L.A. Times - Entertainment — Luke Bryan may have won the CMA Awards’ top prize for entertainer of the year, but a soulful outsider swept many of the night’s most significant trophies. Chris Stapleton was the big winner of the latter half of the Country Music Assn. Awards, w... more info

Perez Hilton — Luke Bryan brought the country blues back to the CMA Awards! After watching a bunch of high energy performances during country's biggest night, it was nice to cool down to the Kick the Dust Up singer's sultry vocals! Taking it slow, Bryan performed h... more info

Time — And Jennifer Lopez will host the ABC show more info

Stereogum — Lionel Richie is the latest legacy artist to be honored with the MusiCares Person Of The Year award — last year’s was Bob Dylan — and the organization has just announced who will be performing at the gala’s tribute concert. Stevie Wonder, Pha... more info

TMZ — Luke Bryan all but lost his voice during his concert Saturday night ... but he distracted fans with his moves. Bryan performed at in So. Cal. at the Irvine Spectrum and warned the crowd in advance ... but they were undeterred. Luke carted around… ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Heading into its 10-year anniversary, the Stagecoach Country Music Festival is bringing back Eric Church and Luke Bryan, who headlined 2014’s bro-country blowout, but the male dominance at the top of the card is tempered by Carrie Underwood, who re... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heavy metal rockers Disturbed ousted country singer Luke Bryan from the top spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 chart on Monday. more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Luke Bryan held onto the top spot of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday, holding off Ed Sheeran and Dr Dre. more info

Stereogum — Two seemingly contradictory reports from Billboard this week: Bro-country is over and Luke Bryan has another #1 album. Bro-country, as coined by Jody Rosen (then of New York Magazine), indicates “music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty ... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Country star Luke Bryan's latest album, "Kill the Lights," beat out Dr. Dre's buzzy "Compton," the companion album to "Straight Outta Compton," in the U.S. album sales race for the week ending Aug. 13, according to data fr... more info