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 ...

Maybe we’ll get to that country-rock list another time. The question “what is country” has been asked endlessly, and definitions can become frayed, contested, and deeply personal.

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 ...