The 2000s delivered some of country music's stone-cold saddest songs, ever. Want proof? Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss' "Whiskey Lullaby" — one of country music's defining heartbreak ballads ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY ALL-FORMAT RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. Shaboozey Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart C.O ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

In the 1980s, more than ever before, country artists and songwriters were perfecting the art of the story song. They learned to draw fans with a gripping narrative — and often, that made already ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...

That’s not what we’re going to do,’” Schlapman told Rolling Stone in 2020, explaining some of the ... Here are 20 of their best songs, ranging from feel-good drinking songs to broken ...

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big ...

October 18, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious ...

The country star has deftly navigated one trend after another in her lengthy career, with hits coming in multiple decades. The remarkable thing about Tanya Tucker isn’t that she had her first ...