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Carrie Underwood has, as expected, blown away the competition on both the Billboard Top Country Album chart and the all-genre Billboard 200 this week as her fourth album, Blown Away , debuts at No. 1 on both charts. Scanning 267,000 copies in sales for the week, according to Nielsen Soundscan, the album sends Lionel Richie's Tuskegee to No...

Randy Montana is kicking off the New Year in a big way, landing in Southern Living magazine's annual 'Best of the South' issue as one of the magazine's top five Southern artists to watch in 2011. The singer-songwriter also has a brand new single and video, '1000 Faces,' out this week and is releasing a special three-song EP...

Jaronwood Jaron of Jaron and the Long Road to Love sat down with The Boot to talk about the inspiration for his second country single, 'That's Beautiful to Me.'' My ex-girlfriend, when we first started going out, everything she did was so cute...

Darius Rucker knows a thing or two about writing songs, considering he penned 77 for his upcoming second album and 52 for his first. Now he's taking that knowledge and experience and imparting it to songwriting hopefuls as a mentor for the NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) Song Contest Presented by CMT...

Steve Azar's latest single 'Sunshine' may sound familiar to those who caught the singer out on the road when he was opening up for the legendary Bob Seger a few years back. The song was penned in the midst of that tour during soundcheck one afternoon...

Chalk up another huge honor for the Oak Ridge Boys. Their 1981 chart-topping hit, 'Fancy Free,' has received a Two-Million Spins Award from BMI. Some fancy trivia numbers: 'Fancy Free' has been broadcast over 116,000 hours, or 4,861 days, which translates into more than 13 years of continuous airplay...

'Rain' is definitely a good thing if you ask Luke Bryan. His song, 'Rain Is a Good Thing,' has climbed to the top of both the Mediabase/Country Aircheck and Billboard country charts, washing away last week's No. 1 song, Brad Paisley's 'Water,' which falls to No...