With more than 40 million albums sold, country music star Tim McGraw is used to being at the top.
After all, since the mid-1990s, he's had 11 consecutive albums debut at No.1.
So when his latest record, Two Lanes of Freedom, recently bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard album charts - below Josh Groban's All That Echoes - it didn't go unnoticed.
"It matters," says McGraw, 45, in a Canadian newspaper exclusive before adding: "I don't know that it matters that much. ... You've got a record, you always want to be No. 1. .. What I always jokingly say is, 'I want everybody to do well. I just want to do better.'"
The National's doc director Tom Berninger:"ťA star is born."ť Canadian fans of The National have two reasons to rejoice. The Brooklyn-based indie rockers will release their sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, on May 21 following that up with three dates in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. As an added bonus in Toronto ... Read more
Crank up the bass - it's almost summer By now, you've removed your winter tires, dusted off your spring jacket and glimpsed at that elusive orange orb in the sky. Remember summer? It's almost back. When warm weather makes a comeback each year, there's nothing like that first drive. That first ... Read more
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