Billboard offers its take on the top country songs of 2025, including music from Cody Johnson, Tyler Childers, Lainey Wilson ...

Looking ahead to 2026. It's safe to say that 2025 was another incredible year for country music. Despite country radio still being lightyears behind the current trends, nearly all corners of the genre ...

Making sense of the madness. Despite country radio clearly losing the decades-long stranglehold it has had on consumers for the better part of the past five or so years, there’s no denying that it’s ...

Country music’s Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

Ella Langley is very close to her first solo No. 1 country radio hit, but "Weren't for the Wind" is making an impact elsewhere, as well. Is a surge in sales and streaming enough to push her to the ...

In August, Eric Church declared HARDY “one of the greatest songwriters Nashville has.” That’s high praise coming from a singer-songwriter who almost everyone in Music City would declare the same. For ...

From beach tans to redneck reindeer, these country Christmas songs celebrate the holidays with a little twang — and a whole ...

Sometimes life just needs to be grabbed by its proverbial horns. It’s exactly what McGraw sings about in “I Like It, I Love It”. Out in 1995 on his All I Ever Want record, Jeb Stuart Anderson, Steve ...

Who knows what the world of country music would sound like today if it weren't for these three songs from 1969?

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

The country music community isn't often associated with diss tracks. According to a history of the trope published by the Conversation, the diss track dates back to the live rap battles of the 1970s, ...