Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording ...

In this track, they boldly snapped back at some of the biggest artists in the genre and their repeated offense of using women as props in their songs. While the majority of country hitmakers were ...

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 ...

My parents were my original gateway to country music. They were both die-hard fans of both classic and ‘90s country. Additionally, their dads were musicians who played together in a honky tonk ...

Cancer has touched so many lives in the country music community, it's only natural that a whole lot of songs have been written on this devastating topic. Some of the songs on this list are personal.

In the 2010s, country music revamped the definition of what a sad country song could be. Sure, there were still quite a few traditional heartbreak ballads about the end of a relationship ...

“The day I quit you’s the day I die” is one of those lines that it’s hard to believe hasn’t already appeared in 20 country songs. One of Pardi’s bigger hits, reaching No. 27 on ...

Dolly Parton, country music icon and 10-time Grammy winning singer-songwriter, is one of 12 siblings. What to know about her ...

He’s been a fixture of Music Row ever since, churning out 18 No. 1 country songs while earning four Grammys and a slew of other awards. His distinctive style is rooted in the ’70s and ’80s ...

We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed a lot. So, too, has the music that helps give it color. With the speed of the ...

In a 2021 interview with Billboard, at the beginning of his ascent to stardom, Jelly Roll described his time growing up in Antioch, Tennessee. He fell in love with hip-hop, he said, “not even ...

In a 2021 interview with Billboard, at the beginning of his ascent to stardom, Jelly Roll described his time growing up in Antioch, Tennessee. He fell in love with hip hop, he said, “not even ...