The Platinum-selling, GRAMMY Award-winning Little Big Town scored their latest No. 1 single, “Better Man,” which is also their fastest-rising radio single to date, on both the Billboard and MediaBase country airplay charts this week. The Taylor Swift-penned tune has over 35 million combined streams and nearly 500,000 digital downloads. Additionally, Little Big Town’s previous album Pain Killer, featuring the history-making “Girl Crush,” is now RIAA-certified Platinum.

 The band releases its seventh studio album The Breaker this Friday, February 24th on Capitol Records Nashville.

The band kicks off a week of media appearances starting with performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this Thursday (2/23) and the TODAY Show this Friday (2/24) before returning to Nashville for the first of nine Ryman Auditorium residency dates – “Little Big Town at the Mother Church” –on Friday evening (2/24). The reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year will also perform on Ellen Feb. 28 and will take their award-winning harmonies to The Talk, airing March 14.

Little Big Town, consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman and Jimi Westbrook, recently earned its 23^rd career Academy of Country Music award nomination with a nod for Vocal Group of the Year. The group was awarded the same category last year along with Vocal Event of the Year and the ACM’s prestigious Crystal Milestone Award. 

Fans can still pre-order The Breaker and instantly receive “Better Man” along with album tracks “Happy People,” “We Went to the Beach” and “When Someone Stops Loving You.” To pre-order The Breaker, visitHttp://umgn.us/LBTBREAKER .

For more information on Little Big Town, The Breaker and “Little Big Town at the Mother Church,” visit www.LittleBigTown.com.

Audio / Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook talks about “Better Man,” the first single from their new album, The Breaker.

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LBT (Better Man) OC: …beautifully. :46
“This song, first of all, I love the melody. The chorus just kind of soars when it comes in and it feels like one of those classic country melodies on a chorus that we just fell in love from the first time we heard it. The message, I think everybody can identify with the sentiment of this song. A lot of times in life, there’s a lot of things you have to walk away from that don’t necessarily feel like the greatest decision to have to make in your life, but sometimes you just know that it’s time to move on and no matter how hard that is, you just know that down in your heart that it’s time to do that. Those are very difficult decisions that we face sometimes in our lives, and I think this song talks about that beautifully.”