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With two nominations each, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan are tied for the most nods in the country categories at this year's American Music Awards. Taylor Swift, who was crowned Artist of the Year at the 2011 AMA's and took home a total of three awards last year, was not a repeat nominee in that top catgeory but she joins Carrie in the Favorite Female Country Artist category, along with Miranda

This week's Billboard country album chart features a repeat showing of Kenny Chesney's Welcome to the Fishbowl at the No. 1 spot. With 255,000 copies of the superstar's album sold thus far (in just two weeks), according to Nielsen Soundscan, the album is already among the 10 best-selling country discs of the first six months of 2012...

Lionel Richie had already struck gold when he paired himself and 13 of his classic hits with a host of country acts for the duets album, Tuskegee. Now the singer has earned a platinum disc for that critically-acclaimed collection, signifying sales of one million copies...

Billboard's Top Country Albums chart has three new entries in the Top 10 this week and two of them came in just shy of the pinnacle. Hard 2 Love by Lee Brice storms onto the chart at No. 2, with 46,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Soundscan...

Any previous naysayers about Lionel Richie going country may be feeling a little foolish today. The music icon's country duets project, Tuskegee, has soared to the top of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. It's also No. 1 for a second week on the country albums chart, having sold almost 129,000 copies in the last week -- a sales surge likely due to the huge success of the "ACM Presents: Lione

Lionel Richie has reason to be dancing on the ceiling today as 'Tuskegee,' his duets album with many top country stars, came in at No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart Wednesday. The album, which features collaborations with Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, Shania Twain and many more, is Lionel's first set to bow at No...

Lionel Richie has been all over TV this week, from CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight' to NBC's 'Today' show, talking about his brand-new album, 'Tuskegee.' The project pairs the legendary crooner with some of country music's biggest stars, who sing with Lionel on his classic hits ...

Lionel Richie has serenaded two generations of fans with his romantic ballads, so it's not entirely unexpected that he's had his songs sung back to him from time to time. But what is unusual is picking up the phone only to find you've basically been drunk-dialed by country superstar Kenny Chesney...

Of all the 13 guest artists on Lionel Richie's 'Tuskegee' album, due March 26, there was just one who needed convincing: Shania Twain. It was nothing personal against the music legend, but rather that Shania was suffering a vocal condition called dysphonia at the time, and had not recorded and released new music in more than five years...

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