MCA Nashville recording artist the Randy Rogers Band made a huge splash this week with their new album landing at #1 on the iTunes country albums chart and #2 on the iTunes all genre album chart just behind pop superstar Katy Perry. Their new album BURNING THE DAY entered the chart ahead of Fantasia, Usher, Little Big Town and Harmony who also launched new albums this week. When the band learned they held the #2 spot, ahead of a laundry list of superstars, they were thrilled. "To have the number two album on the iTunes album chart is beyond huge, we're fired up," said Rogers. "We're grateful to our fans and to anyone that decided to click and purchase!" Critics across the country are raving about the new album in USA Today, Associated Press, Country Weekly, Dallas Morning News among others. Recently, RRB was selected by Rolling Stone for a marketing campaign that gave them prime visibility leading into the new album launch. The new album marks the bands third #1 on the iTunes. Their last effort RANDY ROGERS BAND landed them performance slots on Last Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as well as an ACM Nomination for Top Vocal Group. With a debut on iTunes and sold out shows across the nation for the next month, it seems this album will prove even more successful than the last.
* MCA Nashville artist David Nail joined basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN correspondent Dick Vitale Wednesday at Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, Florida in support of the Payton Wright Foundation, which provides assistance to families with children battling brain cancer and funding for brain cancer research. Nail and Vitale accompanied the organization's founders Holly and Patrick Wright and John Heltzer who was the highest bidder on the private suite at a charity golf tournament and silent auction event that was held in Lakewood Ranch, Florida in May, and for which all proceeds benefited the foundation. Nail golfed and performed and the festivities were covered by the Golf Channel. The Ray's played the Toronto Blue Jays.
* Platinum-selling MCA recording artist Josh Turner recently announced that he and his wife, Jennifer, are expecting their third child in January. Josh could sense a change in Jennifer, but it took a couple times to figure out if she was pregnant for sure: "She had taken a pregnancy test, and it came back negative, and she told me, and I didn't believe it. It was funny because I felt like she was just acting different, like she wasn't totally herself. I tried to tell her, 'Hey, you need to take another pregnancy test', but she didn't think that was such a good idea. A week went by and I finally convinced her and so she went and took it, and it came back positive, and she just couldn't believe it. She was like, 'It's positive' and all I could say was, 'I told you so.'"
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