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Brad Paisley stepped into the baseball diamond on Friday night (Oct. 25), where he performed the national anthem at the first game of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Accompanied by a green electric […]
Jelly Roll, Luke Combs and Keith Urban are set to headline the 12th annual Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, which will take place April 4-6, 2025 at Ft. Lauderdale Beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Jelly Roll will headline on Friday, April 4, followed by Urban on Saturday, April 5, and Combs on Sunday, April 6.
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Jelly Roll just notched his first all-genre Billboard 200 chart-topping album with his new set, Beautifully Broken, while Urban and Combs will soon join Eric Church, James Taylor, Billy Strings and other artists in raising aid for those impacted by Hurricane Helene, during the Oct. 26 benefit Concert For Carolina in Charlotte, N.C.
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The oceanside Tortuga Music Festival was named the Academy of Country Music’s festival of the year, and aims to continue its lauded offerings with a stable of artists for 2025 that also includes Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins, Artikal Sound System, Bumpin Uglies, Ashland Craft, Jordan Davis, Gavin DeGraw, Wyatt Flores, Gashi, Caylee Hammack, Ezra Ray Hart (ft. Mark McGrath, Kevin Griffin, Emerson Hart), Cody Jinks, Corey Kent, Marcus King, Ludacris, Parker McCollum, John Morgan, Megan Moroney, Angie K, Drew Parker, Meghan Patrick, Restless Road, DJ Rock, Lily Rose, Shaboozey, Dee Jay Silver, The Original Wailers, Wheeland Brothers and Yelawolf.
Additionally, the Next From Nashville stage will feature emerging Nashville-based artists including Abby Anderson, Avery Anna, Bayker Blankenship, Karley Scott Collins, Kashus Culpepper, Denitia, Jade Eagleson, Mae Estes, Thomas Edwards, Lanie Gardner, Noah Hicks, Jenna LaMaster, Bryce Leatherwood, Lauren Watkins and Charlie Worsham.
Tickets for Tortuga Music Festival go on sale Friday, Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. ET at tortugamusicfestival.com, while hotel and VIP packages can be purchased through Vibee at Tortuga.Vibee.com.

Marshmello and Kane Brown’s “Miles on It” rises two spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Nov. 2). The song increased by 14% to 31.5 million audience impressions Oct. 18-24, according to Luminate.
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Marshmello reigns in his rookie Country Airplay appearance. The prominent DJ notches the first debut No. 1 at the format since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” began its seven-week domination in August.
Brown banks his 12th Country Airplay leader. It’s also his seventh in succession, the longest active streak among all artists. Notably, behind Brown with five consecutive career-opening chart-toppers is Jelly Roll, whose latest single, “I Am Not Okay,” holds at its No. 2 high (30.3 million, up 3%).
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Prior to “Miles on It,” Brown last topped Country Airplay for one week in March with “I Can Feel It.” He first led with “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren Alaina) for a week in October 2017.
Meanwhile, “Miles on It” isn’t the first Marshmello and Brown collaboration. The two topped the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart with “One Thing Right” for a week in October 2019. They are among the co-writers of their new leader, which has hit No. 4 on the ranking and which introduces Brown’s LP The High Road, due Jan. 24, 2025.
Dasha Kicks Up First Top 10
Dasha’s co-penned “Austin” ascends 12-9 on Country Airplay (16.4 million, down 1%). The breakthrough single by the San Luis Obispo, Calif., native becomes the first freshman entry by a woman to hit the top 10 since Megan Moroney’s “Tennessee Orange,” which reached No. 4 in July 2023.
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Plus, Thomas Rhett earns his 24th top 10 as“Beautiful as You” climbs 12-10 (16.1 million, up 7%). The single follows “Mamaw’s House” (featuring Morgan Wallen), which in March became Rhett’s 20th No. 1.
On Oct. 27, 1984, Alabama’s “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas” rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The classic was co-written by Murry Kellum and Dan Mitchell and produced by the band and Harold Shedd.
Formed near Fort Payne, Ala., in the early ‘70s, Alabama was initially billed as Wildcountry, consisting of cousins Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen. They recruited drummer Mark Herndon in 1979.
Starting with Alabama’s 1980 Hot Country Songs No. 1 “Tennessee River” and through its featured turn on Brad Paisley’s “Old Alabama” in 2011, the band banked 33 leaders, among 51 top 10s, both the most among duo/groups. Also beginning with “Tennessee River,” Alabama rattled off a record 21 No. 1s in a row (counting proper, nonseasonal singles) through 1987.
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“We were lookin’ for a song that would use a fiddle,” “Texas” co-producer Shedd shared in Tom Roland’s The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. “After ‘Tennessee River’ and [Alabama’s ninth No. 1, 1983’s] ‘Dixieland Delight,’ it became a trademark, so we wanted to do some of those things. If it’s working, you don’t want to get too far away from that. You gotta touch your home base. [“Texas”] was something we could out a fiddle on that would not sound manufactured or contrived.”
“Texas” was released as the third of four singles – all of which topped Hot Country Songs – from Alabama’s eighth LP, and fourth Top Country Albums No. 1, Roll On. It followed “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)” and “When We Make Love” and preceded “(There’s A) Fire in the Night.”
In 2015, Southern Drawl, Alabama’s first set of new music since 2001, arrived at its No. 2 peak on Top Country Albums. It became the group’s 26th top 10 set, a sum that includes 11 No. 1s logged between 1981 and 2006.
Alabama was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Cook passed away on Nov. 8, 2022, at his home in Destin, Fla. He was 73. Currently touring, the band makes its next stop in St. Augustine, Fla., on Nov. 8.
Zach Bryan has announced his debut U.K. festival headline slot at London’s Hyde Park. The show will take place on June 28, 2025 as part of BST Hyde Park, which is held annually at the central London venue.
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The headline performance for 65,000 fans will be Bryan’s first live show in the U.K. since 2023, where he played intimate venues such as London’s 890-capacity Islington Assembly Hall. Tickets for Bryan’s show go on sale at 10 a.m. GMT on Oct. 30 at the festival’s official website. Bryan will be joined by an array of special guests on the day, which will be announced soon.
Bryan follows Jeff Lynne’s ELO as a confirmed performer at 2025’s edition of BST Hyde Park. The British rock band confirmed that their show at Hyde Park next summer would be their final ever live performance. 2024’s edition included sets by SZA, Lana Del Rey and Stevie Nicks, and announcements for 2025’s other headliners are expected in the coming months.
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The country musician has had a sensational run over the past couple of years following the release of 2023’s Zach Bryan, which landed at No.1 on the Billboard 200. Its follow-up, The Great American Bar Scene, released in July 2024 featured appearances from Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer, and was his first to break into the Top 20 on the U.K.’s Official Album Charts, landing at No.16.
Earlier this week, Bryan confirmed that he had split with his girlfriend, Barstool Sports personality Brianna LaPaglia, better known as Brianna Chickenfry. “Brianna and me [sic] have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” he wrote in a statement on his Instagram Stories.
“She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her. I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways,” he added. “I am not perfect and I never will be.”
Elsewhere Snoop Dogg teased a collaboration with the singer-songwriter during an appearance on the Today show. “Zach sent me a song,” the hip-hop icon told the show’s hosts. “I gotta put a verse on it.”
Check out the Bryan announcement below.
Zach Bryan is headlining his first UK festival in London’s Hyde Park next summer! One of America’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, #ZachBryan, is coming to American Express presents @BSTHydePark on Saturday 28 June 2025, with a full lineup to be announced 🎸🎟 American… pic.twitter.com/FuVxfSj9IH— BST Hyde Park (@BSTHydePark) October 25, 2024

Dolly Parton is the 2024 recipient of the PEACE Through Music Award, which honors an American music industry professional, artist or group who has played an invaluable role in cross-cultural exchanges and whose music works to advance peace and mutual understanding globally. The award is presented jointly by the Recording Academy and the U.S. State Department.
Parton, a 10-time Grammy winner who also received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2011, will be celebrated on Friday (Oct. 25) at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. She will not be in attendance, but sent a video acceptance.
“To say that I was honored to accept the PEACE Through Music Award from the Recording Academy and the U.S. State Department would be putting it mildly,” Parton said. “I was very touched and moved by that. If I have been an inspiration in any way through some act of kindness or through some music that I have written, well, that makes me feel like I have done my job properly. Thanks again for such a great honor.”
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Parton’s commitment to serving others is well-known. Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides underserved children the opportunity to learn through reading, stretches from the hills of Appalachia to the outback of Australia. In addition, she has been a champion of public health, most recently around the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Over the course of her career, Dolly Parton has been committed to enriching communities across the globe, and it’s a privilege to celebrate her dedication to service with the PEACE Through Music Award today,” Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement. “We are grateful to partner with the Department of State on the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, which represents an important part of the Academy’s work to support music people across the globe.”
“Dolly Parton represents the best of America – her excellence in music, her servant’s heart in giving back to those in need, and her unique ability to always bring people together,” said Lee Satterfield, Acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. “On behalf of the American people and Secretary of State [Antony] Blinken, we are honored to celebrate all of her contributions to people around the world with the PEACE Through Music Award in partnership with the Recording Academy.”
The PEACE Through Music Award is determined through a nomination process, with U.S. embassies around the globe submitting nominations to be considered by a selection committee created jointly by the State Department and Recording Academy. The committee includes Recording Academy members, U.S. Department of State leadership, music industry professionals, and academia. The recommended honorees are approved by the CEO of the Recording Academy, then presented to the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, who makes the final selection.
The award is part of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, which was announced by the Recording Academy and the State Department in 2023. The initiative is designed to elevate music as a global diplomatic platform that promotes peace, expands economic equity, elevates creative economies, ensures societal opportunity, and increases access to education worldwide. The initiative was developed pursuant to the PEACE Through Music Diplomacy Act, which was championed by the Recording Academy and its members in 2022 at its annual Grammys on the Hill and Music Advocacy Day events, resulting in the legislation being passed into law in December 2022.
Tonight’s Grammy Museum event also recognizes the first-ever cohort of the American Music Mentorship Program, which took place in Los Angeles from Oct. 15-25.
Country music superstar and dedicated Dodgers fan Brad Paisley is set to perform the national anthem for Game 1 of the 2024 World Series this Friday night, Oct. 25, at Dodger Stadium.
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It will mark his fourth time singing at the World Series, a fitting match for a lifelong Dodgers fan. This year’s showdown between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees will start with two games in L.A., followed by the next leg of the series in New York at Yankee Stadium, with Game 1 coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. ET on FOX, FOX Deportes, and ESPN Radio.
With 18 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, Paisley has had a major presence on country radio with songs like “We Danced” and “Mud on the Tires.” A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2001, Paisley has written 21 of his 25 No. 1 hits, and in 2008 became the first artist to achieve 10 consecutive Billboard Country Airplay No. 1 singles.
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His albums have similarly made a mark; Mud on the Tires and Time Well Wasted both claimed multiple weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, while his album Hits Alive stayed on the charts for over 135 weeks.
In addition to his chart success, Paisley has earned three Grammys, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 14 Country Music Association Awards, including an Entertainer of the Year award. His longstanding partnership with Carrie Underwood as co-hosts of the CMA Awards for 11 years made them a fan-favorite duo, highlighting his wit and charm alongside his formidable musical talent.
Beyond his accomplishments, Paisley’s deep connection to his fans has driven his success, with hits like “Freedom Was a Highway” and his current single, “Truck Still Works,” which has been climbing the charts and offering a preview of his next album.
The new album, which will likely come out in early 2025, will be his first full-length album since 2017 and his first since moving from Sony Nashville’s Arista imprint to Universal Music Group Nashville’s EMI Records.
“The project has some deeper things on it but, like the song itself, is really about creativity and nostalgia and you know the themes that you want to hear right now,” he told Billboard. “Sometimes, like in these times, it’s great to give people something they just want to turn up and takes them to a place where they feel good.”
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Mickey Guyton is more than a decade into her career, but she keeps forging new milestones. Just weeks ago, she launched her inaugural headlining tour, CMT on Tour Presents Mickey Guyton, which finds her performing in clubs and theaters spanning the country. She also just released her sophomore full-length album, House on Fire, on Capitol Records Nashville.
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In those performance rooms, as on House on Fire, Guyton is celebrating hard-earned joy, especially in a season that has been dotted with struggle, loss, heartbreak and change.
“I’ve worked so hard for it, and it’s been awesome getting to sing for my fans, not somebody else’s fans. Hearing them sing the words has been amazing,” she tells Billboard, noting that the first night of the tour, “I was a mess. It was just tears and love. All of the audiences have been so diverse and loving and it’s been a dream come true.”
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Over the past four years, Guyton has piled up accolades, including performing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 2022 and earning four Grammy nominations, including nominations for best country album (Remember Her Name) and best country solo performance (“Black Like Me,” “Remember Her Name”). She co-hosted the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards alongside Keith Urban, becoming the first Black woman to co-host the ceremony.
Her 2021 debut full-length album, Remember Her Name, featured soaring ballads and country constructions, pulling from her Texas childhood and her decade spent determinedly pursuing a career in Nashville, and included songs aimed at her experiences with racism (“Black Like Me”) and sexism (“What Are You Gonna Tell Her?”).
From the first songs on House on Fire, it’s clear that Guyton is no less truthful this time around, but her blend of pop, country, soul and gospel is decidedly upbeat, on songs like “My Side of the Country” and “Here With You.” Much of the album focuses on love in various forms — romantic love, self-love and the love she feels as a mother toward her son. Guyton wed California native Grant Savoy in 2017; they welcomed Grayson in 2021.
“It takes work,” she says of her seven-year marriage. “You have to choose that person every single day. You go on TikTok and all that and see people portraying love in a happily-ever-after way, but in my opinion the real ‘happily ever after’ is going through something hard and coming out stronger. We have fought through different things and have gotten stronger. I love him more than I could ever love a person.”
Some songs from the album skew older, such as “Little Man” and “I Still Do,” which Guyton wrote in 2018, early in her marriage when the couple went through therapy.
“We had a therapist, and we had a forgiveness session and any of our issues with each other, we haven’t brought them up again and we’ve been able to come out stronger on the other side,” she says.
She adds of those relationship-fortifying sessions, “I thought I was going to walk into these sessions, and he was going to be doing all the apologizing, and I was the one doing all the apologizing. I was able to see a lot of ways that I was wrong, and seeing this person that I love so much, we had just missed each other in communication that we loved each other so much, but we didn’t know how to communicate it.”
Guyton says their relationship journey has taken “a lot of understanding each other. I bring him structure. He’s a California wild child and growing up, he basically took care of himself, and I grew up in a very Bible Belt household, so he definitely opened my eyes, helping me be a bit more free in showing who I am. I think it’s helped shape my songwriting to be more open with who I am as a person.”
They are a few years shy of their 10th wedding anniversary, but Guyton says they don’t wait for anniversaries to celebrate each other.
“We’ll do cool things together and it not even be our anniversary. My husband grew up extremely poor. He didn’t really do birthdays. He lived in motels and stuff like that, so he’ll just randomly give me a gift or do something on just a regular day.”
At the same time, the title track was inspired by mental health, particularly on the lines such as “Can you love me when things are really bad/ When I’m in flames?” In February 2023, Guyton lost three people she was close to, including her grandmother.
“My grandmother passed away, which was really hard. And Twitch [Stephen “tWitch” Boss]—I sang at his funeral. I didn’t make it a public thing, and then another of my husband’s friends who I loved [passed away],” she says.
Guyton is open about the remedies that have aided her in her own journey for positive mental health, including using Zoloft. “I was grappling with intrusive thoughts and this kind of stuff I couldn’t get a grip on and once I started taking Zoloft, it changed everything for me. I didn’t even know I was operating in such a state of angst for a long time,” she says.
She’s also taken other steps to protect her joy and mental health. “I don’t Google myself. I don’t read comments, I don’t even go on my social media. I have someone doing that for me, to be honest. I just really needed to stay off of it. I have a Finsta, a fake Instagram, but it’s my real Insta and I just share things with my friends and family. I used to love crime shows, but I don’t watch those anymore. I’m trying to keep myself positive. I just need joyful things–cute animals, nail tutorials, makeup tutorials.”
The past year also brought shifts in her professional life. She left her longtime management home at Borman Entertainment and is now working with music executive Cameo Carlson (who previously worked at Borman).
“I love [Borman Entertainment’s] Gary [Borman] and [her former co-manager] Steve Moir,” Guyton says. “They were amazing managers and have the ability to do so many amazing things in artists’ careers. I just needed a little change. I felt I needed a woman to continue my career with and Cam was just right. We’ve known each other for a long time and it’s been amazing…she’s a hustler and that’s what I need.”
Guyton brought all of those experiences, struggles and life shifts into the writing rooms for the album, teaming again with several key writers from her previous album, including her “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” co-writers Emma Lee, Karen Kosowski and Victoria Banks and Tyler Hubbard, who worked on her Kane Brown collaboration “Nothing Compares to You,” as well as “My Side of the Country” and “Make It Me.”
“Nashville has the best songwriters in the world, without question — and I try to make every writer, new or familiar, feel like ‘Hey, if we don’t get it today, we can come back to it,’” she says. “ I intentionally want them to feel safe and not discounted as a songwriter, because sometimes you just don’t get it the first time. People are relaxed, they don’t feel the stress. In creating that environment, I will say that the songs come out so much better.”
Lately, Guyton has also been taking inspiration from pop newcomers, such as Teddy Swims, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.
“I feel like they are very literal in what they are saying. They talk about anxiety; they talk about all this stuff that we haven’t always talked about, and it’s motivated me to be more open and honest with my life.”
Another artist she admires is her fellow country artist and reigning CMA entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson, whom she’s championing to take home a second entertainer of the year honor at the CMA Awards on Nov. 20 (“I hope she wins. It would be nice to see a woman win again. That’s who I’m voting for,” Guyton says).
That openness extends beyond simply her music and into her career and performance choices. In August, Guyton performed at the Democratic National Convention, playing her song “All American.”
“If you felt joy watching it [at home], it was a hundred times more joyful in person — the excitement, the sea of people,” she says of being at the DNC. “There was every race, nationality. It was patriotic. There were flags and just people proud to be an American. I will never forget that moment. That was one of my most favorite moments that I have been a part of.”
This year’s DNC featured an elevated number of country and Americana artists, also including The Chicks, Maren Morris and Jason Isbell, while artists including Jason Aldean, Lee Greenwood and Brian Kelley took part in the Republican National Convention — an evolution in a genre whose artists have often been discouraged from voicing their political opinions for fear of alienating portions of their fanbases.
“It’s been this whole taboo thing, but at the end of the day we’re still citizens,” Guyton says. “I’m not telling you who you should vote for — I’m telling you who I’m voting for. But I don’t think it should be a crime, that you can’t support who you think is the best Presidential candidate. And especially as a Black American, my ancestors fought for me to even be able to vote. It is my duty.”
One of the reasons her song “All American” was chosen for the DNC was the joyous, positive aura the song embodies, and she names that same uplifting spirit as the centerpiece of her new album.
“I’m a fun, joyous person, and I wanted people to feel that,” she says. “I feel like people need to feel joy. I think so much has been going on in the world. I’m tired of the fear. I’m tired of the strife. I just want joy.”
A key part of CMA Award-winning Jelly Roll‘s story has been his rise from incarceration to becoming one of the most sought-after headlining artists out there today. Alongside his ascendant career, the Tennessee native has been dedicated to giving back to communities and encouraging those who are in jails and detention facilities.
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During Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken tour stop in Little Rock, Arkansas, Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO paid a visit to the local Pulaski County Detention Center, visiting the female inmates in the CSI Reentry program just prior to Jelly Roll’s concert at Simmons Bank Arena on Oct. 22. On Instagram, Bunnie XO posted a video from the trip, calling the visit “chicken soup for the soul.”
“I went to jail today, willingly,” Bunnie XO said over a video clip of moments from the couple’s visit to the jail, where they met with the women, offered encouragement and Jelly Roll even performed, leading the crowd in a version of his Billboard Country Airplay chart-topper “Save Me.”
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“I was so honored today to be able to tag along with my husband … look how sweet these babies are,” as the video showed Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO walking in to visit with the inmates, who greeted them with cheers and smiles. “Today was chicken soup for the soul, man. To be able to bring smiles to their faces in probably one of the lowest times of their lives means everything to me. They all had the best personalities.”
She also noted how Jelly Roll cracked jokes and kept the crowd laughing, as she said, “I have to say, man, the most attractive thing about my husband is his heart.”
As the video concluded with footage of Bunnie XO hugging the women, Bunnie XO said the visit inspired her as much as she hoped it had for the inmates. “I hope they know how much of an impact they had on me and how much they lifted my spirit also,” she said in the video clip. “I realize more and more lately that God has given us these platforms to give back, not to receive. And that’s what I plan on doing alongside my husband.”
According to the official Instagram page for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, Jelly Roll also took the oath of office to be an honorary deputy.
Up next, Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken Tour will visit St. Louis on Oct. 23 and Knoxville, Tenn. on Oct. 25. Jelly Roll also just added a new hometown show to the tour, when it visits Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 26.