Each week, the team at Countrytown finds the best new country songs to add to our weekly playlist, The Country Drop. Here's our picks released this week, October 2, 2026.

Consider this your one-stop directory for all things Christmas and country music in 2026. Nine country Christmas tours have been announced for this fall and artists are starting to reveal plans for ...

Country music of the 1990s has an interesting blend, given that it was the first decade of country music to infuse pop tropes into the genre on a regular basis. Now, the poppieness of country music in ...

Jason Aldean has been a force in country music for more than two decades. His debut radio single, "Hicktown," catapulted him to stardom, cracking the Top 10 of the Hot Country Songs chart right out of ...

Here's who produced the most No. 1s on Hot Country Songs in the first quarter of the century, as part of Billboard's yearlong retrospective. The first quarter of the 21st century has been a remarkable ...

These are three of the best country songs that came out in 1972, which still make me smile when I hear them today.

Country music is not–and never was–one style of music. It has always been a mixture of many styles, springing from many roots ...

He viewed the track as little more than a fun throwaway about growing up in Georgia ...

Dolly Parton has sung disco, pop, bluegrass and even metal – but for all her genre-hopping, she has always come back to country. From the disco bop of Baby I’m Burnin’ to the metal-influenced Bygones, ...

From alt-country to folk to dead-center mainstream country music, the genre features an ever-growing list of artists who identify as LGBTQ+ — and incorporate their perspective into their songs. The ...

Rory Bourke might not be a name that mainstream country music fans recognize, and that probably has to do with the fact that he didn’t sing the songs folks know. There is a chance he wrote them, ...