Listened to more music last year? You're not alone. The global music industry surpassed 4 trillion streams in 2023, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2023 Year-End Report found. Global streams were ...

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 ...

Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the country has gone country. Beyoncé is touring on her Grammy-winning country album, “Cowboy Carter.” All races and ages are line dancing to ...

The best country music cover songs convince fans that they're originals. Darius Rucker did it in 2013 with "Wagon Wheel," and Chris Stapleton did too, in 2015. Miranda Lambert did it a few years ...

Last night (May 26), Megan Moroney had one of the most viral moments of the 2025 American Music Awards. She and fellow rising country star Shaboozey took the stage to present the Favorite Country Duo ...

Country music sure has been busy since the year 2000. The past 25 years have been filled with some very high highs and some truly devastating lows for the genre (and the world at large). In between, ...

To get a sense of how wide the country music landscape — and the divides within it — are in 2025, consider the varied reactions to an announcement the Recording Academy made in June: The best country ...

Country music is experiencing a surge in global popularity, particularly in Europe. The success of events like the C2C festival and tours by major country artists is driving the genre's international ...

When most people think of country music, images of old white guys, tractors, and landscapes of the American South tend to come to mind. Maybe you think of Dolly Parton or songs like “Wagon Wheel” and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. The way we listen to and understand music has continued to ...

T he folder had been sitting unopened on Cassadee Pope’s computer desktop for years when she finally deleted it. It was a collection of photographs taken with mostly male country-radio programmers ...

Billboard Top Thai Country Songs ranks the top Thai-language country genre songs within that territory and is based on streaming and sales activity from leading music services in the territory, as ...