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

Dual female leaders across Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay remain uncommon more than a decade after the charts diverged.

Cody Johnson debuts at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated Nov. 22) with a take on The Chicks’ “Travelin’ Soldier.” The update starts with 11.9 million official U.S. streams, 1.3 ...

The year 2020 was an odd one for the world, but the year certainly had plenty of great music. These four country songs all came out in 2020 and have sadly already been forgotten, even though they are ...

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The ...

Country music's most popular video countdown show is ending. CMT's Hot 20 Countdown will cease production in December after more than a decade on television. The move is part of massive changes at ...

John Wesley Ryles, a prolific country music entertainer with tons of hits from the late 1960s through the 1980s, died Sunday, Nov. 2. He was 74. Ryles’ death was first announced on Facebook by Tracy ...

John Wesley Ryles might not be a name that many modern country music fans know, but he certainly had his time at the top of the industry. His career got off to a start in the 1960s when he was still a ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

If this week hasn't been enough of a whirlwind — in case you missed it, Dictionary.com just announced Skrilla's "6 7" as 2025 word of the year — we now have something else to scratch our heads over: ...

The baton that has passed from one hip-hop hit to another for more than three decades has been dropped. Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s hit single “Luther” departed the Billboard Hot 100 following rule ...

Nowadays, there is a strict dichotomy in country music. People who love Charley Crockett and Sierra Ferrell seemingly tend not to listen to acts such as Morgan Wallen and Megan Moroney. Now, of course ...