We already declared Taylor Swift‘s Folklore to be the Best Album of 2020. But until now, we had yet to hear from the numbers. Now, the numbers have spoken, the data has assembled into integers and decimal points, and the answer is in: Folklore is the biggest album of 2020, …
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Luke Combs‘ “Forever After All” won a hotly contested battle for Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, beating out Ariana Grande‘s new single “Positions.” Combs’ muscular love ballad, which he co-wrote with Drew Parker and Robert Williford before releasing it as part of the deluxe reissue …
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Just three years ago an unknown Luke Combs bought a limited edition Eric Church Gibson Hummingbird guitar from a pop-up shop in Nashville. He promised the salesman, who sold merch on the road for Church, that he’d be seeing him again. “I said, ‘Dude, I’ll be playing shows with you …
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The CMT Music Awards — country’s version of MTV’s VMAs — have long had a reputation as the genre’s most relaxed, anything-can-happen awards show. They also have an extensive history, with their origins stretching back to 1967, when the country publication Music City News began presenting honors to the genre’s …
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