NEAR TRUTHS: REALIGNMENT AND RECOGNITION
Underscoring the year's biggest stories (11/19a)
NEAR TRUTHS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Nervous time in the music biz and beyond. (11/16a)
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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WHAT IT IS: Following his 2018 debut album, Things That We Drink To—which debuted Top 10 on the Top Country Albums chart—Nashville-based Australia native Morgan Evans earned a Country-radio #1 hit with his now-gold-certified debut single, “Kiss Somebody,” as well as a #1 on the all-genre Australia chart with “Day Drunk,” which spent 25 weeks at the top. Since then, the rising country star’s accolades have included CMA’s Global Artist of the Year, an ARIA for Country Album of the Year in 2019 and a 2020 CRS New Face of Country Music. His latest offering is “Love Is Real.”
SINGLE: “Love Is Real”
TV: The Voice Australia
LIVE: Joining Brett Eldredge on the Good Day 2021 Tour this fall; opened for Dan + Shay, Taylor Swift, Old Dominion, Luke Bryan and Kane Brown
INTERNET: 450m+ global streams; 24.3m+ combined YouTube video views
RADIO: “Love Is Real” impacts Country radio on 8/30; “Kiss Somebody” reached #1 at Country radio, “Day Drunk” peaked in the Top 20 and hit #1 on the all-genre Australia chart
PRESS: CMT, SiriusXM, Rolling Stone’s Artist to Watch, People, The Bobby Bones Show, The Tennessean, Music Row’s “Next Big Thing, more.
BOOKING: Doug Neff & Becky Gardenhire/WME
PUBLISHING: Ben Vaughn & BJ Hill/Warner Chappell Music
MANAGEMENT: George Couri & Mark Noel/Triple 8 Management; Bob McLynn & Griff Morris/Crush South