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It’s a yee-haw for Beyoncé and Sabrina Carpenter at the Grammys.

Queen Bey’s latest album, Cowboy Carter, will compete for best country album while Carpenter — whose pop star breakthrough came with the release of her sixth album this year — will appear on the ballot for best new artist, according to a source.

The Recording Academy held its screening committee meeting last week, where members determined the categories in which albums or songs will compete, as well as who qualified for best new artist, where Carpenter is the frontrunner along with Chappell Roan. Over the years, the Academy has updated the rules for best new artist to keep up with the ever-changing music industry, and in the past it has been criticized because it placed a song and album limit, disqualifying certain performers.

Carpenter, 25, has dominated the charts with “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste” — songs that are spending...

Sharon Van Etten shared a new single called “Close to You,” which she co-wrote with Courtney Barnett for the official soundtrack to the upcoming Apple Original drama series The Buccaneers.

Equal parts eerie and alluring, “Close to You” sees Van Etten infuse her classic Americana-inspired rock with a heavy wash of dreamy reverb, cooing lines like: “I got a taste of being with you, don’t wanna waste more time,” “put on your best dress and get out of your head,” and “get away and I’ll stay close to you.”

The song was produced by Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, who also produced the entire soundtrack: “It was a truly incredible experience working with this group of uniquely talented artists,” she said in a press release. “Everyone brought their A-game and taught me something invaluable about the creative process. Witnessing these artists map each character’s journey through song was...

The 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards were a sensational event filled with music, excitement and well-deserved winners.

Hosted by the dynamic duo, The Reklaws, the awards show was broadcast live on CTV, CTV.ca and the CTV App on Saturday, September 16 at 8 Pm Et.

The event occurred in Hamilton, Ontario, marking the city’s seventh time hosting Country Music Week and the Ccma Awards.

The star-studded lineup of performers wowed the audience, including multi-platinum entertainer Dean Brody, 2x Ccma Award winner Jade Eagleson and the Canadian platinum-certified group James Barker Band, among many more.

Eagleson steamrolled the night with three wins, including Entertainer of the Year. Tenille Townes took home her fifth win for Female Artist of the Year to tie him.

Check out the full winner’s list below, with each winner’s name in bold:

Entertainer Of The Year

Dean Brody

Jade Eagelson

Dallas Smith

Tenille Townes

Shania Twain

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Lindsay Ell’s 2023 Ccma nomination for Single Of The Year alongside Canadian country queen Shania Twain feels like “a good pat on the back.”

“I never even fathomed of like getting on stage and winning awards and accepting awards.”

The Canadian-American country pop singer, who took home the Single Of The Year award for her song “Right On Time”, shared how it felt to be up against Twain for the award.

Read More: Lindsay Ell On The Powerful Message Behind New Single ‘Right On Time’

“It’s always just such an honour to be nominated. I know people always say that but we work so hard,” Ell, 34, told Et Canada’s Carlos Bustamante on the Ccma red carpet prior to the show.

“To be nominated with Shania in the same category, it’s just such a crazy thing to be able to celebrate.”

The 2023 Ccma Awards presented by @td_canada...

HBO’s latest concert offering is for sinners, saints, and fools alike. This Saturday, July 1, the streamer will present the HBO Original concert film “Brandi Carlile: In the Canyon Haze - Live From Laurel Canyon.” Taped in 2022 and initially presented at the Ross House in Los Angeles and IMAX theaters, the concert presentation gives viewers an inside, intimate look at the work of nine-time Grammy winner Carlile, who, alongside her band, performs her Grammy Award-winning 2021 album “In These Silent Days.” “Brandi Carlile: In the Canyon Haze - Live From Laurel Canyon” will debut on HBO and be available to stream on Max on Saturday, July 1 at 8 p.m. Et. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.

How to Watch 'Brandi Carlile: In the Canyon Haze -- Live from Laurel Canyon' When: Saturday, July 1, 2023 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max. 7-Day Free Trial...

The Grammy Awards fan roundtable is pulling two chairs away from the table now that the general field categories have been reduced from 10 nominees, which became the standard when two additional nominees were added in each one day before nominations were announced in 2021. Now, only eight artists will be up against each other for Album, Record and Song of the Year as well as Best New Artist.

And while this means fewer musicians will receive nominations in those categories, nominees for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Songwriter of the Year,...

Billy Strings and Allison Russell were two of the top winners at the 2022 Americana Honors & Awards, held Wednesday at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Strings won Artist of the Year for the first time, while Russell was awarded Album of the Year for her acclaimed solo debut Outside Child.

Strings was previously nominated for Emerging Act of the Year at the Americana Awards in 2020, but ultimately lost out to Black Pumas. In the last two years, his rise has been rapid and he’s found a cross section of fans...

Brandi Carlile has often shown the influence of Joni Mitchell and the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters in her work, with cuts like “You and Me on the Rock” nodding to the era’s style and tone. To mark the one-year anniversary of In These Silent Days, Carlile is leaning all the way in with a deluxe edition of the album titled In the Canyon Haze, with updated, Laurel Canyon-inspired versions of the songs.

The first release from the album is, appropriately, a new recording of “You and Me on the Rock...

Genre is messy in the music industry. While it is useful in some occasions, these days genre is more of a suggestion than a fixed concept. This past year many artists have shown their creativity by exploring different sounds and have been celebrated for it. However, where will these people be submitted at the Grammys? Here are four relevant artists this season, and why their genre predictions are harder than most other artists.

SEEBig 4 Grammy Awards: 14 artists nominated for all in one night Brandi Carlile, “In These Silent Days”

While Carlile usually competes in the American roots field, that has changed a bit in the past couple of years. The Highwomen, a supergroup fronted by Carlile, was submitted to the country music field as opposed to Americana, and even won Best Country Song for “Crowded Table.” However, and perhaps more controversially, Carlile’s lauded “Right on Time” was moved by...