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This Just In: Taylor Swift Is a Huge Star

No, really. By huge, I mean really huge. Her Fearless album has now been certified gold or platinum in 14 countries across five continents. (CMT breaks out the statistics by country.) This in the middle of a global recession as record sales across the industry are down, because so many people are...

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About.co...ry Music — August 21

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Shania on Idol, Dolly in a Box

Two major bits of news from the country music world this week. First up is Shania Twain, who will emerge from her somewhat retirement to sit at the American Idol judges' desk for their round of auditions in Chicago Aug. 30-31. Twain makes a little more sense for this role than other artists who h...

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About.co...ry Music — August 19

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Carrie Underwood in Hall of Fame, Tracy Lawrence in Hospital

Carrie Underwood has had a charmed career. Since winning American Idol in 2005, she's become the show's highest selling graduate and one of contemporary country music's biggest stars. With her third album in the works for this fall, Underwood will be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame....

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About.co...ry Music — August 13

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Brooks & Dunn Are Calling it Quits

The news is all over the internet this morning that award-winning blockbuster country duo Brooks & Dunn are going to split up next year. They posted the following note on their Web site yesterday: After 20 years of making music and riding this trail together, we have agreed as a duo that it...

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About.co...ry Music — August 11

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Billy Currington Cancellations, Keith Anderson Filling In

Last weekend, you may have heard, a stage collapse amid a major storm killed one person at a country music festival in Alberta and injured numerous others, including Billy Currington, who was performing at the time. Currington suffered a concussion and had to cancel the following four shows in th...

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About.co...ry Music — August 07

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Lorrie Morgan, Joe Nichols, Pure Country Heading to Broadway

Remember the movie Pure Country? Well, Broadway is reviving it for the stage (maybe because 9 to 5 didn't catch on and they need something that involves country music?) and country star Lorrie Morgan is set to appear as main character Rusty's manager, Lula. Rusty, originally played by George Stra...

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About.co...ry Music — August 04