Keith Urban will Return to HSN

Keith Urban will return to the Home Shopping Network this weekend to unveil his Night Star guitar collection.  The guitar comes in an acoustic/electric version and solid-body electric model.  It’s available in five colors and comes with a variety of accessories and an exclusive DVD lesson taught by Keith.  Pricetag: just under three hundred bucks.  Watch Keith on HSN throughout the day all day Saturday.

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Jason Aldean Pulls Some Music From Spotify

Looks like Jason Aldean is expected to pull a Taylor Swift on Spotify. According to the Tennessean Jason’s current album Old Boots, New Dirt will be removed from the streaming service but all his previous albums will remain.

An executive from Jason’s label Broken Bow Music Group would not comment on the decision to pull Old Boots, New Dirt from Spotify. But he did have something to say about the conundrum facing record companies today, stating, “There is a premium for 'brand new' — movies, cars, clothes, everything else … Why we devalue music, I don't know. I understand five years down the road — potentially — there will be enough streaming revenue to balance it out. In the meantime, how much revenue are we giving away?"

Old Boots, New Dirt had the year’s best-ever debut week for a country album on Spotify with more than 3.04 million streams. The per-stream payout for a song streamed on Spotify is between six-thousandths ($0.0006) of a cent and eight-thousandths of a cent ($0.00084).

 

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Luke Bryan: Thoughts on Winning Entertainer of the Year

Luke Bryan picked up his very first CMA award last week for Entertainer of the Year and he credits his success as knowing…and adjusting for…what his audience wants.   Luke is enjoying some well-deserved time off the road.  He’ll pick things back up again in January when he takes his show to the beach for a four-day concert in Mexico.

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CMA's Win TV Ratings for ABC

The 48^th Annual CMA Awards powered ABC to a ratings win on Wednesday night, attracting 16.14 million viewers.  Though viewership was down slightly from last year, it still ranked number one in all key Adult demos.  The CMA Awards also delivered ABC’s strongest performance among entertainment programming in eight months and was the day’s “most social” broadcast with just over a million tweets. 

More Awards for Blake Shelton Coming Soon?

Fresh off his CMA Male Vocalist of the Year win, Blake Shelton now leads the country nominees for the People’s Choice Awards.  He’s up for the all-genre Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Male Country Artist.  Online voting is underway.  Head to the MCM page to cast your vote for all of your favorites.  The People’s Choice Awards will air live from Los Angeles on January 7^th.

Is Tonight the Night for Luke Bryan? Finally?

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Here’s a shocker – Luke Bryan has yet to win a CMA Award!  He’s coming off a record breaking year.  His album Crash My Party has five #1 singles, and he had his best year on the road to date.  His That’s My Kind of Night tour attracted an impressive 1.2 million fans this year.  Luke is up for three CMA Awards tonight:  Album, Male Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year.

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Brittany Kerr Clears Up Rumors

Jason Aldean’s fiancée Birttany Kerr let her Instagram do the talking over the weekend to let people know that they two are not married.  She did it with a series of hashtag messages.  And for the record, they’re not expecting. 

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