Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons, Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign are among the first round of performers set for ABC’s 2018 America Music Awards broadcast, the network and dick clark productions announced today. Hosted by the previously announced Tracee Ellis Ross, the fan-voted awards show will broadcast live from…

Country star Carrie Underwood took to Twitter Wednesday to respond to the death of Craig Zadan, executive producer of The Sound of Music Live! which she starred in. “Such sad news,” Underwood tweeted. “Craig was a visionary, a risk-taker, a lover of music and just an all around nice guy! I am honored to have worked…

The 51st annual Country Music Association Awards kicked off with a tribute to the victims of last month’s Las Vegas tragedy. Darius Rucker led an all-star group of country superstars in a rendition of his Hootie and the Blowfish hit “Hold My Hand.” On stage with him was a who’s-who of the country world including Keith…

Multiple Grammy winner Carrie Underwood has signed a global recording deal with Universal Music Group, ending the former American Idol winner’s run at Sony Music, where she had released all five of her multiplatinum studio albums via Arista Nashville. Underwood's new label home will be Capitol Records Nashville, one…

Updated 10:00 PM: You can sum up the American Idol series grand finale very simply: Everyone got to take part in a medley and there were no surprise appearances. The broadcast was at 100 minutes and counting when they brought out original judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. For the official Idol…

Grammy-winning superstars and previous American Idol winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are coming back to where it all began for them. They’ll both perform live on Thursday, April 7, the final night of a three-night series finale for the long-running Fox singing competition. The Grand Finale week kicks off…

CBS and the Recording Academy will honor the late Frank Sinatra and the 100th anniversary of his birth with a primetime tribute special Sinatra 100 – An All Star Grammy Concert. Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Garth Brooks, Adam Levine and Usher are among the initial artists set for the special. The live…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is revving up Two Black Cadillacs, a six-hour limited event series based on the hit Carrie Underwood song. Underwood will executive produce the project, now in development, with Jerry Bruckheimer. Written by Ildy Modrovich (Necessary Roughness), Two Black Cadillacs, from Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner…

The ratings are alive with The Sound Of Music this holiday season. A couple hours after we learned the halo effect from the success of NBC’s The Sound Of Music live staging had spread to ABC’s bajillionth rerun of  the 1965 movie, which clocked its biggest overall audience in six years and its best demo stat in three…

NBC announced this afternoon it will  repeat its  The Sound of Music Live! on Saturday, Dec. 14, 8-11 PM ET/PT. Sorry, It’s A  Wonderful Life (The Jimmy Stewart movie has been bumped to Friday at 8 PM.) Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's live staging of The Sound of Music continues to shower NBC with ratings. Immediately…

To the surprise of no one who saw the ratings and the social stats, NBC announced Monday that it’s turning last week's live-musical/social media-palooza into an annual event. NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said today he's already circling a couple of titles for next year but already has begun managing…

2ND UPDATE, 3:40PM: No one can deny that Thursday was a good night for NBC's live The Sound Of Music, but final numbers are in and a figuratively louder show took the top spot after all. Previously tied with Music at a 4.6 in adults 18-49 in fast nationals, The Big Bang Theory saw a two-tenths rise to 4.8/14 to win…