Billboard's Makin' Tracks column looks at the writing and recording behind Cole Swindell's "Girl Dad." By Tom Roland When Cole Swindell reached the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Country ...

Before it rocked the charts, it nearly died on the cutting room floor. Long before country duo Brooks & Dunn turned “Rock My World (Little Country Girl)” into a (nearly) chart-topping hit in 1993, the ...

Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of ...

Many songs become hits. But not that many help to define an entire movement in the music world. “The Most Beautiful Girl”, the 1973 No. 1 single by Charlie Rich, epitomized a style that would come to ...