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Country superstar Faith Hill will accompany Little Big Town&#8217;s Karen Fairchild on lead vocals.<\/p>\n<p>News of the Billboard performance comes following the song&#8217;s biggest sales week yet.  According to Nielsen Music, &#8220;Girl Crush&#8221; moved 109,688 copies during the week following the ACM Awards (April 20-26).<\/p>\n<p>The tally, which brings the song&#8217;s cumulative US sales total to 631,599, was the best weekly mark for a country song in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was Little Big Town&#8217;s second straight week achieving that distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Cut from the group&#8217;s &#8220;Pain Killer,&#8221; &#8220;Girl Crush&#8221; has been officially certified gold under the RIAA Digital Singles program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[320,2024,3307,1150],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Little Big Town, Faith Hill Performing at Billboard Awards; &quot;Girl Crush&quot; Adds 109.7K Sales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of music&#039;s most bankable live acts is set to perform on another awards show. 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