Rising stars Gloriana are set to release their first album this August! Their current hit single, Wild at Heart, is already a top 20 hit.

The album will be self-titled and contain 13 tracks, including Wild at Heart. The album will be released August 4th on Emblem/Warner.

Gloriana is comprised of brothers Tom Gossin (27) and Mike Gossin (24), Rachel Reinert (19) and Cheyenne Kimball (18). The group started out touring the southeastern US, playing gigs for free and using different band names each night. They’ve most recently toured with Taylor Swift, opening for her “Fearless 2009 Tour.”

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Keith Urban’s upcoming album finally has a name: “Defying Gravity.” The album will drop March 31 and contains Keith’s current #1 hit, Sweet Thing.

About the album, Keith says:

“I’ve always approached making records as a journey where I just have to let myself go. If the conditions are just right the music will reflect the mood and feeling of where I am in my life.

“‘Defying Gravity‘ comes from the lyrics of a song on the album and it just struck me at the time as a phrase that really defined the joyous, optimistic and uplifting spirit that seemed to show itself while making the album.”

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Trace Adkins quietly released “X” this week, his tenth album.

The first single, the gospel-inspired Muddy Water, is already making its way up the hit charts.

The album includes 13 songs:

1. Sweet
2. Happy To Be Here
3. All I Ask For Anymore
4. Let’S Do That Again
5. Hauling One Thing
6. Better Than I Thought
7. It’d Be
8. Marry For Money
9. Til The Last Shot’S Fired
10. I Can’t Outrun You
11. Hillbilly Rich
12. Sometimes A Man Takes A Drink
13. Muddy Water

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Reba McEntire is preparing to release a boxed three-CD set containing 46 of her top 10 songs!

“Reba McEntire - 50 Greatest Hits” will drop October 28th and will span the last 30+ years of her career.

The track listing includes:

Disc One:
1. How Blue
2. Somebody Should Leave
3. Have I Got A Deal For You
4. Only In My Mind
5. Whoever’s In New England
6. Little Rock
7. What Am I Gonna Do About You
8. Let The Music Lift You Up
9. One Promise Too Late
10. The Last One To Know
11. Love Will Find It’s Way To You
12. Sunday Kind Of Love
13. I Know How He Feels
14. New Fool At An Old Game
15. Cathy’s Clown
16. ‘Til Love Comes Again
17. Walk On

Disc Two:
1. You Lie
2. Rumor Has It
3. Fancy
4. Fallin’ Out Of Love
5. For My Broken Heart
6. Is There Life Out There
7. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
8. The Greatest Man I Never Knew
9. Take It Back
10. The Heart Won’t Lie - with Vince Gill
11. It’s Your Call
12. Does He Love You - with Linda Davis
13. Why Haven’t I Heard From You
14. She Thinks His Name Was John
15. Till You Love Me
16. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
17. And Still

Disc Three:
1. Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands
2. Starting Over Again
3. The Fear Of Being Alone
4. How Was I To Know
5. I’d Rather Ride Around With You
6. What If It’s You
7. If You See Him, If You See Her - with Brooks & Dunn
8. Forever Love
9. Wrong Night
10. One Honest Heart
11. What Do You Say
12. I’ll Be
13. I’m A Survivor
14. Somebody
15. He Gets That From Me
16. Because Of You - with Kelly Carlson

Tim McGraw has announced that his next album, Greatest Hits 3, will be released October 7th!

The album will have 12 tracks and even a live version of “If You’re Reading This” and “Real Good Man,” as well as a duet with Tracy Lawrence on “Find Out Who Your Friends Are.”

The full track list includes:

1. Back When
2. Last Dollar (Fly Away)
3. If You’re Reading This
4. Do You Want Fries With That
5. Unbroken
6. Can’t Be Really Gone
7. Angry All The Time
8. Suspicions
9. Find Out Who Your Friends Are (featuring Tracy Lawrence)
10. Let It Go
11. Real Good Man
12. Nine Lives (featuring Def Leppard)

I haven’t been able to find if this is being released before “Southern Voices,” the album announced in June, or if it’s the album that was rumored in the first place!

Sugarland is gearing up for the release of their next album, Love on the Inside, set to drop July 22. They’re putting a twist on it though - one week before, on the 15th, they’re releasing a deluxe album with five extra tracks!

The deluxe release will also contain special packaging and booklet with access information to download exclusive music video and behind the scenes footage.

Songs on both CDs include:
1. All I Want To Do
2. It Happens
3. We Run
4. Joey
5. Love
6. Genevieve
7. Already Gone
8. Keep You
9. Take Me As I Am
10. What I’d Give
11. Steve Earle
12. Very Last Country Song

Bonus tracks on the deluxe release:
13. Fall Into Me
14. Operation: Working Vacation
15. Wishing
16. Life In A Northern Town (live)
17. Come on Get Higher (live)

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Julianne Hough is already well-known from Dancing with the Stars, in which she puts her professional ballroom training to good use as the youngest performer ever on the show. She won the overall title her first year with the show for coaching her dance partner Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno.

She’s breaking out into the country music scene now with her debut self-titled album, which was released this Tuesday and is available at stores everywhere and Amazon.com.

I got my hands on a copy and I’ve really enjoyed it! I don’t watch Dancing with the Stars so I really didn’t know who she was before the CD showed up in my mailbox, but I’m glad it did because I’m a new fan!

The album has 11 tracks, including her current single “That Song in My Head.” I really enjoyed the catchy “You, You, You,” and the beautiful ballad “Hide Your Matches.” I also liked “Jimmy Ray McGee,” which is about choices made early on in life, and it ended up giving me goosebumps. I think it’d make a great single!

“About Life” will probably ring true for just about anyone, as could “Hello” which is about giving the same advice over and over to someone who just won’t listen (”If you’re gonna keep fishing in a pool of shallow water” - love it!). “Help Me, Help You” gets a little preachy but is one that might leave you tearing up, and “Love Yourself” is another advice-giver for a friend who makes a wrong choice.

Julianne will be joining Brad Paisley on his summer concert tour this summer, along with Jewel and Chuck Wicks, and she has been chosen to sing the National Anthem at this year’s Indy 500 race!

Julianne also appeared on Good Morning America this morning, performing “That Song In My Head.”

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