With the lead-off single hitting the top of the country charts this week, Taylor Swift's sophomore release placed 1st on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart with nearly 600,000 copies sold. Will this help the plethora of other new country music releases?

Here's a video from the 42nd CMA Awards.  Brad and Keith are singing their single "Start A Band."

Here's Sugarland performing the atmospheric "Love" on the 42nd CMA Awards.

With "Fine Line" helping to establish Little Big Town at country radio, the vocal quartet returns with one of the 4 newly recorded tracks from their re-issued album "A Place To Land."  Does this single have enough to drive the band back up the charts?

With its debut on the 42nd CMA Awards telecast last night, Jason Aldean couldn't have picked a better spotlight for "She's Country." Will that major exposure help this song fuel interest in Aldean's upcoming third album? Does the song stack-up well against other current hits?

Here's an Exclusive video interview with Carrie that was made for the 42nd CMA Awards.

Here's a special 2008 interview with the co-host of the 42nd CMA Awards.

The CMA announced their first round of performers today.  Keith Urban, a 3 time Male Vocalist and one-time Entertainer of the Year winner, leads the pack of performers.  Other artists scheduled to perform include Taylor Swift, Brooks & Dunn and George Strait.  Click the image to find out whomelse is performing.

The list of nominees for the 41st annual CMA Awards was released and there were few surprises.  Kenny Chesney leads the nominees with 7 nominations including top noms for entertainer, male vocalist and album of the year.  Who else was nominated? click to find out.

There haven't been too many songs that are as tastefully done as this one. This video, from the 2004 CMA Awards shows how well the two stars sing