Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. A new category at the annual Grammy Awards wants to celebrate ...

Like many popular genres, country music began with Black people. Keep scrolling to read up on 20 of the most popular country songs by Black artists today. Tracy Chapman's 1987 single "Fast Car" became ...

Morgan Wallen, another standout artist, has three albums in the top 25 of the Billboard 200 albums chart simultaneously.

Billboard offers its take on the top country albums of 2025, with music from Turnpike Troubadours, Carter Faith, Zach Top, Eric Church and more. In 2025, country music proved yet again that it is one ...

The Grammy Awards have switched up their categories, including genre-specific category breakdowns, multiple times in years past. But it happens rarely enough that it's still a pretty big deal. This ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

Where do the best country music artists get their start? Many began singing or learning to play an instrument as children, devoting their attention early on to the popular music of the rural South.