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The 19th ACM Honors (Academy of Country Music) Megan Moroney, Trisha Yearwood, Dierks Bentley, Dylan Scott, Gavin Adcock, Margo Price, Avery Anna, Carter Faith, Big Kenny, Mark Collie and Kaitlin Butts are all set to perform at the 19th ACM Honors, alongside hosts Carly Pearce and Parker McCollum. Dolly Parton will be given the ACM Poet’s Award celebrating her songwriting at the Wednesday, Aug. 19, event.

Chris Janson’s ‘Wild Horses’ (Harpeth 60 Records/Warner Music Nashville) Nine thousand fans turned out to see Chris Janson play Missouri’s Jefferson County Fair on July 24, the biggest crowd in the gathering’s 30-year history. The Show-Me State native is from Perryville, which is about 60 miles away. “What a wild and awesome weekend on tour!” Chris says. “ I’m having a big summer and doing a record-breaking performance means the world to me.

Kenny Chesney’s ‘Silver Sands Marina’ (HEY NOW Records) Eleven songs have pulled into port at Silver Sands Marina, and Kenny Chesney’s ready to give you a preview. “Some of these songs are unlike anything people have heard, or haven’t heard in a long time,” he says. “Some of them go deep, some of them will make people turn it up, a few will make them laugh… But, together, I think they’ll remind them how great it is to be alive.

Darius Rucker & Ketch Secor (Josh Pruitt/Ivywild Visuals) Darius Rucker found out he’s a member of the Spotify Billions Club just before going onstage Saturday at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. He and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor were presented a plaque signifying that “Wagon Wheel” has passed that many streams on the service, before singing it together later in the night. Ketch is one of the song’s writers, having finished it from a lyric started by the legendary Bob Dylan.

LOCASH’s ‘Let the Country Music Play’ (Galaxy Label Group) LOCASH will Let the Country Music Play with their new EP of the same name that arrives Aug. 7. The five-song set features the title track, their collab with Parmalee that takes Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” and recasts it in the world of Music City.

Brett Eldredge’s ‘Glow: 10 Year Anniversary Tour’ (Q Prime) Brett Eldredge will mark a decade since his first holiday album with an anniversary tour. The 12-stop Glow: 10 Year Anniversary Tour kicks off Friday, Nov. 27, with three dates at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium and wrap with two shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre starting Dec. 18. “I believe in tradition and I believe it makes us who we are,” Brett says. “It gives us depth and soul.

Morgan Wallen’s ‘I’m the Problem’ (Big Loud) The records keep coming from Morgan Wallen, as “Don’t We” becomes his 21st #1 on BillboardCountry Airplay. Equally impressive is that it’s his seventh chart-topper from his most recent record, 2025’s I’m the Problem. That makes him the only artist in the chart’s history to have done it with a single album.

Reba McEntire’s ‘Ring Ring’ (MCA) Reba McEntire’s fourth music capsule is telephone-themed, anchored by the new song “Ring Ring,” which was co-written by American Idol favorite Kellie Pickler. The EP also includes two #5 hits, 1993’s “It’s Your Call” and 1994’s “Why Haven’t I Heard from You.” Two album cuts complete the collection: “Long Distance Lover” from 1980’s Feel the Fire and “She’s Callin’ It Love” from 1996’s What If It’s You.

Dan + Shay’s The Young Tour (Live Nation) You can now hear the full studio version of “Her, the Kids and Jesus,” after Dan + Shay debuted it back in December during a pop-up at Nashville’s La La Land Cafe. “Thank y’all for loving on this song since the first time we played it acoustic,” Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney said on their socials, sharing various stages of the song’s development, including that performance.

Brothers Osborne’s “R.I.P” (SELLOUT EDIT) (MCA) Brothers Osborne are starting their new musical era by say “R.I.P.” to selling out. “R.I.P. is us getting back to our musical roots,” John Osborne says. “This new music is a rearview glimpse into where we came from while still driving forward into the new and unknown.” The siblings previously revealed that their new music takes inspiration from their hometown of Deale, Maryland.