Live to chat up host Cody Alan. The interview airs tonight (10/19) at 7 PM. (L-R): Kristian Bush, Cody Alan, Jennifer Nettles

“We are in a place of discovery,” adds Nettles. “It is the essence of who we are as people in this band. There is never a moment where we think, ‘This is good enough.’ There’s always a place for growth.”

Last night Sugarland performed at the Best Buy Theater in New York City as part of  “Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express.” Award-winning filmmaker Kenny Ortega (This is It, High School Musical, Dirty Dancing) directed the performance which streamed live on YouTube, and is still available. Surprise guests included Ronnie Dunn, Little Big Town and Jon Bon Jovi.

Tomorrow night (10/20) they return home to Atlanta for an album release party and performance at the Fox Theatre. Then it is off to New York for an appearance on The Today Show, followed by visits to Ellen, Chelsea Lately, Nate, CNN Heroes, CMA Country Christmas and VH1 Divas.

The band has relaunched its website to coincide with the album launch. Built by Ground(ctrl), it will include a fan community, with a new option called the SugarPass, offering more access to the band, advance ticket pre-sales, and limited edition merchandise.

A Deluxe Edition of The Incredible Machine offers a documentary titled Blood Love Hope Lust and Steam that chronicles the creation of the album and tour. The package also includes the music video for the lead-off hit single “Stuck Like Glue,” as well as a never-before-seen live performance music video for the title track.

Sugarland will perform on the CMA Awards and vie to retain their title of Vocal Duo of the Year.

Brad Paisley will perform on the CMA Christmas Special, and perform on and co-host the CMA Awards.

CMA is planning a big-name Christmas concert which will be taped for television the night after the CMA Awards. Joined by some of their family members, Sheryl Crow, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Reba, LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, and Sugarland will perform and share their favorite holiday traditions.

CMA Country Christmas will tape in front of a live audience on Thursday, Nov. 11 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The special will air Monday, Nov. 29 (9:30-11:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network. Robert Deaton is the executive producer, Paul Miller is the director and David Wild is the writer.

Sugarland is one of the performers slated for the CMA Christmas special, and the CMA Awards.

The CMA Awards will air live from the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 10 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC, and it has just been announced that Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert will salute Loretta Lynn’s 50 years in the music business by performing her signature song, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” on the show. In 1972, Lynn became the first woman to be voted CMA Entertainer of the Year.

Previously announced CMA Awards performers include Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Blake Shelton, George Strait, Sugarland, Keith Urban, and the pairing of Zac Brown Band with Alan Jackson. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will host and perform.

Official CMA Awards merch is available at CMAawards.com, including the CMA Awards Vault book. Written by Deborah Evans Price, it has a foreword by Kenny Chesney, an afterword by Barbara Mandrell and an archive of artist interviews, never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia.