Keith Urban will perform his current single with P!NK “One Too Many” on the Season finale of NBC’s The Voice on Tuesday (December 15th). The two-hour finale will begin at 9pm ET.

Carrie Underwood will appearon Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday (December 17th) and on the Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday (December 18th).

Maddie & Tae will perform on CBS’ “The Talk” on Tuesday (December 15th) and ABC’s GMA3 on Friday (December 18th).

Chrissy Metz will appear on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune early next year. The all-star edition premieres Thursday, January 7th at 8pm ET on ABC and will also feature 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.

Sam Hunt and his wife Hannah will be heading down to Georgia to spend an extended amount of time with his family over the Christmas holidays. Since the couple spent Thanksgiving with her side of the family, they’re planning on quarantining with his family this year.

“This year for Christmas, my wife and I are gonna head down to Georgia to spend some time with my parents and brothers,” says Sam. “We got to spend Thanksgiving with some of Hannah’s family, but I haven’t really seen my parents and brothers in a little while so we’re gonna go down (and) I’m gonna try to take a little more time than I have these past couple of years over the break and try to make the most out of this last month of 2020. But I’m really looking forward to spending some time with my mom and dad, and this year I’ve tried to avoid going home as much as I would have in the past. So, I’m gonna quarantine with them for a couple weeks for Christmas and try to appreciate that time together and look forward to 2021.”

Growing up, he and his family would get together with both sides of his family to eat and exchange gifts. Now, he says it’s less about the gifts and food and more about spending time as a family. “I really appreciate the time with my family, it turns into more of a social thing now and less about the gifts and the food and all that sorta stuff.”

One of his favorite gifts as a child was a horse he received one Christmas. “I remember being really excited when, I got into riding horses, and one Christmas I got a Mustang that I named Comanche – a horse – and that was a really exciting time,” he recalls. “I rode all the time after that. Before, I had some friends, a babysitter whose kids had horses, so I’d be able to ride occasionally, but now I was able to ride whenever I wanted to.”

Sam is currently climbing the country charts with his latest single, “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s.”

Multi-Platinum-selling country duo Maddie & Tae are rounding out 2020 with performances coming up on The Talk (Dec. 15), GMA 3 (Dec. 18) and Disney Park’s Magical Christmas Celebration on ABC Christmas morning (Dec. 25). Plus, they are hosting CMT Hot 20’s Christmas Countdown episode premiering this weekend. Maddie & Tae also recently shared their talents with the nonprofit Musicians On Call, performing for its “I’m On Call for Tennessee” holiday concert available now for patients, families and staff at healthcare facilities across the state.

With a loaded tour schedule abruptly cut short, Maddie & Tae still managed to fill their year with music, releasing the critically acclaimed album The Way It Feels in April. The award-winning pair received widespread praise from Billboard, Esquire, NPR, People, Rolling Stone, The Tennessean, The Washington Post and more on the album Associated Press says is “filled with glorious songwriting and harmonies.” The Way It Feels includes Maddie & Tae’s most recent Platinum-selling No. 1 hit and one of Billboard’s Top 10 Country Songs of 2020, “Die From A Broken Heart.” Culminating with “Die From A Broken Heart” topping the country airplay charts, the best friends share their successes, failures and everything in between- catch up on Maddie & Tae’s Reframed documentary series HERE.

Rolling Stone recognizes the duo as “some of the tightest harmonies on Music Row,” which they display in full on their first ever holiday project, We Need Christmas, a six-song collection of originals and beloved holiday classics. In addition to providing your Christmas soundtrack, Maddie & Tae help you spice up the festivities offering a “how-to guide” for boozy gingerbread cocktails and cookies- watch HERE.

For more information, visit MaddieandTae.com.

Multi-Platinum-selling country star Sam Hunt is set to perform “2016” tonight on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Written by Hunt with Josh Thompson and Zach Crowell, “2016” is the opening track of Hunt’s chart-topping album SOUTHSIDE. American Songwriter notes, “[Hunt] dismantles all doubts about his abilities to rip your heart out” on “2016,” the song Stereogum says, “depicts regret with devastating potency.”

Hunt’s Platinum-selling sophomore album recently landed on The New York Times Best Albums of 2020 list with music critic Jon Carmanica rhetorically asking, “what if the most innovative mainstream Nashville performer was also the most reverent of tradition?” SOUTHSIDE also features Hunt’s current country single “Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90’s” and his back-to-back No. 1 hits “Kinfolks” and “Hard To Forget,” the latter highlighted early on as a song of the year contender. Slate now says, “this ultra-creative single was one of the best in country in 2020” as the hit landed on its best songs list. “Hard To Forget” also rang in at No. 11 on NPR’s Best Songs of 2020.

SOUTHSIDE debuted to critical acclaim earlier this year with Rolling Stone calling Hunt “an innovator who has remade country in his own image and also figured out how to reclaim its past,” and Pitchfork affirming, “the Nashville star blends genres with charm and style.” Billboard says SOUTHSIDE is “the album that will get you choked up between sing-alongs,” while Sounds Like Nashville recognizes where “raw emotion peeks through, setting the tone for a project where introspection, heartache and celebration all thrive.” The album earned additional praise from American Songwriter, Associated Press, Billboard¸ Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Pitchfork, Slate, The New York Times, The Ringer and more. Listen to SOUTHSIDE HERE

For information on Sam Hunt, visit www.SamHunt.com.

Luke Bryan and his family will probably continue their tradition of having chili dogs on Christmas Eve.

“We have a pajama night and we do chili dogs on Christmas Eve, and we’ve always done that.  My mother comes up and we go shop. She makes me go shop with her, so we have to pick out all the right stuff. We have to get the proper buns, the proper wieners. It’s very important.  All beef wieners for the chili dog cooking. It’s a ritual. So, we’re eating chili dogs in pajamas, and so it’s special anytime you can come up with fun traditions and hold true to them. Yeah, so cooking chili dogs in a onesie is pretty special.”

No word on what his wife Caroline will be getting him this year, but he does say her gift a few years ago was the most meaningful — she tracked down his late brother’s truck and presented it to him one Christmas. “By far the best Christmas present I have ever gotten and will ever get was when my wife Caroline went and found my brother’s old pickup truck from 1996 that they found the VIN number and it was down in Louisiana and it was still on the road.  And her and my dad went down, they picked it up, brought it to Nashville and Christmas Eve night pulled into the driveway with it, and let’s just say that yes, the tears were flowing, and it will never be topped. I don’t know how you’ll ever top it. What an amazing moment for me and my family and it was pretty special.  And that truck is where we do our turkey hunting; it’s the turkey hunting truck. So, all my turkey hunting gear stays in there, and when the boys see me pull up in my brother’s truck, they know we’re fixing to go turkey hunting.”

Also, one of his favorite Christmas gifts as a child had wheels and a motor, as well. “My favorite Christmas gift is definitely my first Honda 50 motorcycle that I got back in 1984. It was just an amazing gift to have under the tree, and I never will forget seeing that as I walked out.”

Find audio below of him talking about the unique tradition, his most meaningful Christmas gift, his favorite Christmas movie and much more.

Parker McCollum grew up in Conroe, Texas and he and all of his family and extended family would go to his grandmother’s house on Christmas. One of his favorite childhood memories on Christmas Day was playing football in the front yard. “Every year, we would all play football in my Grandma’s front yard probably until the time I was 15 or 16 years old, every Christmas morning,” he says.

Some of his favorite Christmas movies growing up would have to include Christmas Vacation and surprisingly, Annabelle’s Wish. “This is gonna sound kind of goofy, but one of them is definitely Annabelle’s Wish, because Randy Travis narrates it. I used to watch that when I was really little with my mom, but I mean, Christmas Vacation is a phenomenal movie,” Parker says. “And I always really liked the Santa Clause series with Tim Allen. I always thought those were really good, even the newer ones.”

One of his favorite Christmas gifts as a kid would have to be a deer rifle he received when he was around 11 or 12 years old.“It would be a Browning 270 Deer rifle I got when I was 13? So, I wanted it so bad, and I’d always had to use my older brothers’ or my Dad’s gun, you know? They wouldn’t even let me shoot anything then. So, I was probably 11 or 12 years old and a Browning 270 Deer rifle…bad son of a gun.”

Parker is closing in on the top of the country charts with his single, “Pretty Heart.”

Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and current GRAMMY nominee Eric Church continues his ongoing string of new song releases as the year comes to a close, unveiling another glimpse at the breadth of music to come via “Doing Life With Me,” available now.

Written by Church together with Casey Beathard (“Mr. Misunderstood,” “Hell Of A View”) and Jeffrey Steele (“Stick That In Your Country Song”), the reflective song sees Church expressing gratitude for those by his side through the journey of a musical career:

Like the releases before it, “Doing Life With Me” is the result of a marathon writing session Church spent sequestered in a rural North Carolina cabin where the man celebrated by American Songwriter for “his prolific and passionate fervor for musical creation” wrote and recorded a song from start to finish each day for nearly a month.

Additional releases include current single “Hell Of A View” and current GRAMMY-nominee “Stick That In Your Country Song,” as well as “Bad Mother Trucker,” “Crazyland” and “Through My Ray-Bans.” In addition to the official releases, Church has also shared previews of unreleased music with performances on ACM Presents: Our Country (“Never Break Heart”) and Stagecouch (“Jenny”) as fans eagerly await news of a forthcoming project.

The new music follows Church’s most recent critically acclaimed album, 2018’s Desperate Man, which was named one of the year’s best by Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Variety and Vulture, also earning a GRAMMY nod for Best Country Album (his third nomination in the category).

For more information, visit www.ericchurch.com and follow on Facebook and Twitter @ericchurch and Instagram @ericchurchmusic.

“Doing Life With Me” Lyrics: linked HERE

“Doing Life With Me” Credits:
Songwriters: Eric Church, Casey Beathard, Jeffrey Steele
Vocals: Eric Church, Joanna Cotten
Instrumentation:
Billy Justineau – Piano, Synthesizer
Charlie Worsham – Electric Guitar, Mandolin
Craig Wright – Drums
Jay Joyce – Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Jeff Hyde – Acoustic Guitar
Jeffrey Steele – Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals
Lee Hendricks – Bass

About Eric Church
The four-time Country Music Association and seven-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his most recent critically acclaimed and GRAMMY nominated album, Desperate Man, atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in late 2018. The album, featuring his latest No. 1 hit “Some Of It,” also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Church returned to the road in 2019 for his chart-topping Double Down Tour, with back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act giving fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour also featured a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where Church broke the venue’s concert attendance record with 56,521 fans just two weeks before awing the same stadium’s audience with a 30-minute, solo acoustic CMA Fest set featuring a medley of 17 hits. “Stick That In Your Country Song,” released on June 25, is the lead single off a forthcoming project born from a sequestered session in rural North Carolina where he wrote and recorded a song per day for nearly a month.

Carrie Underwood appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She talked about working on her new Christmas album, “My Gift,” as well as working with John Legend and her son, Isaiah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N7DsAJgtH0&t=40s

The mother of two sons also performed “O Holy Night.” Check out the awe-inspiring performance below.

“My Gift” features 11 songs, including several holiday favorites such as “O Holy Night,” “Silent Night,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Away in a Manger,” as well as a handful of original songs. Also, Carrie’s HBO Max Christmas special is now available to watch.

Carrie Underwood recorded a one-hour radio special for her new, highly-anticipated Christmas album, “My Gift.” You can download the special, promos and show clock here. She will also be part of UMG Nashville’s 24-hour “A Country Christmas,” which should be available sometime this week.

You can catch Carrie’s television special, “My Gift,” on HBO Max now.

Multi-platinum selling, award-winning duo Maddie & Tae release the official video for “We Need Christmas” today. Written by Maddie & Tae along with AJ Pruis and Matthew West, “We Need Christmas” offers a hopeful plea for peace and healing this holiday season.

This world could use a little healing

Our hearts could surely use something to believe in

We need Christmas now more than ever

Bring us together

We need Christmas come on December

Help us remember

The joy, the peace and the hope that love can bring

And the bells hear ’em ring

Let all the angels sing

Oh we need Christmas

“We Need Christmas” is the title track to the duo’s first ever holiday album out now on Mercury Nashville. The six-track project produced by Jimmy Robbins and Derek Wells features two originals including “We Need Christmas” and “Merry Married Christmas,” plus beloved holiday favorites including “This Christmas,” “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Listen to We Need Christmas HERE

For more information, visit MaddieandTae.com.