Thomspon Square Climbing Charts
Florida Georgia Line Gets New Tune
Top 20
Music Review
Zac Brown Band Making History
2016
PHILADELPHIA - SEPTEMBER 3RD & 4TH
Climbs Charts
Making History
Gets New Tune
Music Review
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Top 20
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Florida Georgia Line
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Zac Brown Band
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Thompson Square
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New Single Climbs Charts By Alex Sobczak
The duo of Keifer and Shawna Thompson are a force to be reckoned with in the modern day Country music landscape. International Country music stars, Thompson Square has topped the radio charts across the Unites States, Canada and Australia with #1 hits “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” “If I Didn’t Have You” and “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About,” respectively. After taking its headlining “Just Feels Good Tour” across the U.S., Asia and Australia in 2014, Thompson Square took time off to collaborate in the studio with both Dann Huff and celebrated producer Mickey Cones (Dustin Lynch/ Joe Nichols) to work on the Stoney Creek Records duo’s upcoming third album.
The result is a barefaced, emotionally charged and gutsy sound from the married duo that was honored as both the ACM and CMA “Vocal Duo of the Year” in 2012. Thompson Square continued its streak in 2013, once again securing the ACM Award for “Vocal Duo of the Year.” In all, Thompson Square has scored three #1 hits, six Top 20 hits, seven mainstream awards, over 25 award nominations and appeared on major media franchises from The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, CBS This Morning to Elle, Glamour, People, Rolling Stone, USA Today, USA Weekend and many more. The duo’s third album is due later this year.
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The duo of Keifer and Shawna Thompson are a force to be reckoned with in the modern day Country music landscape. International Country music stars, Thompson Square has topped the radio charts across the Unites States, Canada and Australia with #1 hits “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” “If I Didn’t Have You” and “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About,” respectively.
mainstream industry awards, over 25 award nominations and appeared on major media franchises from The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, CBS This Morning to Elle, Glamour, People, Rolling Stone, USA Today, USA Weekend and many more. Thompson Square’s “Trans Am” officially impacts Country radio on Monday, April 13th. The duo’s third album is due later this year.
After taking its headlining “Just Feels Good Tour” across the U.S., Asia and Australia in 2014, Thompson Square took time off to collaborate in the studio with both Dann Huff and celebrated producer Mickey Jack Cones (Dustin Lynch/ Joe Nichols) to work on the Stoney Creek Records duo’s upcoming third album.
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The result is a barefaced, emotionally charged and gutsy sound from the married duo that was honored as both the ACM and CMA “Vocal Duo of the Year” in 2012. Thompson Square continued its streak in 2013, once again securing the ACM Award for “Vocal Duo of the Year.” In all, Thompson Square has scored three #1 hits, six Top 20 hits, seven
the couple said in a statement to E! News. “It’s hard to explain this kind of love. We’re so overjoyed. He’s alredy got us wrapped around his little finger.”
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Shawna, 37, gave birth to a baby boy named Rigney Cooper Thompson at 3:46 a.m. ET on Sunday, E! News has learned exclusively. Her and Keifer’s son weighs 7 pounds and 13 ounces
and has dark blue eyes and brown hair. The duo consisting of husband and wife singers Keifer and Shawna Thompson are set to release a new song titled “You Make It Look So Good” on May 20. They revealed the news in a live stream from backstage at the Paramount Theatre in New York City, where they performed a show on Friday night. The couple are just getting to back to work after taking a long break for the birth of their son, Cooper, whom they welcomed in January. “You Make It Look So Good” will be their first single since taking some time off the road. The couple didn’t write the song, but they connected with it. “When we find songs that other writers wrote, it has to be something that our fans, and even us, can’t distinguish between if it’s a song we wrote or if it’s not,” Keifer says in the clip above. “It’s got to be about us, it’s got to have some connection to us.”
Making History on the Charts By: Alex Sobczak
Three-time GRAMMY winners and multi-platinum artists Zac Brown Band have become one of music’s most heralded acts. Their latest gold-certified album JEKYLL + HYDE, out now on Southern Ground Artists/John Varvatos Records/Big Machine Label Group/ Republic Records, marks the band’s third consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Zac Brown Band Tour Dates and Locations 2016
AUGUST 19 Flushing, NY AUGUST 20 Boston, MA AUGUST 21 Boston, MA SEPTEMBER 1 Atlantic City, NJ SEPTEMBER 2 Bristow, VA SEPTEMBER 3 Saratoga Springs, NY
SEPTEMBER 4 Virginia Beach, VA SEPTEMBER 10 Manhattan, KS SEPTEMBER 15 Charlotte, NC SEPTEMBER 16 Pelham, AL SEPTEMBER 17 Jacksonville, FL SEPTEMBER 18 Tampa, FL RollingStone | 13
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JEKYLL + HYDE 1. Beautiful Drug
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2. Loving You Easy
2:35
3. Remedy
3:51
4. Homegrown
3:25
5. Mango Tree
3:41
6. Heavy is the Head
3:59
7. Bittersweet
5:10
8. Castaway
3:08
9. Tomorrow Never Comes 3:58 10: One Day
3:49
11. Dress Blues
5:30
12: Young and WIld
3:14
13. Junkyard
7:13
14. I’ll Be Your Man
5:48
15. Wildfire
2:46
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Florida Georgia Line, Backstreet Boys Team for New Song By: Alex Sobczak “Backstreet Boys was my first concert,” Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley told fans at the duo’s recent show in South Dakota, with partner Tyler Hubbard then reprimanding some fans on the front row: “Don’t laugh at us!” See Florida Georgia Line, Flo Rida’s ‘Kimmel’ Mash-Up Country duo joins with rapper for late-night show’s “Mash-Up Monday” After Hubbard admitted the first record he ever bought was a Backstweet Boys album — and proclaimed that he oftentimes thinks they “are the Backstreet Boys,” FGL launched into a raucous cover of the 1997 smash, “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” What their sold-out audience didn’t know was that this little shtick was foreshadowing. Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter revealed via Instagram Monday that the two bands are collaborating on a song. RollingStone | 17
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#1 Luke Bryan #2 Sam Hunt #3 Zac Brown Band #4 Carrie Underwood #5 Florida Georgia Line #6 Jason Aldean #7 Eric Church
#8 Blake Shelton #9 Kenny Chesney #10 Little Big Town RollingStone | 21
#11 Thomas Rhett #12 Tim McGraw #13 Cole Swindell #14 Brett Eldredge #15 Keith Urban #16 Garth Brooks #17 Darius Rucker
#18 Chris Young #19 Brantley Gilbert #20 Brad Paisley 22 | RollingStone