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This is an alphabetical list of country music performers. It includes artists who played country music at some point in their career, even if they were not exclusively country music performers. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Listen to the best new country songs of 2023 and other recent hits. You'll find the hottest country stars like Lainey Wilson, Tim McGraw, Luke Combs, and more.
Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Hot Country Songs ranks songs based on digital downloads , streaming , and airplay from radio stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012. [ 1 ]
Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" spent 25 weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and also topped the all-genre Hot 100, the first song by a solo male country singer to do so since 1981. Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine.
Every song to top the Hot Country Songs listing during the year also topped Billboard ' s all-genre multimetric songs chart, the Hot 100, [9] highlighting country music's unprecedented level of mainstream success in 2024. [10] In November, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tied the record for the longest-running number one in the history of the Hot 100. [11]
The Carter Family, rural country-folk from Poor Valley, Virginia, known for hits like "Wildwood Flower", recorded the first commercially released country music records under producer Ralph Peer in Bristol, Tennessee. The Carter Family are regarded as the "First Family of Country Music", and founders of country music, along with Jimmie Rodgers.
Willie Nelson sets a new record as the oldest artist to achieve a number one country song at age 70. [69] 2004: 2005: The chart's name changes to Hot Country Songs. Josh Gracin becomes the first American Idol finalist to achieve a country number one. [2] [70] [71] 2006: George Strait achieves his 41st number one, breaking Conway Twitty's record.
Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Hot Country Songs ranks songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012. [1]