This year’s best country albums list is presented in partnership with Don’t Rock The Inbox, the amazing country music newsletter run by Stereogum contributors Marissa R. Moss and Natalie ...

Related: The Best 25 Rock Songs of the Last 25 Years. The early 2000s found country and pop merging in ways never heard of before. That came to an abrupt end by the mid-00s, but within a few more ...

Meanwhile, over in Best Country Album, things have gotten confusing. We don’t like to brag, but since 2019, more than 70 percent of the category’s winners have been Texans.

Country music artists on tour in the summer of 2024 include, top, from left, Tim McGraw and Jelly Roll; botom, from left, Kane Brown, Chris Stapleton and Kenny Chesney.

In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who ...

The best-selling country artists of all time include Elvis Presley, Tim McGraw, and Shania Twain. We used RIAA's data to compile this list based on total album units sold in the US. Only three ...

4 of the Best Opening Lines in Country Songs 1. “Friends in Low Places” (Garth Brooks) A lot of country music is about leveling the playing field, relaxing into your roots.