By the Numbers: Country Music’s Boom Stayed Strong in 2024
Country's streaming surge continued in 2024, powered by Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan along with genre-bending from Beyonce and Post Malone.
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Subscribe NowCountry's streaming surge continued in 2024, powered by Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan along with genre-bending from Beyonce and Post Malone.
The threat was directed at "two individuals who were members of the Kansas City Chiefs organization"
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"I wrote this song about my daughter getting married," he said. "I got a two-year-old, and we got a long time to go"
A year after the singer came to represent country music’s race problem, Wallen has a sold-out tour, a radio hit, and headlining gigs at summer festivals
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“Morgan Wallen’s thoughtless redemption tour is the nail in the coffin of me realising these systems, and this town is really not for us,” said songwriter Joy Oladokun after the polarising country star performed on the Opry this weekend
“As his conduct does not align with our core values, we will not be including him on the show in any capacity (performing, presenting, accepting),” show organizers say
'Rolling Stone' reached out to dozens of state, regional and national Black-led or Black-founded charities. Only one reported receiving any money from Wallen, and it wasn’t nearly half a mil
“I will always take ownership for my ignorance and my past”