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

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:

Singles released by American and Australian artists

Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
8 1 1 "23" Chayce Beckham [9][10][11]
26 3 20 "All I Need Is You" Chris Janson [12]
12 3 2 "Back Then Right Now" Tyler Hubbard [13]
13 18 24 "Bulletproof" Nate Smith [14]
7 1 15 "Burn It Down" Parker McCollum [15]
28 5 16 "Cab in a Solo" Scotty McCreery [16]
11 43 "Cowgirls"
Ernest
22 12 17 "Creek Will Rise" Conner Smith [9][10][11]
15 2 11 "Different 'Round Here" Riley Green
featuring Luke Combs
[17]
34 13 41 "Fearless (The Echo)" Jackson Dean [9][10][11]
17 11 33 "Halfway to Hell" Jelly Roll [18]
13 1 2 "I Can Feel It" Kane Brown [19]
1 26 14 "I Remember Everything" Zach Bryan
featuring Kacey Musgraves
[20]
32 19 39 "I'm Not Pretty" Megan Moroney [9][10][11]
7 43 56 "In Your Love" Tyler Childers [21]
34 14 37 "Let Your Boys Be Country" Jason Aldean [22]
14 1 1 "Mamaw's House" Thomas Rhett
featuring Morgan Wallen
[23]
3 1 1 "Man Made a Bar" Morgan Wallen
featuring Eric Church
[24]
16 2 53 "Mind on You" George Birge [25][26][27]
14 1 4 "Outskirts" Sam Hunt [28]
38 18 10 "Out of That Truck" Carrie Underwood [29]
7 1 1 "The Painter" Cody Johnson [30]
5 1 19 "Pretty Little Poison" Warren Zeiders [9][10][11]
11 2 5 "Save Me the Trouble" Dan + Shay [31]
19 9 24 "Take Her Home" Kenny Chesney [32]
1 33 25 "Texas Hold 'Em" Beyoncé [33]
6 1 2 "Truck Bed" Hardy [34]
15 4 22 "Tucson Too Late" Jordan Davis [35]
19 15 35 "We Don't Fight Anymore" Carly Pearce
featuring Chris Stapleton
[36]
23 16 52 "We Ride" Bryan Martin [9][10][11]
7 8 21 "Where It Ends" Bailey Zimmerman [37]
6 3 1 "Where the Wild Things Are" Luke Combs [38]
5 2 1 "White Horse" Chris Stapleton [39]
10 10 1 "Wildflowers and Wild Horses" Lainey Wilson [40]
38 17 45 "Young Love & Saturday Nights" Chris Young [41]
31 12 30 "Your Place" Ashley Cooke [42]

Singles released by Canadian artists

Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
9 "Ahead of Our Time" James Barker Band [43]
2 "Ain't Doin' Jack" Josh Ross [44]
12 "Bet You Break My Heart" MacKenzie Porter [45]
4 "Fixer Upper" Dallas Smith [46]
16 "Go Get Er" Jess Moskaluke [47]
16 "I Grew Up on a Farm" The Reklaws [48]
6 "Old Dirt Roads" Owen Riegling [49]
12 "Out Here" Steven Lee Olsen [50]
1 "Right Round Here" Dean Brody [51]
9 "Telluride" Jade Eagleson [52]
6 "Tim + Faith" Madeline Merlo [53]
6 "Two of Us" Brett Kissel
with Cooper Alan
[54]

Top new album releases

US Album Artist Record Label Release Date Reference
1 Deeper Well Kacey Musgraves Interscope/MCA Nashville March 15 [55]
5 Born Kenny Chesney Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville March 22 [56]
1 Cowboy Carter Beyoncé Columbia/Parkwood March 29 [57]

Other top albums

US Album Artist Record Label Release Date Reference
42 Smoky Mountains Conner Smith Valory Music Group January 26 [58]
39 Chapter & Verse Gabby Barrett Warner Nashville February 2 [59]
35 What Happens Now? Dasha Version III/Warner February 16 [57]
26 Be Right Here Blackberry Smoke 3 Legged/Thirty Tigers February 16 [60]
24 Trail of Flowers Sierra Ferrell Rounder/Concord March 22 [61]
27 Change the Game Cody Jinks Late August March 22 [61]
47 Three Twenty Four: The EP Ole60 Grey Area/Red Door March 22 [61]
34 Young Love & Saturday Nights Chris Young RCA Nashville March 22 [62]
33 The Hill Aaron Lewis Valory March 29 [57]
41 Hixtape, Vol. 3: Difftape Various artists Big Loud March 29 [57]
33 Bad for Me Chayce Beckham Wheelhouse April 5 [63]
34 Through the Smoke Nate Smith RCA Nashville April 5 [63]
34 Nashville, Tennessee
Ernest
Big Loud April 12 [64]
29 Way Out Here Riley Green Nashville Harbor/BMLG April 12 [65]
35 Strong Tyler Hubbard Hubbard House/EMI Nashville April 12 [66]
44 Have a Nice Day Treaty Oak Revival TOR April 12 [64]

Announced

Album Artist Record Label Release Date Reference
Nobody's Born with a Broken Heart MacKenzie Porter Big Loud April 26 [67]
To Be Honest Tenille Arts Dreamcatcher May 3 [68]
Tennessee Truth Brian Kelley Big Machine May 10 [69]
Rise & Fall Scotty McCreery Triple Tigers [70]
Roads That Go Nowhere Travis Denning Mercury Nashville May 24 [71]
Take Two Terri Clark Mercury Nashville/UMe May 31 [72]
Unbroke Sara Evans Melody Place/Born to Fly June 7 [73]
Hummingbird Carly Pearce Big Machine [74]
Lasso Lana Del Rey Interscope/Polydor September [75]
Son of the Mountains Brad Paisley EMI Nashville TBA [76]
TBA Miranda Lambert Republic/Big Loud TBA [77]

Hall of Fame inductees

Country Music Hall of Fame

(announced on March 18, 2024)[78]

Deaths

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