Sam Hunt’s Long-Awaited ‘Southside’ Album Arrives: Stream It Now

While the rest of the world has been in a pretty dismal all-around state, it's been a year of dreams coming true on a regular basis for long-suffering music fans when it comes to much-anticipated projects from their schedule-adverse favorites.

Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.This week, Fiona Apple returns when we need her most, Sam Smith and Demi Lovato are “ready” to take over pop radio, and DaBaby can’t stop and won’t stop.

Sam Hunt is back with a new track!

Jon Bon Jovi appeared on SiriusXM's "The Howard Stern Show."

Zach Crowell hits No. 1 on Billboard's Country Producers chart (dated April 18), leading for the first time thanks to seven production credits on the latest Hot Country Songs chart, all via songs performed by Sam Hunt.All seven tracks appear on Hunt's new sophomore LP Southside, which debuts at No.

Sam Hunt appeared on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday evening (April 13) from the comfort of his studio to perform his infectious single “Hard to Forget.”The country singer-songwriter shared his stripped-down version of the song alone on guitar, with the help of a backing track.“Hey everybody. My band couldn’t join me this evening, so I’m going to try to make do here at the studio,” Hunt told viewers.

Sam Hunt's second studio full-length, and first in more than five years, Southside, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart dated April 18.In its first week, ending April 9, the set earned 46,000 equivalent album units, including 16,000 in album sales, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.Southside marks Hunt's second Top Country Albums No.

Country superstar Sam Hunt has sung about being a homebody. But now that the global coronavirus pandemic has forced him to quarantine indoors, he’s feeling a little restless.

By Jill Goldsmith

By Jill Goldsmith

This is a familiar sight! Joseph Baena, 22, struck the same exact bodybuilding pose that his dad Arnold Schwarzenegger, 72, did during his reign as a bodybuilding champ circa the ’60s and ’70s. The Pepperdine college graduate rocked a pair of Gym Shark drawstring joggers and checkered Vans Slips-Ons for a photo, but of course went shirtless.

With “Hard to Forget,” Sam Hunt has given country fans a track that lives up to its title, likely to be remembered for both its progressive sound and its instant country history lesson.

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Lady Gaga has channelled a cyber punk look in the apocalyptic artwork for her forthcoming album Chromatica.

Sam Hunt's latest album, Southside, has topped this week's new music release poll. In the poll, published Friday (April 3) on Billboard,

First Country is a compilation of the best new country songs, videos and albums that dropped this week.The much anticipated sophomore album by Sam Hunt dropped today (April 3), and Southside proves that the best things in life are well worth the wait.

The end of another week brings a host of new music by everyone from Drake and DaBaby to Sam Hunt and Steve Aoki, and Billboard wants to know which new release you have on repeat!Will you be spending the weekend making TikTok videos to Drake's infectious "Toosie Slide"? Have you been waiting five-plus years for Hunt's sophomore album Southside, or even longer (twelve whole years!) for Lindsay Lohan to mount a musical comeback with her clubby new track "Back To Me?"Perhaps you're ready to throw a

Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.