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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.
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.
This alphabetical list of country rock bands and artists covers a wide variety of subgenres. The year following the artist's name is the first year of the artist's musical career. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Future Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Ronnie Milsap, Waylon Jennings and Bobby Bare all reach number one for the first time. [49] 1975: The prevalence of country-pop crossover artists such as Glen Campbell and John Denver means that many songs top both the country chart and the all-genre Hot 100. [14] [15] 1976
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 rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a list of the 155 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, as of 2024, counting groups as a single inductee. Of these, 16 inductions are solo female performers, and 1 induction is a female duet.
In July, Combs reached number one on Country Airplay with a rendition of Tracy Chapman's 1988 song "Fast Car", the first cover of a pop single to top a Billboard chart based on plays on country music radio since Blake Shelton's version of Michael Bublé's "Home" topped Hot Country Songs in 2008.
1943 in country music, Al Dexter and His Troopers's "Pistol Packin' Mama" [24] Top Country Record, and becomes first Country record to also top Popular music chart. 1944 in country music , Billboard magazine creates national chart to track popularity of country music records.