Brothers Osborne celebrated their recent chart topping success for “Stay a Little Longer” with a party in their honor at a local Nashville hotspot on Tuesday afternoon (March 1st). The guys scored their first No. 1 this year, and it’s been a long, but fruitful, journey for the pair.

“I think one of the things that separates people that are in the music industry or the entertainment industry from a lot of other people isn’t necessarily the fact that we’re more talented or we’re luckier or anything like that, we just keep showing up. And that’s the hardest thing. That’s the hardest thing,” says John Osborne. “You’ve got to keep showing up and you’ve got to keep getting turned down over and over and over and over. And it’s about getting back up and just wiping the dust off yourself and going back in there and getting denied again, and then you do it again and again and again, because there’s something inside you compelling you to do that.”

The Delaware duo, who just released their new single, “21 Summer,” is nominated for two ACM Awards – Vocal Duo and New Vocal Duo of the Year. The 51st Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

Little Big Town will appear on CBS’ The Talk on Wednesday at 2pm ET.

Charles Kelley has a pair of appearances on Wednesday, including a performance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (11:35pm ET).

Brothers Osborne earns the No.1 most added song at Country radio this week with their new single “21 Summer”. Following the duo’s RIAA Gold-Certified and GRAMMY-nominated No.1 hit “Stay A Little Longer,” John and TJ Osborne co-wrote “21 Summer” with Craig Wiseman. The breezy tune is featured on their debut album, Pawn Shop, which the Associated Press notes “establishes a slyly funky style of their own.” Praised by the Dallas Observer as “good old-fashioned country with incredible appeal for the mainstream,” Pawn Shop debuted at No.3 on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart and No.10 on the Billboard Top Albums Chart.

 Nominated for both Vocal Duo of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year at next month’s 51^st Annual ACM Awards, Brothers Osborne recently wrapped up touring with Jon Pardi as part of the All Time High Tour. This summer, fans can catch the Maryland natives on Miranda Lambert’s Keeper of the Flame Tour along with Kip Moore.

 For a full list of tour dates, news, images and more, visit www.BrothersOsborne.com

On February 24^th, 2001 a little known country music singer scored his first #1 song with his third single “But For The Grace of God,” from his self-titled debut album.  Fifteen years later, almost to the day, the four-time Grammy Award winner and multiple ACM nominee celebrates another #1, only this time setting not only a new career high, but an historic mark on Billboard’s All-Time Country Airplay Chart.

“Break on Me,” the second release from Keith Urban’s upcoming album ripCORD, marks his 19^th #1 song on Billboard’s All-Time Country Airplay Chart.  This moves Urban into #8 all-time, moving him ahead of Garth Brooks.  The song also marks Urban’s 20^th #1 and his 4^th consecutive (dating back to 2013’s “We Were Us”) on the Aircheck/Mediabase Country Chart.

“Music for me has always been about expression and connection,” said Urban.  “So to have all of these songs connect in the way they have hits me on so many different levels.  I’m constantly inspired by the passionate support I get from all of the fans, my friends at country radio and of course Capitol Records.  “Break On Me” holds a very special place in my heart for personal reasons, and for the incredible timing of it hitting number one almost to the day of my very first number one! Truly divine.”

 Urban recently announced his ‘ripCORD World Tour 2016” with Brett Eldredge and special guest Maren Morris.  It gets underway on June 2^nd in Kansas City, and thus far will play more than 50 shows in amphitheaters and arenas throughout the U.S.  ‘ripCORD World Tour 2016’ will not only see Urban’s first headlining shows ever in Youngstown (Ohio), Lincoln (Nebraska), Orange Beach (Alabama), Bloomington (Illinois) and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina), but will see his return to several cities in which he hasn’t appeared in three years, including Tampa (Florida), Kansas City (Missouri), Lake Tahoe (Nevada) and West Palm Beach (Florida).

 “Break On Me” is the follow up to “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”, second #1 song from ripCORD.

For more official keith urban news and information go to www.keithurban.net or follow him on www.facebook.com/keithurban or @keithurban.

Luke Bryan will team up with Jason Derulo…again…when they hit the stage together this time for a new installment of CMT Crossroads, premiering this summer. As you may remember, Luke joined Jason…sort of…when he taped himself through the Smule app singing on Jason’s super hit “Want to Want Me,” which received several million views on YouTube (check out the video below). The two will trade vocals on each other’s songs

They’re one of four pairs that were announced today by CMT. Charles Kelley and Rob Thomas will share the stage for an episode later this spring; as well as Thomas Rhett with Nick Jonas and Jennifer Nettles with Cheap Trick.

Luke is first looking to next month as he prepares to host the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards with Dierks Bentley. The show will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd on CBS.

Charles is making his way up the country charts with his single, “The Driver,” which is from his new solo album of the same title, available now.

Canaan Smith is hitting his stride with his latest single, “Hole in a Bottle,” as well as his live show. He’s on the road with Brantley Gilbert on The Blackout Tour, which also features newcomer Michael Ray. In a recent review on Kentucky.com, Canaan was said to have “the best combination of songs, swagger and showmanship.” It went on to say Canaan “looked and sounded more like a country artist than anyone who took the stage with songs like One of Those and his hits Love You Like That and Hole in the Bottle. But his unexpected cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ smash Iris proved to be an impressive vocal showcase for Smith and the highlight of the set, inspiring a sing-along that was the biggest of the night. Based on his performance, don’t be surprised if Smith comes back to Rupp in a few years with a few openers of his own.”

The Virginia native’s debut album, Bronco, is available now.

Eric Church has built a reputation for making every live show special with one-night-only set lists, unique arrangements, and stripped solo shows. Now “our greatest working rock star” (Stereogum) is pushing the envelope even further with a not to be missed two-night solo stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, Aug. 9 and Wednesday, Aug. 10.

Fan club members will have the first chance to purchase tickets and travel packages during the fan club pre-sale, starting March 4, on ericchurch.com.  The one or two night travel packages include lodging at Denver’s Hotel Monaco, transportation to and from the venue, and tickets in the first 20 rows. This package and tickets will also be offered to the public beginning at 10 a.m. MT on March 11 by visiting www.axs.comor by phone at (888) 929-7849.

The performances offer fans one of the few chances this year to see the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year nominee. Church, who’s up for six awards at the April 3 CBS-broadcast award show, has mostly laid low since The Outsiders World Tour’s two-year run concluded and the surprise release of new album Mr. Misunderstood last November. He’s only scheduled a few shows so far in 2016, and with an album’s worth of new music to debut you can bet every single show will be special.

A four-time ACM Awards winner, in addition to the top honor Entertainer of the Year, Church is also up for Album of the Year for Mr. Misunderstood, Male Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year for Top 15 single “Mr. Misunderstood,” Vocal Event and Song of the Year for “Raise ‘Em Up” with Keith Urban.

Church recently released “Record Year,” the second single from Mr. Misunderstood. The song, which namechecks Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key of Life, Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, John Lee Hooker’s One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer among others from Church’s stack of vinyl, was dubbed the “most moving moment” on the new album by Rolling Stone.

About Eric Church
The two-time Country Music Association and four-time Academy of Country Music Award winner cemented his reputation as a maverick by releasing his 2015 album Mr. Misunderstood as a surprise, delivering it to fans before announcing its existence and putting it on sale. The current single, “Record Year,” is the second following the Mr. Misunderstood title track, and the album helped Church earn six ACM Award nominations for the April 3, 2016 show broadcast on CBS. The North Carolina native received a huge response from his fans, who made Church 2014’s top-selling country music artist with the year’s highest debut and sales of any release in the format as the critical and commercial success The Outsiders reached Platinum status. Debuting at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and Top Country Albums chart, The Outsiders garnered GRAMMY, CMA and ACM Album of the Year nominations and featured his No.1 hits “Give Me Back My Hometown” and “Talladega” as well as multiple nominee “Like A Wrecking Ball.” The Outsiders is the follow-up to Church’s Platinum-certified CHIEF, named the 2012 Album of the Year by both CMA and ACM, and GRAMMY-nominated for Best Country Album. The LP featured five Top 20 singles: “Homeboy” (certified Platinum for sales in excess of 1 million); the Top 10 “Like Jesus Does” and the Top 5 “Creepin’” (both certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000); and two No. 1 hits “Drink in My Hand” (certified Platinum) and “Springsteen” (certified Double Platinum for sales in excess of 2 million singles). Church’s 2006 debut album, Sinners Like Me and his sophomore album Carolina (2009) are both RIAA Gold certified.

Kids Interview Bands’ Piper interviewed Kacey Musgraves at Express Live in Columbus, Ohio on February 26, 2016. Find out which artist’s music the Texas native recently downloaded onto her phone, who she’d like to play in a movie, if she would go 100 years into the future or 100 years in the past and if she can name all of the Spice Girls.

Luke Bryan used the extra day in this leap year (February 29th) to bring lunch to firefighters in Franklin, Tennessee,as part of Chevrolet’s #DayItForward.  “Some of the guys who work at this particular station had saved somebody’s life that was jogging,” Luke said. “So with my extra 24 hours, it was a no-brainer for me to come by and show these firefighters a little bit of love and respect.” The reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year showed up unannounced and brought them a good ole southern meal of meatloaf, mac and cheese, green beans, salad and pies.

Chris Stapleton has released a music video for “Fire Away,” a song from his award-winning album, Traveller. The concept of the clip, which features Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, X-Men) and Margarita Levieva (The Black List, Revenge) and directed by Tim Mattia, was conceived by Chris.

The clip, which takes you through a young married couple’s first happy moments that quickly turn tragic, is helping to bring awareness to mental health issues, specifically through the Campaign to Change Direction. The organization was introduced to Chris through Foster and hopes to begin conversations about the five signs of mental illness, which are featured in the video. Nearly one in five people have a diagnosable health condition and most of them do not speak up.

Chris is currently blazing up the country charts with his single “Nobody to Blame,” which is also from his album, Traveller.

At this year’s ACM Awards, he’s nominated for Male Vocalist, New Male Vocalist, Album of the Year for Traveller, Song of the Year for “Nobody to Blame” and Vocal Event of the Year for the song “Hangover Tonight” with Gary Allan. The 51st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET on CBS.

Check out the video here: http://www.chrisstapleton.com/fire-away/

Album buy link: http://umgn.us/Traveller