The biggest hit of each decade since the 1840s—and what it said about the country.

January 30, 1961. Patsy Cline’s iconic song, I Fall to Pieces, becomes Billboard’s #1 Country and Western single of the year and a crossover pop hit. Cline’s last concert was in 1963 in Kansas City, ...

Looking at the trajectories of 25 different female country stars' radio careers before and after having children, a distressing trend is clear. It used to be possible for women in country music to ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

DALLAS — There's a new country radio station in North Texas. Cumulus Media on Monday launched Country Legends & Texas Classics 93.3 HD2, which will play country hits from the 70s and 80s. The station ...

For decades, the country music industry has billed itself as the rough-hewn, rural cousin to the effete sounds of the city. That appears to be going out the window, as more and more country producers ...

Do you call yourself a fan of Stranger Things and country music? Well then, you’ve probably been happy with the genre’s representation in the hit Netflix series. At least for the first three seasons, ...

Breaking Rust has reached the top of the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart with its single “Walk My Walk.” This normally would bring praise for an emerging artist, but the song was created by ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

Country music has a rich history of incorporating themes of rowdy Saturday nights, evenings spent drinking in bars, heartbreak anthems, cheatin’ songs and romantic odes, but the genre’s artists have ...

When Dolly Parton released “Jolene” in 1973, she probably didn’t expect her tale of a red-haired beauty at the local bank flirting with her husband, Carl, to become one of the most-covered country ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...