Released this Friday October 21... Hit Country 2012 is the year’s ultimate Hit Country compilation release on CD and DVD. It features 22 of the year’s biggest country music hits from Australia and the world, plus a massive 28 music videos from your favourite country stars!

Included are recent chart topping hits from international superstars Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Ronnie Dunn, Brad Paisley, Doc Walker, Miranda Lambert, Joe Nichols and Emerson Drive as well as hits from the cream of the crop locally, including Kasey Chambers, The McClymonts, Jasmine Rae, Catherine Britt, Steve Forde, Shane Nicholson and McAlister Kemp. Hits and music videos from Australia’s best emerging talent are also included.

CD - 1. Honey Bee – Blake Shelton 2. Bleed Red – Ronnie Dunn 3. Little Bird – Kasey Chambers 4. Hunky Country Boys – Jasmine Rae 5. Am I The Only One – Dierks Bentley 6. Old Alabama – Brad Paisley 7. Hard Work – McAlister Kemp 8. Sweet Emmylou – Catherine Britt 9. From A Table Away – Sunny Sweeny 10. Songs Like This – Carrie Underwood 11. The Shape I’m In – Joe Nichols 12. Bad Machines – Shane Nicholson 13. Coming Home – Doc Walker 14. Let Your Love Speak – Emerson Drive 15. Tomorrow – Chris Young 16. A Woman Is A Flame – The McClymonts 17. This – Darius Rucker 18. Trail In Life – Dean Brody 19. What He Did To Me – Shea Fisher 20. How Long – Steve Forde 21. Girls In The Summertime – Peter McWhirter 22. West Australian Woman – Corey Colum

DVD - 1. Honey Bee – Blake Shelton 2. Bleed Red – Ronnie Dunn 3. Little Bird – Kasey Chambers 4. Hunky Country Boys – Jasmine Rae 5. Am I The Only One – Dierks Bentley 6. Old Alabama – Brad Paisley 7. Hard Work – McAlister Kemp 8. Sweet Emmylou – Catherine Britt 9. From A Table Away – Sunny Sweeny 10. The Shape I’m In – Joe Nichols 11. Bad Machines – Shane Nicholson 12. Coming Home – Doc Walker 13. Let Your Love Speak – Emerson Drive 14. Tomorrow – Chris Young 15. A Woman Is A Flame – The McClymonts 16. Trail In Life – Dean Brody 17. How Long – Steve Forde 18. Is That So Wrong – Julianne Hough 19. Playing The Part – Jamey Johnson 20. If I Die Young – The Band Perry 21. In Spite Of Ourselves – Kirsty Akers w/ Bob Evans 22. A Perfect Night – Markus Meier 23. I Wasn’t Gonna Cry – Katrina Burgoyne 24. Jetty Road – Serves You Right 25. Walked In Leaving – Victoria Baillie 26. This - Darius Rucker 27. Girls In The Summertime – Peter McWhirter 28. West Australian Woman – Corey Colum

In the last decade, Emerson Drive has secured their place as one of the premiere bands in North American contemporary Country Music.

Well before visiting Australia for the very first time earlier this year and blowing fans away at CMC Rocks The Hunter, the GRAMMY nominated Emerson Drive became a major country act in the US and Canada, securing a Billboard #1 hit.

The 16 track Decade Of Drive features all of Emerson Drive’s Australian chart hits plus a collection of North American chart topping hits previously unreleased in Australia.

Decade Of Drive features the GRAMMY nominated and US #1 hit ‘Moments’, as well the band’s other two Australia #1 hits - ‘A Good Man’ and ‘That Kind Of Beautiful’. Decade Of Drive also features three brand new songs, including the release’s opening single ‘Let Your Love Speak’ and new recordings of ‘November’, ‘Belongs To You’ and ‘Last One Standing’.

Check out the music video for 'Let Your Love Speak' - filmed in Sydney Harbour Australia.

Emerson Drive's Decade Of Drive is released on July 22 through ABC Music/Universal Music Australia.

Track Listing
1. I Should Be Sleeping
2. Fall Into Me
3. Countrified Soul
4. Moments
5. The Extra Mile
6. Believe
7. A Good Man
8. Everyday Woman
9. I Love This Road
10. That Kind of Beautiful
11. When I See You Again*
12. Sleep It Off*
13. Let Your Love Speak*
14. November*
15. Belongs To You*
16. Last One Standing*

* New recordings

Following their blistering performance at the Hunter Valley on the weekend, Emerson Drive are at the top of the video charts this week with their current Australian single 'That Kind Of Beautiful'.

If you haven't seen the clip, check it out below...

During their visit to Australia, the guys shot a new music video in Sydney harbour for their upcoming single 'Let Your Love Speak'.

The line-up for the 2011 CMC Rocks The Hunter festival, being held at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales over the weekend of Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March, has been announced. 

An unprecedented roster of international and local country music stars is headlined by the legendary Alan Jackson, who already has five sold out arena shows locked in for March next year in Australia. 

Alan will be joined by Miranda Lambert, Joe Nichols, Jack Ingram, Troy Cassar-Daley, Emerson Drive , The McClymonts, Buxton Hughes, Jasmine Rae, Russell Morris, O’Shea, Dean Brody, Jonah’s Road and many more.

Also appearing at the festival will be local artists McAlister Kemp, Peter McWhirter, Dianna Corcoran, Mike Carr & Springfield, Victoria Baillie, Busby Marou, The Wilson Pickers, Mark Wells, Harmony James, Liam Brew, Markus Meier, Jayne Denham and Stephanie Brownlee.

Storme Warren and Steve Forde will be the event hosts.

Emerson Drive's fourth studio album Believe, will be released in Australia on June 11 through ABC Music/Universal Music Australia. 

The album, produced by Josh Leo and Teddy Gentry (of the legendary Country band Alabama) showcases all of the attributes that have fuelled the group's long, steady rise through the Country ranks.

Emerson Drive’s previous album featured the GRAMMY nominated and US #1 hit ‘Moments’ and two #1 music videos in Australia. 

"This is the album that will define Emerson Drive from this point on," says lead singer Brad Mates. "I think you can hear in each song the fact that we're at a very comfortable place in our career when it comes to knowing who we are as a band." 

The album displays the band’s ability to get the most out of a variety of songs and styles. ‘Belongs To You’, is as big and passionate a love song as they have ever done, sure to become a sought-after wedding song. ‘Your Last’, which features the band’s world-class harmonies, is a call to appreciate the moment and the people around us. Songs range from ‘That Kind Of Beautiful’, an upbeat appreciation of a woman’s off-the-charts beauty to ‘Life Down Here’, a quirky look at the universality of youthful love and passion that displays the band’s instrumental prowess. The band’s power to uplift and inspire, demonstrated so dramatically last time around with ‘Moments’, continues with songs like ‘I Love This Road’ and ‘Livin’ It Up’, both about the exhilaration of following dreams and celebrating life, and ‘Believe’, a rocker about the transforming energy of big dreams and a song that personifies the Emerson Drive journey from small-town Canada to the upper reaches of the Country music world.

Check out the new single 'I Love This Road' which is now airing on CMC in Australia.

Emerson Drive recently had the honour of being a part of a tribute concert in honour of the late and great Les Paul - one of the world's most influential guitar icons. 

Check out some of the action below...

They have GOLF CART RACES of course!

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