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ABOUT ELLA LANGLEY.
WELCOME TO DANDELION
ELLA LANGLEY TO RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM
DANDELION ON APRIL 10
Multi-platinum, chart-topping, and award-winning country star Ella Langley announces
her highly anticipated sophomore album, Dandelion, arriving April 10, 2026 via SAWGOD/
Columbia Records. The album is executive produced by Ella alongside Miranda Lambert and
Ben West.
The title track “Dandelion”
was written by Ella, Joybeth Taylor, Austin Goodloe and Brett Tyler.
Following her acclaimed 2024 debut album hungover, Dandelion marks Ella’s most personal
body of work to date. “This record has so much growth in it,” Ella shares. “I’ve never poured
more of myself into a project, into a song, into an idea, and it’s fallen out so beautifully. It’s about
learning yourself, making mistakes, and realizing that it’s all just part of life.”
For Ella, Dandelion is designed to feel easy and effortless — a record listeners can sink into
word for word, or simply let play as it soundtracks everyday moments: “I want this record to be
something that fans can relate to, but also something they want to get up and dance to at the
same time,” she says. “To me, this record feels like fireflies in the summertime. It feels like
windows down on a red dirt road. It feels like the best kind of Sunday afternoon. It feels like
those days I remember as a kid where it felt like there weren’t enough hours in the day. This
record is really a love letter to that.”
The album’s lead single “Choosin’ Texas” continues its meteoric rise, currently sitting Top 10 on
the Billboard Hot 100 for a third consecutive week, alongside a Top 5 position at Country radio.
The track has amassed over 240 million streams to date, marking Ella’s biggest solo release yet
and setting the tone for her most confident body of work to date.
Dandelions are masters of survival, thriving in even the harshest environments. Often dismissed
as a common weed, this unassuming plant carries a deeper symbolism of hope, healing, and
resilience. Adding to the poetic nature of the title, “I learned that dandelion tea is actually a
natural detox for the liver,” Ella noted. “So a record called Dandelion after a record called
hungover made all the sense in the world to me.”
Stay tuned for more from Ella soon.
ABOUT PARMALEE:
With over 1.6 billion streams, six number one country hits, and a growing list of platinum singles, Parmalee has cemented their place as a hit-making powerhouse. Known for their hook-heavy sound that doesn’t just dominate the genre – it crushes charts, radio, and playlists, solidifying their legacy as a staple in today’s country music. Comprised of brothers Matt and Scott Thomas (lead vocals/guitar and drums, respectively), cousin Barry Knox (bass), and lifelong friend Josh McSwain, the North Carolina-bred band most recently topped the charts with their latest single, “Cowgirl,” the lead release from the album, Fell In Love With A Cowgirl. This milestone marks Parmalee’s fifth consecutive number one following the massive success of number one fan favorites “Take My Name” (Billboard’s most-played country song of 2022), “Girl In Mine” (Billboard’s 8th most-played country song of 2023), “Just the Way” with Blanco Brown, and the emotional ballad “Gonna Love You” that revisited the near-death experience the band endured earlier in their career. Known for their explosive live shows, the band just wrapped their 2025 “Feels Like Home” Tour and released the deeply personal track “How Do I Let You Go.” With acclaimed nods from the ACMs, iHeartRadio, and AMAs, Parmalee is more than a chart force—they’re a live-show experience built to last.
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LAINEY WILSON
16x ACM, 12x CMA and Grammy Award-winner Lainey Wilson’s new song, “Can’t Sit Still”, is now released via BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville.
Lainey is the subject of a new in-depth documentary, Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, set for release 22nd April on Netflix.
The reigning current standard-bearer for women in country” (Variety), Wilson is in the midst of yet another monumental year. This past autumn, she hosted the 59th CMA Awards (the first solo female host since Reba McEntire in 1991), where she also won three awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (Whirlwind). She also released the deluxe version of her acclaimed album, Whirlwind, in August, which features five additional tracks, including her #1 single, “Somewhere Over Laredo”.
The Grand Ole Opry member is a prolific, sought-after songwriter, who has scored nine #1 hits including “4x4xU”, “Wildflowers And Wild Horses”, “Watermelon Moonshine” and the 2x PLATINUM Certified “Heart Like A Truck”, in addition to award-winning collaborations with Cole Swindell (“Never Say Never”), Jelly Roll (“Save Me”) and HARDY (“wait in the truck”). Moreover, Wilson has collaborated with artists such as Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Dolly Parton and Post Malone, made her acting debut in Paramount’s hit television series, “Yellowstone”, and recently launched her fifth collection with Wrangler, as well as her own boot (Golden West Boots) and jewellery lines (The Lainey Wilson Jewelry Collection).
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ZAC BROWN BAND
Multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Zac Brown Band will return to the UK this month as the first-ever band to sell out a show at the British Airways Arc, and the first US artist to play the brand new venue, on Thursday, June 25th. The band will also play BST Hyde Park on Saturday, June 27th as direct support to Garth Brooks.
Zac Brown Band released their new album Love & Fear in December which includes the upbeat, feel-good lead single ‘I Ain’t Worried About It‘ – which to date has received over 11.9 million global.
Zac Brown Band is a multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-winning Southern rock group led by frontman Zac Brown. Throughout their career spanning more than a decade, the band has had six consecutive albums reach the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and five consecutive albums debut at #1 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. To date, they’ve won three GRAMMY® Awards (including Best New Artist in 2010), sold more than 30+ million singles and 11+ million albums, amassed over 11+ billion catalog streams, and achieved 16 #1 radio singles – becoming only the second act to top both the Country and Active Rock formats.
SMITHFIELD
Texas-raised, Nashville-based Country duo Smithfield shared their latest single ‘Let You’ on Friday, the follow up to ‘Giving Up On Us’, released in March. Both songs give fans a taste of their forthcoming project, due for release later in the year.
The new single – a playful, up-tempo track about finally giving in to undeniable chemistry, co-written by the duo (Jenn Fielder and Trey Smith) with GRAMMY-nominee Karen Kosowski and Emma D Ashlee, and produced by Smith – lands ahead of their highly anticipated return to the UK this summer to headline the British Country Music Festival (Sept 4-6, 2026) in Blackpool, with more dates yet to be announced following overwhelming demand from fans.
ABOUT SMITHFIELD:
Rooted in stunning harmonies and heartfelt songwriting, Smithfield is a modern country duo inspired by one of the genre’s classic traditions: the male-female duet. Smithfield formed in 2011, drawing not only upon the family history that bound Jennifer and Trey together, but also the musical influences that set them apart. From the start, Smithfield’s music was a unique mix of the contemporary and the classic, blurring the boundaries between country, pop, and rock. There’s no lead singer in Smithfield. No main songwriter, either. Instead, Jennifer and Trey split those duties equally, writing harmony-filled songs that explore love, loss, and life from both sides of a relationship. The two moved to Nashville in 2012, eager to carry the torch for country music’s rich legacy of male-female duets into the 21st century. It was there — in the same city that inspired classic collaborations between Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner; Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; and Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty — that Smithfield fine-tuned their own brand of platonic chemistry. Songs like “Hey Whiskey” and “We’ll Figure It Out” rewarded the independent duo with major-label-sized success, including multiple appearances at the Grand Ole Opry, airplay on satellite radio, 150 million digital streams, acclaim from Rolling Stone, and shows with fellow country artists like Brothers Osborne, Scotty McCreery, Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown, Sara Evans, Josh Turner, Dustin Lynch, and Old Dominion.
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JASON ALDEAN Don’t Tell On Me
2 MORGAN WALLEN Don’t We
3 ELLA LANGLEY & MORGAN WALLEN I Can’t Love You Anymore
4 LUKE COMBS Be By You
5 BAILEY ZIMMERMAN Chevy Silverado
6 KANE BROWN Woman
7 TAYLOR SWIFT I Knew It, I Knew You
8 KENNY CHESNEY Carry On
9 STELLA LEFTY Boston
10 GEORGE BIRGE Ride, Ride, Ride w/Luke Bryan
11 JOHN MORGAN Kid Myself
12 LUKE BRYAN Country & She Knows It
13 LAUREN ALAINA All My Exes (w/Chase Matthew)
14 ZACH TOP South Of Sanity
15 HARDY McArthur w/McGraw, Church, & Wallen
16 ZACH JOHN KING Get To Drinkin’
17 DAN + SHAY Say So
18 LAINEY WILSON Phone, Keys, Wallet
19 COREY KENT Rocky Mountain Low
20 RILEY GREEN Think As You Drunk
21 JON PARDI Boots Off
22 MEGAN MORONEY Beautiful Things
23 DUSTIN LYNCH Easy To Love
24 JELLY ROLL Hands Up
25 GREYLAN JAMES Water At A Wedding
26 RUSSELL DICKERSON Worth Your Wild
27 ALEXANDRA KAY Straight For The Heart
28 HUDSON WESTBROOK Painted You Pretty
29 BLAKE SHELTON Let Him In Anyway
30 SHANE PROFITT Long Live Country
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1 RILEY GREEN Change My Mind
2 ELLA LANGLEY Be Her
3 JOSH ROSS Hate How You Look
4 JASON ALDEAN Don’t Tell On Me
5 MORGAN WALLEN Don’t We
6 JORDAN DAVIS Turn This Truck Around
7 MEGAN MORONEY Beautiful Things
8 ELLA LANGLEY & MORGAN WALLEN I Can’t Love You Anymore
9 COREY KENT Rocky Mountain Low
10 KANE BROWN Woman
11 LUKE COMBS Be By You
12 BAILEY ZIMMERMAN Chevy Silverado
13 TUCKER WETMORE Brunette
14 GEORGE BIRGE Ride, Ride, Ride w/Luke Bryan
15 JOHN MORGAN Kid Myself
16 HARDY McArthur w/McGraw, Church, & Wallen
17 KENNY CHESNEY Carry On
18 ZACH TOP South Of Sanity
19 LoCASH Wrong Hearts
20 LUKE BRYAN Country & She Knows It
21 ZACH JOHN KING Get To Drinkin’
22 JON PARDI Boots Off
23 LAUREN ALAINA All My Exes (w/Chase Matthew)
24 DAN + SHAY Say So
25 TAYLOR SWIFT I Knew It, I Knew You
26 DUSTIN LYNCH Easy To Love
27 GREYLAN JAMES Water At A Wedding
28 STELLA LEFTY Boston
29 ALEXANDRA KAY Straight For The Heart
30 LAINEY WILSON Phone, Keys, Wallet
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