Albums

I get a lot of calls from people asking if I want to acquire their collection of vinyl albums. No. Thank you, but still, no. Now, some calls start with "I think these might be worth something". They're not. No. "My (insert deceased relative here) had EVERY Beatles album...

On my Facebook page, I've been participating in the "Ten Day Album Challenge". For my favorite album, I've selected my dad's album "My Turn To Sing". As I've given all of music some thought, it seems like I don't have many country albums that I could just listen to the entire album all the way through without skipping a song or two...

If you are a friend of mine on Facebook, then you might have seen the "Album Challenge"  I was nominated for by Tim Giesler. It's 10 of your favorite albums, in no particular order. And you can invite another one of your friends top play along...

This week, Reba McEntire technically became the second female country artist to ever sell more than 30 million albums. The first woman to do this was Shania Twain, who is currently considered the top-selling female country artist of all time with 34,175,000 albums sold, according to Perez Hilton.

The Band Perry were arguably the big winners at last week’s CMA Awards, winning crystal bullets for Single, Song and New Artist of the Year. This week, they’re continuing to reap the benefits as sales of their self-titled debut album are up 112 percent compared to the previous week.

Earlier this week, Lauren Alaina beat her fellow ‘American Idol’ alum to the punch when she debuted her video for ‘Like My Mother Does’ a day before Scotty McCreery premiered his clip for ‘I Love You This Big.’ When it comes to the release dates for their debut albums, the budding stars will trade places.