Time is running out! Let’s help Rascal Flatts win some CMT awards this year. Go to http://www.cmt.com/cmt-music-awards/vote.jhtml and vote Rascal Flatts for their music video “Every Day!” Voting ends Friday. Joe Don and Jay twittered today about the CMT awards. Joe Don Rooney- “I’m asking everyone to please vote for us for “Everyday” for the CMT Awards! Jagger would really like to see that trophy on our mantel!” and Jay twittered: “Thanks for voting “Everyday” for Group Video of the Year. Voting ends Friday so don’t forget to vote!”

So, why not take a moment to go vote? Check out their official twitter’s..

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Thanks, to everyone who voted on our last poll! The Rascal Flatts member you voted you would most like to see on Dancing With The Stars…..

Gary LeVox with 42% of the votes!

Followed by: Joe Don with 39% and Jay with only 19% of the votes. Check out our newest poll!

Rascal Flatts recently celebrated their number one song “Here Comes Goodbye.”


Pictured are (l-r): Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus; Brentwood Benson Music Publishing’s Dale Mathews; co-writer Chris Sligh; Brentwood Benson Music Publishing’s Stacey Willbur; Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox; BMI’s Clay Bradley and Beth Mason [Photo by Kay Williams.]

Rascal Flatts will kick of their “American Living Unstoppable Tour” tonight in St. Louis, MO. Joe Don Rooney spoke to the St Louis Dispatch newspaper about kicking their new tour off in St. Louis and a few surprises they have in store for the fans.

Guitarist-singer Joe Don Rooney says starting the Rascal Flatts tour again in St. Louis represents something near and dear to the country-pop superstars’ hearts.

“We love St. Louis,” he says. “I grew up in Oklahoma, and my whole life was centered around the four-state area of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. I used to drive to Six Flags with my family and go to baseball games, so I couldn’t think of a better place to kick off the tour again.”

Earlier this week, rehearsals moved to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

“We’re giving our fans a couple of hours of getting away from reality,” Rooney says. “As soon as we drop the first note, we want them to be captivated.”

Fans can expect some “really cool stuff” from the band’s set list, including music featured in the recent “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” Rooney says.

Rascal Flatts, which has had several blockbuster CDs including “Melt,” “Feels Like Today” and “Still Feels Good,” will have to work those “Hannah Montana” songs among the group’s other hits.

“We’ve had 25 singles at this point,” Rooney says. The band’s current release is “Summer Nights” from the CD “Unstoppable.”

“Some singles lend themselves to show songs, and some don’t,” says Rooney, who listed “Life is a Highway” as a show song. “That’s one that gets everyone going. We’ll probably open the show with that.”

Early hit “Praying for Daylight” probably won’t make the cut.

“We’re sick of playing it, though it got us on the map,” Rooney says. “We’re gonna take a break. We might bring it back in five years.”

And there will be the expected sprinkling of “Unstoppable” cuts. Rooney says the goal on “Unstoppable” was to just be Rascal Flatts.

“We didn’t want to change anything,” he says. “We just try to find the right songs, and find songs with a broader emotional spectrum, but also the dumb-dumb radio-candy songs we know people want to hear.”

“Unstoppable” tour with Rascal Flatts and Darius Rucker • 8 p.m. Friday • Verizon Wireless Amphitheater • $35—$80 • livenation.com

Rascal Flatts are among the new Forbes list of the Most Powerful Celebrities. The trio comes in at #42. The top celebrity on the list is Angelina Jolie. Rascal Flatts are one of the few country artists on the list. Kenny Chesney comes in at #31, Toby Keith #59, Taylor Swift #69, and Carrie Underwood at #75.

Here are some stats on Rascal Flatts.

Power Rank 42
Pay $60 mil
Pay Rank:18
Web Rank:78
Press Rank:80
TV/Radio Rank:61

Country’s largest crossover act grossed $56 million on tour in 2008. Opening acts: Jessica Simpson and Taylor Swift. Released sixth album this spring; sold 351,000 copies in the first week to earn a No. 1 Billboard chart debut. Group also signed a lucrative endorsement deal with JCPenney.

Rascal Flatts had a number one party today to celebrate their 11th number one song. Also there were the writers of “Here Comes Goodbye” Chris Sligh and Clint Lagerberg.

“We couldn’t be any more proud of it and what it turned out to be,” the band says.

Joe Don Rooney spoke to musiccitytv.com about co-writer of “Here Comes Goodbye” and former American Idol contestant Chris Sligh.

“Chris is an awesome artist in his own way, and you know, he’s a great songwriter obviously and I think this is big, you know, big No. 1 and you know I think he’s going to have many more after this.”

The guys said the first time they heard the song “It was a Rascal Flatts homerun.”

In other news.. Rascal Flatts will take this year off from their fundraiser concert they do every year for Vandberbilt Children’s Hospital. The group has played at Sommet Center for four years straight and have donated the proceeds from all those concerts to the hosptial. In total raising over 3 million in 4 years.

Jay Demarcus said this year, they will not be playing. The hosptial is very near to their hearts though and they will return next year.

“In a lot of the difficult economic times everybody seems to be going through right now, we felt like it was perfect time for us to take a year off and then hit it hard again next year with our Vanderbilt fundraiser.”

The Flatts kick off their Unstoppable tour in St Louis on Friday.