We are making our mid-year call: Zach Bryan’s With Heaven On Top, a 25-track No. 1 Billboard 200 album, is country music’s defining release of 2026. Here is our full case.
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Julia Cole has 700M+ streams, no label deal, and a brand-new album Love You To Death earning the best reviews of her career. The Sunset Stage Series goes deep on country music’s most independent star.
Billy Strings announces So Much for Goodbyes, a deeply personal 16-track album arriving August 28 on Reprise Records. Produced with T Bone Burnett and dedicated to his late mother, this is the most anticipated country and roots album of late 2026.
Jelly Roll’s “Hands Up” debuted to 163 first-week radio adds, the most in BBR Music Group history. Here is why he is country music’s most important voice in 2026.
Lainey Wilson drops new single Can’t Sit Still, joins Chris Stapleton for stadium shows and hits summer festivals. Plus what we know about her next album.
Shaboozey drops lead single Born to Die and announces concept album The Outlaw Cherie Lee and Other Western Tales due July 31, plus 25 fall tour dates on the Outlaws Never Die Tour.
We went looking for the complete history of outlaw country music — who started it, who defined it, and why Waylon, Willie, and Cash still echo in every artist we love in 2026.
From Ella Langley’s record-breaking run to Josh Ross’s historic back-to-back No. 1, these are the best country songs of 2026 so far. Our definitive mid-year ranking.
For this week’s Sunset Stage Series, we dug into Ty Myers. At 18, on his second album, opening arenas for Luke Combs, and recording at FAME Studios Muscle Shoals. Here is the full story.
MaRynn Taylor stopped CMA Fest 2026 with an unreleased song and has 51 million career streams to her name. The Sunset Stage Series tracks one of country music’s most compelling rising voices.
Josh Ross just became the first solo Canadian male artist in more than 50 years to earn back-to-back U.S. Country Radio No. 1 singles. Here is the full story of a historic milestone.
We tracked every detail of the Zac Brown Band Love and Fear Tour 2026, a 27-date run from July 17 through November 21 with two Florida stops in Tampa and Hollywood in September.