Rising country act Gloriana will be representing country music, along with Taylor Swift, this coming Sunday when the American Music Awards program is telecast on ABC TV.  The Embem/Warner Brothers Quartet is up for Breakthrough Artist Of The Year.

Yesterday afternoon it was announced by George Strait and Lee Ann Womack that Lee Ann would be joining his tour with superstar Reba McEntire.  The tour, which starts in January 2010 at Baltimore's "First Mariner Center ends in April with a date in Des Moines, IA.

Thanks to the new Fearless [Platinum Edition], Taylor Swift has moved back to the top of the Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 Albums chart. With this feat all but given last week, how did the rest of the latest releases from country superstars shape up this week?

Former CMT Can You Duet winners Steel Magnolia have scored their first Top 40 hit with "Keep on Loving You" and to celebrate that success, the duo has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry while also now getting this plum promotional slot on iTunes this week.

According to www.ew.com, country superstar Kenny Chesney will retire to his boat for 2010, taking the year off from touring.  It will be the first time he has taken a summer off in over 16 years. While away with his family will somebody step up and take Kenny's place?

Setting in a comfortable chair underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, NY, Jack Ingram did something the last 24 hours that nobody has done before.  He partaked 215 interviews over a 24 hour period to break a record once held by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy.

In a remarkable sales week for all of Country music, instead of just a few chart-toppers, the genre's sales picked up as people discover the joy of listening to your favorite artists, despite a bad economy.  Who follwed Hannah Montana's Soundtrack on the charts? Let's find out.

While it tumbled from the top spot to third on the SoundScan Top 200 Albums chart, Rascal Flatts' "Unstoppable" album remained on top of the Country Albums chart while the album's first single "Here Comes Goodbye" tops the singles chart.  How did everyone else do?

Hank Locklin, one of country music's first crossover stars, passed away yesterday at the age of 91.  Known to most people as the singer of "Please help Me I'm Falling," the Grand Ole Opry star released his 65th album in 2006.

Jamey Johnson, who was nominated for ACM Album of the Year earlier in the day, played to an star-studded crowd at Nashville's The Stage honky tonk on Thursday, March 5, 2008.  Jamey followed label mate Holly Williams' half-hour set.