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: With the chart-rising single “See You Next Summer” and the homegrown “Dirt Cheap,” Brian Kelley enters the next chapter of a history-making career. Kelly is now in the studio working on his debut album for Big Machine Records, which follows his 2021 passion project, SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND. He was previously half Florida Georgia Line, who garnered 19 career #1s and became the only act in country-music history to achieve two RIAA diamond singles. These feats earned FGL the ACM Breakout Artist of the Decade Award.
SINGLE: “See You Next Summer” and “How We’re Livin’” (11/17)
TV: GMA; presenter on 57th Annual CMA Awards; MTV Cribs
LIVE: Sold-out run of shows and back-to-back residencies at Tribe Kelley Surf Post in Grayton Beach, Fla.; up-coming radio shows throughout the end of the year; making solo debut at C2C in the U.K. in 2024
RADIO: “See You Next Summer” #27 and climbing at Country radio
INTERNET: 1.2m+ monthly Spotify listeners; 9.3m+ combined YouTube views, 20k+ subs; 484k+ Instagram followers; 36k+ Facebook followers
PRESS: American Songwriter, Entertainment Tonight, People, CMT, Forbes, Holler, E!, Hook & Barrel, WWD, Taste of Country, more
BOOKING: Marc Dennis/CAA
PUBLISHING: Warner Chappell
MANAGEMENT: Kevin Spellman & Jason Murray/Vector Mgmt