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Narrowly missing his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (where it starts at No. 2), Brad Paisley collects his seventh leader on Top Country Albums with "Wheelhouse," which sells 100,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Country music legend Willie Nelson is sending out his prayers via Twitter after a deadly fertilizer plant explosion rocked West, Texas, a small community north of Waco near where he grew up.

It's been a long and winding road, creatively, for Granger Smith and his just-released new album, "Dirt Road Driveway." The Texan recorded and produced the album himself over the course of a year. "So, there's a long year that goes by without anyone hearing the material."

Collin Raye is finishing up a tribute album to Glen Campbell, which he looks to release in late-2013.

Chuck Wicks burst out of the gate five years ago with the success of his breakthrough single "Stealing Cinderella," from his debut album "Starting Now." Though the Delaware native has continued to perform, a change in his record company status has kept him from releasing new music for his fans -- that is, until now.