Country
Country is a popular music style from the southern United States, built on storytelling songs with guitars, fiddle, banjo and steel guitar.
It grew in the 1920s out of the folk songs of the Appalachian mountains, blues and church music. The songs are usually simple in form and tell clear stories about love, work, family and hard times, often sung with a southern accent. Nashville, Tennessee, is its commercial home. Over the decades it has split into many branches, from honky-tonk and bluegrass to pop-leaning modern country.
Artists it is known for: Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson.
- Family
- Country
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- Southern United States, 1920s
- Also called
- country music, country and western
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have country among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Country artists
Zach Bryan
Morgan Wallen
Ella Langley
Treaty Oak Revival
Tyler Childers
Chris Stapleton
Luke Combs
Jon Pardi
Sam Barber
Jason Aldean
The country artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.