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The Country Music Association (CMA) announced that the feature-length documentary film ‘CMA Fest: 50 Years of Fan Fair’ will be released on Hulu this July 5th. Running 75-minutes, “CMA Fest: 50 Years of Fan Fair” highlights the festival’s origin in 1972 as ‘Fan Fair,’ taking place at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. It later moved to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds by 1982, and then to downtown Nashville two decades later.

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of his platinum-certified album, True Believers, Darius Rucker is releasing it on vinyl for the first time.  Rucker says in a press release: “This album changed so much for me musically and for our live show. As a kid who worked as a clerk in a record store, there’s a part of me that has always wanted this album to live on vinyl, so this is a great way to commemorate 10 years of ‘Believers’.”

Ahead of the full release of his album Whitsitt Chapel next month, Jelly Roll is sharing the full tracklist for the project.

Jake Owen shared that his seventh studio album, Loose Cannon, will arrive on June 23. A description of the 16-track record reads: “A collection of summertime staples that tip their hat to classic country rhythms audiences of all generations can crack a cold one to.”

Bailey Zimmerman’s debut album Religiously. The Album earned the top debut on the country albums, landing in the Top 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, No. 7 on their all-genre Billboard 200 chart and No. 8 on The Billboard Canadian Album Chart.– marking not only the biggest streaming debut album of the year across all genres, but also the biggest streaming country debut of all time. Zimmerman has already surpassed two billion global streams to date and recently celebrated six weeks at No. 1 with his multi-Platinum hit single “Rock And A Hard Place.”