The Concert for Carolina benefit concert was held Saturday night at Bank of America Stadium. Just over 82,000 fans bought tickets for the show. Luke Combs and Eric Church, who organized the event, were headliners along with James Taylor and Billy Strings. Others artists who were part of the lineup included Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Scotty McCreery, Chase Rice, Parmalee, Bailey Zimmerman and more. Dolly Parton, who wasn't performing, announced that she would be donating $1 million to the cause, as part of the $100 million Bezos Courage and Civility Award that she received from Jeff Bezos in 2022. Eric Church shared that his foundation is launching a home-building initiative called Blueprint of the Blue Ridge. The goal is to build 100 homes in Avery County, N.C. David Tepper, who owns the Carolina Panthers, and his wife Nicole donated the Bank of America Stadium and the stadium team also footed the bill for parking, workers' wages and taxes during the night. Because of everyone's efforts they were able to raise a staggering $24,513,185 for Hurricane Helene relief efforts.
Fans have been begging Carrie Underwood to share her leg workout for years, and she finally has. In a video posted on her page and Fitness 52, Carrie takes you slowly through the exercises behind her sculpted legs. She starts with a "Squat Pulse." Next, she goes into a move called "Touchdowns." Then comes the "Bulgarian Split Squat." Then the "Bulgarian Deadlift." Carrie ends her leg workout with some "Bench Toe Taps." Give it a try...if you dare.
Jelly Roll has hit his first 100-pound weight loss goal and is looking to lose more by the time his Beautifully Broken Tour hits Canada in March. "That's why next year when y'all see me, you won't recognize me," Jelly Roll says to his crew in a video posted to social media. "I am going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never have." His personal chef, who has been travelling with him, shared a few of Jelly Roll's favourite meals while out on the road. "We just passed the halfway point of the tour and Jelly has been crushing it," Chef Ian Larios says in the video update. "We're out here walking the arenas, playing basketball, boxing." Fans flooded the comments section of Jelly's update to show their support.
Brett Young had enough and walked off stage after multiple fights broke out in the crowd during his show in Detroit last Friday. Many videos from the night show him standing onstage, looking surprised by all the fights as the rest of the crowd is confused and annoyed. It actually looked like he was going to end his show early, but then Brett reassured the fans that he would come back out after security dealt with the numerous situations. "This is incredible to me that this happens at Brett Young concerts," he said when he came back onstage. "You guys, have my full permission to not - and I can't believe I'm saying this - get in any more fights tonight, please. I love you. Let's play some music," he told the crowd as he resumed his concert.
Garth Brooks has added a piece of football history to his downtown Nashville bar. He entered an auction to buy a piece of the goalpost ripped down by fans of Vanderbilt University after their win over the University of Alabama on October 5th. That was Vanderbilt's first-ever win over a number one team and their first against the Crimson Tide in 40 years. Fans stormed the field, ripped down a goalpost and marched it down to the Cumberland River, where they threw it in. It was fished out of the river, and, claiming that the money was going to pay for their fines, Vanderbilt put pieces of it up for auction. Garth says that the goalpost padding will be on the private third floor of his bar. He also may try to get players to sign it.
Zach Bryan and Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia have broken up. He confirmed the news in a post on Tuesday - only one day after they ended their relationship, and she says she wasn't expecting the news to become public yet. In a post on Instagram, Zach explains that he has had an "incredibly hard year" on a personal level and that Brianna loved him though it. However, "I thought it would be beneficial to both of us to go our different ways," he says. In her response, Brianna says she'll be ready to talk about it after she takes time to grieve the loss of the relationship. The couple recently celebrated their one year anniversary. Rumours about a break up started when fans noticed that Zach was on Raya, a celebrity dating app.
Gabby Barrett has just announced the release of a new Christmas album called Carols and Candlelight. She shared the news with her followers on social media, posting the cover art for the project and a snippet of her rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas." The album is due out on November 8th.
Jelly Roll's sophomore album, Beautifully Broken, is the number one album on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart this week. That is the first time his album has been number one on that list. Beautifully Broken is among a handful of other country albums that have been on top of the Billboard 200 this year. Morgan Wallen's One Night at a Time, Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, Post Malone's F-1 Trillion and Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits compilation each found the number one spot this year. According to Billboard, that's the most country albums in a calendar year to reach number one since 2014.