Kelly Clarkson, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown Also to Perform CBS has announced that singer-songwriter Josh Groban will headline the 19th annual A Home For The Holidays with Josh Groban to be broadcast Tuesday, December 19th from 8-9 pm ET/PT on…
The single sold for more than $14k The Beatles first demonstration single for Parlophone “Love Me Do” has been officially confirmed as sold through Discogs for $14,757.00US (£11,250.00) breaking a Discogs sales record for a 7″ single. Released on October…
The CD/DVD project will be available on December 8th As they celebrate a half-century of cutting edge music and live performances, Vanilla Fudge will release the CD/DVD of Live At Sweden Rocks – The 50th Anniversary on Friday, December 8th…
Newark is the last Northeastern stop on the Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood I tried. I really did. But I couldn’t NOT sing along. It was the second (of three nights), I thought I had pulled my vocal…
On the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime Wembley Stadium show and a European tour in 2017, Jeff Lynne’s ELO announced its first North American tour in 30 plus years produced by Live Nation. Jeff Lynne’s last extensive U.S. tour with ELO…
Brooks scores his first No. 1 in a decade Garth Brooks has scored his 20th No. 1 hit with “Ask Me How I Know.” The Mitch Rossell-penned tune jumps eight percent from two to one on the Billboard’s Country Airplay…
Average Joes Entertainment’s Platinum-selling Montgomery Gentry is taking the band’s long-awaited studio album, Here’s To You, on the road with the Here’s To You Tour this winter. This emotional return to the stage is the first time member Eddie Montgomery…
The current incarnation of Fleetwood Mac made its debut in the summer of 1975 when the band released its second eponymous album. An overwhelming smash, the record topped the Billboard album chart, spent more than a year in the Top…
Lauren Alaina, Luke Combs, Midland, Carly Pearce, and Michael Ray set to appear Country Radio Seminar officials have announced the CRS 2018 New Faces of Country Music Show performers. The five acts to appear are Lauren Alaina, Luke Combs, Midland,…
Concert Will Benefit U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Effort Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio Band, Aaron Neville and Hurray For The Riff Raff will join forces and perform at A Concert for Island Relief, which will…
Latin Rock’s leading global ambassador and the most-awarded solo artist in Latin Grammy history, Juanes, has announced the 2018 North American Amarte Tour with Latin Alternative’s new leading-lady Mon Laferte. Produced by Live Nation and also including special guest Caloncho,…
The Texas Legislative Conference will award the singer in March 2018 Legendary Entertainer and “King of Country Music” George Strait has been named the 2018 Texan of the Year by the Texas Legislative Conference, the well-known annual statewide forum that…
Foreigner, Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening are getting into the holiday gift-giving spirit early with the announcement of their 2018 29 city summer Juke Box Heroes Tour, produced by Live Nation. Nothing warms up the chilly holiday season…
BROOKS PERFORMS FEB 27TH & MAR 18TH AT RODEOHOUSTON Garth Brooks sold out two concerts at RODEOHOUSTON in Houston, TX in just 18 minutes for 2018. The concerts will be the opening and closing nights February 27th and March 18th.…
The film is available on digital formats One of the most influential rock and roll artists of all time, Buddy Holly embossed the music world with an incredible body of music in his all-too-brief career, before his untimely death at…
Reveals New Teaser and First Episode Description for Final Season of Nashville On the heels of record ratings growth, CMT has announced a multi-platform winter slate of original programming including the premiere dates for new docu-series Music City, from the…
Lee Brice, Billy Currington And Cole Swindell Will Also Descend On Northerly Island June 22-24 Declared “Chicago’s biggest weekend for country music” by Chicago Tribune, Country LakeShake is returning for a fourth year with its biggest lineup yet on June…
Enjoy popular tracks for your Christmas festivities Now that Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is in full swing! Many begin celebrating on or before Thanksgiving, but we at The Music Universe, like to start after Turkey Day. We may report Christmas…
SHOW HOST RYAN SEACREST AND JENNY MCCARTHY RETURN TO LIVE BROADCAST FROM TIMES SQUARE Ryan Seacrest will return to host television’s largest live broadcast New Year’s celebration, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018, again joined by…
Ciara to Host and Solange to Receive American Express Impact Award at Billboard Women in Music Awards Taking Place November 30th in Los Angeles Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter, Ciara, will host Billboard’s annual Women in Music dinner and…
The tour adds 12 new dates with new special guests Following his induction into the Grand Ole Opry and the release of his acclaimed seventh album, Losing Sleep, 2017 has undoubtedly been a career-defining year for Chris Young. 2018 is…
Ticketmaster, the global ticket marketplace leader that provides 480 million tickets to fans across 29 countries, has polled British fans from its database of 85 million live entertainment fans around the world to discover the most popular live events in…
This is the longest streak for a country artists atop of the Billboard Comedy Albums Chart Toby Keith has a lot to celebrate as this holiday season starts with his latest album, The Bus Songs, holding at No. 1 on…
Old School Favorites Still Dominate the Rest of the Holiday Charts The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has announced its Top Holiday Songs for 2017. According to the performing rights organization’s analysis of streaming and terrestrial radio…
American Express Card Members Exclusive Pre-sale November 30th at 10 am through December 3rd at 10 am Live Nation is thrilled to announce Imagine Dragons Live in Shanghai at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. The Grammy Award-winning band is set to perform…
The Home Run Hitting Contest is available online Following the release of the long-awaited documentary Let’s Play Two that immortalized Pearl Jam’s sold-out August 2016 shows from Wrigley Field comes the Let’s Play Two Baseball Game named “Home Run Hitting Contest.” Designed…
CMA Country Christmas Re-Airs Saturday, December 23rd at 8/7c on the ABC Television Network ABC’s annual telecast of CMA Country Christmas surged over its year-ago telecast by 19% in Total Viewers (8.2 million vs. 6.9 million) and by 20% in Adults…
THE GROUP PARTNERS WITH STARBUCKS AND SPOTIFY FOR ‘GIVE GOOD’ CAMPAIGN In February of this year, Metallica announced the formation of their All Within My Hands Foundation, which is dedicated to assisting and enriching the lives of the members of…
One of the Music Industry’s Biggest and Most Buzzed About Annual Events Moves to NBC with New Multi-Year Deal NBC and Dick Clark Productions (DCP) have announced that the network has acquired the rights to broadcast the immensely popular Billboard…
Adkins has served 12 USO tours to date Trace Adkins and SiriusXM host Eddie Trunk have been tapped to co-host “America Saltues You And Wall Street Rocks Presents: Guitar Legends for Heroes” on Wednesday, November 29th at Terminal 5 in…
The Recording Academy welcomes this year’s class of GRAMMY nominees. Already a 21-time GRAMMY winner, JAY-Z leads with eight nominations, followed by Kendrick Lamar (7), Bruno Mars (6), Childish Gambino (5), Khalid (5), No I.D. (5), and SZA (5). Selected…
With 104,000 Total Consumption, Album’s Entry Marks McGraw’s 16th and Hill’s 4th #1 on Top Country Albums Chart Tim McGraw and Faith Hill celebrate the No. 1 debut of their first album together The Rest of Our Life. Amassing 104,000…
Cole Swindell, the platinum-selling ten-time No. 1 hit singer/songwriter, will wrap up his sold out fourth annual Down Home Tour at the end of January and will launch right in to his first career headlining tour, the Reason To Drink…
Performance to Air Live on AT&T AUDIENCE Network and Livestream on DIRECTV NOW AT&T is bringing in global music superstar Jennifer Lopez to headline the DIRECTV NOW Super Saturday Night concert on February 3rd, the night before the Big Game.…
LINEUP INCLUDES HEADLINING ACT AND HOST KIRK FRANKLIN, MARVIN SAPP, TAMELA MANN, TYE TRIBETT AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED Iconic gospel artist Kirk Franklin, in a unique partnership with Live Nation Urban, is set to host and headline the inaugural…
Rooted in the southern storytelling of country music with the modern punch of rock and roll, Hallelujah Nights (Arista Nashville) serves as LANCO’s coming-of-age debut album, out January 19th. Equal parts nostalgic and forward-thinking, lead singer Brandon Lancaster wrote all eleven songs…
The episode takes in Nashville and airs Dec 6th CMT has announced critically-acclaimed pop singer/songwriter Kesha will join Grammy Award-winning Americana band Old Crow Medicine Show for an all-new CMT Crossroads collaboration premiering Wednesday, December 6th at 10 pm ET The…
Nineties country singer Neal McCoy has released a new controversial single, “Take A Knee… My Ass,” that is garnering a lot of national and international attention. The song is a response to the National Anthem protests that started last year…
RIMES TO GIVE CHRISTMAS TREES TO ONE FAMILY AND TWELVE FIRST RESPONDERS OR VOLUNTEERS Two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist LeAnn Rimes brings together American Red Cross and The Salvation Army to help two communities in need: Lake Jackson, TX and Naples,…
The country singer shows his patriotism with “Take A Knee…My Ass” Country singer Neal McCoy has a message to all of the National Anthem protestors… “Take A Knee, My Ass.” The singer recorded the song, written by his friend Dan…
ADDITIONALLY #1 ON SOUNDSCAN TOP CURRENT JAZZ ALBUMS & TOP TRADITIONAL JAZZ ALBUMS CHARTS This week, the new record from British soul legend Seal, Standards [Republic Records], is the No. 1 jazz album in the country! Today (Nov 21st), Standards…
The Eagles – Don Henley, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey – have set initial tour dates for 2018, beginning March 14th in Chicago, Illinois through July 28th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with additional concerts…
Lead Singer Brandon Lancaster Becomes Only Country Artist In Over a Decade to Perform and Pen First Chart-Topping Hit Alone Sony Music Nashville’s breakthrough band LANCO earns their first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart this week with the…
Grab the closest cup of Mountain Dew — Chris Janson’s beverage of choice — for a toast to the Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville recording artist on his second career No. 1 single “Fix A Drink.” Janson takes the “clever kiss-off…
Pandora Artist to Watch 2018 Reigns Atop Canadian Mediabase & Billboard Country Airplay Charts Leading into the holiday season, Carly Pearce has a lot to be thankful for surrounding her momentous breakthrough year. On Friday night (Nov 17th), her Big…
The following is provided by Alex Heiche, CEO and founder of Sound Royalties, a company working to transform the way that music professionals fund their creativity. A lifetime member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Association International…
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN THE FIRST TICKETS NOW UNTIL TOMORROW The season’s about to get merrier for Bonnaroo fans. A pre-sale for the 2018 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival kicks off Friday, November 24th at 10 am ET. First-time attendees…
Don McLean, one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters, will continue to bring his music to stages across the world stage in 2018 with the announcement of concerts in Ireland, United Kingdom, and, of course, the United States. In addition, McLean will…
ALBUM PRE-ORDER WILL LAUNCH NOVEMBER 24TH, OFFERING FANS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE 60TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Recordings and RCA Records will release the 2018 GRAMMY Nominees album on January 12th in stores and via digital…
There is no doubt that digital music downloads are still on the way down. As of last summer, music downloads had fallen by almost a quarter (23.9%), totaling 404.9 million, according to Nielsen Soundscan’s H1 2016 data. That’s due in…