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Black America Web
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
[LISTEN] Brent Jones – 'Praise In The Choir Stand'
Source: R1 / R1 Grammy winner Brent Jones is back with his brand-new hit single 'PRAISE IN THE CHOIR STAND' , the highly anticipated follow-up to 'Live Your Best Life!' , which peaked at #1 on Billboard & Mediabase and was also named one of the 'Best Albums of 2024' and 'Best Singles of 2024' by the Journal of Gospel Music. Produced by maestro Eddie Brown (Stevie Wonder) and James Roberson (Bobby Jones) , 'Praise In The Choir Stand' is a celebration of black gospel choir music as the heartbeat of the black church and hence, the African American community at large. 'Singing gospel choir music isn't just about the music but about unity & encouraging one another – especially in trying & uncertain times like now. 'Praise In The Choir Stand is a call to action – 'Army's gathering in the choir stand, we'll be praising, you can join in'- AND a reminder that Praise is our best spiritual weapon to change situations – 'That's how we win!' says Brent Jones MORE BRENT JONES READS: RELATED: Brent Jones Set for 100-city 'Nothing Else Matter' Tour RELATED: 5 Performers We're Most Excited For At The 2025 Grammys RELATED: Brent Jones Talks New Single 'Praise in the Choir Stand,' & Ministry RELATED: Brent Jones Shares How Going To Choir Rehearsal Is Therapeutic & What It Was Like Working With Childish Gambino SEE ALSO [LISTEN] Brent Jones – 'Praise In The Choir Stand' was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Korea Herald
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
SM founder's Chinese girl group 'A20 May' enters US, China charts — marking start of global push
Group's debut single, "Under My Skin," lands at No. 39 on US Mediabase chart — a first for a Chinese girl group A20 May, a new Chinese girl group launched by SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man, is quickly gaining global traction, breaking into music charts in both China and the US ahead of its scheduled performance at the 102.7 KIIS FM Wango Tango festival Sunday. The multinational group will be the first Chinese act to perform at the well-known festival in Huntington Beach, California, which this year features artists such as Doja Cat, Meghan Trainor and David Guetta. A20 May's second single, 'Boss,' released April 25, recently entered the No. 8 spot on the Hot Song Chart of QQ Music, China's largest music streaming platform. It also topped the platform's New Song Chart, where it debuted at No. 1 and has remained in the upper ranks — helping it break into the platform's main Top 10 chart. 'Boss' is also gaining attention in the US, where it entered the Mediabase Top 100, a key mainstream radio chart. Following the success of debut single 'Under My Skin,' which peaked at No. 39 on the same chart, A20 May has become the first Chinese act to have two songs in the Mediabase Top 100 at the same time. The music video for 'Boss' has surpassed a combined 60 million views across Weibo and YouTube, demonstrating the group's growing global reach and the appeal of their signature "Zalpha Pop" sound. Zalpha Pop, a term introduced by Lee, is a genre that blends Gen Z and Alpha Generation sentiments. A20 May is produced under A20 Entertainment, led by Lee as key producer and visionary leader. The group's concept centers on Zalpha Pop, which aims to reflect the unique spirit of a new generation and foster a deeper cultural connection with fans worldwide. Following their successful debut in December, A20 May returned in April with 'Boss,' showcasing a refined yet powerful charisma. The track features punchy drums and siren-like synths that build tension, layered with playful sonic textures that add intrigue.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Country Comeback Story Drew Baldridge Finds Himself on the Cusp of Another No. 1 with 'Tough People' (Exclusive)
Drew Baldridge's latest single, "Tough People," is currently circling the Top 10 on the Mediabase charts He became the first self-released artist to hit No. 1 on the country charts last year Now, Baldridge is gunning for a second shot at the top spot Country music's rising star Drew Baldridge currently finds himself on the cusp of perhaps another No. 1 hit with his current Top 15 single 'Tough People.' And certainly, he has Luke Combs to thank. "Luke recorded 'Tough People' first,' Baldridge remembers in a recent interview with PEOPLE about the impactful song he wrote alongside Combs, Adam Sanders and Jordan Walker that was released last October. "I was looking for a second single and I had always loved 'Tough People,' but I just felt like the song was already his." Nevertheless, Baldridge decided to call the two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year anyway. "I remember Luke saying, 'Dude, you wrote it, and you should sing it,'" recalls Baldridge. "'It's your song and I'll root you on all the way to No. 1.'" And that is now looking like the trajectory that 'Tough People' is going to take — and Combs knows it. "I saw him in Nashville when 'Tough People' had just reached the Top 15 and I thanked him and he was like, 'Shut up, man,' Baldridge, 32, recalls with a laugh of the moment he shared with Combs while out on tour with Cody Johnson. "He said, 'Don't say thank you. This is your moment. This is your song. I'm so happy for you.' And he was so kind. And it's just been another one of those things where you see why when you take a chance on yourself, you never know what might happen." He draws in a deep breath. "It's just been the roller coaster of a ride for me for the last 18 months,'"continues Baldridge, who also launched The Tough People Fund earlier this year to "highlight those individuals, families and communities that are experiencing the toughest of times." "Being in town for 13 years and being at the point of giving up … to scoring a No. 1 record." Related: Drew Baldridge's Song 'She's Somebody's Daughter' Is Experiencing a Resurgence — 5 Years Later (Exclusive) Indeed, Baldridge's first No. 1 hit "She's Somebody's Daughter" catapulted the Illinois native to new heights not only in the eyes of fans, but perhaps more importantly, within the country music industry as a whole. "Picking the second single was almost harder than picking the first, because I wanted to make sure I didn't end up a one-hit wonder," Baldridge says quietly. "I love 'She's Somebody's Daughter,' but I didn't want to be the 'She's Somebody's Daughter' guy forever. I wanted to be more than that." Having become the first self-funded artist to reach No. 1 on country radio with their debut single, Baldridge's newfound fame not only left him in awe of what he had accomplished, but all that he and his wife Katherine had accomplished together. "A lot of people don't realize how many sacrifices she had to make and how big of the story that she was," says Baldridge of his wife of almost four years, with whom he shares a 2-year-old son, Lyric Lee. "I was running a label and booking my shows and doing this all alone. And she was almost like a single parent sometimes because I was gone so much. She was drained. But she stayed with me through all of that and supported me. It takes a special partner in your life to do the life that we have." Related: Drew Baldridge and Wife Katherine Welcome a Baby Boy, Lyric Lee: 'Best Gift for Christmas' It's also taken the love of Baldridge's fans to get him to where he stands today — especially the fans who stuck by him long before he found himself as a constant on the country music charts. "Awhile back, I went around the country and played all of these people's backyards and it was those people that kept me going," Baldridge remembers. "It wasn't Nashville, and it wasn't radio in that moment. It was the actual people I was making music for. That's when everything changed. I realized that I was making music for real hearts and souls." And it's those stories that Baldridge says he hopes to continue to tell. "We're all struggling,' concludes Baldridge, who will head out on the road this summer with fellow country music hitmaker Bailey Zimmerman on his New to Country tour. "But let's put a light on these tough times that we're going through. We're all tough people. We all have a scar. We all have a story, and I think that's what I want my music to say." Read the original article on People
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cody Johnson, joined by Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood, energizes Bridgestone Arena crowd
On Saturday evening, 2024 Country Music Association Album of the Year winner Cody Johnson performed for the second of two sold-out nights at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. During a performance that never stopped feeling like cowboy lifestyle anthems turned up to 11, he was joined by artists, including Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood and Ian Munsick. Grammy winner Ashley McBryde and 2024 country chart-topper Drew Baldridge opened the evening's festivities. Johnson's energy never waned, driving the crowd to wild appreciation of his work. Thus, it offered another clearly defined goal. One could believe that the "Leather" album vocalist is on the road to joining Texas-born and countrified performers, like Post Malone and George Strait in recent years, to potentially putting a Resistol hat-wearing fan in every seat of Nissan Stadium. Johnson currently has a top 10 country radio collaboration with Underwood, "I'm Gonna Love You." Combs and the performer have no official duets, but one glance at last week's Mediabase country charts shows that Combs' Post Malone duet "Guy For That" is one spot above CoJo's work with Underwood. Being just out of reach of another marker of peerless acclaim, being nominated for or winning either the Academy of Country Music or Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award, is also now clearly on Johnson's mind. Underwood has ACM wins in 2009 and 2010, while Combs has CMA victories in 2021 and 2022. "I want you to know that there was a time when I thought this dream wouldn't happen ... that's why I'm leaving it all here on the stage," Johnson told his crowd of die-hard supporters. Notably, Johnson's supporters are the type of people who love the United States of America, cold beer, Copenhagen smokeless tobacco, fishing for largemouth bass, going to the rodeo and being able to sing George Jones' entire musical catalog or Jerry Reed's "Eastbound and Down" by heart while partying in honky-tonks. Johnson also opened the show by performing his "Leather" album anthem, "That's Texas" and the outline of the Lone Star State was tattooed over his heart. That was symbolic of a more significant theme of the evening. Southern and Western cultural and musical traditions were sung to as unwritten codes of life as law. Thus, choruses that felt like beatified platitudes are instead much more realities that define core core existences. To wit, openers Drew Baldridge and Ashley McBryde represented how transmitting grit via equal parts power and panache speaks well to the demographic of people in Bridgestone Arena on Saturday evening. Two months ago, McBryde released "Ain't Enough Cowboy Songs" because of a belief that the shiny idealism attached to a diligent work ethic had worn dull in America. Couple that with 2022's hilarious "Brenda Put Your Bra On" and 2023's stellar ballad "Light On In The Kitchen" being filled with time-tested middle American roots-driven aphorisms and the deservedly well-regarded live performer is onto something. At various points of her career, McBryde's been deservedly well regarded for doing so much, so right. However, it's in this chapter of her career in which she's a newly-minted Grand Ole Opry member where her ability to sing as if the culture that surrounds country music — which ultimately doubles as one that governs much of American life — can solve everything. Insofar as Baldridge, consider the same 13 years it took him to gain, lose, then regain and supersede his footing in mainstream country music as a No. 1 artist via 2024's "She's Somebody's Daughter." It is the same amount of time it took McBryde to gain and then expand her reach as a 2023 Grammy winner with Carly Pearce for "Never Wanted To Be That Girl." Like McBryde, he's an Illinois-born Midwesterner rooted in traditions that double as rules of law and life. Thus, singing his new radio anthem, "Tough People," sounds like it all rings authentically true. The evening's biggest superstar was Johnson's voice. Though he perpetually demurred away from the notion, he's a starched pearl-snap shirt and cowboy hat-clad tent revivalist who, in vibe, comes off as if he has a lot in common with the "Rattlesnake Preacher" Ashley McBryde sang about to open her set. Bridgestone Arena is an enormous tent. Five minutes into the set, Johnson's crowd of followers began singing along to him. Thus, when he launched into 2019's "Nothin' on You" and his band, the Rockin' CJB, laid deep into soulful vibes reminiscent of Chris Stapleton's take on "Tennessee Whiskey" and Keith Urban's "Blue Ain't Your Color," Johnson as a crooner arrived on the scene. As a crooner, Johnson may have one of the underrated best vocal styles in music overall. When he grounds his feet and sets his mind to it, he unleashes a stunning instrument that leaves his crowd in awe. Head longer into his set and when Ian Munsick, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs, three other uniquely top-tier vocal stylists, aided Johnson onstage, the broader value of the connective power of his artistry became apparent. In the past five years, Johnson's made a savvy effort to open the door of his writing room to quality songs from Nashville writers. When "Nashville writer" means Wyoming native Munsick and the song in question is the prairie-borne love song "Long Live Cowgirls," it's an instant classic. When "Nashville collaborator" becomes CoJo's dream choice of working with Underwood, it's the belt-buckled belter "I'm Gonna Love You," a surefire chart-topping performance that also doubles as offering an honest and sustainable adult contemporary crossover road to continued success. Johnson's second encore saw country music's most beloved bearded, bottle-swilling and barrel-bodied cousin, Luke Combs, hit the stage. He and Johnson singing "Beer Never Broke My Heart" doubled down on the evening serving as the coronation of yet another uniquely peerless superstar to country's mainstream scene. Johnson's superstardom will sustain itself because he embodies a culture and genre bigger than his Texas-tattooed heart. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Cody Johnson, joined by Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood, energizes Bridgestone Arena crowd
