Country
Page: 91
Post Malone, who will release his debut country album F-1 Trillion on Aug. 16, is set to take his country show on the road this fall. “I love y’all so very much and I’m so excited to get out and play new music for you,” the musician said in a statement. The “I Had Some […]
Post Malone is bringing his biggest hits and new music to Nashville next month.
One month before the release of his debut country album F-1 Trillion on Aug. 16, Post Malone will give Music City a preview of the album when he teams with Bud Light for “A Night in Nashville,” on July 16, an evening of music for fans 21 and older which will feature Post Malone performing not only new music from the album, but also many of his biggest hits.
“Bud Light has rocked with me for a while now, and I really can’t thank them enough for all the love and support they’ve shown through the years,” Post Malone said in a statement. “July 16th is going to be a kick ass night and I can’t wait to share what I’ve been working on with everybody.”
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Fans can direct message Bud Light’s Instagram or Facebook “A Night in Nashville” for information on the process for entering for a chance to win tickets for the show via Bud Light’s Easy Wishes platform.
Trending on Billboard
“Post Malone is the hottest artist in the world and a loyal Bud Light partner and true fan of the brand. Bud Light has been so lucky to have a front row seat to his remarkable career over the years and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this new era with him,” Todd Allen, Sr VP, Marketing for Bud Light, said in a statement. “Bud Light is bringing the best of country music to fans all summer long and ‘A Night in Nashville’ is the epitome of a true once-in-a-lifetime country experience we know fans will never forget.”
Post Malone just revealed the official music video to his new collaboration with Blake Shelton, “Pour Me a Drink,” and has spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with his Morgan Wallen collaboration “I Had Some Help.” The song also spent five weeks atop the Hot 100, marking Post Malone’s sixth Hot 100 chart-topping hit.
The Wallen and Shelton collabs aren’t Post Malone’s only hit collaborations this year; his song “Fortnight” with Taylor Swift spent two weeks atop the Hot 100 earlier this year, while his collaboration with Beyonce, “Levii’s Jeans,” reached No. 16 on the Hot 100.
Post Malone also recently made his debut performance at revered Nashville venue The Bluebird Cafe, where he performed in the round alongside reigning CMA and ACM entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson and hit songwriter Ashley Gorley, as well as with guest Ernest.
Shaboozey is hitting the road this fall. The DMV native announced the Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going Tour on Monday (June 24) in support of his album of the same. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” singer will be making […]
This week’s crop of fresh tunes includes a Post Malone/Blake Shelton collaboration, as well as a sterling barroom country collab from Ella Langley and Riley Green, and a bluesy, heartache-fueled song from newcomer Kashus Culpepper.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Post Malone and Blake Shelton, “Pour Me a Drink”
Trending on Billboard
[embedded content]
Post Malone currently continues his reign atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with his Morgan Wallen duet “I Had Some Help,” and from the sound of his new party-ready Blake Shelton collaboration, he looks ready to repeat his chart-topping trajectory. This radio-friendly track finds him ready to shrug off various tribulations, from work stresses to speeding tickets, in favor of Friday night plans with a barstool and a stiff drink. Their voices pair mightily, and it doesn’t hurt that, amid country music’s current nostalgia tilt, the song feels reminiscent of Shelton’s mid-aughts songs that lit up country radio. “Pour Me a Drink” is from Post Malone’s debut country album, F-1 Trillion, out Aug. 16.
Kashus Culpepper, “After Me?”
[embedded content]
Newly signed to Big Loud Records, this Alabama native meshes blistering guitar and eruptive vocal talent on this bruising testimonial, as he sings of helplessly watching his ex-lover wed someone else. He inhabits a country-blues amalgam in similar musical terrain as country/Americana stalwarts such as Marcus King and Chris Stapleton, while infusing his work with his signature muscular, sandpapery growl. In the process, he towers in a lengthy list of artists finding enduring success with sounds expanding beyond the boundaries of mainstream country.
Ella Langley and Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me”
[embedded content]
Langley takes the lead on this flirtatious barroom situation, launching into a spoken-word verse about spotting a potential lover on the dance floor and boldly stepping up to him and making a coquettish offer. Green follows by eying the situation from a male perspective, before Langley takes the lead again, advising listeners to take their own romantic risks. Winding guitar and saloon-tinged piano further fuel the song’s barroom vibe, while Langley and Green’s country drawls, confidence and humor make for an ace pairing. Green and Langley also wrote this country ditty with Aaron Raitiere.
Chase Rice, “Go Down Singin’”
[embedded content]
In 2023, Rice reminded listeners that his songwriting capabilities extend beyond penning massive radio hits such as the Florida Georgia Line hit “Cruise” or his own “Eyes on You” when he released his remarkably introspective project I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go to Hell. Now newly independent after previously being signed with BBR Music Group, he distills his journey from his early days in Nashville, to finding success, to setting out on his own, into just over three minutes of detailed story arc. He traces his journey and the years he “left blood and sweat and tears up and down 16th Avenue,” before turning to his decision to strike out on his own as an independent artist, offering a clear-eye comprehension of the risks and rewards, but as he sings, “If I go down, at least I go down singin’.”
Tina Adair, “Let It Fall”
[embedded content]
Following her time spent as part of bluegrass family band The Adairs, in addition to issuing solo albums and previously co-founding bluegrass group Sister Sadie, Tina Adair returns with her latest from her upcoming solo set. This Sarah Siskind-written song showcases Adair’s dynamic, gospel-soaked vocal inflections, while underpinning her versatile, powerful vocals with churning instrumentation from guitarists Cody Kilby and Pat McGrath, banjoist Scott Vestal, mandolinist Seth Taylor, fiddler Ron Stewart, reso-guitarist Rob Ickes and bassist Byron House, along with tightly-woven harmonies from Wes Hightower. Her upcoming album follows 2023’s Here Within My Heart.
Priscilla Block, “Bad Guy”
[embedded content]
“Just About Over You” hitmaker Block turns the tables on typical heartbreak anthems with this new song, acknowledging that sometimes, “the dagger gets thrown by painted nails.” Block has a flair for a well-crafted turn of a phrase, and here she muses that there are times when the relational offender “is a bombshell blue-eyed, do you dirty blonde.” This uptempo track also makes use of Block’s polished yet conversational vocal tone. Block teamed with David Garcia, Cole Taylor and Trannie Anderson on the song, which is from Block’s new five-song EP, PB2.
Beyoncé is reflecting on the cultural impact she made with her country album, Cowboy Carter.
“When you are breaking down barriers, not everyone is ready and open for a shift. But when I see Shaboozey tearing the charts up and all the beautiful female country singers flying to new heights, inspiring the world, that is exactly what motivates me,” the superstar shared in a lengthy statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
“There was a time in my life when charts and sales excited and motivated me. Once you have challenged yourself and poured every ounce of your life, your pain, your growth and your dreams into your art, it’s impossible to go backward,” she continued. “I’m very grateful and humbled for the extraordinary success of the new album.”
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
The album did incredibly well on the charts. Cowboy Carter also launches at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Americana/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts. She’s the first Black woman ever to have led the Top Country Albums list, dating to its January 1964 inception.
Bey concluded, “I’m honored to introduce so many people to the roots of so many genres. I’m so thrilled that my fans trusted me. The music industry gatekeepers are not happy about the idea of bending genres, especially coming from a Black artist and definitely not a woman.”
Trending on Billboard
Bey introduced her Cowboy Carter era with a pair of country singles — “16 Carriages” and Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Texas Hold ‘Em” — released during the 2024 Super Bowl. The 27-track album features a whopping list of star-studded collaborators, including Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Tanner Adell, Willie Jones, Raphael Saadiq, The-Dream, Shaboozey and more.
“This album has been over five years in the making,” Bey wrote of the project on Instagram earlier this month. “It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history.”
Luke Combs is opening up about what he calls “one of the best and one of the worst days in my life” during an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1 that aired Thursday (June 20).
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
In August 2023, Combs and his wife Nicole celebrated the birth of their second son, Beau (the couple are also parents to 2-year-old son Tex), but the two-time CMA entertainer of the year winner wasn’t able to be present for the birth of his second child due to being on tour in Australia.
“I’ll never forget the craziest day, probably, in my life, close to it,” Combs told Lowe. “One of the best and one of the worst days in my life at the same time was, interestingly enough, and it’s so hard to wrap my mind around it,” Combs said, before detailing the day his son Beau was born.
Trending on Billboard
“So it’s Aug. 16. I wake up in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia, in a hotel room, and we’re on tour in Australia. I probably woke up at around 8 a.m. or something like that — Australia time — and I had a text from my wife and it said, ‘I’m so sorry, I really tried to not have the baby while you’re gone.’ And God, dude, it sucked.”
Combs grew emotional as he added, “It sucked because he was born on Aug. 15 in the States. I got to see him be born, which was awesome,” presumably implying that he watched via a video call. “He wasn’t born yet, but my wife went, she texted me on the way to the hospital, and he was two and a half weeks early and I was supposed to be home and I wasn’t. That was real hard to do and I haven’t really told anybody that.”
He added that two of his close friends also work as his guitar tech and personal assistant, so he had a support system. “God, it was a hard day, but I was so lucky that a lot of my closest friends now work for me. And so I had a really great support system. “I was able to be with them through that whole thing.”
Though Combs couldn’t be there in person, he said his wife also had “a really great support system” by her side at home in the States.
“Luckily, my mother-in-law came up for the month while I was gone, because, obviously, we have a 1-year-old [Tex turned 2 on June 19] and my wife is essentially nine months pregnant at the time, so thank goodness she was there. My sister-in-law lives in Nashville as well. So my wife had a really great support system with her for that experience, which I’m very thankful for. That made it a lot easier. I had people with me, everything went great. No hiccups in the process or anything.”
He called the day “a defining moment in my life, for sure,” and said that the day highlights some of the less-than-rosy parts of being in the music industry. “The leaving, and your schedule’s crazy and you’re traveling all over the place. It’s not like I can drop everything I’m doing and fly 18 hours home.”
While his newly released album Fathers & Sons includes songs looking at fatherhood from different perspectives, he said, “I didn’t cover that too much in this album because it’s really hard for me to deal with.”
The dozen-song project includes the songs “The Man He Sees in Me” and “Remember Him That Way.”
[embedded content]
On June 22, 1974, Waylon Jennings’ “This Time” became his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. It was released as the lead single from his same-named LP, which he produced with Willie Nelson.
With “This Time,” which Jennings solely wrote, he achieved his first of 16 Hot Country Songs leaders (with his 31st entry on the chart). He notched his first of 53 top 10s with “(That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me,” which reached No. 9 in 1966. Among his No. 1 total, “Highwayman” – by Jennings, Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson – led in 1985.
Jennings was born June 15, 1937, in Littlefield, Texas. His storied career comprised an on-air stint at KLLL Lubbock, Texas, and his famed run as the balladeer on CBS’ The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979-85.
Trending on Billboard
In 1959, Jennings played bass in Buddy Holly’s band on his Winter Dance Party Tour. He performed with Holly during the latter’s final show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly, J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens all perished in a plane crash that Feb. 3 following the concert.
Jennings, who played a big part in country music’s Outlaw movement of the 1970s, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He died in February 2002 at age 64 at his home in Mesa, Ariz., after a long battle with diabetes.
Jennings’ legacy is in vogue in 2024. His rebel ways were one of the most talked about elements in the recently released Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, which chronicles his walking out of the recording of USA for Africa’s megahit, and four-week 1985 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “We Are the World.”
“Waylon in ’75,” a track on Chayce Beckham’s debut album, Bad for Me, is just one example of today’s artists paying homage to him, Meanwhile, Shooter Jennings, the 45-year-old son of Jennings and Jessi Colter (who married in 1969), has announced that he’s uncovered unreleased music from his father and plans on releasing it in 2025.
Established pop star Post Malone scores his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, ascends from No. 2 in just its seventh week on the survey (dated June 29).
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
The breakup song increased by 6% to 31.5 million audience impressions June 14-20, according to Luminate. Post Malone and Wallen wrote it with Louis Bell, Ernest, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Ryan Vojtesa and Chandler Paul Walters.
[embedded content]
“Help” wraps the fastest trip to No. 1 on Country Airplay since Garth Brooks’ “More Than a Memory” became the only hit in the survey’s 34-year history to arrive at the summit, in September 2007. Among songs that rose to No. 1 from another rank, “Help” completes the speediest sprint since Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” reached the top in its seventh week in July 2004. Notably, the average rise to No. 1 this decade is 33 chart weeks.
Trending on Billboard
Post Malone logged one prior Country Airplay entry, as featured on an update of Joe Diffie’s “Pickup Man,” which hit No. 44 in January. (The original dominated for four frames beginning in December 1994.)
Post Malone is set to release his upcoming album, F-1 Trillion, Aug. 16, as he revealed via a billboard in Nashville Tuesday (June 18).
Meanwhile, “Help” grants Wallen his 13th Country Airplay No. 1. He’s charting an additional song in the list’s upper reaches: “Cowgirls,” featuring Ernest, hops 6-3 (26.3 million, up 16%).
“Help” has spent five weeks running at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs (through the charts dated June 22).
Young’s ‘Young’ Is Top 10
Chris Young achieves his 18th Country Airplay top 10 as “Young Love & Saturday Nights” pushes 11-10 (18.9 million, up 5%). The song, which he co-penned, is his first to hit the tier since his team-up with Mitchell Tenpenny, “At the End of the Bar,” which became Young’s 11th No. 1, for a week in August 2022.
Post Malone’s country era isn’t slowing down.
The “Rockstar” singer and rapper joins forces with country star Blake Shelton on “Pour Me a Drink” (via Mercury Records/Republic), the latest cut from Posty’s forthcoming country album, F-1 Trillion.
Dropping at midnight, “Drink” is a party number, a twangy-ode to imbiding with buddies and burying mistakes.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
On it, Shelton rues: “Guess I really went and messed it up again Now, my baby’s goner than the Tulsa wind/ Judgin’ by the stone-sober state I’m in/ Need to crack one wide open.” In the chorus, Malone sings, “Somebody pour me a drink, somebody bum me a smoke/ I’m ’bout to get on a buzz, I’m ’bout to get on a roll.”
Posty and Shelton premiered the song for CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium, footage of which will air as a package next Tuesday, June 25 on ABC.
Trending on Billboard
Malone is enjoying life at the penthouse with “I Had Some Help,” his country team-up with Morgan Wallen which has now logged five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
That song is Malone’s sixth leader and Wallen’s second, and the first to collect at least its first five weeks on the chart at No. 1 since Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” spent its first six weeks on the survey at the summit in January-March 2023. “I Had Some Help” is also the first smash to reign over the chart for five consecutive weeks in nearly a year.
F-1 Trillion is slated for release Aug. 16, and is Posty’s sixth studio album, following 2023’s Austin. Two of those LPs have hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The artwork for the forthcoming LP features a baby blue pickup truck performing a miracle on a lake. See below.
Malone’s genre-hopping activities of late have included a performance on the Academy of Country Music Awards in May, performing a song called “Never Love You Again;” a spot at the Stagecoach Festival 2024 in Indio, CA; and a performance earlier in the week at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, where he was joined by Lainey Wilson, Ernest, and multi-hit songwriter Ashley Gorley for an industry-only writers’ round at the famed songwriters venue.
Stream “Pour Me a Drink” below.
[embedded content]
Maren Morris has joined forces with Julia Michaels for the new song, “Cut!”.
The song is featured on Morris’s upcoming five-song project Intermission, which bows Aug. 2.
Earlier this week, Morris alerted fans to the upcoming collab by posting a photo on social media. The pic featured Morris and Michaels in a kitchen, with Michaels seated at a table and Morris standing atop the table and wielding a chainsaw.
“Can’t wait to cathartically scream f–k at the top of our lungs together,” Morris captioned the photo.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
This week, Morris also shared the track listing for Intermission: “Cut!,” “I Hope I Never Fall in Love,” “Push Me Over,” “Because, Of Course,” and “This is How a Woman Leaves.”
Last year, the Grammy winner released a pair of songs entitled “The Tree” and “Get the Hell Out of Here.” The new five-song set follows her 2022 album Humble Quest and her 2019 CMA album of the year-winning project GIRL.
Trending on Billboard
Michaels and Morris have previously collaborated, as they are among the co-writers on the song “Circles Around This Town” from Morris’ Humble Quest project. “Circles Around This Town” earned Grammy nominations for best country solo performance and best country song.
In addition to her own hits including her 2017 debut solo single “Issues,” Michaels is a writer on hit songs for Demi Lovato, Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez and more. Her 2020 collaboration with JP Saxe, “If The World Was Ending,” picked up a Grammy nomination for song of the year.
Morris is well-known for her thoughtful collaborations throughout her career, including her work as part of the music collective The Highwomen, as well as collaborations with Taylor Swift (“You All Over Me”), Zedd (“The Middle”), Brandi Carlile (“Common”), and Vince Gill (“Dear Hate”).
Listen to “Cut!” below:
[embedded content]