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12/09/2025

Ben Gallaher is your Top 20 Countdown host this week! Catch the Top 20 again tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9p EST and on Thursday at 11a EST!

12/09/2025

Who has plans to check out Zac Brown Band's second run at Sphere?!

12/09/2025

Music Row revealed their list of Next Big Thing Artists for 2026 and we see some of our favorites on there!

MusicRow is proud to reveal its list of artists who are predicted to become the Next Big Thing (NBT) in 2026. The 12th annual NBT list features 14 artists, who are each profiled in MusicRow‘s latest 2026 Touring & Next Big Thing print issue, which releases today (Dec. 9).

Boasting a stand-out group of rising stars in the country music industry, MusicRow’s Next Big Thing Class of 2026 includes a wide range of talent, diverse in sound, style and level of success. What each artist has in common, though, is extraordinary talent and a passion for today’s ever-evolving country music format. These future superstars will expand the boundaries of country music, carrying the torch of the format both to its loyal fans and into the mainstream.

Read more about each artist here: https://musicrow.com/2025/12/musicrow-reveals-next-big-thing-artists-class-of-2026/

12/09/2025

The Mavericks shared that their co-founder Raul Malo has lost his battle with cancer.

It’s with the deepest grief we share the passing of our friend, bandmate and brother Raul Malo on December 8th, 2025 at the age of 60.

Anyone with the pleasure of being in Raul’s orbit knew that he was a force of human nature, with an infectious energy. Over a career of more than three decades entertaining millions around the globe, his towering creative contributions and unrivaled, generational talent created the kind of multicultural American music reaching far beyond America itself.

While his spirited performances garnered a massive & loyal following, and his powerful songwriting and musicianship earned multiple Grammy, ACM, and CMA awards, it was his lifelong commitment to the preservation of the multi-lingual American musical repertoire of which he was most proud, making history in 2020 with the first album ever to debut at the top of both the Latin Pop and Folk-Americana charts. It was this commitment, along with his steadfast championing of music education as an inspiration for every child across America and throughout the world, for which Raul was honored with the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Music Council of the United States’ American Eagle Award.

Though his earthly body may have passed, Raul’s spirit will live on forever in heaven, and here on earth through the music, joy, and light he brought forth. His contributions to American and Latin music will be everlasting, as his songs and voice touched fans and fellow artists around the world.

Raul is survived by his loving wife of 34 years, Betty; sons Dino, Victor, and Max, mother Norma, sister Carol, and Mavericks bandmates Paul Deakin, Eddie Perez, and Jerry Dale McFadden.

The family thanks everyone for their love & support, and asks for privacy at this time.

Photo by Alejandro Menendez Vega

12/08/2025

Morgan Wallen's "I'm The Problem" album was named Spotify's #1 Most Streamed album of 2025! We might have listened a time or two...see the video for "I Got Better" on TCN now!

12/08/2025

Maddie and Tae are taking a break ❤️

🔗: bit.ly/4iGcKIW

Don’t call it a breakup, say Maddie Marlow Font and Tae Dye Kerr. But after 15 years as Maddie & Tae, they are about to do something they’ve never done before: go their separate ways.

“Even though we’re not gonna go on this journey as Maddie & Tae together, we’re still walking and doing life together outside of it,” Font said.

📷: Katie Kauss; John Shearer/WireImage; Kyleigh Roberts; Marisa Taylor

12/08/2025

Whoa 😍🙌

12/05/2025

Who's getting tickets to see HARDY's COUNTRY COUNTRY tour next year?! We've got the video playing NOW! Find The Country Network on Roku, Firestick, SlingTV, LGTV and more!

12/04/2025

That’s it. That’s the post. 😍

🎥: CMA

12/04/2025

Ya'll better go wish Jelly Roll a HAPPY Birthday! He's looking so good these days!

12/02/2025

Claymation Lainey Wilson just in time for the holidays!? Count us in!