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It certainly looks as though Taylor Swift‘s next studio album will be full of surprises! In what seems like an unlikely pairing, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran took to his official Twitter account yesterday to tells fans he is indeed working with the country starlet on her highly-anticipated fourth album.

Since details of Lionel Richie‘s collaborative country album, ‘Tuskegee,’ started surfacing, we’ve been following all of the happenings. And the happenings have been many. Since its release on March 26, the album has topped the Billboard Country Albums chart and landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. And just this week, Richie earned a certified platinum disc to signify that the critically-

Lee Brice‘s sophomore album, ‘Hard 2 Love,’ is already making waves in the country music scene. It just its first week of availability, the album sold more than 46,000 units, making it the No. 1 digital country album and No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

The soundtrack to your summer begins this spring, with new albums from three country music superstars and two newcomers hot on your stereo. Which album are you most looking forward to in 2012?

Lady Antebellum just released their third studio album, ‘Own the Night,’ in September, and have only released two singles from the project — but member Charles Kelley is already putting his mind around the thought of making their next record.

For one of country’s biggest stars, Kenny Chesney is building quite an impressive heavy metal collection. Chesney’s latest album, ‘Hemingway’s Whiskey,’ was recently certified platinum for sales of one million copies by the RIAA, becoming the 10th of his 14 releases to reach one of the industry’s most esteemed sales milestones.

Even for one of the biggest stars in the music business, Taylor Swift is having a heck of a year, including a sold-out tour with a series of celebrity guests and a pair of new Guinness World Records. But as Taylor discovered last weekend, in a surprise ceremony hosted by her label, she isn’t finished collecting accolades in 2011.

Jeff Bridges has been singing, playing guitar, and writing songs for years — in fact, in the ’90s, he even went so far as to release an album, ‘Be Here Soon,’ on his own label, Ramp Records. But it wasn’t until he starred in 2009′s ‘Crazy Heart’ that Bridges really had a chance to explore his musical artistry on the big screen. Now, in a case of life imitating art (or is it the other way around?),

By the time she was 14, LeAnn Rimes had already recorded four albums — and the fourth, 1996′s ‘Blue,’ sold more than six million copies in the United States alone. Rimes has come a long way since those early days — she’s now a 28-year-old married woman with 15 studio albums under her belt. And for her latest studio set, ‘Lady and Gentlemen,’ she took a brand new approach.