Jordin Sparks is receiving generally favorable reviews for her first new album in six years. But “Right Here Right Now” is being greeted with what sounds like a giant yawn on the iTunes’ charts. As of 10 a.m. Friday morning, hours after its release, the album was sitting at number 194 on a chart that…
Carrie Underwood will have a new single out tonight. More good news: A new album — “Storyteller” — will quickly follow. It’s to be released Oct. 23. The new song is called “Smoke Break” and was written by the same team that brought us the hit single “Little Toy Guns.” The songwriters include Carrie, Hillary…
gals from Granville Automatic have done it again. By that, I mean they’ve released another fine country-folk album, this time sharing stories from the Civil War. “An Army Without Music” hit iTunes last Friday, featuring nine songs focused on battles or personalities from that conflict. Granville Automatic includes songwriter-guitarist Elizabeth Elkins and songwriter-vocalist Vanessa Olivarez,…
folks from The Voice posted a video today providing a first glimpse at Season 9. After all, it’s just a little more than a month away with the premiere set for Sept. 21. In real life, of course, the blind auditions have already been filmed. Matter of fact, so have the battle rounds. Anyway, the…
McCreery has a new single out. And fans might be surprised by the up-tempo, county-pop flavor of “Southern Belle,” which hit iTunes Monday. But they need not fear. Scotty says he isn’t about to abandon his traditional country sound. “This is probably about as far left as we’ll go,” he tells Rolling Stone Country earlier…
Matt McAndrew is calling Sunday’s show on the beach in Atlantic City, N.J., “the most fun I’ve ever had.” Little wonder. It isn’t often a singer gets to perform in front of 50,000 people. That’s how many fans reportedly came out to see Matt, Nick Jonas and Maroon 5 perform on the beach on Sunday….
Cook continues the slow tease toward the release of his new album, Digital Vein, which comes out Sept. 18. In the past week, he released the lyric video for “Criminals,” a song he released earlier this month. He also released a new track for the album: “Carry You.” And for those eager to see him…
The Voice and Carrie Underwood nabbed Teen Choice awards in a show broadcast Sunday night on FOX. The Voice won for favorite reality TV show. Other nominees were American Idol, Dance Moms, KUWTK, Lip Sync Battle and MasterChef Junior. Carrie took a pair of honors, for favorite country song (“Little Toy Gun”) and favorite country…
Melanie Martinez has to be pretty thrilled right about now. Twenty-four hours after the 20-year-old released her debut album, “Cry Baby,” it’s still number four on the iTunes album chart. And it still tops the alternative albums chart. The album shot up to number four on that oveall quickly after its release and has held…
One of the Season 7 standouts on The Voice has a new EP out. And Taylor John Williams has delivered exactly what fans probably expected: a very fine collection of music with a singer-songwriter vibe. My favorite among the five tracks is the hauntingly beautiful “Song of a Dead Man,” complete with references to Johnny…
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