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The Band Perry’s Better Dig Two Takes Over
It’s been a big week for The Band Perry. The country music trio released their brand new single “Better Dig Two” to iTunes, and it topped the chart with over 82,000 sales already! The siblings are also the most added at country radio since they sent out the lead single from their sophomore album after performing it live on the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. It also became a trending topic on Twitter after their performance, which many of our readers said was one of the main highlights of the entire broadcast.
“Better Dig Two” quickly catapulted into the iTunes Country Singles Chart Top 10 before nailing the #1 spot and locking in the #3 position on the Overall Top Singles Chart. “Better Dig Two” was the most added at Country radio according to both Country Aircheck/Mediabase and Billboard with a total of 93 monitored stations on by add date. The sibling trio’s latest offering will be featured on their forthcoming sophomore album on Republic Nashville, slated for release in April 2013.
Preceding the awards, The Band Perry (TBP) delivered the single to Country radio and met with several stations on location in Nashville. Kimberly, Reid and Neil spoke to on-air personalities about “Better Dig Two,” calling it “the ultimate love song … the kind of love not even death can separate.”
The Band Perry will soon release the “Better Dig Two” video, which they shot just outside of Nashville on Friday with director Declan Whitebloom. They rounded out the weekend back in front of the camera, taping the “CMA Country Christmas” special, which will air on ABC on December 20 and 22. The Perry’s will head to Europe this week for shows in Sweden, Norway, Ireland and the UK.
The band has three nominations at next month’s American Country Awards, including Artist of the Year: Group and in early 2013, they will hit the road with Rascal Flatts‘ “CHANGED TOUR.”
The Band Perry Premiering New Single Next Week
Republic Nashville’s breakout group The Band Perry will premiere their brand new single “Better Dig Two” through two platforms on Monday. The single will be digitally delivered to Country radio and stream via rollingstone.com at 2:00P CT. The sibling trio’s latest offering is the first from their highly-anticipated sophomore album, slated for release in early 2013.
Everyone is pretty excited for the new single from the super-trio. Jimmy Harnen, President of Republic Nashville/EVP Big Machine Label Group, shares:
”The Republic Nashville Promotion team has been crisscrossing the United States for the past two weeks playing the song for Country radio programmers and have gotten amazing reviews!”
The tune will be available for purchase at iTunes on Tuesday and the CMA Vocal Group of the Year nominees will debut “Better Dig Two” during the CMA Awards live broadcast on Thursday, beginning at 8:00P EST / 7:00P CST on ABC. Just last year at the awards, they won New Artist of the Year; Single of the Year and Kimberly Perry was honored with Song of the Year, for penning “If I Die Young.”
The band is pumped about their new single and the support they’re getting for it already. They said:
“We are so appreciative of Country radio’s generous welcome and are excited that Rolling Stone is involved in premiering “Better Dig Two!” said Kimberly Perry.“As we wrap up a great year of touring, we look forward to finishing this new record and delivering it to our fans everywhere,” said Reid Perry.Neil Perry added, “After spending countless hours in the studio working on our next album, we are very excited for everyone to hear our first single, “Better Dig Two.”
Walking In a Winter Sugarland
Christmas is coming a little early this year for Jennifer Nettles and friends. On November 3, Jennifer will host a CMA “Country Christmas” in Nashville, Tennessee at the Bridgestone Arena. Along with Jennifer, the following artists will be bringing the seasonal spirit to Nashville: Dierks Bentley, Colbie Caillat, Katherine Jenkins, Lady Antebellum, John Legend, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Scotty McCreery, The Band Perry and Keith Urban.
Nominees for ACAs Announced
The nominees were just announced earlier this morning for this year’s American Country Awards. The third edition of the fan-voted award show will once again air live on FOX from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. While the co-hosts remain the same with Trace Adkins and Kristin Chenoweth, there is something new about the award show – the addition of the “Song Of The Year” category which will honor country music’s top songwriters of 2012. The nominees for Song of the Year are determined by the National Songwriters Association International (NSAI). The award show will air live on December 10th on FOX at 8 pm EST.
Artists leading all nominees this year are Luke Bryan with seven, and Lady Antebellum tying for second with Zac Brown Band with six nominations each. Eric Church and Taylor Swift both have five nominations each. Check out the full list of nominees below and let us know who you’ll be voting for. Fans can vote at theacas.com for their favorite artists, and make sure to tune in December 10th to see who wins!
Performers and presenters will be announced shortly, so stay tuned for that announcement too!
Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney & Eric Church Added as CMA Award Performers
The CMA Awards are building quite the lineup of performers for their 46th Awards show. ABC has announced that the show’s co-host Carrie Underwood will perform, as will Kenny Chesney, Eric Church & the Band Perry.
The new group of performers join previously announced performers, including Underwood’s co-host Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Kelly Clarkson & the Zac Brown Band.
The show will air on ABC on November 1st, live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena ABC.
The Band Perry Featured on MLB’s Fan Cave
Country super-trio The Band Perry have teamed up with MLB for a special webisode of MLB Fan Cave. The siblings recorded an exclusive interview and performance for the baseball league’s fan site. The feature was launched over the weekend, with the group performing fan favorites “You Lie” and “Independence” from their self-titled debut record as well as hit singles “All Your Life” and “If I Die Young.” During the interview, they reveal details on their upcoming sophomore album on Big Machine Records.
The MLBFanCave.com Concert Series has featured top artists Nas, Jason Aldean, The Script, The Fray, OneRepublic, Far East Movement, The Avett Brothers and many more. Footage from past performances plus an upcoming performance schedule can be found at MLBFanCave.com.
The Band Perry React to CMA Nomination
Country music super trio The Band Perry are still on cloud nine after finding out that they’re nominated for the Country Music Association’s Vocal Group of the Year Award at this year’s award show. The sibling group was named New Artist of the Year and won both Single and Song of The Year at last year’s award show for their quadruple-platinum number one hit single “If I Die Young.”
The group shares:
“It is an honor for us to be nominated in the CMA “Vocal Group of the Year” category. We don’t take anything for granted. We always strive to work hard and do our best. Country Music is the peoples’ music, we are humbled to have the opportunity to play it.”
The sibling trio has been busy this summer, playing sold-out venues as special guests on Brad Paisley‘s tour and as headliners in their own right. On Sunday night (9/2), the band performed to a packed arena at the New York State Fair in Syracuse. The 25,000+ fans who packed into the venue to see The Band Perry helped establish the fair’s high attendance of more than 103,000. In the midst of touring and trying out new music for their fans, The Band Perry has also been recording for their sophomore album with renowned producer Rick Rubin.
The band will travel to the UK for a show for the BBC this weekend (9/9) before reuniting with Brad Paisley’s VIRTUAL REALITY TOUR next week.
On September 17, Kimberly – along with brothers Reid and Neil – will co-host “CMA Music Fest: Country’s Night to Rock” with Luke Bryan. The special will air on ABC at 8pm ET/7pm CT and highlights the 2012 CMA Music Festival concerts and activities. The Band Perry will have a spotlight feature as ABC cameras followed them around for a “day in the life of The Band Perry.”
The Band Perry to Headline Pre-Race Show at IMS
Big Machine has released their list of performers for the 19th annual Crown Royal Presents the Curtiss Shaver 400 at the Brickyard powered by Bigmachinerecords.com. The race, which takes place on Sunday, July 29th, will be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Headlining the show is sibling trio The Band Perry, with additional performances by Justin Moore, the Mavericks, Greg Bates, and Sunny Sweeney. Paul Malo, the lead singer of The Mavericks, will be performing the national anthem before the race.
The Band Perry will headline the pre-race show between 8:30 and 11 am EST. The race kicks off at 1 pm EST. The performances will take place on the infield stage inside Turn 2, near the IMS Hall of Fame Museum. Tickets are still available for the race at www.imstix.com.
The Day The Music Died in Ottawa
Dear readers,
When we first started this country music blog, we started out as a site for fans by fans. We listen to what our fans and readers are wanting to hear from us, what features they’d want to see, and even which artists they’d love to see interviewed. The first music festival Jessica and I ever covered together was Capital Hoedown last year, which featured acts like Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, and Miranda Lambert among many talented acts. We were the first ones reporting the Carrie-Miranda live duet/mash-up of “Before He Cheats” with “Gunpowder & Lead” at the festival which helped propel us into being one of Canada’s leading resources for all things country music. Since that August weekend, Capital Hoedown has always been one of the highlights of our brand and we always put an extra shout-out to the festival when discussing artists this year.
This year’s line-up for Capital Hoedown was to be even bigger: with promises of Taylor Swift, Reba McEntire, Ronnie Dunn, Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley. When I was at the line-up announcement I was more than excited over the line-up organizers had made. We interviewed Concert International CEO, and Capital Hoedown organizer, Denis Benoit back in December before the Christmas rush and he promised in the interview that tickets would be sold-out by Christmas so fans needed to get them asap for this fantastic line-up, saying that they were selling “extremely well.” Tickets weren’t sold-out, and were still on-sale throughout this year. Read our interview with Denis right here on Keepin’ it Country.
Being a fan-first site, we read every Tweet, Facebook message, wall post, and e-mail sent in to us by readers. When we started to get a few mentions and messages from fans asking us what was going on with the Capital Hoedown as some artists had removed the date from their website’s tour pages, we reached out to our friends in those artist teams to inquire about the missing dates. Once we started to receive confirmations that those artists were out, with the okay to post the news, we did so. What happened next is a sea of press interviews, camera time, and paper mentions for our site with Canadian, and American, media and radio stations as we were the first ones to even realize that something was up. We received a “seize and desist” (sic – not ‘cease’) from Denis quickly after our confirmation from artist teams that they were pulling out with promises of “serious legal action” against our site for posting the information. Nothing else ever came from that e-mail as everything we’ve posted has been factual and 100% confirmed, and after speaking with American and Canadian attorneys, we were perfectly fine to post the information.
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VIDEO: The Band Perry on Ellen
Country music trio The Band Perry stopped by the Ellen Show yesterday for a performance of “All Your Life.” The GRAMMY-winning siblings also had a few surprises in store for some lucky fans in the audience. Check out their performance below and let us know what you want to see on their sophomore album:
