The 2023 CMA Country Christmas special aired on Thursday night (Dec. 14), and the show featured standout performances from some of the top artists in country music and beyond. Highlights of the show ...

For the first time in a long time, neither Luke Combs nor Morgan Wallen dominate the top spots on this monthly Top 40 country songs list. For September 2023, the honors go to a man nobody had heard of ...

You know those people who say they listen to everything but country music? Even they were streaming and spinning many of these albums this year. Country had an undeniable moment in 2023, one informed ...

Country music is enjoying a huge resurgence this year—and it's also showing signs that it could become more inclusive. With both Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey having announced that they're releasing ...

While the threat of torrential downpours canceled the afternoon performances on the final day of 2023's 50th CMA Fest, what occurred both on and off festival grounds during the event highlighted ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...

It's almost time to celebrate country music's best and brightest stars for a glamorous evening at the Country Music Association awards ceremony. The 57th annual CMA awards will take place on Wednesday ...

A few weeks of political brouhaha this summer obscured a different story: The genre is moving, in fits and starts, from the political to the personal. By Jon Caramanica For a spell this summer, it ...

In certain corners of the queer internet, you can find earnest tributes to the gay cowboys of 90s country music. Clad in Wrangler jeans and Stetson hats, these men smiled on the covers of ...

On March 20th, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, a block from the honky-tonks of Lower Broadway, Hayley Williams, the lead singer of the pop-punk band Paramore, strummed a country-music rhythm on her ...

Grammy Award-winning country singer Maren Morris thinks country music is burning itself down, and she doesn’t plan to go down with it. Morris announced her departure from the country music genre in an ...