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 ...

Rate nearly 40 songs on a 1 to 5 scale to tell us where we got it right and wrong. The Top 40 Country Songs of 2023, Ranked The best country songs of 2023 fit snugly over your life and experiences.

A best-of list should be an opportunity for discovery, so NPR Music has handmade a series of mixtapes full of great songs from 2023 to help you find music you'll love well beyond the end of the year.

Like many Peter Gabriel songs, this one has a scenario. The narrator is waking from a coma into an overload of sensory experiences, getting “back in the world”; the music is a funk carnival ...

The best country songs of the last 25 years were felt and heard. Commercial impact was a factor, but emotional impact is what separates these songs from others released in the 2000s.