Nashville, TN – Dec. 16, 2013– PLATINUM-selling artist Kip Moore extinguished his BURN THE WHOLE WORLD DOWN tour this weekend wrapping up with a sold-out show at Cleveland’s House of Blues on Saturday night. His headlining run resulted in sold-out dates thrilling thousands of fans with a preview of new music and what is to come from “one of Nashville’s breakout stars…” (Washington Post) in 2014.

Moore’s album UP ALL NIGHT was the best selling debut album from any solo male country artist released in 2012 and 2013, and produced three back-to-back No. one singles with “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck,” “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl.”  From national TV appearances like TODAY, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to his first stadium slot as part of CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock and a photo spread in PEOPLE Country’s “Hottest Guy’s” issue, Moore has captivated a loyal following in both fans and critics.  This year also brought Moore his first CMA Award nomination in the “New Artist Of The Year” category.

As he heads into 2014, Moore is armed with the recently released lead single, “Young Love,” from his upcoming sophomore album.  A constant road warrior, Moore will pick up with Lady Antebellum on their TAKE ME DOWNTOWN TOUR on Jan. 10 in Peoria, IL.  For a full list of tour dates and more information, visit www.kipmoore.net.

Jase (favorite Christmas memory) OC: …duck hunting. :52
JASE:  “My favorite Christmas memory is probably the time that I got down at my dad’s house right before daylight because we were going duck hunting – it was Christmas Eve – and I see smoke everywhere. I went into his house and there’s a hole right in front of the fireplace that is huge, and he has a sledgehammer and he’s just (sighs), making the hole bigger. I said ‘What happened?’ He’s like, ‘House caught on fire.’  And so I’m like, ‘Hmm, well I guess so much for my dad going duck hunting.’ And I said, ‘Well, we’re going to go ahead and go to the blind, and he’s like, ‘Oh I’m coming with you.’ ‘Well, you’ve got a big hole in the middle of your floor. He’s like, ‘Well, what do you want me to do about it?’  He said, ‘We got the fire out.’ So, I learned something there — If you have a fire at your house during duck season, you need to put it out before daylight, ‘cause we’re going duck hunting.”

Jase (favorite Christmas movie) OC: …Outlaw Josie Wells. :27
“Yeah I get a lot of flack over my favorite Christmas movie, ‘cause it’s probably the Outlaw Josie Wells. People are like, ‘What does that have to do with Christmas?’ I’m like in that journey that he took, I’m sure they had Christmas somewhere in there, and it just gets me excited during the Christmas spirit. My favorite classic Christmas movie I guess would be Christmas Vacation. We have a tradition where we always watch that, but it’s not Outlaw Josie Wells.”

Jep (strangest Christmas gift) OC: …no thanks. :08
“I think the strangest gift I ever got was somebody gave me a Duck Commander t-shirt.  I can get those for free. So, thanks but no thanks. [laughs]”

Korie (favorite Christmas memory) OC: …baby Jesus. :26
“My favorite Christmas memory is when John Luke was a baby, he got to play baby Jesus and we did it at the mall. They set up this huge like nativity scene, and I was Mary and John Luke was baby Jesus. He had a pacifier. He loved his pacifier, so it was probably the only baby Jesus that was sucking a pacifier. But it’s okay. We made it, and he did great.  He was so cute.  I still have those pictures and remember him at that little age playing baby Jesus.”

Miss Kay (favorite Christmas gift) OC: …was wonderful. :40
“My favorite Christmas memory is when Phil and I came back together after we had the hard time and we were separated, when we came back together that first Christmas, we were in a little bitty apartment and we were apart and then we were back together, and Phil gave me – had a big ole box under the tree, and of course I couldn’t wait to see what it was because he’s not a gift buyer, and it was a wonderful set of pots and pans. Anybody else would have said, ‘Well, that’s not personal,’ but it was very personal for me. And for Phil to give me a gift and even have it wrapped, I’m telling you, it was wonderful.”

Uncle Si (Christmas Eve & Christmas Day) OC: …family meal. :09
“Look, here’s what we do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, okay? The Robertsons gets together around a table, okay, for a big family meal.”

Uncle Si (Christmas present) OC: …is hunt. :11
“Here’s what I want from Santa, Okay?  And Santa, are you listening? I want some time off, Okay? Give me a break more than a couple of hours. I want like a month to do what I like to do, which is hunt.”

[[21]AUDIO: Duck the Halls’ Willie Robertson recalls his favorite Christmas memory.

Willie (favorite Christmas memory) OC: …ever. :22
“My favorite Christmas memory was probably the year that we got our third son, Will.  Just how we got him and it was in December.  He came to us and I never forget having him right behind John Luke and Sadie and just a special Christmas with a newborn there and taking care of him.

Willie (favorite Christmas meal) OC: …it’s awesome. :33
“My favorite Christmas meal would have to be down at my parents eating fried shrimp and crawfish balls and crawfish pie. For some reason we do a big seafood thing. So there’s some dressing but more of the dressing and duck and all that is at Thanksgiving and for some reason at Christmas we want to blow out with a big Cajun seafood meal. So we all help out and throw in and help cook it and it’s awesome.”

AJ (Christmas traditions) OC: …and everything. :30
“Christmas is pretty traditional. We don’t let anybody open any presents until Christmas morning, after Santa Claus comes. We don’t let them get up on their own and take off, you know, everybody has to wait and kind of get situated, and maybe have a cup of coffee, and then we start all of the regular Christmas morning activities, opening presents, taking pictures and video. We have music going, you know, I try to keep Christmas music going in the background. I like to turn that on before I let them come down to the tree and everything.”

AJ (meaning of Christmas) OC: …lovely Christmas. :21
“Always try to remember Jesus’ birthday, and just the whole thing and just have a wonderful big meal, almost like Thanksgiving four weeks later. We have the same pretty much turkey, dressing, all the same kind of things. Sometimes we have family members in Tennessee, and sometimes just us or friends, and we always go home to Georgia prior to that, so pretty standard, lovely Christmas.”

Darius Rucker (Christmas) OC: …feels special. :35
“Christmas is really that time where, that’s another thing with family. You get together, and the celebration of the birth of Christ is one of those things that I never take for granted. We always try to make it special. Because Christmas come just ones a year and it’s a holy, great holiday and we try to make is special for the family. I don’t want anything for Christmas. I bought all my stuff all year, if I see it and I want it, I buy it so Christmas is that time where I really go out of my way to make sure everybody else feels special.”

Keith Urban tells fans “thank you” for coming out to his Light the Fuse 2013 Tour, and heads to Hollywood for American Idol. Check out the UrbanChat below.

From ABC News Radio:

Little Big Town is getting to do some “Day Drinking” in 2014. That’s the title of the lead single from their upcoming studio album, which they’ll start recording next February or March.

LBT recently tweeted a photo of a recent writing session with the caption, “Once everyone gets #SOBER, lets all do a little #DAYDRINKING. Spring 2014.” Though they’re not giving too much away about “Day Drinking” just yet, the group’s Karen Fairchild tells ABC News Radio they just couldn’t keep their excitement about the song under wraps.

“We got back from writing, and, I don’t know, we were just excited. We had written [the] song awhile ago,” Karen says of the Twitter leak of “Day Drinking.” “It’s kind of, like, the cornerstone, to me, of building the record.”

Little Big Town is currently in heavy writing mode for the new project. Their current single, “Sober,” from their platinum-selling album, Tornado, is now climbing the country charts.

The stockings are hung by the chimneys with care, office Christmas parties are taking place, folks are making plans to be with their loved ones this holiday season, and some of your favorite country artists recall their favorite Christmas memories, songs and much more. (NOTE: This is the first installment of UMG Christmas soundbites.)

Eric Paslay (Christmases growing up) OC: …and football. :37
‘I remember always [on] Christmas Eve, we’d go to my Mom’s mother’s house, my grandmother, and we’d open up gifts kinda from the family. And my great-aunt, lived across the street, so all of those cousins, we’d go over there and hang out and steal some more cookies and kind of show…what’cha got and play with the toy for five minutes and move on to the other cousin’s toys. And then the next morning, maybe when we were younger, open up some more presents, you know, and then go to my other grandparents’ [house], my dad’s parents and hang out with that family, and it was always fun. We’d always have turkey, ham and football.”

Eric Paslay (Christmas Song) OC: …Christmas. :07
“My favorite Christmas song is ‘Away in a Manger.’ The melody’s so beautiful, and I think it’s the true meaning of Christmas.”

George Strait (Christmas memories) OC: …back then. :21
“At Christmas time, we always kind of got together at my grandparents and had Christmas there, and it was a lot of fun because you’d see cousins that you hadn’t seen in a while. Those are the memories that I have, getting to spend a few days with them and opening presents and it was just a lot of fun back then.”

Jennifer Nettles (Christmas 2013) 1 OC: …excited about that. :44
“Christmas is super exciting this year, because I have a one-year-old, and granted, while he had been born just before Christmas last year, he was just a little lump, just a little sugar lump [laughs] at that point. Now, he’s walking around, and he’s into everything. He gets excited about discovery, and so getting gifts for him that he can enjoy and learn from and that will intrigue him for about 10 seconds until he moves on to the box really excite me right now. So, I’m excited about that, and starting our own holiday traditions, ‘cause I think the season is definitely more special when seen through the eyes of a child, so I’m excited about that.”

Jennifer Nettles (Christmas 2013) 2 OC: …would be fun. :45
“Typically, I decorate. Now this year I have not yet, because we’re trying to move into a new house, and so we’re not quite in there yet, but yet we’re very much in a transition, I will say. That’s been a theme – transition and change and growth and evolution, all that has been a theme for me this year and continues to be. So, we’re trying to get into a new house, so I haven’t decorated, but I do love doing it, but what I love more is entertaining. So, I hope that once we get into this house, I’m hoping to be able to do something for the New Year, ‘cause I love New Year’s. We’ll make Christmas be about Grandmas, and we’ll go over to Grandmas’ and do all that, but I hope to able to be settled enough in the new house to be able to host something for New Years would be fun.”

Josh Turner (favorite Christmas food) OC: …favorite food. :15
“My favorite food to eat at Christmas time is probably the fried turkey that my daddy makes every year He started that several years back, and it became a hit with our family, and so he ended up doing it. He’s been doing it every year since, so that’s always been my favorite food.”

Kacey Musgraves (Christmas puzzle tradition) OC: …a little tradition. :28
“My grandpa has a scavenger hunt puzzle that he does every year. Even though I’m like too old for the puzzle, he’s like, ‘You’re still gonna do it.’ So, every year we do that, and it’s funny ‘cause sometimes you’ll find your present in the bathroom or in a tree or out behind the shed. He does a little trail of like either corn or a string to it. It’s very imaginative, and it’s something I look forward to every year. It’s a little tradition.”

Kacey Musgraves (Christmas stockings) OC: …are fun. :07
“Stockings. I love stockings. They’re kinda my favorite, ‘cause it’s like all the little goodies in there just are fun.”

Lauren Alaina (favorite Christmas memory) OC: …on it. :09
“This is Lauren Alaina, and my favorite Christmas memory is when I got my Barbie bike when I was like six years old and I thought I ruled the world because it had a horn and it had Barbie’s picture on it.”

In the latest episode of LBTV, Luke Bryan takes a look back at 2013, which has been the biggest year of his career yet. Kicking off his headling tour, scoring not one, but two No. 1 albums on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and he was crowned the ACM Entertainer of the Year!

Holiday liners from UMG Nashville artists, including Alan Jackson, Billy Currington, Brothers Osborne, Darius Rucker, David Nail, Dierks Bentley, Easton Corbin, Eric Church, Eric Paslay, Gary Allan, George Strait, Jennifer Nettles, Jon Pardi, Josh Turner, Keith Urban, Kelleigh Bannen, Kip Moore, Lady Antebellum, Lauren Alaina, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Scotty McCreery and more!

Lady Antebellum’s Golden has been certified GOLD by the Recording Industry Association of America (R-I-A-A). This is the group’s fifth GOLD album. 

If you happened to miss the American Country Awards (ACAs) on Tuesday and forgot to DVR it, you’ll have another chance to catch it. Great American Country will re-air the ACAs, featuring the night’s big winners including Luke Bryan and Scotty McCreery, on December 21st at 8pm ET.

Luke Bryan and Eric Church have been announced as the headliners for Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival taking place April 12th and 13th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The two-day festival will also include performances by Billy Currington, Sheryl Crow, Brett Eldredge, Cole Swindell and many more. A limited number of advance- tickets go on sale Friday (December 13th) at 10am ET at tortugamusicfestival.com. 

Gary Allan will appear on an episode of Guitar Center Sessions on Friday (December 13th) at 9pm ET on DIRECTV’s Audience Network (channel 239).

Keith Urban has released his 2014 calendar to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The 12-month calendar, which costs 15-dollars, features photographs submitted by fans who caught Keith on his Light the Fuse Tour 2013. Click here for more information.

Vince Gill appears as a special guest on Sara Evans’ forthcoming album, Slow Me Down, which is available March 4th.

Check out the official music video for Lady Antebellum’s single, “Compass.”

“Compass” is from the group’s Golden Deluxe album.