It may be just a few short months into 2024, but fans have already mourned the deaths of multiple artists and industry members in the country genre. Although they may be gone, their legacies ...

and the country music was the same,” he continued. “I always felt that it was the Rio Grande Valley that got the music going in my brain.” When Kristofferson was just 11 years old ...

“It’s a hole that a few broadcasters have talked about over the years, sometimes when Country radio and music is at its hottest, but not always.” Popular, or top-40, and country on the same ...

Kris Kristofferson, the Grammy Award-winning country music star who conquered both Nashville and Hollywood, has died. He was 88 years old. “It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our ...

Country music may not be known for songs about rage — heavy metal and hard rock have the market cornered on that one — but that doesn't mean that the country genre can't supply an excellent ...

We count down the best songs from a decade in which the sound of country ... music, and “Every Light In the House Is On” has shades of George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” – a ...

The 2024 Country Music Awards nominations are out — and Beyoncé's name is nowhere to be found on the list of nominees. The pop icon made her foray into country music in March of this year with ...

Defining the alt.country boom of the late 80s and 90s, the best alt.country musicians stood apart with an almost punk-like approach to tradition. The term alt.country (sometimes dubbed ...

When Kris Kristofferson released his debut album in 1970, country music was practically defined by Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee,” a jingoistic anthem which condemned war protesters, ...

If country music is one big happy family, Black women are its bastard daughters. The illegitimate children that will never be recognized. Despite being born of its flesh, carrying the songs and tr ...

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 ...