Seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Carrie Underwood’s first-ever Christmas album My Gift, continues its reign atop the charts this holiday season, following its #1 debut across multiple global charts. Released September 25, My Gift debuted #1 on the Billboard Country, Christian and Holiday charts, marking Underwood’s eighth straight album to debut #1 on the Billboard Country chart. The album remains at #1 on the Christian chart 11 weeks after it was released and debuted #1 on the UK country chart (her fifth #1 on the chart) and #1 on the Canadian country chart.

My Gift reclaimed the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart last week for the third non-consecutive week, and has consistently stayed in the Top 5 on the Billboard Holiday Album Chart since its release. The album currently sits at #5 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200. Underwood currently has four songs on the Holiday Top 200 Streaming Chart (“Favorite Time of Year,” “Silent Night,” “Hallelujah,” and “Little Drummer Boy”) as well as four songs in the Top 30 on the Mediabase Holiday Music Chart (“Hallelujah,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “Little Drummer Boy,” and “Mary, Did You Know?”)

My Gift features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as several new originals, two of which are written by Underwood, frequent collaborator Brett James (“Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Something In The Water”), and her Cry Pretty co-producer, David Garcia.  GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Greg Wells produced and arranged the album.

Additionally, Underwood releases a special behind-the-scenes look from the set of the music video for her duet with fellow GRAMMY® Award winner John Legend today, watch HERE.

So proud of the #Hallelujah music video with @johnlegend, and the whole team that made it happen! Check out a behind the scenes look from the day we shot it! #RandeeStNicholas #Hallelujah 🙌😇 #MyGift 🎁✨

Watch the official music video: https://t.co/8rP6jSaGLd pic.twitter.com/nvb4KO6fGM

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) December 16, 2020

The original song was written by Legend and Toby Gad (“All of Me”). The video was directed by acclaimed director and photographer, Randee St. Nicholas, who has shot multiple videos with Underwood throughout her career, including “Cry Pretty,” “Drinking Alone,” “Blown Away” and “Smoke Break,” all of which have been honored as CMT’s Video of the Year. Legend also appears as a special guest on Underwood’s new music special “My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood,” which premiered on HBO Max earlier this month and is streaming now. In celebration of the special, Underwood performed on NBC’s TODAY (watch HERE) as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (watch HERE). She is set to join Late Night with Seth Meyers on December 17 followed by The Kelly Clarkson Show on December 18. Underwood and Legend will also perform “Hallelujah” on NBC’s “Global Citizen’s Prize” special on December 19th.

With concert touring on hold, multi-Platinum-selling No. 1 singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina got creative with a new way to socially connect with fans through “Lauren Alaina’s surPRIZE Box,” featuring one-of-a-kind items along with her favorite things, delivered directly to your home or sent as a gift to a friend just in time for the holidays!

Arriving each quarter, fans receive Lauren Alaina’s hand-picked, custom products celebrating life, her passions for fitness and cooking, songwriting and, of course, her love of puns!

Click here for a message from Lauren.

“Normally I’d be on stage, night-after-night sharing songs and stories; however, right now we’re at home and staying connected mostly through socials, so we got creative and are bringing more experiences to the fans where they are, at home!” the Georgia native exclaimed. “We’ve partnered with experts in the subscription-based business who also have roots in both Georgia and Tennessee, BLCK Label, LLC, to help us – from design and delivery – create unique ‘surPRIZE boxes’ each quarter!”

Whether handwritten lyrics or her fitness must-haves, each box brings an assortment of Lauren Alaina-approved lifestyle products infused with personality and puns, just like the star!

“Lauren Alaina’s surPRIZE Box” subscriptions start at $49.99. For more information, visit LaurenAlainaOfficial.com.

About Lauren Alaina
Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Lauren Alaina’s current EP, Getting Over Him, includes six songs that feature her signature powerhouse vocals including “Run,” which addresses the rat race of life we are all on, the feisty and clever “If I Was A Beer,” the emboldened “Bar Back,” the thought-provoking sentimental “Seen You In Your Hometown,” as well as, for the first time on one of her projects, two duets including the title track “Getting Over Him” featuring Jon Pardi and the emotionally difficult “What Do You Think Of?” featuring international pop sensation Lukas Graham, which American Songwriter raves as “stunning.” Getting Over Him and the previous Getting Good EP (March 2020) are evidence of Lauren’s evolution as a songwriter and as an artist as she wrote each of the songs on both EPs. The pair of EPs follow her No. 1 smash “Road Less Traveled” from the 2017 most-streamed album of the year for a female country artist, Road Less Traveled. Lauren’s critically acclaimed sophomore album, Road Less Traveled, landed on multiple “Best Of” lists including Billboard, Rolling Stone and Amazon, and it became the top-streamed female country album release of 2017. Praised as “full of life lessons and uplift” (PEOPLE), the collection of 12 songs all written by the young star includes Lauren’s first No. 1 smash, “Road Less Traveled,” “Doin’ Fine,” and the inspiring, “Three.” The “sassy Southerner with killer pipes” (PARADE) has shared the stage with superstars including Alan Jackson, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Martina McBride and Jason Aldean, and sold out her own, first-ever headlining, That Girl Was Me Tour. Lauren has received multiple nominations for ACM Awards, CMA Awards, CMT Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards, Radio Disney Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Awards include 2017 ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year, CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year for her “Road Less Traveled,” and CMT Collaborative Video of the Year for “What Ifs,” the 6x Platinum-selling No. 1 hit with childhood friend, Kane Brown. The Georgia native has played on some of the highest-profile stages in the world including national television performances on PBS’s A Capitol Fourth, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, TODAY, ABC’s Good Morning America, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC’s CMA Fest specials, CMA and ACM Awards and more including a performance at the White House for President Obama for a PBS special and, most recently, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For more information, visit http://laurenalainaofficial.com/ and follow Lauren at @Lauren_Alaina on Twitter, @laurenalaina on Instagram and on Facebook. For videos go to her YouTube (@LaurenAlainaAIVEVO).

Carrie Underwood released her first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, earlier this fall. My Gift, which debuted at No. 1, features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as several new originals. Two of the original songs are written by Underwood, frequent collaborator Brett James (“Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Something In The Water”), and her Cry Pretty co-producer, David Garcia.  In addition to a very special appearance by Underwood’s 5-year-old son, Isaiah Fisher, on the holiday classic that inspired the album title, “Little Drummer Boy,” My Gift also features her first collaboration with Emmy, GRAMMY®, Oscar, and Tony Award-winner John Legend, on the original track, “Hallelujah,” written by Legend and Toby Gad (“All of Me”).

GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Greg Wells produced and arranged the album.  He has written and produced some of the best-selling and highest charting tracks of the past 15 years for such artists as Adele, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, and P!nk, as well as the worldwide smash The Greatest Showman soundtrack.  My Gift features a world-class orchestra, led by the pre-eminent arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell, whose many credits include iconic recordings by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Josh Groban, and his son Beck. My Gift is mixed by 14-time GRAMMY® Award winning mixer, Serban Ghenea.

Carrie says some of her Christmas traditions include a lot of traveling to visit her family and her husband Mike Fisher’s family…but also cooking and celebrating the season. “My perfect Christmas, generally we do a lot of traveling around Christmas. We’ll go see either my family or my husband’s family,” says Carrie. “I’ll spend all day cooking. I’ll make a small turkey, even though I don’t eat turkey. I’ll make myself some tofurkey; cranberry sauce, of course. Of course, sweet potato casserole. You have to have that. That’s one of my favorites because it’s a side dish and dessert, but I’ll just make a ridiculous amount of food. Just celebrate, have a fire, we wait for Santa and open our presents, then we’re off to see the next group of family. It’s all about watching it through my sons’ eyes and just getting to spend time with family.”

She continues: “For me growing up, Christmas was always just comforting. We always had the same stockings and the same tree and the same decorations, and we would always decorate the weekend right after Thanksgiving. You know, flip the Christmas switch, put the tree up. Now that we’re adults and have kids, we can go to the Christmas tree farm and we can walk around, and we can pick out which one and ask Isaiah, ‘Which one do you think?’ Just things like that, making those memories. It’s just a joyful time of year.”

One of her favorite memories from childhood was singing Christmas carols for folks in nursing homes. “Christmas was always just about family,” she says. “One thing that we always did growing up that was one of my favorite memories, we would on Christmas Eve we would go to my grandparents’ house. Us kids were always responsible for putting oranges and apples and bananas in little paper bags and we would go down to the nursing home and sing Christmas carols.”

Adam Hambrick performed ‘Between Me and the End of the World’ on ABC’s ‘The Bachelorette.’

Here’s a solo read of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” from Little Big Town.

Earlier this year, Jon Pardi released a surprise collection of songs, Rancho Fiesta Sessions, which he covered several of his favorite artists and songs. Recorded in his garage at his ranch outside Nashville, he recently released the live performance video of Joe Diffie‘s “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die),” which is featured on the Rancho Fiesta Sessions.

Jon is currently closing in on the top of the country charts with his latest single, “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” from his Heartache Medication album.

Multi-Platinum-selling No. 1 singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina wraps up a career-defining year despite a halt in touring, live music and being face-to-face with her fans because of COVID-19. At the beginning of 2020, the rising superstar had sold out and wrapped her first-ever headlining That Girl Was Me tour and was touring with superstar Blake Shelton when everything was put on pause and they came off the road. Lauren didn’t stay paused for long and began plans for staying connected with her fans and making music.

In addition to her successful sold-out first headlining tour, the Georgia native has celebrated several career milestones this year including racking up another career No. 1, another RIAA Platinum certification, two EP releases, recording a duet with one of her mentors, several national television performances and made herself available to be part of several charitable events/fundraisers.

“I read through this list with tears in my eyes,” said Alaina. “I cannot believe all that my team and I have been able to accomplish in a year where everything felt like it stopped. This list is proof of the dedication I have from my team and my fans. I can’t wait to add to it.”

2020 career highlights for Alaina included:

• PEOPLE.com world premiered her landmark history-making video last week for her duet with Danish pop sensation Lukas Graham “What Do You Think Of?”, from her current Getting Over Him EP
• The video “What Do You Think Of?”, directed by TK McKamy, to date marks the largest-scale Virtual Production (VP) shoot for a music video in the world – a major filmmaking achievement where the paths of video game industry and filmmaking converge. Major Hollywood studios have begun adopting some form of VP in high-budget series like Disney’s “The Mandalorian” and HBO’s “Westworld.”
• Performing on this Saturday night’s Grand Ole Opry (12/19). Her performance will air during the Opry’s one-hour television broadcast, Opry Live, on Circle
• Alaina got creative with ways to connect with her fans when concert touring was paused. She launched a subscription box, “Lauren Alaina’s surPRIZE Box,” featuring one-of-a-kind items along with some of her favorite things that are delivered directly to fans. Available quarterly.

• First-ever career headlining tour, That Girl Was Me (SOLD OUT)
• Touring with Blake Shelton’s Friends and Heroes Tour (right as live shows were paused)
• Released Getting Good EP in March
• Recorded duet with her idol/mentor Trisha Yearwood on the title track/single “Getting Good”
• Alaina realized a dream come true being invited to be Yearwood’s guest on her cooking show, “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” which aired on the Food Network

• Her duet with friend and rising superstar Kane Brown, “What Ifs,” was certified for 6 million singles sold
• She joined Kane Brown as a surprise guest to perform “What Ifs” at the halftime show of the traditional Thanksgiving Day Dallas Cowboys football game
• Alaina scored her 3^rd career No. 1 (in less than 4 years) with her HARDY and Devin Dawson collaboration “One Beer”
• In April, with the Grand Ole Opry keeping the music playing even without a live in-house audience, Alaina was invited to be part of the Saturday night live telecast with Opry member Terri Clark and rising star Ashley McBryde
• She was invited back in October to perform on the Grand Ole Opry’s popular 12^th annual Opry Goes Pink to help raise awareness for breast cancer research

• Alaina partnered with VYE LIVE for two headlining virtual livestream concerts. Her first one featured Lukas Graham and the second welcomed special guests Devin Dawson, Lindsay Ell, HARDY and Jon Pardi.
• Alaina was tapped to host of the new weekly Circle TV series, Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith, the inspirational series, based off the namesake book Jesus Calling ® (Thomas Nelson). Airing through December.
• Performed “Run” on the 94^th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade live from New York City
• Performed in the 93^rd Annual Nashville Christmas Parade benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Performs and hosts Musician on Call’s (MOC) “I’m On Call for Tennessee” virtual concert that will be available to healthcare facilities statewide for patients and staff to enjoy throughout the month of December through MOC’s Virtual Bedside Performance Program
• Performs the classic “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” on Gaylord Hotels Christmas Special “SO. MUCH. CHRISTMAS.” airing in December on Circle TV.
• Alaina released her Getting Over Him EP in September and kicked off her launch with a performance of her song “Run” on Good Morning America
• Her Getting Over Him EP garnered major national media exposure with interviews and features on Entertainment Tonight, E! News, PEOPLE Magazine (9/17 print issue), People.com, People Now, CMT Hot 20 (9/12), USA TODAY, American Songwriter, Tennessean, Hollywood Life, FoxNews.com, CMT.com, PopCulture.com, Nashville Lifestyles, Country Now, Sounds Like Nashville, Taste of Country, The Boot and more.
• Days after the release of her Getting Over Him EP, her duet “What Do You Think Of?” featuring international pop sensation Lukas Graham shot up the iTunes chart hitting No. 1 on iTunes country and No. 4 on the all-genre chart. “What Do You Think Of?” continues to rise on the Radio Disney Country and Sirius XM’s The Highway chart.
• This summer, Alaina travelled to Washington D.C. to perform on the 40^th annual broadcast of the top-rated PBS special “A Capitol Fourth performing “This Land Is My Land”
• She performed “Two Pina Coladas” with Lindsay Ell and Cassadee Pope on the CMA Summer Stay-Cay livestream special
• Alaina was part of CMT’s Benefit Concert for Love & Acceptance
• She performed with Kane Brown their 6XPlatinum-selling “What Ifs” on the nationally-televised CMA Best of Fest on ABC.

About Lauren Alaina:
Multi-Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Lauren Alaina’s current EP, Getting Over Him, includes six songs that feature her signature powerhouse vocals including “Run,” which addresses the rat race of life we are all on, the feisty and clever “If I Was A Beer,” the emboldened “Bar Back,” the thought-provoking sentimental “Seen You In Your Hometown,” as well as, for the first time on one of her projects, two duets including the title track “Getting Over Him” featuring Jon Pardi and the emotionally difficult “What Do You Think Of?” featuring international pop sensation Lukas Graham, which American Songwriter raves as “stunning.”

Getting Over Him and the previous Getting Good EP (March 2020) are evidence of Lauren’s evolution as a songwriter and as an artist as she wrote each of the songs on both EPs. The pair of EPs follow her No. 1 smash “Road Less Traveled” from the 2017 most-streamed album of the year for a female country artist, Road Less Traveled. 

Alaina has earned three No. 1 hit singles in just under three years with her smash “Road Less Traveled” (2017), the now 6x Platinum “What Ifs” (2018) with her childhood friend and superstar Kane Brown (his first career No. 1) and most recently “One Beer” (2020) with friend and rising star HARDY (also his first career No. 1 as an artist).

Lauren’s critically acclaimed sophomore album, Road Less Traveled, landed on multiple “Best Of” lists including Billboard, Rolling Stone and Amazon, and it became the top-streamed female country album release of 2017. Praised as “full of life lessons and uplift” (PEOPLE), the collection of 12 songs all written by the young star includes Lauren’s first No. 1 smash, “Road Less Traveled,” “Doin’ Fine,” and the inspiring, “Three.”

The “sassy Southerner with killer pipes” (PARADE) has shared the stage with superstars including Alan Jackson, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Martina McBride and Jason Aldean, and sold out her own, first-ever headlining, That Girl Was Me Tour.

Lauren has received multiple nominations for ACM Awards, CMA Awards, CMT Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards, Radio Disney Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Awards include 2017 ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year, CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year for her “Road Less Traveled,” and CMT Collaborative Video of the Year for “What Ifs,” the 6x Platinum-selling No. 1 hit with childhood friend, Kane Brown.

The Georgia native has played on some of the highest-profile stages in the world including national television performances on PBS’s A Capitol Fourth, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, TODAY, ABC’s Good Morning America, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, ABC’s CMA Fest specials, CMA and ACM Awards, Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halftime performance and more including a performance at the White House for President Obama for a PBS special.

For more information and tour dates, please visit http://laurenalainaofficial.com/ and follow Lauren at @Lauren_Alaina on Twitter, @laurenalaina on Instagram and on Facebook. For videos go to her YouTube (@LaurenAlainaAIVEVO)

“One of Nashville’s most promising young singers” (Washington Post) Caylee Hammack is collaborating with one of her musical heroes again today, teaming back up with Everclear’s Art Alexakis for a fiery rendition of Everclear’s smash hit “I Will Buy You A New Life,” available to watch exclusively at Rolling Stone here. Hammack and Alexakis duel harmonies in the performance take center stage, while their wardrobe tips it hat to the track’s original music video. Citing Alexakis and his band Everclear as a major influence, Hammack just released the official music video for her current single “Just Friends” also featuring a guest appearance from Alexakis, available to watch here.

Capitol Nashville singer/songwriter/producer Caylee Hammack just released her debut record IF IT WASN’T FOR YOU on August 14. Since the release, critics have continued to highly praise the 13-track set that sees Hammack with writer and producer credits on every track on the album. “Hammack has arrived with this 13-track adrenaline blast…every song on here plays out like an entry in Hammack’s diary—and is just as compelling…Hammack deserves to be a star” declared Billboard. Recently winning a nod for ACM “Music Event Of The Year,” with Miranda Lambert, Caylee Hammack has been noted as an “Artist To Watch” by outlets including The Bobby Bones Show, Rolling Stone and HITS Magazine for her “voice to move mountains” (Rolling Stone). With her breakout Top 30 single “Family Tree” marking the most-added single at Country radio by a female artist in over three years, Hammack, the Capitol Nashville recording artist has previously brought her unforgettable live set to opening slots for Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Trisha Yearwood, Brothers Osborne and some of country music’s biggest festivals. For more information visit www.cayleehammack.com.

Platinum-selling duo Maddie & Tae released their first ever holiday EP, We Need Christmas, this year. The six-track project features two originals, “Merry Married Christmas” and the title track “We Need Christmas,” plus beloved holiday favorites including “This Christmas,” “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

“I think more than ever, as we say in We Need Christmas, we really need all the joy and hope and love that the holiday season brings,” says Maddie Font. “There’s just something about Christmas that kind of silences all the chaos for a couple of days where you just get to quiet down with your loved ones. We’re so excited to celebrate Christmas this year and really cherish that quality time that we didn’t get as much of this year with quarantining and everything. And,” she adds, “we get to blast our own Christmas songs for our families!”

THIS year may look a little different for the duo because of the global pandemic. Maddie Font says “Plans for Christmas in quarantine this year for us, we’re gonna safely go down to Texas and probably stay for a little while and we are just gonna try to make it as normal as possible. Maybe we don’t get to see everyone, but whoever we get to see I’ll be so excited. We’re already talking about for our grandmas of doing a little drive-by, something fun where we can like throw out presents. They can’t be fragile ‘cause that’ll be bad. (laughs) Like a real Santa Claus thing.”

Taylor Kerr (Dye) says one of her favorite and most personal Christmas memories was in 2017, and it involves a new family member making her appearance right before the holiday.

“This is gonna be a personal one for me. Christmas 2017 was right around the time my niece was born,” says Tae. “She was born on December 11th, so right before Christmas, she was like the best Christmas gift ever, so basically I got to spend the whole month of December with her and my sister-in-law and brother, just holding that baby. So, that’s probably going to be one of my favorite Christmas memories ever.”

Find more audio with this platinum-selling duo about their favorite childhood Christmas gifts, favorite Christmas movies, favorite Christmas food and much, much more.

Sam Hunt performed the song “2016” from his current album, Southside, on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDxC8yV8ZQM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2ad3Q8llqqWNXbqXZ5JDD__yBlkJi_3OUp7oDELn8_xB6uS7I3QSnRX3A

Sam is currently making his way up the country charts with “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s.”