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There are ten country albums on the 2016 calendar and more than a dozen more planned, but not yet scheduled, plus those we just know are going to drop. Like Miranda Lambert? She has to release an album filled with emotional love and heartbreak songs this year, right?

Hangover songs provide an important purpose in country music. Sure, plenty of great songs focus on the partying, the raising cain, and of course, booze guzzling, but what happens after the dust settles? After the cab ride home and the crashing on a buddy's couch?

Country Singer Kip Moore is helping fund the ‘Comeback Kid Skatepark Project’. It’s part of his charitable fund, ‘Kip’s Kid Fund’.

Join B98.5 on New Year's Day, we will ring in 2016 by listening back to the best country music from 2015. It's the top 70 songs of 2015 on B98.5.

The first ever Bee Battle saw Chris Lane and his new song called 'Fix' as the champion. He will defend his title against another hot new song from Dylan Scott called 'Crazy Over Me'.

Here's a tie-in to Star Wars that is, to say the least, unusual. In Australia, doctors claim that listening to the Star Wars soundtrack, leads to better colonoscopies.

It’s been a week of smiles for Joey + Rory’s Joey Martin Feek. On Monday she learned of her Grammy nomination. On Tuesday fans learned she’s made it a goal to live through the Grammys and her daughter’s birthday on Feb. 17. On Friday she enjoyed some motherly teaching time with Indiana.

Cam is nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards, but she didn't learn the good news in a traditional way, like from a formal letter or a visit to the Grammy website, she tells Taste of Country Nights.

Ringo Starr, the drummer for 'The Beatles' (remember them?) auctioned off 1,300 pieces of memorabilia netting $9.2 million. The one item that pulled in the most money was his original drum set. He got more than $2 million for it.

There was a salute to Frank Sinatra on what would have been his 100 birthday. A Lot of performers where there to salute 'old blue' eyes' including Carrie Underwood and Zac Brown. Zac Brown was dressed to the 'nines' in a tux and Sinatra type hat...

Carrie Underwood is already set to headline the New Year’s celebration in Times Square. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest has added more stars to the lineup.

The Band Perry, Kimberly, Reid and Neil Perry will be in New York this Wednesday (12/2) for the 83rd annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

The Maine Country Music Association will hold a Country Christmas Show at the Litchfield Sportsman Club. The show is this Sunday, November 29 from noon to 5pm.

A public piano was recently installed in Sarasota, Florida.  Donald Gould, a homeless man, sat down at the piano and started playing.  What he played was simply to beautiful to ignore.  This just goes to show, you can never judge a book by its cover.

Gwen Stefani appeared on Ellen and dodged most of the TV talk show host's questions, but admitted that prior to appearing on the The Voice, she had no idea who Blake Shelton was.

After Justin Timberlake’s explosive collaboration with Chris Stapleton at the 2015 CMA Awards, the pop superstar turned his sights to country music.