Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan are among the biggest country acts of the 21st century.

Tellingly, country music was marketed as a nostalgic product from the beginning–so-called old-time music even though it was quite new. Such reminders are helpful at a moment when country is in ...

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But for a walk down memory lane, Stacker analyzed Billboard’s Greatest of All-Time Top Country Songs to create a ranked list ...

The answer is that country music won’t let everyone go country. This is where the merely popular becomes intensely political, and those politics have a limit. To reap the genre’s rewards, an artist ...

On ‘Whiskey Riff Raff’ buckle up for an unfiltered and unapologetic take on country music, life, sports, and all the ...

Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the ...

“Teardrop” became his first chart appearance, and the tune shot to No. 1 on both the Hot Country Songs and Billboard Hot 100 charts. At the time it was just the ninth song to top both ...