The 2026 Grammy Awards will introduce a significant change: Best country album category has been renamed best contemporary country album, and a new category, best traditional country album, has ...

Billboard’s Top Country Artists of the 21st Century recap reflects performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The category ranks the best-performing acts in that ...

US News Country singer Conner Smith, 24, kills 77-year-old woman in alleged crosswalk car accident By Nika Shakhnazarova Published June 10, 2025, 5:09 a.m. ET ...

Nobody is topping Taylor Swift, who has an estimated $1.6 billion, but she’s not really country anymore so … Parton is the true country singer with the deepest pockets, according to all estimates.

Last month, while presenting the award for Favorite Country Duo or Group at this year’s American Music Awards, two burgeoning country stars — both playing homage to the storied genre, made ...

She has been visiting the country annually since 2016 and plans to retire there within the next five years or so. “No matter where you go in Portugal, there’s a sense of calm,” she tells ...

Mercury Records has been behind the four most popular country albums in 2025 to date: hip-hop star Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion and, thanks to what Arnold calls a “strategic alliance” with ...

Beyoncé took home two more country awards at this year's AMAs, which aired live from Las Vegas on May 26. The 35-time Grammy winning singer won favorite female country artist and favorite ...

Moroney, 27, then read, “That same year, favorite female artist went to Lynn Anderson, and this award went to the Carter Family, who basically invented country music.” Shaboozey, 30, seemed to ...

Country music star Jelly Roll's wife, Bunnie Xo, got her husband's attention by lifting her shirt at an ice hockey rink, sparking laughter and smiles.

These good ol’ boys — and they are all boys — aren’t outlaw country. They are “8 Mile” country, white acts making country inflected with contemporary Black music for mass audiences.

Bro-country has curdled Morgan Wallen and his imitators are here for a long time, not a good time ...