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.
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.
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.
Country music accounted for 29% of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits in 2025, outselling pop and hip-hop combined. Here is why this is the genre’s best decade since the Garth Brooks era, and why it is just getting started.
Wyatt Flores sets his highly anticipated album Scared of Heights for July 31, 2026, on Island Records/MCA, featuring 13 tracks and produced by Charlie Handsome, as his Drive All Night Tour continues.
Kenny Chesney releases his 21st studio album Silver Sands Marina on September 25, 2026, through his new independent label Hey Now Records, featuring Megan Moroney, Colbie Caillat, and Lily Meola.