2025 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that will take place in 2025.

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Events

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 2025:

SongsAirplayCanadaSingleArtistReferences
1157"4x4xU" Lainey Wilson [3]
171826"Am I Okay?" Megan Moroney [4]
202229"Backseat Driver" Kane Brown [5]
20429"Bigger Houses" Dan + Shay [6]
18229"Boys Back Home" Dylan Marlowe
featuring Dylan Scott 		[7]
162436"Cowboys Cry Too" Kelsea Ballerini
featuring Noah Kahan 		[8]
28106"Damn Good Day to Leave" Riley Green [9]
321555"Forever to Me" Cole Swindell [10]
331646"Friends Like That" John Morgan
featuring Jason Aldean 		[11]
783"Guy for That" Post Malone
featuring Luke Combs 		[12]
131740"Holy Smokes" Bailey Zimmerman [13]
371248"Hometown Home" LoCash [14]
15420"I Ain't Sayin'" Jordan Davis [15]
81437"I Never Lie" Zach Top [16] [17]
11931"I'm Gonna Love You" Cody Johnson
featuring Carrie Underwood 		[18]
860—"Indigo" Sam Barber
featuring Avery Anna		 [17]
—1941"Just to Say We Did" Kenny Chesney [19]
6323"Liar" Jelly Roll [20]
114"Love Somebody" Morgan Wallen [21]
23144"Smile"Morgan Wallen [21]
211114"Texas" Blake Shelton [22]
121210"Think I'm in Love with You" Chris Stapleton [23]
241042"This Town's Been Too Good to Us"Dylan Scott [7]
—2057"Tough People" Drew Baldridge [24]
192649"Weren't for the Wind" Ella Langley [25]
623"Wind Up Missin' You" Tucker Wetmore [26]

Top new album releases

USAlbumArtistRecord LabelRelease DateReference
We're Gonna Make It Lanco Riser House RecordsJanuary 17 [27]
2 The High Road Kane Brown RCA Nashville January 24 [28]
The SelectTy Myers Capitol Nashville January 24 [29]

Other top albums

USAlbumArtistRecord LabelRelease DateReference
27 Look Up Ringo Starr UMG NashvilleJanuary 10 [27]

Upcoming

AlbumArtistRecord LabelRelease DateReference
Plus One The War and Treaty Universal Music Group Nashville February 14 [30]
Let Your Horses Run Brett Kissel Big StarFebruary 28 [31]
Hey Country QueenMackenzie Carpenter Big Machine Records March 7 [32]
Bed of Roses Caylee Hammack Capitol Nashville March 7 [33]
Relapse, Lies & Betrayal Warren Zeiders WarnerMarch 14 [34]
Fell in Love with a Cowgirl Parmalee Stoney Creek April 4 [35]
Honkytonk Hollywood Jon Pardi Capitol Nashville April 11 [36]
I'm The Problem Morgan Wallen Big Loud TBD [37]

Deaths

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  4. ↑ "Megan Moroney - Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Kane Brown - Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Dan + Shay - Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
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