Congratulations to Capitol Records Nashville artist Luke Bryan whose third studio album ‘tailgates & tanlines’ today debuted at the top of the Billboard Country Album chart and at number two in the overall Billboard Top 200 chart in the US. With first week sales of nearly 150,000 ‘tailgates & tanlines’ is the second highest selling [...]

Capitol Nashville’s roster had a strong showing in the Country Music Award nominations, announced today, with many of them up against their label mates in several top categories. Lady Antebellum continues their amazing year with five nominations, including for “Entertainer of the Year” and “Album of the Year.” Dierks Bentley was tapped for three awards, [...]

Capitol Records Nashville’s Luke Bryan is celebrating his second consecutive #1 single with “Rain Is A Good Thing” hitting the top of both the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck singles charts.  This follows his #1 Gold®-certified smash “Do I.” In addition to enjoying the chart success of his current album, “Doin’ My Thing,” which contains both hit [...]

Capitol Nashville artists scored three belt-buckle-shaped trophies at last night’s CMT Awards in Nashville.  Keith Urban won Male Video of the Year for “’Til Summer Comes Around”; his first CMT win in this category.  Also for the first time, the multi-platinum Lady Antebellum won Group Video of the Year for their smash hit, “Need You Now.”  And [...]

Yet more great news for Lady Antebellum – the trio have a leading three nominations for Country Music Television’s CMT Music Awards on June 9. In all they are up for Video of the Year and Group Video of the Year for ‘Need You Now’ and CMT Performance of the Year for ‘Lookin’ For A [...]

Capitol Nashville’s LUKE BRYAN and EMILY WEST appeared on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice in the US on Sunday night.  This week, the celebs, who are competing on the Donald Trump-hosted show to win assignments to raise money for their respective charities, had a Nashville-themed challenge.  The assignment:  create and execute a makeover of up-and-coming Capitol Nashville [...]

Donald Trump is enlisting Capitol Nashville up-and-coming stars Luke Bryan and Emily West for this week’s episode of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” in the US. This season’s celeb contestants — who are competing for their favorite charities — include a few who are no strangers to the music biz, including artist manager and TV star Sharon Osbourne, [...]

A viral video campaign helped get Capitol Nashville artist Luke Bryan a coveted nomination for the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Artist Award.  And now, for the second time, over 40 celebrities from top Country recording artists, to actors/actresses, comedians and professional sports celebrities, and yes, even a U.S. Olympian have joined forces to [...]

Rising star Capitol Nashville star Luke Bryan has been nominated for the prestigious Academy of Country Music Awards‘ Top New Solo Vocalist Award. But before you cast your vote at www.voteacm.com, you might want to think twice and watch the video below, featuring a parade of famous country music stars, a guy in a leotard [...]