Dustin Lynch and MacKenzie Porter‘s song “Thinking ‘Bout You” is sitting at number-8 this week on the Billboard country airplay chart.
Of course the track ended 2021 and started 2022 at number-1 on the Billboard chart for a total of 6 straight weeks at the top.
This week, while sitting at number-8 – Dustin and MacKenzie’s “Thinking ‘Bout You” just broke a record for the longest running Top-10 in Billboard country airplay chart history!
At 27 weeks “Thinking ‘Bout You” broke its tie with Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood‘s “If I Didn’t Love You” which now stands at 26. In 3rd place on the longest running list, it’s Chris Young and Kane Brown‘s “Famous Friends” with 23. Also sharing the honor of making the list at numbers 4, 5 and 6 are Lonestar with “Amazed” at 21 weeks, tied is Lee Brice‘s “One Of Them Girls” and Keith Urban‘s “Somebody Like You” – both at 20 weeks.
We’ll see if “Thinking ‘Bout You” makes it 28 weeks on the next Billboard country airplay chart.
Photo Courtesy of Dustin Lynch and MacKenzie Porter
If you’re excited for the kick off of the Here And Now 2022tour – then Kenny Chesney has some news for you, “The first trucks are headed to Tampa! They’re rolling South, which means the Here And Now 2022 Tour is really about to happen!”
The country superstar is itching to hit the stage in Tampa this Saturday, April 23rd, after being sidelined for the last 2 years – and Kenny is watching from a far as his stage in being assembled, “I got some pictures from the stadium this morning of work starting to happen, and it made me happier than I even thought it would. There’s a very special thing that happens when we hit that stage, a rush that is absolutely indescribable, and I didn’t quite have that today, but my heart sure pumped when I saw it.”
Kenny, Dan + Shay, Old Dominion, and Carly Pearce are set to visit more than 20 stadiums this year, and Kenny and Carly will be playing at nearly as many amphitheaters.
All those dates means a lot of steel to set up those stages – which can tower almost 3 stories tall.
With supply-side issues very much a factor this season, Team Chesney is sharing resources – specifically steel – with several other major tours out on the road this summer. By understanding what it takes to put up a massive stadium-sized stage, Chesney’s working with several other tours in place to share metal.
Kenny says “We are all citizens of music. Having been away from the fans for so long, the more we can do to bring music to the people who love it, who breathe it, who find release and love and joy in it, the better the world’s going to be. I know how much better I felt just playing in a space with the band; I can’t imagine how great it’s going to feel once we get into that first song, all singing together.”
Here And Now 2022 tour schedule here…
April 23 Tampa, Fla. || Raymond James Stadium April 30 Charlotte, N.C. || Bank of America Stadium May 5* Noblesville, Ind. || Ruoff Music Center May 7 St. Louis, Mo. || Busch Stadium May 14 Milwaukee, Wis. || American Family Field May 19* Orange Beach, Ala. || The Wharf Amphitheater May 21 Atlanta, Ga. || Mercedes-Benz Stadium May 25* Charleston, S.C. || Credit One Stadium May 26* Huntsville, Ala. || Orion Amphitheater May 28 Nashville, Tenn. || Nissan Stadium June 2* The Woodlands, Texas || Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion June 4 Arlington, Texas || AT&T Stadium June 8* Canandaigua, N.Y. || CMAC June 9* Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio || Blossom Music Center June 11 Pittsburgh, Pa. || Heinz Field June 15* Virginia Beach, Va. || Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater June 16* Bristow, Va. || Jiffy Lube Live June 18 Philadelphia, Pa. || Lincoln Financial Field June 23*/** Cincinnati, Ohio || Riverbend Music Center June 25 Chicago, Ill. || Soldier Field June 29* Brandon, Miss. || Brandon Amphitheater June 30* Rogers, Ark. || Walmart AMP July 2 Kansas City, Mo. || GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium July 9 Bozeman, Mont. || Bobcat Stadium July 12* Stateline, Nev. || Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s July 13 * Stateline, Nev. || Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s July 16 Seattle, Wash. || Lumen Field July 19 * Bend, Ore. || Hayden Homes Amphitheater July 20 * Bend, Ore. || Hayden Homes Amphitheater July 23 Inglewood, Calif. || SoFi Stadium July 27 * Boise, Idaho. || Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater July 28 * Salt Lake City, Utah || USANA Amphitheatre July 30 Denver, Colo. || Empower Field at Mile High August 6 Minneapolis, Minn. || U.S. Bank Stadium August 10* Columbia, Md. || Merriweather Post Pavilion August 11* Syracuse, N.Y. || St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview August 13 East Rutherford, N.J. || MetLife Stadium August 18 Columbus, Ohio || Historic Crew Stadium August 20 Detroit, Mich. || Ford Field August 26 Foxborough, Mass. || Gillette Stadium August 27 Foxborough, Mass. || Gillette Stadium * lineup for these dates is Kenny Chesney and Carly Pearce only
Kenny’s current single at country radio is “Everyone Show Knows.”
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tennessee’s Jorel Ortega has been named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week after ranking among the league leaders in a handful of offensive categories last week.
The redshirt sophomore second baseman had one of the best weeks of his collegiate career, helping lead the Vols to a series win over No. 24 Alabama in Knoxville.
Vols 2B Jorel Ortega / Credit: UT Athletics
Ortega led the SEC with a .563 batting average for the week and also tied for the league lead with nine hits, recording at least one base knock in all four games played and three multi-hit performances. He also tied for second in the SEC with six runs scored last week, scoring at least once in every game. His 17 total bases ranked third in the conference, as well.
The Naranjito, Puerto Rico, native, recorded at least two hits in all three games against the Crimson Tide over the weekend, while setting career highs with four hits and four RBIs to help lead UT to a series win in Sunday’s rubber game. Ortega’s three-run homer in the fourth inning turned out to be the game-winning hit in Tennessee’s 15-4 victory on Sunday. He also homered in the series opener and had a triple in Saturday’s 9-2 win over the Tide.
Ortega is the second Vol to earn SEC Player of the Week honors this season, joining fellow infielder Trey Lipscomb, who won the award on Feb. 28. This marks the first time since 2016 (Jordan Rodgers & Nick Senzel) that Tennessee has had multiple players earn conference player of the week honors in the same season.
The Big Orange host Bellarmine on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. before heading down to Gainesville for a series with Florida this weekend.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tennessee’s Jorel Ortega has been named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week after ranking among the league leaders in a handful of offensive categories last week.
The redshirt sophomore second baseman had one of the best weeks of his collegiate career, helping lead the Vols to a series win over No. 24 Alabama in Knoxville.
Vols 2B Jorel Ortega / Credit: UT Athletics
Ortega led the SEC with a .563 batting average for the week and also tied for the league lead with nine hits, recording at least one base knock in all four games played and three multi-hit performances. He also tied for second in the SEC with six runs scored last week, scoring at least once in every game. His 17 total bases ranked third in the conference, as well.
The Naranjito, Puerto Rico, native, recorded at least two hits in all three games against the Crimson Tide over the weekend, while setting career highs with four hits and four RBIs to help lead UT to a series win in Sunday’s rubber game. Ortega’s three-run homer in the fourth inning turned out to be the game-winning hit in Tennessee’s 15-4 victory on Sunday. He also homered in the series opener and had a triple in Saturday’s 9-2 win over the Tide.
Ortega is the second Vol to earn SEC Player of the Week honors this season, joining fellow infielder Trey Lipscomb, who won the award on Feb. 28. This marks the first time since 2016 (Jordan Rodgers & Nick Senzel) that Tennessee has had multiple players earn conference player of the week honors in the same season.
The Big Orange host Bellarmine on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. before heading down to Gainesville for a series with Florida this weekend.
Cole Swindell recently released his latest album Stereotype.
Cole is very happy to have his album out for fans to listen to…but he’s also happy because his favorite sport is back, “I’ve been waiting on baseball since we won the World Series last year but also you know I’ve been enjoying it too because it’s a brand new season.”
While baseball season is off and running Swindell says until there’s a new World Series his favorite team the Atlanta Braves are still the champs, “I guess we’re world champs for several more months but you’d never know what could happen this year but it’s back!”
Baseball and the Braves have a special connection to Cole, and his late-father, “The Braves are obviously one of my favorite sports teams…grew up watching them with my dad…so this past year was so…I can’t even explain how special it was.”
While Cole has a busy schedule in 2022, he will still find some time to take in some games, “I’m planning to get to a game as soon as I can I think the Braves know that I’ll be as many as I can and I’ll always gonna be pulling forward so…it was a long time coming last year…man, that was one of the coolest memories of my life getting to be there in Houston when they won it.”
Cole recently stopped by MLB Central to talk about his music and the Braves.
Cole even showed off his own personal Atlanta Braves jersey in the music video for his number-one song “Single Saturday Night.”
“Single Saturday Night” and “Never Say Never” are from Cole Swindell’s album Stereotype – which is out now.
Did you see Cole and Lainey Wilson’s epic performance of “Never Say Never” on this year’s CMT Music Awards – watch it here…
As Ingrid Andress climbs the country airplay chart with Sam Hunt and their song “Wishful Drinking” – she’s released a new song called “Good Person.”
Talking about the track, Ingrid says “I wrote ‘Good Person’ when I realized that I was starting to question a lot of things. What makes somebody good and what does that look like, and in a world of being so judgmental of other people, what makes you better than them?”
Ingrid adds, “With the video, I really wanted to mesh these worlds of light and dark and highlight the parallels between the two. Stay tuned fam. This is just the beginning.”
“Good Person” gives fans more of a glimpse into the music that Ingrid might be planning for her follow-up album to her debut project Lady Like.
“Wishful Drinking” – the first song from Ingrid’s sophomore collection of songs, and her current single at country radio features Sam Hunt, who Andress says “added a whole new level of like swag” to the track.
Check out the music video to “Wishful Drinking” here…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The bats were hot and the pitchers were dealing in top-ranked Tennessee’s 15-4 series-clinching victory against No. 24/24 Alabama on Sunday afternoon at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
The Vols (33-3, 14-1 SEC) were fueled offensively by strong performances from senior Trey Lipscomb and redshirt sophomore Jorel Ortega. The duo combined to record seven hits, including three home runs, nine RBIs and five runs scored on the day.
Vols 3B Trey Lipscomb / Credit: UT Athletics
Lipscomb posted his second multi-homer game of the season, launching two long balls and adding a double to drive in five runs while crossing the plate three times himself. Ortega finished with a career-high four hits, going 4-of-5 at the plate with one home run and three singles to go along with a personal-best four RBIs.
The Tennessee bats were hot all day, totaling 15 hits and drawing eight walks in the high-scoring affair. With 15 runs in the game, the Volunteers have now driven in double-digit runs in 17 games this year, including five times in conference play. UT is a perfect 17-0 when scoring at least 10 runs.
On the mound, freshman Drew Beam paced the Big Orange behind a career-best 10 strikeouts with no walks to improve his record to 8-0 on the year. He allowed three runs on four hits in 6.2 innings pitched. In total, UT struck out 14 batters and allowed just six hits to prevent the Crimson Tide (23-14, 8-7 SEC) from gaining any momentum.
Alabama struck first in the game, as Drew Williamson turned on a pitch in the opening frame that stayed in the air just long enough to get over the right field wall and give the Crimson Tide an early 1-0 lead.
Tennessee pulled back ahead thanks to a four-run second inning. With two outs, Evan Russell drew walk, Christian Moore floated a single into right field and Luc Lipcius walked to load the bases. Cortland Lawson capitalized on the moment, roping a ball to the left-center gap that one-hopped the fence for a ground-rule double to bring in a pair of Vols. Seth Stephenson and Ortega each added RBI infield singles to make it a 4-1 game.
The Tide got one run back in the top of the third when Jim Jarvis homered to right field, but the Vols responded in the fourth with a three-run bomb from Ortega that cleared the center field fence to extend the Volunteer lead to 7-2. Once again doing damage with two outs, Lawson reached on a walk and Stephenson singled to set up Ortega’s third hit of the game and seventh home run of the season.
UT struck again the next inning, as Lipscomb ripped a solo shot to right center to make it an 8-2 game. Alabama returned the favor in the top of the sixth, when Zane Denton crushed a ball over the right field bullpen.
Lipscomb’s day wasn’t finished, as the senior blasted his second home run of the game over the center field fence to make it an 11-3 game. Ortega and Jordan Beck scored after reaching base on singles.
Beck continued the offensive display in the eighth, sending a no-doubter sailing over the left field porches to extend the Vols’ advantage to 13-3. Lipscomb recorded his third extra-base hit of the game, narrowly missing his third homer, with a double off the top of the padding in right-center field in the eighth.
UP NEXT: Tennessee hosts Bellarmine Tuesday, April 19 for a 6:30 p.m. contest at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Vols then travel to Gainesville for a series with the Florida Gators next weekend.
NOTABLE
Vols Stay Hot: With the win Sunday, Tennessee improved to 14-1 in SEC play and won its fifth straight series against conference foes. The Vols joined elite company with their 14-1 SEC start, becoming just the sixth team all time to achieve that feat. Vanderbilt was the last team to do so in 2013, while the first program to ever do it was the Big Orange in 1951. That squad was the only one ever to start 16-1 in SEC play.
Lipscomb Lasers: Trey Lipscomb had another huge day at the plate on Sunday, crushing two balls for home runs and narrowly missing a third by a matter of inches that ended up as a double. He finished with five RBIs and three runs on 3-of-5 hitting for the day. On the year, he boasts a team-leading 15 home runs and 57 RBIs, and he’s driven in at least five runs in three games this season, while no other Vol has done so more than once.
Ortega’s Career Day: Redshirt sophomore Jorel Ortega was on fire in the batter’s box, going 4-of-5 from the plate with one home run and three singles while driving in four runs. Ortega’s four hits and four RBIs both marked career highs.
10 Ks for Beam: Drew Beam was dealing all game, as the freshman struck out a career-high 10 batters. He fanned multiple Crimson Tide batters in four innings on the day to keep Alabama in check.
Cool, Calm, Collective: Tennessee found success with two outs on the board all game, scoring 10 of its 11 runs during the pressure situations. The Vols rattled off six hits with two home runs, three singles and a double while drawing five walks with two outs. Jorel Ortega led the way, driving in four runs thanks an RBI single in the second and a 3-run homer in the fourth.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Timely hitting and a stellar day for the bullpen helped the top-ranked Tennessee Vols defeat No. 24 Alabama, 9-2, Saturday evening at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Jordan Beck was tremendous at the plate for Tennessee (32-3, 13-1 SEC) going 2-for-3 with both of his hits being home runs. The right fielder totaled three RBIs and posted the fourth multi-homer game of his career. Beck now has 25 big flies in his UT career.
Vols OF Jordan Beck / Credit: UT Athletics
After Vols’ starter Chase Dollander was taken out of the game after being struck by a line drive in the first inning, Camden Sewell came in and logged a big-time outing out of the pen. Making his 60th appearance in a Tennessee uniform, Sewell fired 4.1 innings and threw over 70 percent of his pitches for strikes en route to his fourth victory of the season. Redmond Walsh closed out the win in style, striking out four hitters in two innings of work.
Tennessee quickly scored its first run of the game in the bottom half of the first as Beck cranked a two-run blast to dead-center to put the Vols up 2-0 in the opening frame.
The Vols struck again in the third when Jorel Ortega collected his second hit in as many at bats, a triple to the wall in right. Drew Gilbert ripped a liner to right field that hung up just long enough to be caught, but was deep enough to add a third Big Orange run to Tennessee’s tally via a sacrifice fly.
Alabama countered in the top of the sixth, getting a two-run homer from Zane Denton that just barely cleared the short wall into the Tennessee bullpen, cutting the UT lead to one.
Tennessee responded immediately by pushing three runs across in the bottom of the frame, starting with Beck’s second homer of the game, a towering shot to the power-alley in left center. Luc Lipcius added a blast of his own to the opposite field on a 3-2 count later in the inning before Evan Russell raced home on a throwing error by the catcher to give the Big Orange a 6-2 advantage heading into the seventh inning.
Three of UT’s final four runs would come via Crimson Tide errors, as Russell, Gilbert and Christian Scott all scored after stealing third and coming home on an overthrown ball from Alabama’s catcher.
The Vols and Tide will square off at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the rubber game. The contest will be streamed on SEC Network+ / ESPN app.
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400 Ks After punching out nine Tide hitters, Tennessee increased its season strikeout total to 407. Entering the weekend, the Vols were second nationally in strikeouts, trailing only Florida State.
TREY REACHES TRIPLE-DIGITS Third baseman Trey Lipscomb collected his 100th total base of the season Saturday afternoon. The senior went 2-for-4 at the dish and entered the game with 99 total bases. Before the weekend started, Lipscomb had the 14th-most total bases in the country.
BECK BOMBS Facing his home-state school, junior slugger Jordan Beck homered twice in Saturday’s win to increase his season total to nine.
Blake Shelton is always one to go to great lengths to entertain his fans – and on this Easter he didn’t disappoint.
Now it seems like if you can’t come back as a country boy…arrive as a big pink bunny.
Along with the video, Blake sent along a message, “Happy Easter everybody. You’re welcome.” Blake also shared another video this weekend…an awesome acoustic version of his classic hit “Austin.”
Blake Shelton’s current single “Come Back As A Country Boy” is climbing the country airplay chart.
Last year Caroline Jones joined Zac Brown Band on the road for their The Comeback tour…
Now in 2022 Caroline and the Zamily are getting back together!
Caroline says, “I am honored to join Zac Brown Bandagain this year on the Out In The Middle Tour. They keep inviting me back, so I feel like an honorary member. Every night is a master class in musicianship for me, and we have a full head of stream on, as a group, for the tour this year.”
Talking about Caroline, Zac Brown says “We are very excited to have her voice and her musicianship to perform for our fans.”
Caroline’s fans have been enjoying the music from her sophomore album Antipodes…
Antipodes includes Caroline Jones’ Top-40 and TikTok viral hit “Come In (But Don’t Make Yourself Comfortable).”
Caroline and Zac Brown Band set off on the Out In The Middle tour this Friday, April 22nd, in Greenville, South Carolina.
