Eric Church & Carrie Underwood Pick Up Year-End Touring Honors

Eric Church’s The Blood, Sweat and Beers Tour has picked up a couple of coveted year-end honors. The tour came in at No. 11 on Pollstar’s Worldwide Ticket Sales 2012 chart which includes names like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay and Lady Gaga. He was also the only country artist to included in The New York Times feature, [...] Read More

Billboard’s Top 50 Country Albums of 2012

Billboard.com has released their Top Country Albums of 2012. Taylor Swift’s Red tops the chart with albums from Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood rounding out the Top 5. Taylor also has two more albums appearing in the Top 50. Billboard Charts are calculated using custom formulas collecting sales, streaming and radio [...] Read More

GAC’s Top 10 Country Albums of 2012

Every year, music reviewers pull from the year’s releases to create Top 10 lists. 2012 was a fantastic year for country music, offering album after album of quality titles to choose from while overall sales for the genre rose 3.2% compared to this point last year. By the very nature of a ‘Top 10′ list, [...] Read More

Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood Win American Music Awards

Taylor Swift picked up her fifth straight American Music Award for Favorite Female Country Artist at the 40thAnnual American Music Awards Sunday night. Voted on by fans, the win also marked her eleventh AMA win overall. “I want to thank the fans,” she said during her acceptance speech. “You guys are the one who voted [...] Read More

Carrie Underwood & Jimmy Fallon Throw Down Some Old-School “C’Rap”

Carrie Underwood recently visited Late Night with Jimmy Fallon where Jimmy revealed a secret: they used to be a duo! Known as ‘Jim Carrie’ before their careers took them down separate paths, people were often fooled, thinking they were coming to see Jim Carey. Instead, they were treated to a performance of Jimmy Fallon and [...] Read More