Achieving the triple crown of concert stages (amphitheaters to arenas to stadiums), four-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan kicked off summer with back-to-back stadium shows over the weekend hitting 100,000 fans in two countries. Named Billboard Music Awards Top Country Tour, Luke brought his WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY TOUR XL STADIUM SIZED to Rogers Centre in Toronto and MetLife Stadium outside New York City. The tour will continue through the end of October with 40+ concerts including 11 additional stadium shows. WATCH HERE

And just in time for the summer season, Luke has released “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” from his What Makes You Country album recently debuting it on American Idol’s season finale. The song, written by Zach Crowell, Ryan Hurd and Chase McGill, is the follow up to Luke’s 20^th career #1 single “Most People Are Good.” Find it here–http://strm.to/SunriseSunburnSunset

“What Makes You Country Tour”

DATE                     CITY                                                 VENUE
6/9                          Myrtle Beach, SC                                Carolina Country Music Fest

6/10                        Nashville, TN                                        CMA Music Festival

6/14                        Columbia, MD                                     Merriweather Post Pavilion

6/15                        N Lawrence, OH                                  Country Fest Ohio

6/16                        Cincinnati, OH                                    Great American Ball Park              XL STADIUM SIZED

6/21                        West Palm Beach, FL                         Coral Sky Amphitheatre

6/22                        Jacksonville, FL                                   Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

6/23                        Tampa, FL                                           Raymond James Stadium                XL STADIUM SIZED

6/28                        Raleigh, NC                                          Coastal Credit Union Music Park

6/29                        Charlotte, NC                                       PNC Music Pavilion

6/30                        Pittsburgh, PA                                     Heinz Field                                          XL STADIUM SIZED

7/6                          Boston, MA                                          Fenway Park                                       XL STADIUM SIZED

7/8                          Cavendish, PE                                      Cavendish Beach Music Festival

7/14                        Calgary, AB                                          The Calgary Stampede

7/15                        Craven, SK                                           Country Thunder

7/20                        Monticello, IA                                      Great Jones County Fair

7/21                        Minneapolis, MN                                Target Field                                        XL STADIUM SIZED

7/22                        Twin Lakes, WI                                   Country Thunder

7/25                        Lake Tahoe, NV                                  Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s

7/26                        Paso Robles, CA                                  California Mid-State Fair

7/28                        Los Angeles, CA                                  Dodger Stadium                                 XL STADIUM SIZED

8/1                          Rogers, AR                                            Walmart AMP

8/2                          Omaha, NE                                           Century Link Center

8/4                          Denver, CO                                          Sports Authority Field at Mile High XL STADIUM SIZED  

8/17                        Syracuse, NY                                        Lakeview Amphitheater

8/18                        Bristow, VA                                          Jiffy Lube Live

8/19                        Saratoga Springs, NY                          Saratoga PAC

8/24                        Indianapolis, IN                                   Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center

8/25                        St Louis, MO                                       Busch Stadium                                    XL STADIUM SIZED

8/26                        Kansas City, MO                                 Sprint Center

9/1                          Chicago, IL                                          Wrigley Field                                      XL STADIUM SIZED

9/7                          Houston, TX                                         Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

9/8                          Dallas, TX                                             Dos Equis Pavilion

9/13                        Rapid City, SD                                     Rushmore Plaza Civic Center

9/14                        Billings, MT                                          Rimrock Auto Arena

9/19                        Missoula, MT                                       Big Sky Brewing

9/20                        Boise, ID                                               Ford Idaho Center

10/11                     Portland, OR                                         Moda Center

10/12                     Seattle, WA                                           White River Amphitheater

10/13                     Vancouver, BC                                   BC Place Stadium                              XL STADIUM SIZED

10/25                     Rochester, NY                                      Blue Cross Arena

10/26                     Detroit, MI                                           Ford Field                                            XL STADIUM SIZED

Sam Hunt joins the tour as the special guest on all stadium shows along with Jon Pardi. Additional openers include Morgan Wallen (May-August), Carly Pearce (September & October) and DJ Rock. Please check www.lukebryan.com for up to date information on the “What Make You Country Tour.”

Eric Paslay‘s latest single is “Young Forever,” and the man doesn’t age a bit. He owes his “fountain of youth” to writing songs, racing go-karts, DIY projects and maybe a little laser tag.

DIY projects with a side of go-karts & laser tag… just a few ways I stay #YoungForever. What about y’all? My new song just might give you some inspiration: https://t.co/Rl33uhQbPj pic.twitter.com/hi2d3xmfXR

— Eric Paslay (@ericpaslay) May 4, 2018

Dierks Bentley is poised to enter the top of the country charts with his latest song, “Woman, Amen,” which is from his new album, The Mountain. Every day he thanks his wife for helping him navigate life.

“My wife’s dragged me through all sorts of dark ages and phases that I thought I knew what I was doing or [thought] I was right and it’s like, ‘C’mon, dummy. Follow me. I’ll lead you towards where you want to be,’ whether that was kids, like starting that train, which I wasn’t really sure I was ready to start or having kids and trying to be a more conscious parent,” says Dierks. “I’ve learned a lot from her. This song definitely, it’s just an honest lyric, and hopefully a lot of people can connect to it.”

The Mountain will be available on Friday (June 8th). Dierks is set to perform the entire album on Thursday (June 7th) at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Preorder The Mountain now at http://strm.to/TheMountain.

Maddie & Tae’s Maddie Marlow got engaged to her boyfriend, Jonah Font, late last month, they confirmed to PEOPLE.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjf8VHXD0hq/?taken-by=maddiemarlow

“He is my best friend, and I’m truly engaged to my dream guy!,” Maddie tells PEOPLE. The couple met during her sophomore year of high school in Texas. “I love that we’ve been together for so long before we got engaged because we know everything about each other. We’ve learned how to really love each other, how to communicate and how to be a rock for the other person,” she says.

Her engagement ring has a special significance. “The center stone on my ring is the diamond from my mom’s original engagement ring. My parents have been married 25 years!” explains Marlow. “My dad bought her a new ring a while back, so she kept her original diamond to pass down to me or my sister someday. It is so special having an heirloom ring because I will get to pass it down one day too.”

For more on how Jonah proposed to Maddie, click here.

Maddie & Tae are making their way up the country charts with their new song, “Friends Don’t.”

Dierks Bentley had to cancel his Mountain High Tour show in Cincinnati on Thursday night (May 31st) due to a major power outage causing three grids to go out and over 40,000 homes and business to lose power. Dierks took to his socials to express his apologies for having to postpone the show due to weather. He was able to reschedule for Sunday (June 3rd).

Fans should hold on to their tickets as they will be honored for the the new date.

incredibly bummed out about the weather knocking out power to the amphitheater here in cincy. being told no power for 5 hours. have to cancel. asked for the first available date to come back and that is this sunday.

thanks cincinnati… so sorry.

– https://t.co/40Q1CIXtzN

— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) May 31, 2018

Brothers Osborne, who are on the road with Dierks, also took to their socials to express their disappointment over having to cancel the show, as well.

Hate that the show is canceled tonight at @riverbendpnc due to a power outage. Was looking forward to playing tonight. However, the show is rescheduled to the same time Sunday night. Tonight’s tickets will be honored. Mother Nature won the battle but not the war. ☔️

— Brothers Osborne (@brothersosborne) May 31, 2018

Dierks is closing in on the top of the country charts with “Woman, Amen,” the first release from his upcoming album, The Mountain, due June 8th.

Keith Urban began working on his new album, Graffiti U, in January of last year and thought he may have it done within a short period of time. However, as he continued to write and record, the project didn’t come together until months later.

“The album felt like it started coming together maybe eight months later. It was crazy how long it took of writing and recording songs and feeling like, ‘Oh yeah. I’m gonna have an album in the middle of the year. This is great.’ And then the more I wrote, the more it started moving in a different direction and the more I found myself feeling freer in the process,” recalls Keith. “I don’t know how to articulate that, because it’s not to say I haven’t felt that way on other records, but somehow this one just became more liberated.”

His home studio may have had a little bit to do with the feel of the album. “I do think recording a lot at home in my studio that has big windows with lots and lots of natural light started to influence the spirit of the record,” he says. “There’s a lot of spirit in the album.”

Keith will kick off his Graffiti U Tour June 15th in St. Louis, Missouri. If you can’t wait that long, watch him perform Thursday night (May 3rd) on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Today marks the release of the brand-new music video for Keith Urban’s “Coming Home,” which features one of the song’s co-writers Julia Michaels.  It’s the newest single from the four-time Grammy Award winner’s #1, ninth studio album GRAFFITI U.  Urban, who has won countless awards, for his music videos worked with the award-winning director Andy Hines (Logic featuring Khalid and Alessia Cara, Big Sean featuring Kanye West and John Legend, Kali Uchis, Jim James, etc.) – the first time that the two have collaborated.

The groundbreaking, surreal creation, seamlessly delivers Urban from one scene to another and is both visually striking and creatively adept. Whether moving through a window from a bedroom to an open field or a cab headed for a makeshift “Little Tokyo” or performing side by side with Julia Michaels, while watching, “Coming Home’ is a visual treat.

“The concept for the video was really Andy Hines’ idea,” said Urban.  “He suggested the heightened reality that we see in the video, which keeps it more like a dream – an idea, more than an actuality.  It was also important to have Julia there – she’s great energy to be around and I love singing with her, so I wanted us to be on stage at the same time to capture that.”

“Being on set with Keith was magical. He’s a rare person on and off set- full of love and positive energy.  He surrounds himself with likeminded people such as his band who were incredible as well. I’m grateful to be a part of this video and grateful to be able to call this kick ass human, a friend.”

““Coming Home” started with an idea I had of using the intro of one of my favorite Haggard songs “Mama Tried,” said Urban. I took the idea to J.R. Rotem and he put some chords around it. I jotted down the first words that the music made me feel, jumped on a mic and sang the chorus.”

“Hearing that rolling Haggard guitar lick sparked memories of my childhood – and my dream to come to America.” added Urban.  “I knew right then the story (of the song) was about the struggles of being in a city where your dreams have brought you, but far from your home –  wherever, whomever and whatever that is for each of us.”

Urban is currently in production rehearsals in Nashville, readying himself for his 62-city “GRAFFIT U WORLD TOUR 2018,” which kicks off on June 15^th at St. Louis’s Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre.  Before that, he’ll perform June 9th at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium as part of this year’s CMA Music Fest.

“Coming Home” was written by Urban, J.R. Rotem, Julia Michaels, Merle Haggard and Nicolle Galyon and was co-produced by Rotem and Urban.

For more official Keith Urban news and information go to www.keithurban.net.

Check out the clip below.

Chris Stapleton got some great news this week. His 2015 album, Traveller, was just certified triple platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), while From A Room: Volume 1 has been certified platinum and From A Room: Volume 2 has gone gold.

When making albums, Chris wants them to be good, from top to bottom. “We’re all incredibly fortunate that out on the road that the people who come out to the shows dig that deep. It sure is a powerful thing when you can pull out an album cut and have everybody sing along and have somebody be excited about it or watch that be somebody’s song they were hoping you were going to play that night,” he says. “I care about the album, quite a bit, and I kind of learned that from Tom Petty. He made my favorite record of all time, which was Wild Flowers, and that album really made me appreciate the album, top to bottom. I try to think about that record a lot when I’m making records, and that’s the way I feel about albums. I want them to be good, top to bottom.”

The ACM and CMA Male Vocalist of the Year (among other awards) recently released his latest song, “Millionaire,” which is featured on his newly minted gold album, From A Room: Volume 2.

Chris will hit the road with his 2018 All-American Road Show Tour, featuring Marty Stuart and Brent Cobb, beginning June 16th in Brandon, Mississippi. He’s also set to do a few shows before then, including CMA Music Fest, as well as a handful of shows with The Eagles.

Luke Bryan launches an extra-large tour, or XL for short, this week. The Georgia native is set to headline 13 stadium shows for his What Makes You Country Tour Xl Stadium Sized Tour, kicking off Thursday (May 31st) in Toronto, Ontario. By the end of October, Luke will headline some of the North America’s biggest and best sports stadiums in New York City, Cincinnati, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles (the first country concert to ever be held in Dodgers Stadium), Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, Vancouver and wrapping the trek in Detroit at Ford Field on October 26th.

Sam Hunt joins the tour as the special guest on all stadium shows along with Jon Pardi. Additional openers include Morgan Wallen (May-August), Carly Pearce (September & October) and DJ Rock. A full tour schedule is available on www.lukebryan.com.

“What Makes You Country Tour” is named after Luke’s recently released album that debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts. It became his third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Top 200 and his fifth #1 debut on the Top Country Albums Chart.

Luke just released “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset,” the follow-up to his recent No. 1 hit, “Most People Are Good.”

Eric Paslay was in Cincinnati on Wednesday (May 2nd) on behalf of the CMA Foundation. He, along with Sara Evans, Trent Harmon and songwriter Rob Hatch, were able to pass out instruments to children. He tweeted a video (see below) and said, “inspiring to see schools and teachers that care so much for their students and music education!”

Great day in #Cincinnati with @saraevansmusic @trentharmon and #RobHatch getting to gift instruments to kids thanks to @cmafoundation and @usbank!!! Inspiring to see schools and teachers that care so much for their students and music education! pic.twitter.com/tYUCYp69E8

— Eric Paslay (@ericpaslay) May 2, 2018

Eric is currently making his way up the country charts with “Young Forever.”