It’s the slowest time of year, the week between Christmas and New Year’s, so let’s catch you on some music news headlines…
Lady Antebellum’s member Dave Haywood and wife Kelli are now the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl, Lillie Rene, born this past Friday. Bandmate Hillary and husband Chris are expecting twin girls in just a few months.
As you get ready to say goodbye to 2017, you’ll want to begin saving money for that road trip or front row seat for live concerts in 2018. Touring in the coming year will be the return of Shania Twain, Miranda Lambert with Jon Pardi, Little Big town, and Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley.
If we asked you to name the ‘most played’ country artist in 2017, would you know who that would be? The metric is the number of time radio stations across the US played a song from this artist. The most played artist in 2017 in Country music was/is Blake Shelton.
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