Billboard offers its take on the top country songs of 2025, including music from Cody Johnson, Tyler Childers, Lainey Wilson ...

Country music has a long history of murder anthems—and with songs including “Long Black Veil” and “Delia’s Gone” — Johnny Cash might be the king of them. However, the genre has had plenty of ...

2025 was a standout year for country music, delivering a rich set of albums that celebrate both the genre’s deep roots & its ...

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, ...

There is the celebration of rural life and the yearning to recapture a seemingly simpler time. There are murder ballads, cheating songs, tunes that herald Saturday night’s debauchery and Sunday ...

These are the best country songs of the last 25 years. There was no strict rule mandating one song per artist, but — with one exception — it ended up that way. The top songs of the 2000s are a diverse ...

In this week's crop of new music, Zach Top previews his upcoming project Ain't in It for My Health with a new song, while Austin Snell takes an unflinching look at a family tree with some tangled ...