CMT News

A new compilation titled Now That's What I Call Country Ballads will be released on Jan. 24. The 18-track collection begins with the piano version of Taylor Swift's "Forever and Always." The project also includes ballads by Keith Urban ("Tonight I Wanna Cry"), Rascal Flatts ("What Hurts the Most") and The Band Perry ("If I Die Young"). Other artists represented on the album are Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Jake Owen, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood and Chris Young.