Dec
15
Lady Antebellum's Need You Now CD. Photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.
Billboard.com has just released its year-end charts for 2010. Here are the 50 most popular country albums for the year (based on album sales). Congrats to Lady Antebellum for taking the top spot!
- Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
- Fearless – Taylor Swift
- Speak Now- Taylor Swift
- Play On – Carrie Underwood
- The Foundation – Zac Brown Band
- Lady Antebellum – Lady Antebellum
- Revolution – Miranda Lambert
- Wide Open – Jason Aldean
- Southern Voice – Tim McGraw
- The Incredible Machine – Sugarland Continue Reading
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Mar
19
Miley Cyrus photo courtesy of Universal Music.
Country music was very good to Billy Ray Cyrus. His smash debut single, “Achy Breaky Heart,” made the Kentucky native a national star and paid the bills for his family for many years, before Billy Ray successfully branched out into TV and film, most recently playing a country singer in the TV series, Hannah Montana. However, Hannah Montana star and Billy Ray’s daughter, Miley Cyrus, has some pretty harsh words for the musical genre. Continue Reading
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Jan
4
The new year marks the beginning of a new decade, but 2010 is specifically the start of a second decade for Rascal Flatts. The band released its debut single, “Prayin’ For Daylight,” in April 2000, kicking off one of the most successful artist careers thus far in the 21st century.
Built around a pop-leaning sound and big harmonies, the trio won the Country Music Association’s Vocal Group of the Year award six times in a row before Lady Antebellum knocked them off in November. The guys have had five albums sell 2 million copies or more; they’ve appeared on the soundtracks to Hannah Montana: The Movie, Cars and The Emperor’s New Groove; and they’ve become one of the top headlining acts in the business, selling out Wrigley Field in Chicago and Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
But make no mistake: They’ve got more to do in the years ahead.
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