Stacker compiled a list of noteworthy milestones from each year of country music history, using a variety of news articles, historical resources, and more.

In an announcement posted to their Facebook page on Tuesday, the South Dakota State Fair announced that Legend Seeds is sponsoring country music performer Jake Owen as the headline performer for ...

Eric Church and Miranda Lambert will be heading to the Jersey Shore this summer. They, along with Kelsea Ballerini and Post Malone, are the headliners for this year's Barefoot Country Music Fest, set ...

Shinedown have become the fourth artist to pull out of Kid Rock’s MAGA-leaning “Rock the Country” music festival, the band announced on social media Friday. The group is the fourth artist to pull out ...

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 ...

This article was adapted and expanded from the country-music newsletter Don’t Rock the Inbox. I’m not going to lie to you, newsletter readers: It’s hard to newsletter “normally” today. Though, to be ...

Kenny Chesney earned his Country Music Hall of Fame medallion in 2025 and there’s a long line of worthy country men behind him. We count 27 of them, and that’s not even including male-fronted groups ...

Country singer Bryan Andrews has been making his way into the headlines for his music as well as his thoughts on President Donald Trump, his administration, MAGA and country artists who support it all ...

The band was still tuning up when the first screams pealed through the crowded fairgrounds in Cuiabá, a regional capital in Brazil’s farm belt. A few feet from the stage, a 10-year-old girl in a ...

Yeehaw! We may be over a quarter of the way through the 21st century now, but no amount of time could ever stop Denver from being a cowtown at its core. Just check out the thriving local country-music ...

If you’ve been scrolling TikTok and Instagram, chances are you’ve come across videos by Bryan Andrews, a big-framed country music singer who goes on breathless, F-bomb-heavy rants against the current ...

Career Highlights: Jake Owen is one of county music’s most popular singers and songwriters. Owen debuted in Nashville in 2006 with his first album “Startin’ with Me.” The album produced three singles ...