2024 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that will take place in 2024.

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Events

• January 2 – John Michael Montgomery announces his retirement from touring, with his final tour dates scheduled for the end of 2025. ^[1]
• January 3 – Joe Bonsall of the Oak Ridge Boys announces his retirement from touring; Ben James finished the Oaks farewell tour in his place. ^[2]
• January 19 – Elle King made headlines after taking to the Grand Ole Opry stage while heavily intoxicated during a Dolly Parton tribute show, in honor of Parton's 78th birthday. She later cancelled several of her own concerts in the wake of the incident. Parton subsequently came to King's defense during an interview with Extra , and King resumed performing in March. ^[3]
• March 10 – The UK Country Airplay chart, the first ever genre-specific radio chart in the United Kingdom, debuts its inaugural list, with "Creek Will Rise" by Conner Smith claiming the title of first number one single. ^[4]
• April 8 – Morgan Wallen is arrested for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after throwing a chair off the sixth floor of Eric Church's rooftop bar in downtown Nashville. He was charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and is due to appear in court on May 3 in between performances at Nissan Stadium. ^[5]
• April 20 – Scotty McCreery is inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry by his childhood hero Josh Turner. McCreery was invited in December 2023 by Garth Brooks. ^[6]
• April 24 – Miranda Lambert signs a joint record deal with Republic Records and Big Loud. ^[7]
• April 26–28 – The 2024 edition of Stagecoach Festival takes place at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, featuring headline performances from Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Morgan Wallen. ^[8]
• May 3 – T. Graham Brown is inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was invited by Vince Gill earlier in the year during his guest appearance on Brown's Sirius XM radio show. ^[9]
• May 3 – Randy Travis releases "Where That Came From", his first new recording in over a decade with the help of AI software to recreate his vocals following a series of strokes and health issues that left him unable to sing. ^[10] It would go on to chart on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, becoming Travis' first solo charting single in nearly two decades since "Angels" in 2005.
• May 21 – Lainey Wilson is surprised by Reba McEntire on the season finale of NBC's The Voice with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. ^[11] She was subsequently inducted by Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks on June 7.
• June 4 – Lukas Nelson announces that his band, Promise of the Real, would be going on hiatus so that the members can pursue their own projects. ^[12]
• June 15 – George Strait's concert at Kyle Field in Texas becomes the most-attended ticketed show in US history, with 110,905 fans in attendance. The record was previously held by the Grateful Dead, who played for 107,019 people at Raceway Park in 1977. ^[13]
• June 27 – Raul Malo, lead singer of the Mavericks, announces that he has been diagnosed with colon cancer and that the band will have to reschedule or cancel several shows in 2024 while he undergoes treatment. ^[14]
• June 30 – Shania Twain performed in the traditional Legend's slot at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival, the first country artist to perform in the slot since Dolly Parton in 2014. ^[15]
• July 5 – The War and Treaty go public about a racist incident where a cotton plant was placed in their dressing room at the Coca-Cola Sips and Sounds Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The band stated that this was only in their dressing room and left them angry and upset based on the history of the plant in regards to black American history. They left the festival immediately after their set and spoke to their young son, who encouraged them to speak up. ^[16]

Top hits of the year

The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, or Canada Country charts in 2024:

See also: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2024

See also: List of number-one country singles of 2024 (Canada)

Singles released by American and Australian artists

Songs	Airplay	Canada	Single	Artist	References
8	1	1	"23"	Chayce Beckham	[17] [18] [19]
4	10	3	"Ain't No Love in Oklahoma"	Luke Combs	[20]
26	3	20	"All I Need Is You"	Chris Janson	[21]
3	17	19	"Austin"	Dasha	[22]
9	1	2	"Back Then Right Now"	Tyler Hubbard	[23]
1	3	2	"A Bar Song (Tipsy)"	Shaboozey	[24]
22	19	35	"Beautiful as You"	Thomas Rhett	[25]
10	4	4	"Bulletproof"	Nate Smith	[26]
7	1	4	"Burn It Down"	Parker McCollum	[27]
20	2	14	"Cab in a Solo"	Scotty McCreery	[28]
42	19	44	"Can't Break Up Now"	Old Dominion featuring Megan Moroney	[29]
23	11	17	"Chevrolet"	Dustin Lynch featuring Jelly Roll	[30]
3	1	6	"Cowgirls"	Morgan Wallen featuring Ernest	[31]
22	12	17	"Creek Will Rise"	Conner Smith	[17] [18] [19]
15	2	11	"Different 'Round Here"	Riley Green featuring Luke Combs	[32]
14	6	15	"Dirt Cheap"	Cody Johnson	[33]
31	11	29	"Fearless (The Echo)"	Jackson Dean	[17] [18] [19]
11	1	1	"Halfway to Hell"	Jelly Roll	[34]
25	13	18	"Hang Tight Honey"	Lainey Wilson	[35]
10	18	54	"I Am Not Okay"	Jelly Roll	[36]
13	1	2	"I Can Feel It"	Kane Brown	[37]
1	1	1	"I Had Some Help"	Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen	[38]
1	26	14	"I Remember Everything"	Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves	[39]
32	14	35	"I'm Not Pretty"	Megan Moroney	[17] [18] [19]
7	43	56	"In Your Love"	Tyler Childers	[40]
22	3	10	"Let Your Boys Be Country"	Jason Aldean	[41]
34	12	41	"Love You Again"	Chase Matthew	[17] [18] [19]
39	14	29	"Love You, Miss You, Mean It"	Luke Bryan	[42]
14	1	1	"Mamaw's House"	Thomas Rhett featuring Morgan Wallen	[25]
3	1	1	"Man Made a Bar"	Morgan Wallen featuring Eric Church	[31]
40	20	27	"Messed Up as Me"	Keith Urban	[43]
16	2	53	"Mind on You"	George Birge	[44] [45] [46]
–	16	32	"One Bad Habit"	Tim McGraw	[47]
14	1	1	"Outskirts"	Sam Hunt	[48]
38	18	9	"Out of That Truck"	Carrie Underwood	[49]
7	1	1	"The Painter"	Cody Johnson	[33]
5	1	17	"Pretty Little Poison"	Warren Zeiders	[17] [18] [19]
11	2	5	"Save Me the Trouble"	Dan + Shay	[50]
40	7	30	"She's Somebody's Daughter"	Drew Baldridge	[51]
19	1	4	"Take Her Home"	Kenny Chesney	[52]
1	33	25	"Texas Hold 'Em"	Beyoncé	[53]
–	15	37	"This Is My Dirt"	Justin Moore	[54]
6	1	2	"Truck Bed"	Hardy	[55]
13	1	2	"Tucson Too Late"	Jordan Davis	[56]
19	9	35	"We Don't Fight Anymore"	Carly Pearce featuring Chris Stapleton	[57]
16	3	14	"We Ride"	Bryan Martin	[17] [18] [19]
6	1	1	"Where It Ends"	Bailey Zimmerman	[58]
4	3	1	"Where the Wild Things Are"	Luke Combs	[20]
5	2	1	"White Horse"	Chris Stapleton	[59]
8	5	1	"Wildflowers and Wild Horses"	Lainey Wilson	[35]
29	8	38	"Young Love & Saturday Nights"	Chris Young	[60]
21	2	3	"Your Place"	Ashley Cooke	[61]

Singles released by Canadian artists

Songs	Airplay	Canada	Single	Artist	References
–	–	9	"Ahead of Our Time"	James Barker Band	[62]
–	–	2	"Ain't Doin' Jack"	Josh Ross	[63]
–	–	11	"Bet You Break My Heart"	MacKenzie Porter	[64]
–	–	10	"Broken Man"	Tyler Joe Miller	[65]
–	–	4	"Fixer Upper"	Dallas Smith	[66]
–	–	16	"Go Get Er"	Jess Moskaluke	[67]
–	–	5	"I Grew Up on a Farm"	The Reklaws	[68]
–	–	16	"Let Your Horses Run"	Brett Kissel	[69]
–	–	7	"Not Yet"	High Valley	[70]
–	–	2	"Old Dirt Roads"	Owen Riegling	[71]
–	–	12	"Out Here"	Steven Lee Olsen	[72]
–	–	1	"Right Round Here"	Dean Brody	[73]
–	–	2	"Telluride"	Jade Eagleson	[74]
–	–	6	"Tim + Faith"	Madeline Merlo	[75]
–	–	6	"Two of Us"	Brett Kissel with Cooper Alan	[69]
–	–	7	"Use Me"	Dallas Smith	[66]
–	–	8	"Whiskey in Colorado"	Tony Stevens	[76]

Top new album releases

See also: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2024

See also: List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2024

US	Album	Artist	Record Label	Release Date	Reference
1	Deeper Well	Kacey Musgraves	Interscope/MCA Nashville	March 15	[77]
5	Born	Kenny Chesney	Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville	March 22	[78]
1	Cowboy Carter	Beyoncé	Columbia/Parkwood	March 29	[79]
10	Rebel	Anne Wilson	Capitol CMG/MCA Nashville/Sparrow	April 19	[80]
2	Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going	Shaboozey	American Dogwood/Empire	May 31	[81]
2	Fathers & Sons	Luke Combs	Columbia/River House	June 14	[82]
1	The Great American Bar Scene	Zach Bryan	Belting Bronco/Warner	July 4	[83]
3	Am I Okay?	Megan Moroney	Columbia	July 12	[84]

Other top albums

US	Album	Artist	Record Label	Release Date	Reference
42	Smoky Mountains	Conner Smith	Valory Music Group	January 26	[85]
39	Chapter & Verse	Gabby Barrett	Warner Nashville	February 2	[86]
35	What Happens Now?	Dasha	Version III/Warner	February 16	[79]
26	Be Right Here	Blackberry Smoke	3 Legged/Thirty Tigers	February 16	[87]
24	Trail of Flowers	Sierra Ferrell	Rounder/Concord	March 22	[88]
27	Change the Game	Cody Jinks	Late August	March 22	[88]
47	Three Twenty Four: The EP	Ole60	Grey Area/Red Door	March 22	[88]
34	Young Love & Saturday Nights	Chris Young	RCA Nashville	March 22	[89]
33	The Hill	Aaron Lewis	Valory	March 29	[79]
41	Hixtape, Vol. 3: Difftape	Various artists	Big Loud	March 29	[79]
33	Bad for Me	Chayce Beckham	Wheelhouse	April 5	[90]
34	Through the Smoke	Nate Smith	RCA Nashville	April 5	[90]
34	Nashville, Tennessee	Ernest	Big Loud	April 12	[91]
29	Way Out Here	Riley Green	Nashville Harbor/BMLG	April 12	[92]
35	Strong	Tyler Hubbard	Hubbard House/EMI Nashville	April 12	[93]
44	Have a Nice Day	Treaty Oak Revival	TOR	April 12	[91]
25	Rise & Fall	Scotty McCreery	Triple Tigers	May 10	[94]
50	The Border	Willie Nelson	Legacy	May 31	[95]
43	Keepin' the Lights On	Kameron Marlowe	Columbia Nashville	May 31	[96]
31	Hummingbird	Carly Pearce	Big Machine	June 7	[97]
48	Noise Complaint	Koe Wetzel	BMI/Columbia/Legacy	June 7	[98]
31	Mind of a Country Boy	Luke Bryan	Capitol Nashville/Row Crop	June 14	[99]
18	Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty	Various artists	Tom Petty Legacy/Big Machine	June 21	[100]
23	Songwriter	Johnny Cash	Mercury Nashville/UMe	June 28	[101]
	Quit!!	Hardy	Big Loud	July 12	[102]
	9 Lives	Koe Wetzel	Columbia	July 19	[103]
	Twisters: The Album	Various Artists	Atlantic	July 19	[104]

Announced

Album	Artist	Record Label	Release Date	Reference
Blonde	Tigirlily Gold	Monument	July 26	[105]
Hungover	Ella Langley	Sawgod/Columbia	August 2	[106]
F-1 Trillion	Post Malone	Republic/Mercury	August 16	[107]
About a Woman	Thomas Rhett	Valory	August 23	[108]
Whirlwind	Lainey Wilson	BBR		[109]
Cowboys and Dreamers	George Strait	MCA Nashville	September 6	[110]
High	Keith Urban	Capitol Nashville	September 20	[111]
Lasso	Lana Del Rey	Interscope/Polydor	September	[112]
Son of the Mountains	Brad Paisley	EMI Nashville	TBA	[113]

Hall of Fame inductees

Country Music Hall of Fame

(announced on March 18, 2024) ^[114]

• John Anderson
• James Burton
• Toby Keith

Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame

(announced on June 26, 2024) ^[115]

• k.d. lang

Deaths

• January – Audie Blaylock, 61, American bluegrass singer and guitarist (death announced on January 12). ^[116]
• January 5 – Larry Collins, 79, American rockabilly guitarist, songwriter ("Delta Dawn") and member of the Collins Kids. ^[117]
• January 13 – Jo-El Sonnier, 77, American singer-songwriter and accordionist ("Tear Stained Letter", "No More One More Time"), heart attack. ^[118]
• January 23 – Margo Smith, 84, American country singer ("Don't Break the Heart That Loves You", "It Only Hurts for a Little While"). ^[119]
• February 5 – Toby Keith, 62, American country singer-songwriter and one of the most successful artists of the 1990s and 2000s ("Red Solo Cup", "How Do You Like Me Now?!", "Should've Been a Cowboy" and a plethora of other hits), stomach cancer. ^[120]
• February 22 – Roni Stoneman, 85, bluegrass musician, member of the Stoneman Family, and Hee Haw cast member. ^[121]
• March 31 – Norah Lee Allen, 76, background singer at the Grand Ole Opry and wife of Duane Allen. ^[122]
• April 2 – Jerry Abbott, 81, American country songwriter and musician. ^[123]
• May 6 – Wayland Holyfield, 82, American songwriter ("Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)", "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer", "You're My Best Friend"). ^[124]
• June 8 – Mark James, 83, American songwriter ("Suspicious Minds", "Always on My Mind"). ^[125]
• June 27 – Kinky Friedman, 79, American singer-songwriter and humorist, Parkinson's disease. ^[126]
• July 1 – Rusty Golden, 65, American singer, son of the Oak Ridge Boys' William Lee Golden and member of the Goldens. ^[127]
• July 9 – Joe Bonsall, 76, longtime member of the Oak Ridge Boys (tenor vocal), complications from ALS. ^[128]
• July 10 – Dave Loggins, 76, pop and country singer ("Please Come to Boston", "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do"). ^[129]

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