Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey is featured in George Clooney’s new film, “The Midnight Sky,” which is on Netflix now. The movie stars Clooney as a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle with a young girl to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe.

Chrissy Metz will appear on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune on Thursday, January 14th Other stars include Karamo Brown, Yvette Nicole Brown, Nicole Byer, Drew Carey, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jennie Garth, Chris Harrison, Teri Hatcher, Tony Hawk, Robert Herjavec, Leslie Jones, Jeannie Mai, Joel McHale, Maria Menounos, Kevin Nealon, Patton Oswalt, Paul Reubens, Alfonso Ribeiro, Rob Riggle, Sherri Shepherd, Joe Tessitore, Chandra Wilson and Constance Zimmer. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune premieres this Thursday (January 7th) at 8pm ET on ABC.

Parker McCollum will make his Grand Ole Opry debut on Saturday, February 6th.

Newcome Priscilla Block was selected by Pandora as one of their Country Artists To Watch for 2021.

American Idol is set to premiere February 14th (Valentine’s Day). The show features returning judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, host Ryan Seacrest and mentor Bobby Bones.

Caylee Hammack turns in a gorgeous acoustic version of Patsy Cline‘s “Crazy.” She said Patsy has been on her mind lately.

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Parker McCollum has released his new single, “To Be Loved By You,” the follow-up to his recent No. 1 gold-certified hit “Pretty Heart.”

The song, which was released to fans on New Year’s, was written by Parker and hit singer-songwriter Rhett Akins. The Texas native says the tempo of the song changed once he hit the studio with producer Jon Randall (Dierks Bentley).

“Recording ‘To Be Loved By You” was really a unique kind of experience,” says Parker. “It was a song I think that when I wrote it with my buddy Rhett Akins, we kind of, we didn’t put a lot of energy into it. It was more of a kind of slow, balled-y song, and we got in the studio, I was with Jon Randall, and I said, ‘Man, what if we just push the limits on this one and kinda just see how far we can push the envelope here?’ It’s crazy to see how well it turned out, and it’s such a rockin’ tune and we’re stoked about it.”

Parker is set to make his Grand Ole Opry debut February 6th.

Right before the holidays began, Maddie & Tae took a drive through some amazing Christmas lights display in Middle Tennessee. Here they take you behind-the-scenes and show you their “pimped-out” ride.

Taylor Swift has released her new single, “no body, no crime,” to country radio. She solely wrote the song, which appears on her new multi-week No. 1 album, evermore. The tune follows the story of “Este,” who confronts her cheating husband. She then goes missing and it is presumed by the narrator that she was murdered by her husband. Without a body, the husband cannot be tried for murder, however, Este’s friend (narrator) takes it upon herself to kill the husband, ultimately framing the mistress.

Taylor says the song is based on her fascination of true crime dramas. “Writing ‘no body, no crime’ I think was directly based on my love of true crime podcasts and Dateline type programs,” says Taylor. “Also, I just kind of got this melody in my head and I thought about my friend, Este. I’ve always thought her name was so cool, and so it all kind of came together as this sort of murder mystery type revenge plot. I asked my friend if I could use her name as the lead character, and she agreed, and then it hit me that it would be so cool if HAIM would sing on the song – Este’s band that she’s in with her sisters, Danielle and Alana. And so, it just turned into this very fun mission to create a true crime revenge song.”

Taylor’s evermore is enjoying its third nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Album Chart. A deluxe edition of the collection was released last week and features two bonus tracks, “right where you left me” and “it’s time to go.”

Jon Pardi released his new single, “Tequila Little Time,” today (Monday, January 4th). The tune, which he co-wrote with Rhett Akins and Luke Laird, is from his ACM and CMA-nominated album, Heartache Medication. Jon says the tune is really fun and goes well with a good time.

“I feel like this goes great on a boat, a lake or pool and just any kind of atmosphere of having a good time,” says Jon. “It’s about picking up a girl that’s down and maybe, maybe we want to do a shot of tequila? There’s no answer, but maybe. She starts feeling better, and it’s fun. It’s just a fun song.”

For more information on Jon, go to jonpardi.com.

While not on the road performing shows this past year, Jordan Davis did have several good memories over the past year, including spending a lot of time with his wife and daughter, working with OCEARCH tagging sharks, hitting No. 1 with “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot” and releasing his self-titled EP, featuring his latest single “Almost Maybes.”

2020 has been a tough one…But I’m very thankful for moments like these, here are a few of my highlights from a year I’m ready to move on from tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CozNgT2FvF

— Jordan Davis Music (@JordanCWDavis) December 31, 2020

One of my favorite memories this year was releasing my self-titled EP. Means the world to me that y’all have been listening to ithttps://t.co/iAAD7vbYQE pic.twitter.com/Iio8tl548y

— Jordan Davis Music (@JordanCWDavis) December 17, 2020

While living out in Telluride, Dierks Bentley and his son Knox are taking part in one of the father-son duo’s favorite sport, hockey. In a video Dierks recently posted to his socials, he and Knox “re-create” a scene from the 2004 film, “Miracle,” which was based on the United States men’s ice hockey team, led by head coach Herb Brooks (played by Kurt Russell), that won the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics. The U.S. victory over the favored Soviets was dubbed “Miracle on Ice.”

If you haven’t watched the great hockey movie #Miracle, this won’t make much sense. #HerbBrooks #again @NHL pic.twitter.com/DnpMc5ZEE9

— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) January 4, 2021

Check out the scene from the movie below.

Dierks is currently climbing the country charts with his latest single, “Gone.”

Eric Church has been releasing new music over the past few months. He surprised fans with “Bad Mother Trucker,” “Crazyland,” an ode to his fans “Through My Ray-Bans” and a tribute to those who’ve been there for him “Doing Life With Me.”

Eric says he recorded these and other songs in December (2019) and January 2020, long before we knew there was a global pandemic on the way. “We made this project before COVID ever existed. So, for me, we never came in reacting to COVID. We made this project, we wrote this project, we recorded this project before we ever knew what COVID was,” the North Carolina native told reporters during a virtual press conference at the recent CMA Awards. “I think a lot of that is a little bit divine that if you listen to the songs and you hear what the songs are, you very easily go, ‘This sounds like they were in the middle of quarantine,’ but we weren’t. I was not. So, for me, it just kind of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not make this album after COVID happened. I made it before.”

Eric is currently making his way up the country charts with “Hell of a View.”

Carrie Underwood gave her fans an amazing Christmas gift; she announced a new album is coming. On Christmas Day, Carrie took to her socials to reveal she didn’t want to stop making music, so she said her new album, titled My Savior, which will be filled with gospel hymns she grew up singing, should arrive just in time for Easter.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and something NEW for the New Year. Praying for better days ahead. #MyGift #MySavior 😘 🎁✨🙏 pic.twitter.com/AuSs7i8xB7

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) December 26, 2020

“I’ve been making music that I love and been giving my heart to the Lord with My Gift, and you guys have been so wonderful to support, lots of love and support, which I have felt every step of the way,” says Carrie. “I basically didn’t want all of that to end, when I was making this music, I felt like my soul was in such a great place, I wanted to keep making music like the music off of My Gift.”

She adds, “I made an album called My Savior, which is hopefully a little companion to My Gift. “This album is full of gospel hymns that I grew up singing.”

Carrie finished by saying, “It’s just been such a blessing to make music like this, music that is near and dear to my heart, and I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I loved making it.”

Normally, Keith Urban plays a big New Year’s Eve show in Nashville with hundreds of thousands of people in attendance. This year — the year of COVID-19 — he performed a 30-minute acoustic virtual show from his driveway straight to his fans. Check it out below.

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with “One Too Many” with P!NK.