Chris Stapleton and Morgan Wallen are among the artists just announced who will be awarded at the upcoming ACM Honors ceremony. The two stars will join Shania Twain, Miranda Lambert, HARDY and others in being recognized at the event held in August. Stapleton is being given the ACM Spirit Award, which honors the contributions of Merle Haggard. According to…
Dierks Bentley has another No. 1 song to his credit. The country music hitmaker just scored his 21st chart-topping single, with “Beers on Me,” his collaboration with HARDY and BRELAND. “From start to finish this song was a true collaboration, and to do it with BRELAND and HARDY really means a lot,” Bentley says of the honor. “They both bring something…
Morgan Wallen performed on Wednesday night, March 16, for the first of his three nights at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, as part of his Dangerous Tour, where he was joined by a few surprise guests, including Ronnie Dunn, Jimmie Allen and more. Dunn surprised the crowd by joining Wallen halfway through his song, “Talkin’ Tennessee,” from his debut If I…
Morgan Wallen had plenty of people turn their backs on him after he uttered a racial slur last year, but one person who didn’t is his good friend, HARDY. The 31-year-old, who won the ACM Award for Songwriter of the Year, has stood by Wallen especially in the last year, which is why he was thrilled to see Wallen…
Blake Shelton‘s upcoming Body Language Deluxe album features a few special guests. In addition to Gwen Stefani , who joins him on their No. 1 hit, “Happy Anywhere,” and the Swon Brothers, who join him on the title track, the new deluxe version also features both HARDY and Brooks & Dunn. HARDY, who co-wrote three of the tracks on Body…
HARDY is officially off the market. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Michael Hardy, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Caleigh Ryan, at the Lyric Oxford in his home state of Mississippi over the weekend. “I’m not her boyfriend anymore,” HARDY announced on social media, along with a photo of him getting down on one knee, with rose pedals strewn…
We now know which rising stars will be performing for the 2021 CRS New Faces Show, and what a lineup it is! Ashley McBryde, Matt Stell, HARDY, Tenille Arts, and Travis Denning will perform for the music industry show, which will be virtual this year because of COVID-19. The five artists were narrowed down from an original list of…
The Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) just announced the nominees for the 2021 New Faces Show. which historically has been a launching pad for some of country music’s most-successful careers. This year’s nominees include Ashley McBryde, HARDY, Matt Stell, Tenille Arts, Niko Moon, Travis Denning, Ryan Hurd, Parker McCollum and Jameson Rodgers. Five artists will be chosen from the list…
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 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…
