When a family member of a popular country music singer was arrested by ICE, he spoke out publicly about the emotional toll of family separation because of immigration bureaucracy.

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

As a children’s entertainer, teacher and troubadour, Gailmor planted his songs like little seeds, one by one, in classrooms, parks, churches and village granges.

What do Riley Green‘s “Worst Way” music video and Jessie Murph‘s “1965” music video have in common? Well, they were probably the two raunchiest videos to be released in country music this year. And it ...

Few times since Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts began coexisting have women ruled both lists in the same week. Just as Ella Langley scores her first Hot Country Songs No. 1, ...

Democratic congressional hopeful Aftyn Behn did not hold back when describing how she really feels about Nashville — the city she’s now running to represent — in a 2020 podcast that’s resurfaced just ...

The song “Walk My Walk” by country group Breaking Rust recently reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. However, the raspy cowboy singing the song is nothing but a series of ...

Country music stars including singer Jason Aldean and five-time Grammy-nominated songwriter Tom Douglas have spoken out after "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust—an artist who was created using artificial ...

The year 2020 was an odd one for the world, but the year certainly had plenty of great music. These four country songs all came out in 2020 and have sadly already been forgotten, even though they are ...

A song created entirely through artificial intelligence has made history by topping a Billboard country music chart and sending shock waves through the industry. The track, called “Walk My Walk,” hit ...

Breaking Rust is breaking hearts — but he’s totally fake. “Walk My Walk,” an AI-generated track from the AI artist Breaking Rust, has topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart since the ...