Laine Hardy won Season 17 of American Idol in 2019, and immediately got to work making music. The 20-year-old, who has already released a few songs, including his current single, “Tiny Town,” is relying on the important lessons he learned while on the reality TV talent show, as he forges his own career path. “Idol taught me a lot…
When HARDY joined Devin Dawson and Jordan Schmidt for a writing session in early 2019, he had no idea that only a few months later, one of country music’s biggest superstars, Blake Shelton, would not only record the song, but make it a multi-platinum No. 1 hit as well. For HARDY, the success of the song changed almost everything…
HARDY‘s debut album, A Rock, is out! The 29-year-old co-wrote all 12 songs on the record — several since the start of the coronavirus pandemic — joining forces with hit writers like Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey, David Garcia and more, to create a musical masterpiece expected of someone with decades of experience. “I love saying this: a lot of…
HARDY has become one of country music’s biggest breakout stories of the last few years. Not only has he penned some of the genre’s most-successful singles, including Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country” and “Hell Right,” Florida Georgia Line’s “Simple” and “Talk You Out of It” and Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down,” but he’s also found success on his own as an…
After writing songs for Florida Georgia Line, Blake Shelton and more, HARDY (real name: Michael Hardy) is releasing his own record. The 29-year-old will release A Rock on September 4, which includes his new single, “One Beer,” featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson. With songs like “God’s Country,” “Up Down,” “I Don’t Know About You” and others, HARDY wanted…
New music is here from Laine Hardy! The American Idol winner dropped not one but two new songs, “Ground I Grew Up On” and “Let There Be Country,” earlier this month. “I am so excited to finally be able to release this new music!” the Louisiana native said in a statement about his new music. “I hope these songs…
Brooks & Dunn won the CMA Award for Vocal Duo of the Year, for the first time in 18 years. Brooks & Dunn shared the category with Brothers Osborne, Dan + Shay, Maddie & Tae and The War And Treaty. “What a weird business, right?” Ronnie Dunn said from the stage. “I love it. And right now I really…
In recent years, plenty of artists have had crossover success from country to pop, including Jelly Roll, Carrie Underwood, Kane Brown, HARDY and more. There are also numerous pop artists, such as Post Malone and Beyoncé, who have enjoyed a successful foray into country music, although not without criticism. But two of the people who won’t complain about crossover…
Cody Johnson‘s Leather Deluxe Edition is out, but it’s the record that almost didn’t happen. The album follows Johnson’s Leather, released one year ago, although Johnson didn’t originally intend to create two different projects. “Leather was supposed to be an album to follow up Human: The Double Album, but by the time I got through looking at all these…
Cody Johnson‘s Leather Deluxe Edition is out now. The new record, the follow-up to his Leather album, out last year, is 13 more songs that Johnson released, in many ways as a thank-you to his fans. “I’ll try not to get emotional, but it means the world to me, because at the end of the day, we’re all human,…
