Parker McCollum, the newly-crowned ACM New Male Artist of the Year, is releasing a cover of the George Strait classic, “Carrying Your Love With Me.” Listen HERE. The Texas native has called Strait one of his biggest influences.

“Impossible to truly do this song justice but when I got the opportunity to try, I just couldn’t pass it up,” says McCollum.

This has been a big week for Parker – attending his very first ACM Awards show and taking home the trophy for New Male Artist of the Year at the ceremony held in Las Vegas before taking the stage to perform his hit song, “Pretty Heart.” Tomorrow night, he’ll be making a lifelong dream come true as he makes his RODEOHOUSTON debut to a sold-out crowd.

Parker’s debut MCA Nashville album Gold Chain Cowboy was the highest first week debut album of 2021 and his platinum single “Pretty Heart” was the only debut single to ship to radio and reach #1 in 2020.  With over 1 billion LTD domestic streams, he was named this year’s ACM New Male Artist of the Year.  Parker also has been named an ‘Artist to Watch’ by Rolling Stone, Billboard, SiriusXM, CMT, RIAA, and more, as well as MusicRow’s 2021 Breakout Artist of the Year and an all-genre Apple Up Next Artist for 2021. McCollum sold out over 40 shows in 2021.

Parker is closing in on the top of the country charts with his latest single, “To Be Loved By You.”

For a list of McCollum’s upcoming tour dates, visit HERE.

For more information, visit ParkerMcCollum.com

Luke Bryan will never rest on his past achievements. He’s always working, always trying to see what else he can do in his career. The five-time Entertainer of the Year has recently completed his first round of dates of his Las Vegas residency at Resorts World, he’s working on American Idol and he has his upcoming Raised Up Right headlining tour later this summer.

“2022’s been real, real busy,” says Luke. “I’ve done my first month at Resorts World, my first-ever Vegas headlining show, and I learned that I can live one month in Vegas and actually live to see the other side. Then we’re coming back in June, and then we’ve got the Raised (Up Right) Tour, and I’ve got Mitchell Tenpenny, Riley Green and I, we’re going out for dates in the summer, and I’ve still got a lot of Idol to film, and we’ve got the live shows, so real, real busy. Vacation at some point, very soon.”

Fresh off two performances on the ACM Awards and his headlining date at the Houston Rodeo, Luke is currently making his way up the country charts with “Up.”

Catch Luke on ABC’s American Idol for more auditions of the nation’s next big talent on Sunday (March 13th) beginning at 8pm ET.

Coming off of his win as ACM New Male Artist of the Year, Parker McCollum is preparing to hit one of the biggest stages of his career — the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He’s set to headline the Houston Rodeo on Saturday (March 12th), and he’s been looking forward to this achievement since he was a little kid.

“It’s something I was thinking about and really was the main thing I was working towards since I was a kid,” says Parker. “The biggest thing I ever thought I’d ever be able to do was headline the Houston Rodeo. I thought about it every single day since I was a little kid. I played a lot of really hole-in-the-wall bars, really, sold no tickets at shows, rode around for years in a van, all the while thinking and pushing myself to keep going, hoping that I get to play the Houston Rodeo one day. That’s the pinnacle for me. So, the fact that we’re going to get to do it on March 12th is, I don’t know, it’s just crazy to even be able to say that I’m gonna do it.”

Parker is currently closing in on the top spot of the country charts with his latest single, “To Be Loved By You.”

There were lots of big wins at Monday night’s ACM Awards, and some incredible and moving performances.

Chris Stapleton won his third ACM Male Artist of the Year, which is his 13th ACM Award overall. He also performed a fiery, moving and pulse-inducing performance of “Watch You Burn,” which he wrote with Mike Henderson after the devastating mass shooting at the Route 91 festival in 2017. The performance was introduced by Jason Aldean, who was on stage performing at the festival when the shooting took place.

Carrie Underwood picked up an ACM Award for Single of the Year with Jason Aldean for “If I Didn’t Love You,” which they turned in a spectacular performance of during the show. This makes her 16th overall ACM win.

This deserved its own post! I don’t need wings to fly… ❤️❤️❤️ @ACMawards @Jason_Aldean @PrimeVideo #ACMawards

📸: Kevin Winter / Getty Images for ACM pic.twitter.com/Ffixj5pGVi

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) March 8, 2022

Brothers Osborne’s win for Duo of the Year marks their third win in the category, and sixth win overall. John and TJ performed twice on the show. First, they played the title track from their latest album, Skeletons, complete with light up outfits. They also closed the show performing a cool version of “These Boots Were Made For Walking” with Brittney Spencer.

Parker McCollum was named New Male Artist of the Year, his first-ever ACM Award. He also performed his No. 1 “Pretty Heart.”

Eric Church performed a 16-song medley on the show, which featured Ashley McBryde and included songs such as “How Bout You,” “Guys Like Me,” “Love Your Love The Most,” “Smoke A Little Smoke,” “Drink In My Hand,” “Springsteen,” “Talladega,” “Give Me Back My Hometown,” “Mr. Misunderstood,” “Round Here Buzz,” “Record Year,” “Desperate Man,” “Some Of It,” “Hell Of A View,” and his latest single “Heart On Fire.”

In case you missed it, Eric opened last night's @ACMawards with a 16-song medley! Watch the full performance now and watch the full show on demand on @PrimeVideo here: https://t.co/iEPl4afJSw. pic.twitter.com/SHLt5nCFLM

— Eric Church (@ericchurch) March 8, 2022

Luke Bryan performed his latest single, “Up,” before joining Jordan Davis on the two-week No. 1 “Buy Dirt.”

Fans can relive all of the excitement of the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony now on Prime Video and on IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service on March 8th beginning at 8pm ET/5pm PT.

CMA and ACM Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Jon Pardi sold out the famed RodeoHouston in his debut appearance on Saturday night, selling 72,859 tickets – the highest paid attendance of the year so far. Pardi was supposed to perform in 2020 until COVID cut that season short and 2021’s rodeo was canceled. After a long two years, Pardi was finally able to make his debut on the rotating stage and posted this recap on his Instagram of the milestone evening. “It only took us two years, but we finally made it,” Pardi told the crowd.

“We might have just witnessed one of the best debuts at RodeoHouston ever.” – Houston Press

“He takes a workmanlike approach to performing, his traditional sound is a welcome contrast to the pop-country spectacle of other acts.” – Houston Chronicle

“Pardi transformed NRG Stadium into the world’s largest honky tonk.” – Houston Chronicle

Pardi’s RodeoHouston debut comes after his “Ain’t Always the Cowboy Tour” announcement last month and first look at his highly anticipated upcoming studio release with “Last Night Lonely.” The fiddle and steel-drenched track further etches Pardi’s “long-lasting mark on the genre” and is “country all the way, delivered with a charming drawl, toe-tapping rhythm and some dandy fiddle-and-guitar accompaniment. Hit bound” (MusicRow). This follows Pardi’s critically acclaimed third album, Heartache Medication. Nominated for Album of the Year by both the CMA and ACM, Heartache Medication was named one of Rolling Stone’s Best Country Albums of 2019 while standing as the only country album on the Los Angeles Times “Best Albums of the Year” list. With an impressive ability to carve his own path proving “the kind of country music multiple generations came to know, and love can still work on a mass scale” (Variety), Pardi’s instantly identifiable twang, fiddle, and steel guitars “apply new ideas to country’s old sounds” (Los Angeles Times). Lauded as a “hero in the making” (Variety), he continues to “bring authenticity back into Country music” (People).

For more information visit jonpardi.com.

Priscilla Block brought her debut album, Welcome To The Block Party, to life in the recording studio, and she loved every single minute of the entire process.

“I absolutely love being in the studio,” says Priscilla. “You know, when I wrote these songs (for Welcome To The Block Party), I have this thing in my head where I envision how it sounds. So, it’s so cool to get there and see the musicians playing along with the song and really seeing it come to life fully. It was so fun being in the recording process with some of my best guy friends. We all got to collab on this project and make it exactly what it is today.”

Priscilla, who recently released her new single “My Bar,” will host the ACM Red Carpet on Monday (March 7th) and then head across the pond to perform during the three-night C2C Festival beginning March 11th in London, followed by stops in Glasgow (March 12th) and Dublin (March 13th).

Luke Bryan just posted a behind-the-scenes look of his sold-out seventh Crash My Playa event, which featured performances by Darius Rucker, Jordan Davis, Jason Aldean and Dustin Lynch, among others. Check it out below.

#CrashMyPlaya Year 7. Still can’t believe it. pic.twitter.com/1kROHekK61

— Luke Bryan (@lukebryan) March 6, 2022

The reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year, who will peform at Monday night’s (March 7th) ACM Awards, is making his way “Up” the country charts with his latest single, “Up.”

The newly crowned ACM New Male Artist of the Year Parker McCollum is poised to enter the top spot on the country charts with his latest song, “To Be Loved By You.” The Texas native says he can tangibly feel the electricity from the crowd right before he performs the song in concert.

“It’s really cool, because it’s right before…in our set right now right before we play ‘To Be Loved By You,’ all the lights, it goes completely black and the lights are timed on to hit with that guitar riff. Ba da ba da ba and so, I just turn around and I have my back to the crowd and the lights hit and I can just feel – I don’t even have to look at it – I can just feel the energy of them waiting on that song the whole night,” says Parker. “As a songwriter, there’s no better feeling in the world than to know that they’re waiting on one that you wrote.”

You can catch Parker performing on Monday night’s (March 7th) ACM Awards on Amazon Prime.

Parker McCollum has been named the ACM New Male Artist of the Year! He’s set to perform at this year’s ceremony, taking place on Monday (March 7th) at 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT on Amazon Prime. Parker has been named an “Artist to Watch” by Billboard, HITS magazine, Rolling Stone, CMT, Opry NextStage, SiriusXM, RIAA, and more. He released his major label debut album, Gold Chain Cowboy, last year, expanding on the success of his widely praised Hollywood Gold EP, which became the top-selling debut country EP of 2020.

Miranda Lambert surprised him with the announcement. Watch below.

As previously announced, additional confirmed performers include Dolly Parton with Kelsea Ballerini, Jason Aldean, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music, BRELAND featuring Thomas Rhett (“Praise The Lord”), Kane Brown (“Leave You Alone”), Luke Bryan (“Up”), Eric Church, Jordan Davis (“Buy Dirt,” feat. Luke Bryan), Walker Hayes (“AA” and “Fancy Like”), Maren Morris (“Circles Around This Town”), Brothers Osborne (“Skeletons”) and Brittney Spencer (“These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”), Parmalee and Blanco Brown featuring Brooke Eden (“Just the Way”), Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde (“Never Wanted to Be That Girl”), Thomas Rhett (“Slow Down Summer”), Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, and Chris Young (“Raised on Country”) featuring Mitchell Tenpenny (“At the End of a Bar”).

The Academy of Country Music has also confirmed an illustrious group of presenters rounding out the star-studded lineup set to take the stage. Presenters include Alan Ritchson (actor, Reacher), Derek Carr (quarterback, Las Vegas Raiders), Guy Torry (comedian, Phat Tuesdays), James Patterson (author, Run Rose Run), Jason Aldean (singer, “Dirt Road Anthem”), Kelsey Asbille (actor, Yellowstone), Luke Grimes (actor, Yellowstone), Mickey Guyton (singer, “Black Like Me”), and Tom Pelphrey (actor, Ozark, Outer Range).

Lainey Wilson was named ACM New Female Artist of the Year.

Parker is currently poised to hit the top of the country charts with his latest song, “To Be Loved By You,” which follows his previous No. 1 single, “Pretty Heart.”

MCA Nashville’s Catie Offerman releases her debut track today, “Happyland Trailer Park” – Listen HERE. Offerman may be a new name to country music fans, but she is already gaining a reputation as one of the genre’s most skilled players and promising modern traditionalists. A New Braunfels, Texas-native, Offerman wrote the buoyant “Happyland Trailer Park” with Nashville-based songwriters Joe Clemmons (Gabby Barrett, Ryan Hurd), and Rodney Clawson (George Strait, Jason Aldean, Faith Hill) with award-winning Dann Huff as the producer (Reba McEntire, Lady A, Thomas Rhett).

“Everybody’s got a different definition of the ‘good stuff’ but what is the ‘good stuff?’ It’s what makes you happy, it’s what makes you feel alive,” says Offerman. “‘Happyland Trailer Park’ is the place your spirit leads you. It’s about searching out the parts of life that aren’t mapped out. I love the uncertainties in the adventure and finding the happiness of the journey along the way. The heart is the key – just going with it and taking the ride.”

https://twitter.com/catieofferman/status/1499746500720488449

Airstream hitched to an F-150

Stars shine brighter when you ain’t in the city 

One head light on the signs that you’re passin’ 

Don’t know where you’re going, so there’s no use in asking 

Why the hell you’re here 

What ya trying to find 

Searching for an answer, down a broken white line

Everybody’s got a different definition of the good stuff 

Heading down the highway looking for a hook up 

You’ll know that you found it when the dreamer in your heart’s

Pulling in to Happyland Trailer Park 

Listen to the debut track available everywhere now and watch the official visualizer for “Happyland Trailer Park” HERE.