2020 CMT Music Awards Pushed To Fall Due To COVID-19 Crisis

Warning: If you enter Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin's Nashville property these days, it's not exactly going to be empty.  With two growing kids running around the house, the couple is trying their best to keep their little ones occupied and entertained. From a ball pit in the living room to a full on tent in the master bedroom, there's something for the kids everywhere you look.

Concord CFO Bob Valentine announced Wednesday (April 15) that Nashville-based Hazel Malit has been promoted to CFO of the company’s recorded music business.

Singer and songwriter Marcus King foregrounds the pain of thinking about the one that got away in his new video for "One Day She's Here." The Joshua Shoemaker-directed clip takes place in Nashville, following King backwards in time from a show with his dream girl in the audience all the way to the first time they met. The disorienting play on time plays off the concept that maybe he never had her to begin with.

As the writer of such monumental country songs as “Independence Day,” “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” and “On a Bus to St. Cloud,” Gretchen Peters certainly knows her way around a good tune.As the title of her May 15 album declares, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee is turning to another legendary songwriter for her latest effort.

Welcome to Emerging Country, a Billboard series where we highlight an up-and-coming act who is making a splash in the genre. This month’s pick is country singer-songwriter Parker McCollum, who is introducing himself to country radio with his debut single “Pretty Heart” on MCA Nashville.For the past five years Parker McCollum has spent his weekends on the road.

Entertainment One (eOne) has named Maria Alonte to the newly-created role of senior vp, creative integration, music, the company announced Tuesday (April 7).

Canada’s own MacKenzie Porter will have to wait a little longer to tie the knot.

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The CMT Music Awards will be pushed from June 3 to Oct. 14 because of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the network announced Friday.

Chrissy Metz is breaking into the music scene!

Lady Antebellum announced today that their May and June concert dates would be shifted to begin in July. The Ocean 2020 tour will now kick off on July 2 at Toyota Amphitheatre in Sacramento, Calif.

Carrie Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, are encouraging everyone to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Taylor Swift is helping out a small business and its workers amid the current health crisis.

"I didn’t even know we were on her radar"

The 2020 CMA Fest has been canceled amid the ongoing world health crisis.

The CMA Festival, the world’s largest country music gathering, has been canceled for 2020, rather than trying to push the mass gathering set for June in Nashville to a later date in the year.

A few hours after Leslie Fram discussed how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the entertainment industry — and talked about bringing DIY hand sanitizer to victims of the deadly March 3 tornado that devastated Middle Tennessee — the Nashville-based exec found out she had her own brush with the virus.