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 ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday with a panel discussion of her 2023 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our rundown of this year’s best songs includes a breakout hit about star-crossed love and college football, a populist heartland-rock anthem, two duets that mix musical styles in unexpected ways, and ...

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 ...