Reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan is the only country artist routinely performing two-nights in many concert cities, so it comes as no surprise that a second show has now been added in Boston at Gillette Stadium on July 15th due to an overwhelming demand for tickets. The Boston concerts, July 15th and 16th, are the first of six stadium dates taking place this summer on Luke’s Kill The Lights Tour. Shows will feature openers Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton and Dustin Lynch.
Luke’s stadium concerts, in addition to Boston, include August 19, in Minneapolis at U.S. Bank Stadium, August 27th in Chicago at Wrigley Field, October 22nd in Arlington, Texas at AT&T Stadium, and closing out the tour on October 29th in Detroit at Ford Field.
The Kill The Lights Tour is in promotion of Luke’s Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. Kill The Lights contains three consecutive No. 1 singles, “Kick The Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” and the two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town.
Kill The Lights Tour:

3-8                   Las Cruces, NM           Pan American Center**

3-11                 Little Rock, AR             Verizon Arena **

3-12                 Bossier City, LA          CenturyLink Center **

4-7                   Charleston, WV           Charleston Civic Center Coliseum

4-8                   Baltimore, MD             Royal Farms Arena

4-9                   Syracuse, NY               Carrier Dome

4-14                 Toledo, OH                  The Huntington Center

4-15                 State College, PA         Bryce Jordan Center

4-16                 Charlottesville, VA      John Paul Jones Arena

4-20                 Missoula, MT               Adams Center

4-21                 Missoula, MT               Adams Center

4-22                 Bozeman, MT              Brick Breeden Fieldhouse

4-23                 Bozeman, MT              Brick Breeden Fieldhouse

4-29                 Concord, CA               Concord Pavilion

4-30                 Fresno, CA                  Save Mart Center

5-1                   Indio, CA                     Stagecoach

5-12                 Omaha, NE                  CenturyLink Center

5-13                 Wichita, KS                 INTRUST Bank Arena

5-14                 Oklahoma City, OK     Chesapeake Energy Arena

5-20                 Atlanta, GA                 Lakewood Amphitheater

5-21                 Atlanta, GA                 Lakewood Amphitheater

5-27                 Baton Rouge, LA         Bayou Country Superfest*

5-29                 Daytona Beach, FL      Country 500

6-2                   Holmdel, NJ                P.N.C. Bank Arts Center

6-3                   Atlantic City, NJ          Boardwalk Hall

6-4                   Hershey, PA                Hershey Park Stadium

6-9                   Virginia Beach, VA     Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach

6-10                 Washington, DC          Jiffy Lube Live

6-11                 Washington, DC          Jiffy Lube Live

6-17                 Oshkosh, WI                Country USA*

6-19                 Columbus, OH             Buckeye Country Superfest*

6-24                 Toronto, ON                Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

6-25                 Toronto, ON                Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

7-7                   Milwaukee, WI              Summerfest*

7-8                   Indianapolis, IN              Klipsch Music Center

7-9                   Indianapolis, IN             Klipsch Music Center

7-15                 Boston, MA                 Gillette Stadium***

7-16                 Boston, MA                 Gillette Stadium***

7-17                 Bangor, ME                 Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion

7-21                 Scranton, PA                The Pavilion at Montage Mountain

7-22                 Pittsburgh, PA              First Niagara Pavilion

7-23                 Pittsburgh, PA              First Niagara Pavilion

7-29                 Philadelphia, PA          BB&T Pavilion

7-30                 Philadelphia, PA          BB&T Pavilion

7-31                 Saratoga Springs, NY   Saratoga Performing Arts Center

8-11                 Cleveland, OH             Blossom Music Center

8-12                 Cleveland, OH             Blossom Music Center

8-13                 Cincinnati, OH             Riverbend Music Center

8-14                 Cincinnati, OH             Riverbend Music Center

8-19                 Minneapolis, MN        U.S. Bank Stadium

8-21                 Calgary, AB                 Country Thunder Calgary*

8-25                 Kansas CIty, MO        Providence Medical Center Amphitheater

8-26                 St. Louis, MO              Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

8-27                 Chicago, IL                 Wrigley Field

9-1                   Raleigh, NC                 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre

9-2                   Charlotte, NC               PNC Music Pavilion

9-9                   Denver, CO                 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park

9-10                 Denver, CO                 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park

9-15                 Sacramento, CA           Toyota Amphitheatre

9-16                 Mountain View, CA     Shoreline Amphitheatre

9-22                 Phoenix, AZ                Ak-Chin Pavilion

9-30                 Salt Lake City, UT       USANA Amphitheatre

10-1                 Salt Lake City, UT       USANA Amphitheatre

10-22               Arlington, TX             AT&T Stadium ***

10-29               Detroit, MI                 Ford Field
Dates and Cities subject to change

*festival date

**no Little Big Town

***Chris Stapleton joins

Billy Currington kicked off the Summer Forever Tour in his home state of Georgia and totally wowed the crowd with the Ray Charles‘ classic “Georgia On My Mind.”

Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and Sam Hunt, as well as Kelsea Ballerini, have been announced as the latest performers for this year’s ACM Awards. They join previously announced performers Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Cam and Florida Georgia Line.

This year, Eric Church is nominated for six ACM Awards (including Entertainer of the Year), and Dierks Bentley and Sam Hunt each received two nominations. Additional acts and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.

The 51st Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Dierks and Luke Bryan, will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

The guys of Buck Commander decided it was a good idea to prank their fellow member, Luke Bryan, on a recent visit to a deerstand. They planted a live rat in one of the guy’s backpacks and asked Luke to reach into it for some supplies. While it freaked him out a bit, he didn’t flip out, like most folks. Check out the video below.

Luke is currently prepping for his ACM Awards hosting gig next month, along with good friend Dierks Bentley. The 51st Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

Brothers Osborne celebrated their recent chart topping success for “Stay a Little Longer” with a party in their honor at a local Nashville hotspot on Tuesday afternoon (March 1st). The guys scored their first No. 1 this year, and it’s been a long, but fruitful, journey for the pair.

“I think one of the things that separates people that are in the music industry or the entertainment industry from a lot of other people isn’t necessarily the fact that we’re more talented or we’re luckier or anything like that, we just keep showing up. And that’s the hardest thing. That’s the hardest thing,” says John Osborne. “You’ve got to keep showing up and you’ve got to keep getting turned down over and over and over and over. And it’s about getting back up and just wiping the dust off yourself and going back in there and getting denied again, and then you do it again and again and again, because there’s something inside you compelling you to do that.”

The Delaware duo, who just released their new single, “21 Summer,” is nominated for two ACM Awards – Vocal Duo and New Vocal Duo of the Year. The 51st Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

Little Big Town will appear on CBS’ The Talk on Wednesday at 2pm ET.

Charles Kelley has a pair of appearances on Wednesday, including a performance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (11:35pm ET).

Brothers Osborne earns the No.1 most added song at Country radio this week with their new single “21 Summer”. Following the duo’s RIAA Gold-Certified and GRAMMY-nominated No.1 hit “Stay A Little Longer,” John and TJ Osborne co-wrote “21 Summer” with Craig Wiseman. The breezy tune is featured on their debut album, Pawn Shop, which the Associated Press notes “establishes a slyly funky style of their own.” Praised by the Dallas Observer as “good old-fashioned country with incredible appeal for the mainstream,” Pawn Shop debuted at No.3 on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart and No.10 on the Billboard Top Albums Chart.

 Nominated for both Vocal Duo of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year at next month’s 51^st Annual ACM Awards, Brothers Osborne recently wrapped up touring with Jon Pardi as part of the All Time High Tour. This summer, fans can catch the Maryland natives on Miranda Lambert’s Keeper of the Flame Tour along with Kip Moore.

 For a full list of tour dates, news, images and more, visit www.BrothersOsborne.com

On February 24^th, 2001 a little known country music singer scored his first #1 song with his third single “But For The Grace of God,” from his self-titled debut album.  Fifteen years later, almost to the day, the four-time Grammy Award winner and multiple ACM nominee celebrates another #1, only this time setting not only a new career high, but an historic mark on Billboard’s All-Time Country Airplay Chart.

“Break on Me,” the second release from Keith Urban’s upcoming album ripCORD, marks his 19^th #1 song on Billboard’s All-Time Country Airplay Chart.  This moves Urban into #8 all-time, moving him ahead of Garth Brooks.  The song also marks Urban’s 20^th #1 and his 4^th consecutive (dating back to 2013’s “We Were Us”) on the Aircheck/Mediabase Country Chart.

“Music for me has always been about expression and connection,” said Urban.  “So to have all of these songs connect in the way they have hits me on so many different levels.  I’m constantly inspired by the passionate support I get from all of the fans, my friends at country radio and of course Capitol Records.  “Break On Me” holds a very special place in my heart for personal reasons, and for the incredible timing of it hitting number one almost to the day of my very first number one! Truly divine.”

 Urban recently announced his ‘ripCORD World Tour 2016” with Brett Eldredge and special guest Maren Morris.  It gets underway on June 2^nd in Kansas City, and thus far will play more than 50 shows in amphitheaters and arenas throughout the U.S.  ‘ripCORD World Tour 2016’ will not only see Urban’s first headlining shows ever in Youngstown (Ohio), Lincoln (Nebraska), Orange Beach (Alabama), Bloomington (Illinois) and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina), but will see his return to several cities in which he hasn’t appeared in three years, including Tampa (Florida), Kansas City (Missouri), Lake Tahoe (Nevada) and West Palm Beach (Florida).

 “Break On Me” is the follow up to “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”, second #1 song from ripCORD.

For more official keith urban news and information go to www.keithurban.net or follow him on www.facebook.com/keithurban or @keithurban.

Luke Bryan will team up with Jason Derulo…again…when they hit the stage together this time for a new installment of CMT Crossroads, premiering this summer. As you may remember, Luke joined Jason…sort of…when he taped himself through the Smule app singing on Jason’s super hit “Want to Want Me,” which received several million views on YouTube (check out the video below). The two will trade vocals on each other’s songs

They’re one of four pairs that were announced today by CMT. Charles Kelley and Rob Thomas will share the stage for an episode later this spring; as well as Thomas Rhett with Nick Jonas and Jennifer Nettles with Cheap Trick.

Luke is first looking to next month as he prepares to host the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards with Dierks Bentley. The show will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd on CBS.

Charles is making his way up the country charts with his single, “The Driver,” which is from his new solo album of the same title, available now.

Canaan Smith is hitting his stride with his latest single, “Hole in a Bottle,” as well as his live show. He’s on the road with Brantley Gilbert on The Blackout Tour, which also features newcomer Michael Ray. In a recent review on Kentucky.com, Canaan was said to have “the best combination of songs, swagger and showmanship.” It went on to say Canaan “looked and sounded more like a country artist than anyone who took the stage with songs like One of Those and his hits Love You Like That and Hole in the Bottle. But his unexpected cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ smash Iris proved to be an impressive vocal showcase for Smith and the highlight of the set, inspiring a sing-along that was the biggest of the night. Based on his performance, don’t be surprised if Smith comes back to Rupp in a few years with a few openers of his own.”

The Virginia native’s debut album, Bronco, is available now.