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IHeartRadio Country Festival
The iHeartCountry Festival is an annual music event by iHeartRadio that celebrates country music with performances by the genre's biggest superstars at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. The inaugural event in 2014 was not broadcast on national television, while the 2015 edition was broadcast on NBC. The 2016 and 2017 editions aired as a special on the AT&T Audience Network, AT&T AUDIENCE Network. The 2018 edition aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. From 2019 to 2025 it streamed exclusively on Hulu. Beginning in 2026 it will air coverage outside of primetime on TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV and primetime coverage will rotate between American Broadcasting Company, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. Line-ups 2014 The 2014 iHeartRadio Country Festival took place on March 29, 2014. The event included performances by: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, and Jake Owen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Erwin Center
The Frank C. Erwin Jr. Center (originally Special Events Center) was a multi-purpose arena located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. It was also sometimes referred to as "The Drum" or "The Superdrum", owing to its round, drum-like appearance from outside (not to be confused with Big Bertha, the large bass drum used by the University of Texas marching band). The multi-purpose facility hosted entertainment events and was the home court for the Texas Longhorns men's and women's basketball programs until 2022, when it was replaced by the Moody Center. The Erwin Center was located at the southeastern corner of the UT central campus and was bounded on the east by Interstate 35. History Built to replace Gregory Gymnasium as the men's and women's basketball teams' home arena, the Special Events Center was completed in 1977 for a total cost of $34 million. The Texas men's basketball team opened the events center on November 29, 1977, with an 83– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter Hayes
Hunter Easton Hayes (born September 9, 1991) is an American multi-genre singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is proficient at more than 30 instruments. Hayes released his Hunter Hayes (album), self-titled debut album in 2011. It reached number seven on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and number one on the Top Country Albums, and sold over 1.1 million copies. Its most successful single, "Wanted (Hunter Hayes song), Wanted", sold over 3.5 million copies and made Hayes the youngest male act to ever top the Hot Country Songs, ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs. Hayes' commercial success and his talent both as a songwriter and instrumentalist prompted ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' to call him the leader of "Country Music's Youth Revolution" in 2014. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards including Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist, and won the 2012 CMA Award for Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban ( né Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Recognised with four Grammy Awards, he has also received 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, 13 CMA Awards, and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song " For You" from the film '' Act of Valor'', which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories. Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley (" Start a Band") and the 2008 single " You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, Peter Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Brice
Kenneth Mobley Brice Jr. (born June 10, 1979), known professionally as Lee Brice, is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Curb Records. Brice has released five albums with the label: ''Love Like Crazy'', ''Hard 2 Love (Lee Brice album), Hard to Love'', ''I Don't Dance (album), I Don't Dance'', ''Lee Brice (album), Lee Brice''. and ''Hey World''. He has also released eighteen singles, of which eight have reached number one on ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Country Airplay: "A Woman Like You (Lee Brice song), A Woman Like You", "Hard to Love (Lee Brice song), Hard to Love", "I Drive Your Truck", "I Don't Dance (Lee Brice song), I Don't Dance", "Rumor (Lee Brice song), Rumor", "I Hope You're Happy Now (Carly Pearce and Lee Brice song), I Hope You're Happy Now", "One of Them Girls" and "Memory I Don't Mess With". He has also charted within the top 10 with "Love Like Crazy (song), Love Like Crazy", "Parking Lot Party", "Drinking Class", and "That Don't Sound L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Band Perry
The Band Perry are an American band composed of siblings Kimberly Perry (lead vocals, guitar), Reid Perry (bass guitar, background vocals), and Neil Perry (mandolin, bouzouki, background vocals). They signed to Republic Nashville in August 2009 and released their self-titled debut album on October 12, 2010. From this album, " If I Die Young" reached number one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts and has been certified 9x multi-platinum. Their second album, '' Pioneer'', was released April 2, 2013. It produced additional number one singles in " Better Dig Two" and " Done", plus the top 10 hits " Don't Let Me Be Lonely" and "Chainsaw". The band transitioned to pop in 2017 and began to release music independently in 2018 before officially going on hiatus in 2023. Following this, Kimberly returned to her country roots and launched a solo career. Career 2005–09: Formation and early career Kimberly Perry sang in her own band as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Moore
Justin Cole Moore (born March 30, 1984) is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Big Machine Records imprint Valory Music Group. For that label, he has released seven studio albums: his self titled debut in 2009, '' Outlaws Like Me'' in 2011, '' Off the Beaten Path'' in 2013, '' Kinda Don't Care'' in 2016, '' Late Nights and Longnecks'' in 2019, '' Straight Outta the Country'' in 2021 and '' Stray Dog'' in 2023. He has also charted eighteen times on the US ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including with the number 1 singles " Small Town USA", " If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away", " Til My Last Day", " Lettin' the Night Roll", " You Look Like I Need a Drink", " Somebody Else Will", " The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home", " Why We Drink", " We Didn't Have Much", and " With a Woman You Love"; and the top 10 hits " Backwoods" and " Point at You". Moore is also a radio personality, having replaced Tommy Smith after Tommy retired as Co-H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brantley Gilbert
Brantley Keith Gilbert (born January 20, 1985) is an American country rock singer, songwriter and record producer from Jefferson, Georgia. He was originally signed to Colt Ford's label, Average Joes Entertainment, where he released '' Modern Day Prodigal Son'' and '' Halfway to Heaven''. He is now signed to the Valory division of Big Machine Records where he has released six studio albums—a deluxe edition of ''Halfway to Heaven'', '' Just as I Am'', '' The Devil Don't Sleep'', '' Fire & Brimstone'', ''So Help Me God'', ''Tattoos'', and 14 country chart entries, four of which have gone to number one. He also co-wrote (with Colt Ford) and originally recorded Jason Aldean's singles " My Kinda Party" and " Dirt Road Anthem". Career 2007–2013: ''A Modern Day Prodigal Son'' and ''Halfway to Heaven'' Brantley Gilbert went to Nashville as a songwriter, where he signed to Warner Chappell Publishing. He continued performing at local venues. In 2009, he released his debut album, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dierks Bentley
Frederick Dierks Bentley (; born November 20, 1975) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Bentley moved to Nashville in the late 90s to pursue a career in music, leading up to his releasing the self-funded and independent album Don't Leave Me in Love in 2001. In 2003, he signed to Capitol Nashville and released his eponymous debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's '' Modern Day Drifter'', are certified Platinum in the United States, and his third album, 2006's '' Long Trip Alone'', is certified Gold. It was followed in mid-2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album, '' Feel That Fire'', was released in February 2009, and a bluegrass album, '' Up on the Ridge'', was released on June 8, 2010. His sixth album, ''Home'', followed in February 2012, as did a seventh one, '' Riser'', in 2014. Bentley's eighth album, titled ''Black'', was released in May 2016, and his ninth, ''The Mountain'', was released in June 2018. His tenth studio album, '' Gravel & Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Big Town
Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group from Homewood, Alabama. Founded in 1998, the group has had the same four members since its founding: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman (née Roads), Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook. Fairchild and Westbrook have been married to each other since 2006. Little Big Town's musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all four members alternating as lead vocalists. After a recording deal with the Mercury Nashville Records label which produced no singles or albums, Little Big Town released its Little Big Town (album), self-titled debut on Monument Records in 2002. It produced two minor country chart singles before the group left the label. In 2005, the group signed to Equity Music Group, an independent record label owned by Clint Black. Their second album, ''The Road to Here'', was released that year, and received a RIAA certification, platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Rucker
Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band released five studio albums with Rucker as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members of the band. His debut studio album, an Contemporary R&B, R&B record titled ''Back to Then'' (2002) was released through Hidden Beach Recordings. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville, Capitol Nashville as a country music, country singer and released his second album, ''Learn to Live'' (2008). Its first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", peaked at number one on Hot Country Songs chart, making it the first song by a Black artist to do so since Charley P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts is an American Country music, country music band formed in 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of Gary LeVox (lead vocals), Jay DeMarcus (bass guitar, background vocals), and Joe Don Rooney (lead guitar, background vocals). DeMarcus is LeVox's second cousin, a brother-in-law of country music singer James Otto, and was previously a member of the contemporary Christian music duo East to West. LeVox and DeMarcus are natives of Columbus, Ohio. From 2000 to 2010, the band recorded for Disney Music Group's former Lyric Street Records division. While on that label, it released six studio albums, all of which were RIAA certification, certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The group's self-titled debut ''Rascal Flatts (album), Rascal Flatts'' was released in 2000, and ''Melt (Rascal Flatts album), Melt'' (2002), garnered their first number-one single, "These Days (Rascal Flatts song), These Days". ''Feels Like Today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Paisley
Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His first success came in 1997 as the writer of David Kersh's "Another You (David Kersh song), Another You". After this, he signed with Arista Nashville in 1998, and released his debut album ''Who Needs Pictures'' in 1999. This was the first of 12 studio albums he released for the label before its closure in 2023, after which he transferred to EMI Nashville. His most commercially successful albums are ''Mud on the Tires'' (2003) and ''Time Well Wasted'' (2005), both certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Paisley has charted more than 50 singles on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' country singles charts, including 19 number-one singles ranging from "He Didn't Have to Be" in 1999 and "Perfect Storm (song), Perfect Storm" in 2015. Ten of these singles were achieved consecutively, starting with "When I Get Where I'm Going" in 2006 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
