Lady Antebellum‘s new single, “Compass,” is hitting the airwaves, and the latest episode of Webisode Wednesday shows just why the trio wanted it for their latest release.

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party, which was certified platinum this week, moved back up to the top of the country album chart. The collection sold enough to land at No. 1 on the country chart and at No. 6 overall.

Justin Moore’s Off the Beaten Path falls to No. 2, followed by the debut of Alan Jackson’s The Bluegrass Album at No. 3. Keith Urban’s Fuse and Chris Young’s A.M. round out the Top 5.

Alan Jackson is the first artist to be announced for next year’s MerleFest, slated for April 24th -27th. The four-day event will take place in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.  Additional performers for MerleFest 2014 will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for MerleFest 2014 go on sale November 12th and can be purchased at www.merlefest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857.

Keith Urban is scheduled to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday (October 3rd). Check your local listings for time and channel.

ABC Music Lounge’s Nashville-inspired docu-web series, On the Record, is featuring the original song “Gonna Get Even,” which was written by Kacey Musgraves, along with Al Anderson and Pat McLaughlin. The song, performed by Aubrey Peeples as “Layla Grant,” will appear on the ABC series, Nashville, on Wednesday (October 2nd) at 10pm ET.

In the latest episode of DBTV, Dierks Bentley fans explain what they “hold on” to like Dierks does in his latest single, “I Hold On.”

Luke Bryan launches his fifth annual Farm Tour on Wednesday (October 2nd) in Statesboro, Georgia. He says he’s enjoyed watching it grow every year. “I just love being out there on the Farm Tour and watching the fans roll in and getting ready to have fun and be part of a fun night of music in the country,” says Luke. “We’ve been really, really blessed at watching it grow into something really special year in and year out.”

Luke and his special guests Cole Swindell, the Peach Pickers and newcomer Chancie Neal, will also hit such cities as Athens (Georgia), Columbia (SC) and Macon (Georgia), before wrapping up October 12th in Valdosta (Georgia). The trek will benefit agriculture communities with the Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship.

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“With [the] Farm Tour, I just love being out there on the Farm Tour and watching the fans roll in and getting ready to have fun and be part of a fun night of music in the country. And I love watching the Farm Tour grow every year. We’ve been really, really blessed at watching it grow into something really special year in and year out.”

October 1, 2013 -Country superstar Luke Bryan’s album Crash My Party has been certified Platinum by the RIAA just six weeks after being released on August 13th. The album debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Country sales charts with 527,783 units sold, making it the biggest sales debut for a Country male artist since 2004 and the third highest album to debut across all genres this year.

The album’s title track, a multi-week No.1 single, recently set a Billboard record as the largest one-week audience since 2005 with 45.5 million listeners and has sold 1.3 million downloads. Luke’s newest single, “That’s My Kinda Night,” is also the highest-debuting single of his career and has been the No. 1 selling country single for six consecutive weeks. Crash My Party is Luke’s fourth studio album which follows his double-Platinum 2011 album tailgates & tanlines.

Luke is currently gearing up to launch his fifth “Farm Tour 2013” this week with eight shows from October 2 to October 12. Special guests performing during the tour include Chancie Neal, Cole Swindell and the Peach Pickers- Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson and Ben Hayslip.

Luke’s career now boasts over four million in album sales with seven No. 1 singles. He is the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year. Luke was named the No. 1 Artist of 2012 and No. 1 Male Artist of 2012 by Country Aircheck. Billboard named tailgates & tanlines the No. 2 Country Album and the No. 3 Country Artist Album of 2012 and claimed Luke as the #3 Top Country Artist of the Year. Also in 2012, Luke took home 11 music awards, including a record nine wins at the American Country Awards as well as his first American Music Award.

This spring, Luke co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton and received the coveted Entertainer of the Year award as well as the Vocal Event award with Jason Aldean and Eric Church for “The Only Way I Know.” At the CMT Music Awards in June, Luke won for Collaborative Video of the Year for “The Only Way I Know.”

Luke is currently nominated for three CMA Awards, Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist and Musical Event for “The Only Way I Know” with Jason Aldean and Eric Church. The show will air live on ABC on November 6th from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

Grammy Award winner and American Idol judge Keith Urban presented a check for $300,000 (backstage at his show on Saturday night in San Diego) to the Navy SEAL Foundation (NSF) a non-profit organization that serves to support SEAL families and their parent commands in easing financial burdens, establishing support networks and funding command-sponsored activities. The donation made backstage prior to his concert at San Diego’s Sleep Train Amphitheatre, represents Urban’s share of artist and publishing royalties earned from his song “For You”, written for the motion picture Act Of Valor.

Said Robin King, CEO of the Navy SEAL Foundation, “The Navy SEAL Foundation is humbled by Keith’s generosity and support of our community and its families.  His generous donation will help fund resiliency retreats for 120 SEALs and their families, fund the opportunity for over 500 Naval Special Warfare children to attend summer camp in 2014, where they’ll learn the importance of teamwork, communication, cooperation, goal setting and overcoming adversity.” 

“I have a deep appreciation for the special bond that all of these families feel towards each other and for the commitment that they have made to all of us,” said Urban. “The NSF reminds us to acknowledge the importance and sacrifice that is made each and every day by those serving ‘down range’ as well as their loving families.”

The NSF is a non-profit organization that provides immediate, ongoing and unwavering support and assistance to U.S. Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman, Naval Special Warfare support personnel and their families. Their mission encompasses five key areas including warrior support and family services, educational opportunities, legacy preservation, tragedy assistance and survivor support. 

Urban is currently out on his Light The Fuse Tour in support of his seventh studio album FUSE, which debuted just this past week at #1 on all-genre charts in the United States, Canada and Australia.

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“For me, and I said this to some of the SEAL guys too, you know, because they were saying thank you so much for the song and being involved in the film. I’d like to say it’s just mine and my family’s tiny little way of saying thank you for what they do. It’s really extraordinary what they do, and I think this film, particularly, when people see it will have a new insight as to what they do. The diversity, separate to their sacrifices and their honor — separate to that — their actual physical human skills are just extraordinary.

Seven-time GRAMMY award-winning trio Lady Antebellum revealed their new single “Compass” to fans today on Facebook. Also shipping to Country Radio today, “Compass” is an arena sized sing-along driven by banjo and mandolin instrumentation. It will be available on iTunes tomorrow and will be included in a special edition GOLDEN DELUXE in stores Nov. 12th. Recent time off from the road has allowed the trio to channel their efforts off-stage by exploring new musical boundaries, resulting in a studio session too pivotal to ignore.

“We’ve had a lot time off from the road this summer to focus on our personal lives and really clear our heads…we’ve never done that before,” said Lady A’s Charles Kelley. “That break was more beneficial than we ever thought it would be and through some experimentation in the studio with Nathan Chapman, we found this new song that we knew we had to really dig into.”

“It was love at first listen with ‘Compass,’” continued Dave Haywood. “You hear people talk about songs they knew they couldn’t live without, and this is one of them for us. Once we all got in the studio to record our parts and really work with the instrumentation, it took on an energy that felt really fresh and different. We tried some new things vocally, and by adding foot stomps and hand claps to the acoustic sounds of the banjo, fiddle and mandolin, it really turned into something special.”

“I immediately fell in love with the spirit of the song,” added Hillary Scott. “As we made it our own, we decided we had to share it with the fans immediately…we just couldn’t wait! They’ve been so patient with us over the last few months as I’ve begun a new chapter in my life personally. Everything takes on new meaning once you have a child, and now I can hear the message of the song through Eisele’s ears too. It opens up a whole new world to you as an artist.”