Blake Shelton has lots of good reasons to celebrate this week. Two of his artists on The Voice are in the finals, today is his 37th birthday and he has the number-one single this week with "Boys 'Round Here." Blake says the song is a pretty good representation of the boys 'round his hometown, plus he gets to show off his country rapping chops.
Lady Antebellum are off the road for the summer, getting ready to welcome "Baby Antebellum" next month. Hillary Scott and her husband Chris Tyrell are expecting a girl. She'll be the first Lady A member to have a child. Lady A’s Charles Kelley says they can’t wait to spoil the baby rotten. “So, this is the first baby of the three of us and we keep saying this is going to be like the little golden child of the road because it’s going to get so spoiled. I don’t care what kind of discipline she thinks the baby’s going to have, it’s all going to go out the door.” The next chance to see Lady A on stage will be on the CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock concert special, which airs on August 12th on ABC.
Hunter Hayes delivers a second helping of his self-titled debut album today -- plus eight new tracks -- on the new compilation Encore. The collection includes his single “I Want Crazy,” a duet with Ashley Monroe called “What You Gonna Do” and the Jason Mrazcollaboration “Everybody’s Got Somebody but Me.” Hunter recalls meeting John Mayer. “Funny story: I met him at the Grammys, and we talked about writing, which will probably happen at some point in 2017 when we both have a day off. But yeah, we talked about writing, we talked about collaborating, and I said, ‘Man, I’ve got this song I really want you to come sing on. And he was gracious enough to listen to it and take care of it. He’s really cool dude, really cool dude.”
It's a big week for country on ABC's The View -- Kellie Pickler and Little Big Town are scheduled for the show. Kellie joins the ladies today to co-host and perform her single "Someone Somewhere Tonight." On Wednesday, Little Big Town perform their latest, "Wrong Side of the Bed," and then join the hosts in their "Ladies Who Lunch" segment, sampling goodies made by Kimberly Schlapman for her GAC show, Kimberly's Southern Kitchen.
Congrats are in order for Little Big Town and Trisha Yearwood. Both of them scored hardware Sunday night at the Daytime Emmy Awards. LBT won Outstanding Original Song for the Good Afternoon America theme “Good Afternoon.” Trisha picked up Outstanding Culinary Program for her Food Network show Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.





