A handful of familiar faces help make the Top 5 of October's Top 40 Country Songs, but one famous face is missing.

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

Luke Bryan reacts to the lack of CMA Awards nominations for Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter': 'If you’re gonna make country albums, ...

Kris Kristofferson, the vibrant, trailblazing country music hitmaker who wowed audiences in the 1976 remake of “A Star Is Born,” died on Saturday at the age of 88. The star was surrounded by ...

In 1975, Finlay and his business partner, San Marcos Daily Record writer Jim Cunningham, leased the building and redeveloped ...

Popular, or top-40, and country on the same station ... In the 9 p.m. hour, it was as many as five. Country songs were typically 15-20 minutes apart.” So yes, country and pop can live together ...

When Kris Kristofferson released his debut album in 1970, country music was practically defined by Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee,” a jingoistic anthem which condemned war protesters, ...

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s.

More than 50 years ago, Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar equally drawn to the words of William Blake and Hank Williams, ...