Industry insiders continue to deliver upbeat reports about...

With her dozenth hostess gig at the CMA Awards, Carrie Underwood is taking her all-woman Cry Pretty 360 Tour aesthetic to ABC. Forming a femme-powerment troika with Reba and Dolly, the vocal powerhouse is putting the focus on girl power, the genre’s legacy and how it’s setting the table for the future.

Look for Interscope marketing director Ned Monahan to jump to Spotify. Word is Monahan will be filling the role vacated by...

Aided by very strong streams for a country release, Luke Combs is headed for a substantial #1 bow—and the biggest country debut of the year—with new set What You See Is What You Get. 

With 10 months in the books, the marketshare pecking order is nearly identical to what it was six months ago, and so are the individual percentages of the Big Three and the majors. Which brings to mind the immortal words of then-Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green: “They are what we thought they were.”

Our own Holly Gleason talks with Robert Deaton, longtime producer of Wednesday bight’s CMA Awards on ABC...

Republic's Post Malone returns to #1 on our Top 50 Chart, earning an additional 76k. With 67k, G.O.O.D./Def Jam's Kanye slides to #2 in week two. Vanner/RCA Nashville's Miranda Lambert scores the biggest bow.

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It will surprise no one that Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is the #1 song of 2019, nearly doubling #2 “Sunflower” from Post Malone in overall activity—including video streams. Yep, this chart shows not only the Top 50 audio streams but also audio + video, for the most complete picture yet of the year in songs.

Ten months into 2019, two albums have surpassed 2 million units, and two more are within striking distance. Strikingly, one major has three of those four albums—and five of the Top 10. Totals through 10/31.

On the heels of the 11/8 release of his sophomore album, What You See Is What You Get (River House/Columbia Nashville), Luke Combs can already celebrate having the biggest country album of the year, while becoming the genre's streaming champ by a country mile.

The latest excerpt from our profiles of industry ballers focuses on the CMA chief, with the awards show set to air on 11/13...