Riley Green, the multi-PLATINUM, ACM, and CMA Award-winning singer-songwriter, is set to release the highly anticipated extended version of his 2024 record, Don’t Mind If I Do (Deluxe), this Friday, August 29th. The deluxe edition adds six new tracks that promise to deepen the project’s emotional and sonic landscape, further solidifying Green’s place as a leading voice in modern Country music.

The new additions showcase Green’s signature blend of heartfelt storytelling and southern authenticity, offering fans a mix of vulnerability and rugged charm. Among the standout tracks is the emotionally charged “Make It Rain,” a song that tackles the heavy subject of regret with raw honesty. Green also teams up with fellow artist Randy Houser on the rural anthem, “Cowboy As It Gets,” a collaboration that’s sure to resonate with listeners who appreciate traditional country roots. Another highlight is the tender duet, “I Just Need You,” featuring rising artist Hannah McFarland, which offers a poignant moment of quiet reflection.

In addition to these collaborations, the deluxe album includes several introspective and thematic songs. In “What Am I Supposed To Do Now,” Green reflects on the heartbreak and confusion that follows a breakup. He also taps into his love for the outdoors on “Bet They’re Biting,” a track that paints a vivid picture of a day on the water. The collection is rounded out by a powerful tribute in “One To Willie,” which not only honors the Country legends who paved the way but also features the unmistakable guitar work of the icon himself, Willie Nelson.

These six new songs seamlessly integrate with the original album, showcasing Green’s lyrical depth and his ability to connect with fans on a personal level. The release of Don’t Mind If I Do (Deluxe) is a testament to Green’s commitment to his craft, providing listeners with a richer, more comprehensive look into his artistry and underscoring why he is a celebrated figure in today’s Country music scene.

On September 1, 2025, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) will begin accepting submissions for their annual Song Contest, now in its 26th year. Beginning at 12:00 p.m. Central, songwriters have two months to submit their best songs and/or lyrics for a chance to win some incredible prizes! This year’s contest will award over $37,000 worth of prizes amongst a total of 13 songwriters who either win or are deemed runners-up in the contest. Grand Prize Winners will walk away with one of two cash prizes ($5,000 and $2,500), a complete Home Studio Recording Package from Custom House at Guitar Center, plus $1,500 towards a Guitar Center purchase courtesy of the Guitar Center Music Foundation, a Taylor Guitars Gold Label 517e guitar, a mentor session with either Ashley McBryde or Rivers Rutherford, a one-year single-song publishing contract with BMG, a pair of tickets to 9th annual Nashville Songwriter Awards in 2026, a personalized Music Row Experience, an experience at The Bluebird Cafe and more! Runners-up will receive prizes from Musicnotes and the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, custom capos from G7th The Capo Company, and even a chance to participate in a Group Mentor Session with hit songwriter Josh Osborne!

In addition to more prizes than ever for the Grand Prize Winners and runners-up, after the contest winners have been announced, each individual participant in the contest will receive one (1) credit for an NSAI Song Evaluation (value of $25) good to redeem with any song of their choosing after the contest has been completed, as well as the scorecard for every submission entered that provides valuable insight from the judges. The contest welcomes and encourages songwriters of all genres to submit their songs and or lyrics at www.nsaisongcontest.com from September 1, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. CT to October 31, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. CT.

The judging process has four phases, beginning with an evaluation of each individual entry by an industry professional who will submit scores of 1-10 for each question on the judging questionnaire. The highest scoring songs and lyrics from each judge will move forward to the next rounds for their chance to win big! Up to 13 entries will place in the contest over the next 3 phases of judging, which will conclude with a live-taped final judging where the Lyric Category Grand Prize Winner and runners-up will be announced, and the Song Category Top 10 finalists will be judged for the final time before determining the Song Category Grand Prize Winner. Judging will take place no later than February 2026. Up to 10 additional entries will be recognized as Honorable Mentions in the contest.

The Song Category Grand Prize Winner will collect $5,000 CASH, a one-on-one mentor session with GRAMMY, ACM, and CMA Award winner Ashley McBryde, and will be offered a ONE-YEAR SINGLE-SONG CONTRACT WITH BMG. They will also receive a brand new Taylor Guitars Gold Label 517e guitar, a complete Home Studio Recording Package from Custom House at Guitar Center and a visit to their showroom, $1,500 towards a purchase at Guitar Center (courtesy of Guitar Center Music Foundation), tickets to the 2026 Nashville Songwriter Awards, and performance opportunities at The Bluebird Cafe and the 2026 Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival. In addition, the prize pack for the Song Category Grand Prize Winner will include a personalized Music Row Experience, which includes industry meetings, round-trip air travel to Nashville on Southwest Airlines®, and a 3-night stay at Motif on Music Row, dinner with the Executive Director of NSAI and (2) complimentary tickets to attend a show at the legendary Bluebird Cafe. Other prizes include a visit with a Pro Writer for a Song Breakdown of how they wrote their hit, the opportunity to turn the winning song into sheet music courtesy of Musicnotes (with the option to make it available for sale at musicnotes.com) along with a $100 Musicnotes gift card and an engraved plaque of the first page of the sheet music transcription, a set of 3 capos from G7th The Capo Company (with custom engraving opportunity), an additional round-trip flight via Southwest Airlines®, a $250 Gift Card and Music City VIP Star Card courtesy of Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, and more!

The Lyric Category Grand Prize Winner will receive $2,500 CASH, a mentoring session with Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame hit songwriter, RIVERS RUTHERFORD, as well as a brand new Taylor Guitars Gold Label 517e guitar, a $2,500+ complete Home Studio Recording Package from Custom House at Guitar Center and a visit to their Showroom, a meeting with BMG, $1,500 towards a purchase at Guitar Center (courtesy of the Guitar Center Music Foundation), and tickets to the 2026 Nashville Songwriter Awards. In addition, the prize pack for the Lyric Category Grand Prize Winner will include a personalized Music Row Experience, which includes industry meetings, round-trip air travel to Nashville on Southwest Airlines®, and a 3-night stay at Motif on Music Row, dinner with the Executive Director of NSAI and (2) complimentary tickets to attend a show at the legendary Bluebird Cafe. Other prizes include an engraved plaque with a transcription of the winning lyrics and a $100 gift card from Musicnotes, a set of 3 capos from G7th The Capo Company (with custom engraving opportunity), an additional round-trip flight via Southwest Airlines, a $250 Gift Card and Music City VIP Star Card courtesy of Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, and more!

Song Category and Lyric Category runners-up will each receive a publisher meeting with BMG, Dream 3 Publishing, or Black River Entertainment, one year of membership to NSAI, the opportunity to participate in a group mentor session with Josh Osborne, a custom engraved G7th “Nashville” Capo, a $25 Southwest Airlines Gift Card, a $50 Musicnotes Gift Card, and a Music City VIP Star Card!

All eligible submissions received by NSAI between September 1, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. Central through October 31, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Central, will be judged in their respective categories by music industry professionals who will give the song a numerical score based on a questionnaire scorecard. Entries scoring in the top 8% from each first round judge will advance to the second round for another review by teams of industry professionals, and in the third round of judging, a panel will determine up to ten (10) finalists and up to ten (10) honorable mentions for the Song Category, three (3) Lyric Category finalists will be determined, and then the Lyric Category Grand Prize Winner and runner-up will be selected. By January 2026, the top finalists for the Song Category will be judged in a live-taped event, where a panel of elite music industry professionals will score each submission from 1-10, with the highest combined score receiving the Song Category Grand Prize!

Entries may be submitted online at www.nsaisongcontest.com. The fees to enter $35 per song or lyric entry for current NSAI members and $45 per song or lyric entry for the general public. There is no limit to the number of songs or lyrics that songwriters can submit, and the submission portal closes at 5:00 p.m. Central on October 31, 2025.

Country music firebrand Gavin Adcock has kicked off a momentous new chapter with the release of his highly anticipated sophomore album, Own Worst Enemy, available now via Thrivin’ Here Records/Warner Music Nashville.

The new album, which dropped on August 15, arrives just one year after his groundbreaking debut, Actin’ Up Again, and is a testament to the Adcock’s relentless work ethic and candid storytelling, capturing the journey he has been on over the past year. Just as Own Worst Enemy made its way into the world, Adcock released TWO new music videos the same day; “Last One To Know” and “Morning Bail.” Both videos were directed by Ben Humphrey and filmed near Nashville, Tennessee.

To round out album release weekend, Adcock stepped out on the stage again with Morgan Wallen in Cleveland, Ohio, on both Friday and Saturday nights on Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem Tour. As Own Worst Enemy album release week continues, Adcock shows no signs of slowing down as he sets his sights on his own headlining Need To Tour, which picks back up this Thursday 8/21 in Wichita, Kansas.

The release of Own Worst Enemy adds another milestone to a career filled with major accomplishments. In the past year, Adcock has surpassed one billion global streams and received multiple RIAA certifications, including platinum status for his breakout song, “A Cigarette.” Adcock was also recently nominated for “New Male Artist of the Year” at the 60th ACM Awards and “Discovery Artist of the Year” for the 37th Annual MusicRow Awards.

ABOUT GAVIN ADCOCK
Gavin Adcock is a Georgia native born and raised in Watkinsville. Former Georgia Southern University football player, Gavin grew up working on his family cattle farm and dreamed of riding bulls in the PBR. He started writing songs in high school, but it wasn’t until the spring of 2021, when Adcock tore his knee playing football, that he used his healing time to record and release his first original single. Since then, Gavin has released multiple singles, collectively amassing over 1 billion global streams including the fan-favorite, RIAA PLATINUM-certified, “A Cigarette,” GOLD-certified songs “Run Your Mouth,” “Deep End,” and “Four Leaf Clover,” along with his major label debut album, Actin’ Up Again, which was crowned the largest major-label country debut from a solo male artist released in 2024. With more than 15 million on-demand U.S. streams week of release, Actin’ Up Again was also 2024’s top streaming major-label debut across the whole genre. One year after his thunderous album Actin’ Up Again released worldwide, Adcock released his new album, Own Worst Enemy, on August 15, 2025. Throughout the meteoric year from Actin’ Up Again (2024) to Own Worst Enemy (2025), the Georgia native has won over the hearts of both Country music fans and the Country music industry alike. Adcock received his first industry voted award nomination for New Male Artist of the Year for the 60th ACM Awards, in addition to being nominated for MusicRow Magazine’s “DISCOVERY ARTIST OF THE YEAR” award for the 37th Annual MusicRow Awards. Taking his music to the fans, Adcock has sold out music venues from coast-to-coast via multiple headline tours such as the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents: Gavin Adcock, his Actin’ Up Again (Again) Tour, and at present his Need To Tour, which kicked off in May 2025. Adcock also joins superstar Morgan Wallen for select dates on Wallen’s I’m The Problem Tour, as well as a plethora of new headline dates and major festival appearances being added throughout the rest of 2025.

Heart-on-sleeve New York singer-songwriter ROSIE shares her new album City Woman out now via Arista Records. The intimate collection of songs will be performed by ROSIE on her fall City Woman Tour, on sale now, with more dates to come.

City Woman’s songs encompass the emotional complexity of love, its aftermath, and personal growth, blending lively melodies with vivid storytelling. The most recent single “Turn Red” joins previously released City Woman songs including the empowering “Mr. Blue Jeans,” which cleverly flips the script on being ghosted on a date, and “City Woman,” a country-kissed single about opposites attracting … until they don’t.

City Woman brings more of these deeply confessional, vulnerable, yet self affirming tones central to her cathartic, candid, and curative recent EP, What Scares Me the Most — which will also be included in the album. Tracks like “Piece of My Heart” capture the difficulty of letting down emotional barriers to give and accept love from someone else. Over a melodic acoustic arrangement, Rosie sings “So here’s a little piece of my heart / I’m scared of letting down my guard / I’m scared to give it all at once / But I can give it part by part / So here’s a little piece of my heart.”

As ROSIE learns to share a piece of her heart in the track, she shares a piece of her life with her listener. About the album, ROSIE shares, “This album is the story of the last three years of my life, the different cities I’ve stayed in, and the lessons I’ve learned about myself in each one,” says ROSIE about City Woman. “One city taught me how to lose someone with grace, one taught me how to love someone with caution, and, most importantly, one taught me how to love myself with no conditions.”

Last year, ROSIE released moving full-band performance videos for “Blood Moon” and “I Was Wrong,” and also teamed with Nashville riser Caleb Hearn for the folk-pop charmer “Break a Promise,” their second duet. The duo first came together in early 2024 for “Little Bit Better,” a viral gem that garnered over 16M streams within two months of release. Ever since, she’s been building toward her fullest artistic statement yet: City Woman.

About ROSIE
When ROSIE started posting on TikTok, the emotional-pop artist achieved every songwriter’s dream: her breakout single “Never the 1” reached just shy of 18 million views and got the attention of Arista Records, who signed her shortly after. The New York native puts into words the complexities of heartbreak, resonating with millions, as well as celebrities like FINNEAS, Olivia Rodrigo, Charlie Puth, Olivia O’Brien, and Celine Dion — ROSIE even co-wrote “Love Again” for a SONY film, which was Dion’s first song since being diagnosed with SPS. At just 24 years old, ROSIE has already earned a reputation as a self-love visionary by championing social media transparency through her vow to never wear makeup and or edit her photos — not even Facetune. Whether it’s her lyrics or artwork, ROSIE brings forward unpolished authenticity. While ROSIE had a successful 2023 with the release of her sophomore EP, 5 Songs For Healing, and her first U.S. headlining tour, 2024 saw the songstress reach new heights. ROSIE’s music now reaches 3M+ listeners worldwide, and her “Little Bit Better” collaboration with singer-songwriter Caleb Hearn went viral, amassing over 22 million views across TikTok and Instagram shorts. After sharing a series of incredibly candid, deeply cathartic singles in 2024 — “Lose Me Too,” “Try Again,” “Rock Bottom,” “Big Heart” — ROSIE released the conceptually powerful What Scares Me the Most EP. In 2025, she goes even bigger.

Building on its reputation for country-chart dominance, Tape Room Music continues to make waves this summer. The Nashville-based independent publisher celebrates back-to-back No. 1s, while more than a dozen of its songs climb the charts – simultaneously.

Founded by record-setting songwriter Ashley Gorley in 2011, Tape Room Music has celebrated over 50 No. 1s and counting. Its current tag-team of hits from Gorley and roster writers include this week’s No. 1 on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase chart, Nate Smith’s “Fix What You Didn’t Break,” and last week’s No. 1, Tyler Hubbard’s “Park.”

“Fix What You Didn’t Break” was written by Smith, Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Lindsay Rimes. It marks Taylor Phillips’ 10th career chart topper, and fourth No. 1 in the last 12 months, joining Jelly Roll’s “I Am Not Okay” and “Liar” and Dylan Scott’s “This Town’s Been Too Good To Us.” Phillips is the fourth Tape Room writer to achieve the feat along with Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps and Zach Crowell. “Fix What You Didn’t Break” marks the sixth No. 1 shared between Phillips and Gorley.

“Park” was written by Hubbard with Jesse Frasure, Gorley and Canaan Smith.

Meanwhile, 15 songs penned by Gorley and Tape Room writers are currently on airplay charts, including:
• Nate Smith’s “Fix What You Didn’t Break” (co-written by Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips)
• Tyler Hubbard’s “Park” (co-written by Ashley Gorley)
• Jordan Davis’s “Bar None” (co-written by Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps)
• Jelly Roll’s “Heart Of Stone” (co-written by Zach Crowell)
• Dierks Bentley’s “She Hates Me” (co-written by Ashley Gorley)
• BigXthaPlug & Bailey Zimmerman’s “All The Way” (co-written by Ben Johnson)
• Zach Top’s “Good Times And Tan Lines” (co-written by Wyatt McCubbin)
• Megan Moroney & Kenny Chesney’s “You Had To Be There” (co-written by Ben Williams)
• HARDY’s “Favorite Country Song” (co-written by Ashley Gorley, Beau Bailey)
• Blake Shelton’s “Stay Country Or Die Trying” (co-written by Beau Bailey)
• Chris Janson’s “Me & A Beer” (co-written by Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips, Andy Sheridan)
• Dasha’s “Not At This Party” (co-written by Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson)
• Megan Moroney’s “6 Months Later” (co-written by Ben Williams)
• Sam Barber & Avery Anna’s “Indigo” (co-written by Andy Sheridan)
• Dustin Lynch’s “Easy To Love” (co-written by Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps)

Past the charts, Tape Room writers across the roster have kept busy this summer. Ben Johnson, who co-wrote BigXthePlug and Bailey Zimmerman’s summer smash “All The Way,” is featured in Netflix’s brand new Hitmakers, which follows hit songwriters across genres writing for top artists. Wyatt McCubbin joined shows on Riley Green’s Damn Country Music tour alongside Green, Ella Langley and Vincent Mason. McCubbin was featured on Chase Rice’s “Two Tone Trippin’,” the lead release from the singer’s upcoming album that includes many songs co-written by McCubbin. Tape Room writers and producers have kept busy working on exciting new projects and collaborations to come. Earlier this summer, Gorley, Phillips, Ben Johnson and Hunter Phelps received CMA Triple Play Awards.