Kelsea Ballerini Opry Member

Kelsea Ballerini Becomes Newest Member of Grand Ole Opry

Kelsea Ballerini inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry by Opry member Carrie Underwood  Kelsea Ballerini and Carrie Underwood performed Opry member Trisha Yearwood’s 1992 hit “Walkaway Joe"

Kelsea Ballerini becomes newest member of the Grand Ole Opry l to r: Grand Ole Opry's Sally Williams, Black River Entertainment's Kim and Terry Pegula, Kelsea Ballerini, Black River Entertainment's Gordon Kerr, Sandbox Entertainment's Jason Owen and Black River Entertainment's Rick Froio

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (April 16, 2019) – Kelsea Ballerini was inducted as the newest and youngest current member of the Grand Ole Opry tonight by Carrie Underwood, an Opry member since 2008.

Kelsea Ballerini Headline Tour

KELSEA BALLERINI KICKS OFF HER FIRST-EVER ARENA TOUR WITH SOLD-OUT WEEKEND GOLD-CERTIFIED SINGLE, “MISS ME MORE,” ENTERS TOP 10 — JOINS THE GRAND OLE OPRY AS THE YOUNGEST CURRENT MEMBER ON TUESDAY (4/16); RETURNS HOME ON THURSDAY (4/18) FOR KNOXVILLE SHOW MEDIA ONLY NASHVILLE, TENN. (April 15, 2019) — KELSEA BALLERINI fired up her first-ever arena tour – THE MISS ME MORE TOUR – with three back-to-back sold-out shows this past weekend in Salisbury, MD (4/11), Reading, PA (4/12), and Erie, PA (4/13).

Brooks & Dunn #1 Album

BROOKS & DUNN RETURNS TO NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS CHART WITH “HIGH-OCTANE” REBOOT    The 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee Makes History with the Most Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200 by a Country Duo or Group

Nashville, Tenn., April 15, 2019 - The best-selling duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn, debuts at No. One this week on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with their collaboration project REBOOT. Proving “the timing couldn’t be better to celebrate the influence of Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks” (Music Row), the impressive feat marks the first time the duo has topped the album charts since 2009 while simultaneously earning the duo their 10th Billboard 200 Top 10 album, the most of any country duo or group in the chart’s history. The 12-track collection produced by Dann Huff “revisits some of the duo’s most iconic songs with the genre’s hottest young talents” (PEOPLE) including Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, Brett Young, LANCO, Ashley McBryde, Brothers Osborne, Luke Combs, Midland, Cody Johnson, Jon Pardi, Tyler Booth and Kacey Musgraves.

Luke Bryan On NFL Draft

COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR AND ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ JUDGE LUKE BRYAN TO APPEAR ON ABC’S FIRST PRIME TIME COVERAGE EVER OF THE NFL DRAFT ON THE ‘2019 NFL DRAFT ON ABC’   Bryan Will Join the GameDay Hosts on Night One, Thursday, April 25

Nashville- (April 15, 2019) – Country music superstar and “American Idol”  judge Luke Bryan will join ABC’s first time prime-time coverage of the NFL Draft, live coast-to-coast from Nashville, Tennessee, on “2019 NFL Draft on ABC,” THURSDAY, APRIL 25 (8:00-11:30 p.m., EDT), on The ABC Television Network and via streaming.  The appearance was announced tonight on ABC’s live “American Idol” telecast from Los Angeles.

10th Darius & Friends Benefit 6/3

TENTH ANNUAL “DARIUS AND FRIENDS” BENEFIT CONCERT SET FOR MONDAY, JUNE 3 AT NASHVILLE’S RYMAN AUDITORIUM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Multi-Platinum superstar Darius Rucker will return to the historic Ryman Auditorium on Monday, June 3 for his 10th Annual Darius and Friends concert benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The event, which unofficially kicks off CMA Music Fest in downtown Nashville and has raised $1.6 million to date, will celebrate hitting the decade mark with an all-star roster of friends to be announced in the coming weeks.

George Strait Has #1 Album

GEORGE STRAIT'S NEW ALBUM HONKY TONK TIME MACHINE TRAVELS STRAIGHT TO NUMBER ONE Strait’s 30th Studio Album is the Best-Selling Country Album of 2019 and Sets a Record-Making 27th No. 1 Album of His Career Current Single “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar” Top 20-and-Climbing Country Radio Airplay Charts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – George Strait further cemented his iconic status within the history of country music today with a record-making 27th No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart with his latest, Honky Tonk Time Machine. With 51,000 equivalent album units, the album also lands at No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and marks the largest week of 2019 for any country album. As reported by Billboard, “George Strait extends his record for the most No. 1s in the five-decade history of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, as the King of Country logs his 27th leader with the chart-topping debut of Honky Tonk Time Machine.”

Kelsea Ballerini Goes Gold

KELSEA BALLERINI SURPRISED DURING THE MISS ME MORE TOUR REHEARSALS WITH GOLD PLAQUE Arena Headline Tour Kicks Off in Salisbury, MD on April 11th

PICTURED (L-R): BLACK RIVER ENTERTAINMENT’S GORDON KERR, DEREK ANDERSON, RICK FROIO; SANDBOX ENTERTAINMENT’S JASON OWEN; KELSEA BALLERINI; BLACK RIVER ENTERTAINMENT’S DOUG JOHNSON; SANDBOX ENTERTAINMENT’S CAMILLE ALSTON; BLACK RIVER ENTERTAINMENT’S DAWN DELVO, TANYA WELCH NASHVILLE, TENN. (April 5, 2019) – Black River Entertainment surprised Kelsea Ballerini at tour rehearsals with a GOLD-certified plaque for the now Top 10 and climbing “Miss Me More.” This milestone marks her eighth career RIAA GOLD-certified single and third one from her GRAMMY-nominated album, Unapologetically, following “I Hate Love Songs” and “Legends.”