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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Country-inspired subgenre of pop music</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For indie pop-influenced country music, see <a href="/wiki/Cowboy_pop" title="Cowboy pop">Cowboy pop</a>. 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class="infobox-data hlist"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">Country</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(especially <a href="/wiki/Nashville_sound#Countrypolitan" title="Nashville sound">countrypolitan</a>)</span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Folk-pop" title="Folk-pop">folk-pop</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cultural origins</th><td class="infobox-data hlist">1960s in <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Derivative forms</th><td class="infobox-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bro-country" title="Bro-country">Bro-country</a><sup id="cite_ref-kanuch_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kanuch-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowboy_pop" title="Cowboy pop">Cowboy pop</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nashville_sound" title="Nashville sound">Nashville sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Country_rock" title="Country rock">Country rock</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Country pop</b> (also known as <b>urban cowboy</b>) is a fusion genre of <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience. Country pop music blends genres like rock, pop, and country, continuing similar efforts that began in the late 1950s, known originally as the <a href="/wiki/Nashville_sound" title="Nashville sound">Nashville sound</a> and later on as <a href="/wiki/Countrypolitan" class="mw-redirect" title="Countrypolitan">Countrypolitan</a>. By the mid-1970s, many country artists were transitioning to the pop-country sound, which led to some records charting high on the mainstream <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio">top 40</a> and the <i>Billboard</i> country chart. In turn, many pop and <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a> artists crossed over to country charts during this time. After declining in popularity during the <a href="/wiki/Neotraditional_country" title="Neotraditional country">neotraditional</a> movement of the 1980s, country pop had a comeback in the 1990s with a sound that drew more heavily on <a href="/wiki/Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">pop rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adult_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult contemporary">adult contemporary</a>. In the 2010s, country pop metamorphosized again with the addition of hip-hop beats and rap-style phrasing. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beginnings:_Nashville_sound/50s-60s"><span id="Beginnings:_Nashville_sound.2F50s-60s"></span>Beginnings: Nashville sound/50s-60s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Beginnings: Nashville sound/50s-60s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg/220px-Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg/330px-Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg 2x" data-file-width="347" data-file-height="439" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline" title="Patsy Cline">Patsy Cline</a> was one of the earliest influential artists of the genre.</figcaption></figure> <p>The joining of country and pop began in the 1950s when studio executives <a href="/wiki/Chet_Atkins" title="Chet Atkins">Chet Atkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Owen_Bradley" title="Owen Bradley">Owen Bradley</a> wanted to create a new kind of music for the young adult crowd after "rockabilly stole away much of country music's youth audience".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Bill Ivey, this innovative genre originated in <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a> and thus became known as the <a href="/wiki/Nashville_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville Sound">Nashville Sound</a>. He believes that the "Nashville Sound often produced records that sounded more pop than country" after the removal of the fiddle and banjo. <a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline" title="Patsy Cline">Patsy Cline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marty_Robbins" title="Marty Robbins">Marty Robbins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Reeves" title="Jim Reeves">Jim Reeves</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" title="Eddy Arnold">Eddy Arnold</a> were among the most popular artists during this time.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Reeves and Arnold had major influence on their RCA labelmate <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>, apparent not only in secular songs but even more so in <a href="/wiki/Country_gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="Country gospel">country gospel</a> songs. Cline became famous in the early 1960s, gaining widespread acceptance from country and pop audiences alike. Other crossover hits during the 1960s included <a href="/wiki/Skeeter_Davis" title="Skeeter Davis">Skeeter Davis</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_(Skeeter_Davis_song)" title="The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)">The End of the World</a>", <a href="/wiki/Sonny_James" title="Sonny James">Sonny James</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Young_Love_(1956_song)" title="Young Love (1956 song)">Young Love</a>", <a href="/wiki/Billy_Joe_Royal" title="Billy Joe Royal">Billy Joe Royal</a>'s "Down in the Boondocs",<a href="/wiki/Jeannie_C._Riley" title="Jeannie C. Riley">Jeannie C. Riley</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Harper_Valley_PTA" title="Harper Valley PTA">Harper Valley PTA</a>", and <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Goldsboro" title="Bobby Goldsboro">Bobby Goldsboro</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Honey_(Bobby_Goldsboro_song)" title="Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song)">Honey</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Nashville Sound was not well received by country purists and faced competition on that front, first from the <a href="/wiki/Bakersfield_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Bakersfield Sound">Bakersfield Sound</a> and later the <a href="/wiki/Outlaw_country" title="Outlaw country">outlaw movement</a>; on the pop side, the format was overshadowed by the <a href="/wiki/British_Invasion" title="British Invasion">British Invasion</a>, which was taking place during the same time that Cline and Reeves died by airplane accident. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s_country_pop">1970s country pop</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1970s country pop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Original_research plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Original_research" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>possibly contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">original research</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit">improve it</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifying</a> the claims made and adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a>. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG/220px-Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG" decoding="async" width="220" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG/330px-Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG/440px-Charley-Pride_1981.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="1475" data-file-height="1726" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a>, one of the biggest pop country acts of the 1970s in concert</figcaption></figure> <p>The Nashville sound eventually evolved into <a href="/wiki/Countrypolitan" class="mw-redirect" title="Countrypolitan">countrypolitan</a> during the 1970s and had varying levels of success, with several artists recording in the style: <a href="/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Price (musician)">Ray Price</a> ("<a href="/wiki/For_the_Good_Times_(song)" title="For the Good Times (song)">For the Good Times</a>" 1970), <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Anderson" title="Lynn Anderson">Lynn Anderson</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Rose_Garden_(Joe_South_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose Garden (Joe South song)">Rose Garden</a>" 1970), <a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Kiss_an_Angel_Good_Morning" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiss an Angel Good Morning">Kiss an Angel Good Morning</a>" 1971), <a href="/wiki/Mac_Davis" title="Mac Davis">Mac Davis</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Baby,_Don%27t_Get_Hooked_on_Me" class="mw-redirect" title="Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me">Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me</a>" 1972), <a href="/wiki/Donna_Fargo" title="Donna Fargo">Donna Fargo</a> ("<a href="/wiki/The_Happiest_Girl_in_the_Whole_U.S.A." title="The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.">The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.</a>" 1972 and "<a href="/wiki/Funny_Face" title="Funny Face">Funny Face</a>" 1973), <a href="/wiki/Marie_Osmond" title="Marie Osmond">Marie Osmond</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Paper_Roses" title="Paper Roses">Paper Roses</a>" 1973), <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Why_Me_(Kris_Kristofferson_song)" title="Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song)">Why Me</a>" 1973), <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Rich" title="Charlie Rich">Charlie Rich</a> ("<a href="/wiki/The_Most_Beautiful_Girl" title="The Most Beautiful Girl">The Most Beautiful Girl</a>" 1974), <a href="/wiki/Billy_Swan" title="Billy Swan">Billy Swan</a> ("<a href="/wiki/I_Can_Help" title="I Can Help">I Can Help</a>" 1974), <a href="/wiki/Ray_Stevens" title="Ray Stevens">Ray Stevens</a> ("<a href="/wiki/The_Streak_(song)" title="The Streak (song)">The Streak</a>" 1974), <a href="/wiki/Jessi_Colter" title="Jessi Colter">Jessi Colter</a> ("<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Not_Lisa" title="I'm Not Lisa">I'm Not Lisa</a>" 1975), and <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Gayle" title="Crystal Gayle">Crystal Gayle</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_It_Make_My_Brown_Eyes_Blue" title="Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue">Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue</a>" 1977) all charted pop-influenced country hits during the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Country pop started when pop music singers like <a href="/wiki/Glen_Campbell" title="Glen Campbell">Glen Campbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Denver" title="John Denver">John Denver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John" title="Olivia Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anne_Murray" title="Anne Murray">Anne Murray</a> (Canada) began having hits on the country charts. Denver's single "<a href="/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads" title="Take Me Home, Country Roads">Take Me Home, Country Roads</a>" went to No. 2 on the <i>Billboard</i> pop charts in 1971, and while the song stalled outside of the top 40 on Billboard's country chart, the album <i><a href="/wiki/Poems,_Prayers,_and_Promises" class="mw-redirect" title="Poems, Prayers, and Promises">Poems, Prayers, and Promises</a></i> reached the top 10 on the Billboard Country Album chart and was certified Platinum.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RIAA_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RIAA-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Denver's career flourished from then on, and he had a series of hits over the next four years. In 1972, Denver scored his first Top Ten pop album with <i><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_High_(album)" title="Rocky Mountain High (album)">Rocky Mountain High</a></i>, with its title track reaching the pop Top Ten in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the peak of his popularity in 1974 and 1975, Denver's albums <a href="/wiki/Back_Home_Again_(John_Denver_album)" title="Back Home Again (John Denver album)"><i>Back Home Again</i></a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Windsong" title="Windsong">Windsong</a></i> reached number one on both the pop and country album charts. His singles were also successful on both charts: "<a href="/wiki/Sunshine_on_My_Shoulders" title="Sunshine on My Shoulders">Sunshine on My Shoulders</a>" No. 1 pop, No. 42 country; "<a href="/wiki/Annie%27s_Song" title="Annie's Song">Annie's Song</a>" No. 1 pop, No. 9 country; "<a href="/wiki/Thank_God_I%27m_a_Country_Boy" title="Thank God I'm a Country Boy">Thank God I'm a Country Boy</a>" No. 1 pop and country; "<a href="/wiki/Back_Home_Again_(song)" title="Back Home Again (song)">Back Home Again</a>" No. 5 pop, No. 1 country; and "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_(John_Denver_song)" title="I'm Sorry (John Denver song)">I'm Sorry</a>" No. 1 pop and country. </p><p>Another 1970s crossover artist was <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John" title="Olivia Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a>, who emerged from <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> in the mid-1970s, hoping to make it big in the United States. Her single "<a href="/wiki/Let_Me_Be_There" title="Let Me Be There">Let Me Be There</a>" became a big pop-country crossover hit in 1974. She won a <a href="/wiki/Grammy" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy">Grammy</a> award for "<a href="/wiki/Best_Female_Country_Vocal_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Female Country Vocal Performance">Best Female Country Vocal Performance</a>" for the song and also won the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association" title="Country Music Association">Country Music Association</a>'s most coveted award for females, "Female Vocalist of the Year" (beating out established Nashville artists <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loretta_Lynn" title="Loretta Lynn">Loretta Lynn</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tanya_Tucker" title="Tanya Tucker">Tanya Tucker</a>, as well as Canadian transplant <a href="/wiki/Anne_Murray" title="Anne Murray">Anne Murray</a>). Her win sparked a backlash, with several traditional country artists forming the Association of Country Entertainers (ACE) to promote what they considered to be "real country music."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newton-John scored a string of pop-country hits in 1974 and 1975 including "<a href="/wiki/I_Honestly_Love_You" title="I Honestly Love You">I Honestly Love You</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Have_You_Never_Been_Mellow" title="Have You Never Been Mellow">Have You Never Been Mellow</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Please_Mr._Please" title="Please Mr. Please">Please Mr. Please</a>", before moving away from country in the late 1970s after starring in <i><a href="/wiki/Grease_(film)" title="Grease (film)">Grease</a></i> and focusing mostly on pop music from then onward. </p><p>The debate raged into 1975 and reached its apex at that year's <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association_Awards" title="Country Music Association Awards">Country Music Association Awards</a> when reigning Entertainer of the Year <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Rich" title="Charlie Rich">Charlie Rich</a> (who himself had a series of crossover hits) presented the award to his successor, John Denver. As he read Denver's name, Rich set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter. The ACE would only last two years; its two biggest backers, firm traditionalists <a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Wynette" title="Tammy Wynette">Tammy Wynette</a>, faced a bitter divorce, and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Shepard" title="Jean Shepard">Jean Shepard</a>, the other major backer of the ACE, closed down the organization when she could not find others that shared her enthusiasm for the association's purpose.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although known primarily as a rock performer in the 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a> had considerable country chart success with "<a href="/wiki/I_Can%27t_Help_It_(If_I%27m_Still_in_Love_with_You)" title="I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)">I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)</a>" (1974), for which she won the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Country_Vocal_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance">Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance</a> in 1976, "<a href="/wiki/When_Will_I_Be_Loved_(song)" title="When Will I Be Loved (song)">When Will I Be Loved</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Love_is_a_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Love is a Rose">Love is a Rose</a>" (1975), and "<a href="/wiki/Blue_Bayou" title="Blue Bayou">Blue Bayou</a>" (1977). </p><p>Several artists principally identified as rock, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Eagles" class="mw-redirect" title="The Eagles">the Eagles</a> and <a href="/wiki/America_(band)" title="America (band)">America</a>, scored significant pop chart hits with <a href="/wiki/Country_rock" title="Country rock">country rock</a> songs, though they may have reached country charts rarely or not at all.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Glen Campbell's "<a href="/wiki/Rhinestone_Cowboy" title="Rhinestone Cowboy">Rhinestone Cowboy</a>" was a crossover hit between the pop and country charts in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Rhinestone Cowboy" was produced by blue-eyed soul writer team Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter and written by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Weiss" title="Larry Weiss">Larry Weiss</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Bellamy_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Bellamy Brothers">Bellamy Brothers</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Let_Your_Love_Flow" title="Let Your Love Flow">Let Your Love Flow</a>", <a href="/wiki/Amazing_Rhythm_Aces" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazing Rhythm Aces">Amazing Rhythm Aces</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Third_Rate_Romance" title="Third Rate Romance">Third Rate Romance</a>" (1976), Glen Campbell's <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nights_(song)" title="Southern Nights (song)">Southern Nights</a> (1977), and Anne Murray's "<a href="/wiki/You_Needed_Me" title="You Needed Me">You Needed Me</a>" (1978) were additional examples of late '70s pop country hits. </p><p>In 1977, <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Rogers" title="Kenny Rogers">Kenny Rogers</a>, former frontman of the rock band <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Rogers_and_the_First_Edition" title="Kenny Rogers and the First Edition">the First Edition</a>, burst onto the country charts with "<a href="/wiki/Lucille_(Kenny_Rogers_song)" title="Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)">Lucille</a>" and would go on to rank among the most successful country pop performers.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After "Lucille", Rogers had a string of songs that did well on both the country and pop charts around the world, including "<a href="/wiki/Daytime_Friends_(song)" title="Daytime Friends (song)">Daytime Friends</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Gambler_(song)" title="The Gambler (song)">The Gambler</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Coward_of_the_County" title="Coward of the County">Coward of the County</a>", all of which were produced by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Butler_(producer)" title="Larry Butler (producer)">Larry Butler</a>. Rogers would go on to push the boundaries of pop influence in country music, having records produced by the likes of the <a href="/wiki/Bee_Gees" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Richie" title="Lionel Richie">Lionel Richie</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Foster" title="David Foster">David Foster</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Martin" title="George Martin">George Martin</a>, all of which did well in both the pop and country markets. <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Mandrell" title="Barbara Mandrell">Barbara Mandrell</a> also became known for her blue-eyed soul vocal style. Several of her other hits charted on the country adult contemporary charts, but her songs were the Bubbling under Billboard Top 100 charts. She was one of country music's most successful artists during the 1970s and 1980s. She was involved in a serious car accident in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her big country hits included "<a href="/wiki/Sleeping_Single_In_a_Double_Bed" class="mw-redirect" title="Sleeping Single In a Double Bed">Sleeping Single In a Double Bed</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/(If_Loving_You_is_Wrong)_I_Don%27t_Want_to_Be_Right" class="mw-redirect" title="(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right">(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right</a>." </p><p>In 1977, <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a> crossed over into the pop music world with her No. 1 country and No. 3 pop hit "<a href="/wiki/Here_You_Come_Again_(song)" title="Here You Come Again (song)">Here You Come Again</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s">1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg/220px-Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg/330px-Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg/440px-Young-Dolly-Parton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="941" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a> achieved international recognition for her work as both a musician and actress during the 1970s and 1980s.</figcaption></figure> <p>Parton earned another big hit with "<a href="/wiki/9_to_5_(Dolly_Parton_song)" title="9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)">9 to 5</a>", which topped both the country and pop singles charts in early 1981, supplemented by the 1980 <a href="/wiki/9_to_5_(film)" title="9 to 5 (film)">film</a> of the same name. </p><p>Country pop reached new heights immediately following the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Urban_Cowboy" title="Urban Cowboy">Urban Cowboy</a></i> in the early 1980s. <i>Urban Cowboy</i> was the third music-themed hit film to star <a href="/wiki/John_Travolta" title="John Travolta">John Travolta</a>, each from a different genre; much like <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever" title="Saturday Night Fever">Saturday Night Fever</a></i> did for disco and <i><a href="/wiki/Grease_(film)" title="Grease (film)">Grease</a></i> did for oldies, <i>Urban Cowboy</i> popularized pop-country, helping to boost the career of <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Gilley" title="Mickey Gilley">Mickey Gilley</a> in particular (whose real-life bar and music were featured in the film), along with other songs that appeared on the film's soundtrack.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dottie_West" title="Dottie West">Dottie West</a> came back in the 1980s. Dottie West released a series of hit duets with Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers also had a duet hit with Parton, the <a href="/wiki/Bee_Gees" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gees</a>–penned "<a href="/wiki/Islands_in_the_Stream_(song)" title="Islands in the Stream (song)">Islands in the Stream</a>", which topped the country and pop singles charts in late 1983. (The Bee Gees themselves have one credited country hit to their name, 1978's "<a href="/wiki/Rest_Your_Love_on_Me" title="Rest Your Love on Me">Rest Your Love on Me</a>", which was made an even bigger hit by <a href="/wiki/Conway_Twitty" title="Conway Twitty">Conway Twitty</a> in 1980.) Dottie West achieved her biggest success as a country singer during this time, acquiring her first No. 1 hit as a solo artist in 1980 with "<a href="/wiki/A_Lesson_in_Leaving" class="mw-redirect" title="A Lesson in Leaving">A Lesson in Leaving</a>". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Oak_Ridge_Boys" class="mw-redirect" title="Oak Ridge Boys">Oak Ridge Boys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alabama_(American_band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama (American band)">Alabama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Rabbitt" title="Eddie Rabbitt">Eddie Rabbitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juice_Newton" title="Juice Newton">Juice Newton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bertie_Higgins" title="Bertie Higgins">Bertie Higgins</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Milsap" title="Ronnie Milsap">Ronnie Milsap</a> also had crossover success during the early 1980s. The Oak Ridge Boys had a crossover hit "<a href="/wiki/Elvira_(song)" title="Elvira (song)">Elvira</a>" in 1981. Four of Alabama's most successful songs of the early 1980s—"<a href="/wiki/Feels_So_Right_(song)" title="Feels So Right (song)">Feels So Right</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Love_in_the_First_Degree_(Alabama_song)" title="Love in the First Degree (Alabama song)">Love in the First Degree</a>", <a href="/wiki/Take_Me_Down_(Alabama_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Take Me Down (Alabama song)">Take Me Down</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/The_Closer_You_Get_(Alabama_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Closer You Get (Alabama song)">The Closer You Get</a>" (the last two of which were covers of songs by then–pop band <a href="/wiki/Exile_(American_band)" title="Exile (American band)">Exile</a>)—all reached the <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a>, while four of Ronnie Milsap's No. 1 songs between 1980 and 1982 reached the Hot 100s Top 20, the most successful of which was the No. 5 hit "<a href="/wiki/(There%27s)_No_Gettin%27_Over_Me" title="(There's) No Gettin' Over Me">(There's) No Gettin' Over Me</a>". Rabbitt had three top-5 pop songs in 1980–1981, and "<a href="/wiki/I_Love_a_Rainy_Night" title="I Love a Rainy Night">I Love a Rainy Night</a>" reached No. 1 on both the Hot 100 and <i>Billboard</i> <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Singles" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot Country Singles">Hot Country Singles</a> chart. Country star <a href="/wiki/Juice_Newton" title="Juice Newton">Juice Newton</a> also achieved country-pop success with several crossover hits in the early '80s, including "<a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Hearts_(Hank_DeVito_song)" title="Queen of Hearts (Hank DeVito song)">Queen of Hearts</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Sweetest_Thing_(I%27ve_Ever_Known)" title="The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)">The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)</a>", and Grammy-winner "<a href="/wiki/Break_It_To_Me_Gently" class="mw-redirect" title="Break It To Me Gently">Break It To Me Gently</a>"; in addition, she wrote "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Sweet_Smile" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweet Sweet Smile">Sweet Sweet Smile</a>", the only country hit for easy-listening act <a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">the Carpenters</a>. Former pop acts such as Exile, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Osmond" title="Marie Osmond">Marie Osmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Medley" title="Bill Medley">Bill Medley</a> (formerly of <a href="/wiki/The_Righteous_Brothers" title="The Righteous Brothers">the Righteous Brothers</a>), <a href="/wiki/Tom_Jones_(singer)" title="Tom Jones (singer)">Tom Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Johnson_(singer)" title="Michael Johnson (singer)">Michael Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Joe_Royal" title="Billy Joe Royal">Billy Joe Royal</a>, <a href="/wiki/B._J._Thomas" title="B. J. Thomas">B. J. Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicolette_Larson" title="Nicolette Larson">Nicolette Larson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Davis_(singer)" title="Paul Davis (singer)">Paul Davis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Seals" title="Dan Seals">Dan Seals</a> ("England Dan" of <a href="/wiki/England_Dan_and_John_Ford_Coley" class="mw-redirect" title="England Dan and John Ford Coley">England Dan and John Ford Coley</a>) began targeting their music at the country market in the early 1980s with a country-pop sound. </p><p>Although a number of country pop artists continued to have hits, most notably Alabama, Parton, Mandrell, Rabbitt, and Milsap, the mid-1980s saw a major sea change within the country music industry and the <a href="/wiki/Neotraditional_country" title="Neotraditional country">revival of traditional country</a> sounds, as the boost in country's crossover popularity had collapsed; by 1984, country record sales had fallen to the point they were before <i>Urban Cowboy</i> was released.<sup id="cite_ref-Workin_1999._page_259_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Workin_1999._page_259-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s_revival">1990s revival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1990s revival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/ShaniaTwain1.jpg/150px-ShaniaTwain1.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/ShaniaTwain1.jpg/225px-ShaniaTwain1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/ShaniaTwain1.jpg/300px-ShaniaTwain1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Garth_Brooks" title="Garth Brooks">Garth Brooks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shania_Twain" title="Shania Twain">Shania Twain</a> were the most successful country pop singers of the 1990s.</div></div></div></div> <p>Country pop enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, primarily because of the beginning proliferation of <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> to the <a href="/wiki/FM_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="FM radio">FM radio</a> dial, which in turn was aided by the increase of FCC licenses for suburban and rural FM stations in the late 1980s and an increase in <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk radio</a> on the AM dial, as well as a decision by <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> to no longer count record sales toward the <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">country singles chart</a>, giving <a href="/wiki/Country_radio" title="Country radio">country radio</a> full power to determine a chart ranking by their collective <a href="/wiki/Airplay" title="Airplay">airplay</a>. The commercial boom in the industry during this time was also attributable to the rise of talented artists who coincided with the implementation of new marketing strategies that were meant to attract a larger fan base; this further pushed the genre into a pop musical style with an emerging new image.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Garth_Brooks" title="Garth Brooks">Garth Brooks</a> rose to fame during the 1990s with a string of several extremely successful albums and songs. <a href="/wiki/Shania_Twain" title="Shania Twain">Shania Twain</a> would rival this success with her three albums <i><a href="/wiki/The_Woman_in_Me_(Shania_Twain_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Woman in Me (Shania Twain album)">The Woman in Me</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Come_On_Over_(Shania_Twain_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Come On Over (Shania Twain album)">Come On Over</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Up!_(album)" title="Up! (album)">Up!</a></i>. In the last few years, country singer <a href="/wiki/LeAnn_Rimes" title="LeAnn Rimes">LeAnn Rimes</a> has proved her ability to sing country pop songs such as the record-setting "<a href="/wiki/How_Do_I_Live" title="How Do I Live">How Do I Live</a>", which spent 69 weeks on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100, the second longest single in the record history. This achievement came in spite of the fact that a nearly identical version of the same song by <a href="/wiki/Trisha_Yearwood" title="Trisha Yearwood">Trisha Yearwood</a> was released at the same time and was also a hit. Rimes also had a hit with the pop songs "<a href="/wiki/Can%27t_Fight_the_Moonlight" title="Can't Fight the Moonlight">Can't Fight the Moonlight</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/I_Need_You_(LeAnn_Rimes_song)" title="I Need You (LeAnn Rimes song)">I Need You</a>", the latter of which required a remix to be suitable for country radio. </p><p>Incorporating elements of pop into country music became extremely popular by the late '90s, thus producing many crossover hits and artists, especially on the adult contemporary charts. Country love songs also became more popular with songs like "<a href="/wiki/To_Make_You_Feel_My_Love" class="mw-redirect" title="To Make You Feel My Love">To Make You Feel My Love</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Cowboy_Take_Me_Away" title="Cowboy Take Me Away">Cowboy Take Me Away</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I_Love_You_(Martina_McBride_song)" title="I Love You (Martina McBride song)">I Love You</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Breathe_(Faith_Hill_song)" title="Breathe (Faith Hill song)">Breathe</a>", "<a href="/wiki/It%27s_Your_Love" title="It's Your Love">It's Your Love</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Just_to_See_You_Smile" title="Just to See You Smile">Just to See You Smile</a>", "<a href="/wiki/This_Kiss_(Faith_Hill_song)" title="This Kiss (Faith Hill song)">This Kiss</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Way_You_Love_Me_(Faith_Hill_song)" title="The Way You Love Me (Faith Hill song)">The Way You Love Me</a>", "<a href="/wiki/You%27re_Still_the_One" title="You're Still the One">You're Still the One</a>", "<a href="/wiki/From_This_Moment_On_(Shania_Twain_song)" title="From This Moment On (Shania Twain song)">From This Moment On</a>", "<a href="/wiki/You%27ve_Got_a_Way" title="You've Got a Way">You've Got a Way</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Valentine_(Martina_McBride_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Valentine (Martina McBride song)">Valentine</a>", etc. </p><p>In the 1990s, many country artists experienced huge crossover success. In addition to Brooks, Twain, <a href="/wiki/Martina_McBride" title="Martina McBride">Martina McBride</a>, and Rimes, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Ray_Cyrus" title="Billy Ray Cyrus">Billy Ray Cyrus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_McGraw" title="Tim McGraw">Tim McGraw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Faith_Hill" title="Faith Hill">Faith Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dixie_Chicks" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixie Chicks">Dixie Chicks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jo_Dee_Messina" title="Jo Dee Messina">Jo Dee Messina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lonestar" title="Lonestar">Lonestar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary-Chapin_Carpenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary-Chapin Carpenter">Mary-Chapin Carpenter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wynonna_Judd" title="Wynonna Judd">Wynonna Judd</a> all had songs cross over to Top 40 and/or Adult Contemporary radio, sometimes with remixes eliminating steel guitars and other "country" elements to be more suitable for pop radio. Brooks, <a href="/wiki/Reba_McEntire" title="Reba McEntire">Reba McEntire</a>, and other artists also maintained high profiles on the album charts despite having less radio crossover success. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s_and_2010s">2000s and 2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2000s and 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carry_Underwood_46_(5695408830).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg/220px-Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg/330px-Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg/440px-Carry_Underwood_46_%285695408830%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2078" data-file-height="1441" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Underwood" title="Carrie Underwood">Carrie Underwood</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The early 2000s also saw continued success of these artists. <a href="/wiki/Lee_Ann_Womack" title="Lee Ann Womack">Lee Ann Womack</a> scored a big hit with "<a href="/wiki/I_Hope_You_Dance_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="I Hope You Dance (song)">I Hope You Dance</a>", peaking at number one on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. The <a href="/wiki/Dixie_Chicks" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixie Chicks">Dixie Chicks</a> had continued success with a less mainstream country-pop sound when they released their <a href="/wiki/Bluegrass_music" title="Bluegrass music">bluegrass</a>-influenced album <i><a href="/wiki/Home_(Dixie_Chicks_album)" title="Home (Dixie Chicks album)">Home</a></i> in 2002. However, by the mid-2000s, there were fewer country acts having crossover success. That was until singer <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Underwood" title="Carrie Underwood">Carrie Underwood</a> won the fourth season of <i><a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a></i> in May 2005. </p><p>With her exposure from <i>American Idol,</i> Underwood's debut single, "<a href="/wiki/Inside_Your_Heaven" title="Inside Your Heaven">Inside Your Heaven</a>", became the first song by a prominently country artist to ever debut at number one on the <i>Billboard</i> <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Hot 100</a>. Underwood continued to have crossover success in 2006 and 2007, with her hit single "<a href="/wiki/Before_He_Cheats" title="Before He Cheats">Before He Cheats</a>", which was notable for becoming a success on mainstream pop radio <i>without</i> a more "pop-friendly" remix. Underwood has had additional, but more spotty, success on pop radio since. Nonetheless, she disproved the notion that country artists, especially country female artists, were limited to success only within one genre. Further supplying that evidence was the success of <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Swift" title="Taylor Swift">Taylor Swift</a>, who released her <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Swift_(album)" title="Taylor Swift (album)">debut album</a> in 2006. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taylor_Swift_(6820711660).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg/170px-Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg/255px-Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg/340px-Taylor_Swift_%286820711660%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Country and pop superstar <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Swift" title="Taylor Swift">Taylor Swift</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Swift rose to fame in the late 2000s as a teenage artist, buoyed by the success of her country pop singles "<a href="/wiki/Teardrops_on_My_Guitar" title="Teardrops on My Guitar">Teardrops On My Guitar</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Our_Song_(Taylor_Swift_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Song (Taylor Swift song)">Our Song</a>", with the latter making Swift the youngest person in history to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs"><i>Billboard</i> Hot Country Songs</a> chart. Her chart-topping second studio album <a href="/wiki/Fearless_(Taylor_Swift_album)" title="Fearless (Taylor Swift album)"><i>Fearless</i></a> was released in 2008; it spawned international hit singles "<a href="/wiki/Love_Story_(Taylor_Swift_song)" title="Love Story (Taylor Swift song)">Love Story</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/You_Belong_with_Me" title="You Belong with Me">You Belong With Me</a>", becoming two of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles" title="List of best-selling singles">best selling singles of all time</a>. In 2009, Swift became the first country artist in history to win an <a href="/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="MTV Video Music Award">MTV Video Music Award</a>. Later in 2010, Swift won the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" title="Grammy Award for Album of the Year">Grammy Award for Album of the Year</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Country_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Country Album">Best Country Album</a> for <i>Fearless</i>, becoming the youngest artist to win the top prize at that time. <i>Fearless</i> went on to become <a href="/wiki/RIAA_certification" title="RIAA certification">Diamond</a> certified by <a href="/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" title="Recording Industry Association of America">Recording Industry Association of America</a> for moving over 10 million units in the U.S. Her subsequent albums <i><a href="/wiki/Speak_Now" title="Speak Now">Speak Now</a></i> (2010) and <i><a href="/wiki/Red_(Taylor_Swift_album)" title="Red (Taylor Swift album)">Red</a></i> (2012) topped multiple charts globally, including the <a href="/wiki/Top_Country_Albums" title="Top Country Albums">Top Country Albums</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a>; both of those albums sold 1 million copies in their debut week sales, opening 1.0 million for <i>Speak Now</i> and 1.2 million for <i>Red</i>. On <i>Red</i>, Swift incorporated elements of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Dubstep" title="Dubstep">dubstep</a> and worked with pop producers <a href="/wiki/Max_Martin" title="Max Martin">Max Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shellback_(record_producer)" title="Shellback (record producer)">Shellback</a> on several tracks, including the pop hits "<a href="/wiki/We_Are_Never_Ever_Getting_Back_Together" title="We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together">We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I_Knew_You_Were_Trouble" title="I Knew You Were Trouble">I Knew You Were Trouble</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/22_(Taylor_Swift_song)" title="22 (Taylor Swift song)">22</a>", which were more favored by pop radio over country radio. Swift collaborated with rapper <a href="/wiki/B.o.B." class="mw-redirect" title="B.o.B.">B.o.B</a> on his <a href="/wiki/Country_rap" title="Country rap">country rap</a> single "<a href="/wiki/Both_of_Us" title="Both of Us">Both of Us</a>", and dueted with <a href="/wiki/Tim_McGraw" title="Tim McGraw">Tim McGraw</a> on his 2013 single "<a href="/wiki/Highway_Don%27t_Care" title="Highway Don't Care">Highway Don't Care</a>" featuring <a href="/wiki/Keith_Urban" title="Keith Urban">Keith Urban</a>. Swift labeled herself as a pop artist since 2014's <i><a href="/wiki/1989_(Taylor_Swift_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 (Taylor Swift album)">1989</a></i>, which also won the Grammy awards for Album of the Year and <a href="/wiki/Best_Pop_Vocal_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Pop Vocal Album">Best Pop Vocal album</a>, making Swift the first and only artist to win those awards in both pop and country genres. The subsequent <i><a href="/wiki/Reputation_(Taylor_Swift_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reputation (Taylor Swift album)">Reputation</a></i> (2017) and <i><a href="/wiki/Lover_(album)" title="Lover (album)">Lover</a></i> (2019) were pop albums, though <i>Lover</i> drew on country influences in songs like "<a href="/wiki/Lover_(Taylor_Swift_song)" title="Lover (Taylor Swift song)">Lover</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Soon_You%27ll_Get_Better" title="Soon You'll Get Better">Soon You'll Get Better</a>"; the latter being a collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Dixie_Chicks" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixie Chicks">Dixie Chicks</a>. Swift has also written songs for other country pop acts, such as <a href="/wiki/Little_Big_Town" title="Little Big Town">Little Big Town</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Better_Man_(Little_Big_Town_song)" title="Better Man (Little Big Town song)">Better Man</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Sugarland" title="Sugarland">Sugarland</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Babe_(Sugarland_song)" title="Babe (Sugarland song)">Babe</a>". Achieving both national and international prominence through her tour gross, sales records, and critical acclaim, Swift has been credited for bringing recognition of country music "within the broad expanse of music worldwide"; the <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association" title="Country Music Association">Country Music Association</a> acknowledged that her talent and presence "will have a long-term positive impact on the appreciation of country music for generations to come". </p><p>Other examples of prominent country-pop artists from this decade included <a href="/wiki/Lady_A" title="Lady A">Lady A</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sugarland" title="Sugarland">Sugarland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rascal_Flatts" title="Rascal Flatts">Rascal Flatts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Urban" title="Keith Urban">Keith Urban</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Chesney" title="Kenny Chesney">Kenny Chesney</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010s–present"><span id="2010s.E2.80.93present"></span>2010s–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2010s–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 2010s saw many changes for the country-pop genre, not only in sound, but also in values; there was a significant shift away from big-voiced <a href="/wiki/Power_ballads" class="mw-redirect" title="Power ballads">power ballads</a> to more casual, hip-hop influenced styles. One such trend was the controversial <a href="/wiki/Bro-country" title="Bro-country">bro-country</a> subgenre, which <i>Vulture</i> described as "music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this decade, <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Kracker" title="Uncle Kracker">Uncle Kracker</a> achieved success when his number 3 adult contemporary hit "<a href="/wiki/Smile_(Uncle_Kracker_song)" title="Smile (Uncle Kracker song)">Smile</a>" also became a number 6 country hit. <a href="/wiki/Jason_Aldean" title="Jason Aldean">Jason Aldean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Clarkson" title="Kelly Clarkson">Kelly Clarkson</a> hit number 3 on adult contemporary, 9 on adult pop and 1 on country charts with the song "<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_You_Wanna_Stay" title="Don't You Wanna Stay">Don't You Wanna Stay</a>". Other records to hit on both the pop and country charts included <a href="/wiki/Miley_Cyrus" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley Cyrus</a>' "<a href="/wiki/The_Climb_(song)" title="The Climb (song)">The Climb</a>", Lady A's "<a href="/wiki/Just_a_Kiss_(song)" title="Just a Kiss (song)">Just A Kiss</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_Band_Perry" title="The Band Perry">the Band Perry</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/If_I_Die_Young" title="If I Die Young">If I Die Young</a>", <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Clarkson" title="Kelly Clarkson">Kelly Clarkson</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Mr._Know_It_All" title="Mr. Know It All">Mr. Know It All</a>", <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Hayes" title="Hunter Hayes">Hunter Hayes</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Wanted_(Hunter_Hayes_song)" title="Wanted (Hunter Hayes song)">Wanted</a>", and <a href="/wiki/Florida_Georgia_Line" title="Florida Georgia Line">Florida Georgia Line</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Cruise_(song)" title="Cruise (song)">Cruise</a>". </p><p>Sam Hunt also earned significant crossover appeal. His 2014 debut album <a href="/wiki/Montevallo_(album)" title="Montevallo (album)"><i>Montevallo</i></a>, which featured hip-hop and rap influences, reached number 1 on <a href="/wiki/Top_Country_Albums" title="Top Country Albums">Top Country Albums</a> and number 3 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a>. His 2017 single "<a href="/wiki/Body_Like_a_Back_Road" title="Body Like a Back Road">Body Like a Back Road</a>" reached number 1 on <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a>, number 6 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a>, and number 11 on <a href="/wiki/Adult_Top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult Top 40">Adult Top 40</a>. </p><p>Hip hop's penchant for story-telling is one of the reasons frequently cited for its influence on mainstream pop country.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, there are now no less than four generations who have grown up listening to both country music and hip hop, as evidenced in the subgenre <a href="/wiki/Country_rap" title="Country rap">country rap</a>, starting with <a href="/wiki/Jelly_Roll_(singer)" title="Jelly Roll (singer)">Jelly Roll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colt_Ford" title="Colt Ford">Colt Ford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cowboy_Troy" title="Cowboy Troy">Cowboy Troy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kid_Rock" title="Kid Rock">Kid Rock</a>. </p><p>In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Wallen" title="Morgan Wallen">Morgan Wallen</a> signed to <a href="/wiki/Big_Loud" title="Big Loud">Big Loud</a>, releasing his debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/If_I_Know_Me_(album)" title="If I Know Me (album)">If I Know Me</a></i> in 2018, with strong hip-hop elements like trap beats and snap tracks.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/If_I_Know_Me_(album)" title="If I Know Me (album)">If I Know Me</a></i> included the singles "<a href="/wiki/Up_Down_(Morgan_Wallen_song)" title="Up Down (Morgan Wallen song)">Up Down</a>" (featuring <a href="/wiki/Florida_Georgia_Line" title="Florida Georgia Line">Florida Georgia Line</a>), "<a href="/wiki/Whiskey_Glasses" title="Whiskey Glasses">Whiskey Glasses</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Chasin%27_You" title="Chasin' You">Chasin' You</a>"; the album reached number 1 on the <i>Billboard</i> Top Country Albums chart.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wallen's second album, <i><a href="/wiki/Dangerous:_The_Double_Album" title="Dangerous: The Double Album">Dangerous: The Double Album</a></i>, was released in January 2021, and in February 2021, became the only country album in the 64-year history of the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a> to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It spent a total of ten weeks at that spot, the first album to do so since <a href="/wiki/Whitney_Houston" title="Whitney Houston">Whitney Houston</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Whitney_(album)" title="Whitney (album)">Whitney</a></i> in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The album included <i>Billboard</i> No. 1 singles "<a href="/wiki/More_Than_My_Hometown" title="More Than My Hometown">More Than My Hometown</a>", "<a href="/wiki/7_Summers" title="7 Summers">7 Summers</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Wasted_on_You_(Morgan_Wallen_song)" title="Wasted on You (Morgan Wallen song)">Wasted on You</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, many country artists achieved international pop hit singles in collaborations with mainstream pop artists. This included <a href="/wiki/Chris_Stapleton" title="Chris Stapleton">Chris Stapleton</a> who collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Justin_Timberlake" title="Justin Timberlake">Justin Timberlake</a> on Hot 100 top ten single "<a href="/wiki/Say_Something_(Justin_Timberlake_song)" title="Say Something (Justin Timberlake song)">Say Something</a>"; Urban-pop star <a href="/wiki/Bebe_Rexha" title="Bebe Rexha">Bebe Rexha</a> whose duet with the country duo <a href="/wiki/Florida_Georgia_Line" title="Florida Georgia Line">Florida Georgia Line</a> "<a href="/wiki/Meant_to_Be_(Bebe_Rexha_song)" title="Meant to Be (Bebe Rexha song)">Meant to Be</a>" reached No. 2 both in Australia and in the U.S.; and German DJ <a href="/wiki/Zedd" title="Zedd">Zedd</a> whose dance hit "<a href="/wiki/The_Middle_(Zedd_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Middle (Zedd song)">The Middle</a>" featured main vocals from <a href="/wiki/Maren_Morris" title="Maren Morris">Maren Morris</a> and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of particular note, in 2012, <i>Billboard</i> restored recording sales to the chart formula but also added airplay from non-country stations, giving an inherent advantage to country pop crossover songs, at the same time maintaining the 1990 formula solely to measure country radio airplay. After the change, crossover songs have increasingly set the record for the longest run atop the country chart for longer and longer stretches; "Meant to Be" currently holds the record, 50 weeks and counting as of November 2018, more than double the pre-2012 record (<a href="/wiki/Leroy_Van_Dyke" title="Leroy Van Dyke">Leroy Van Dyke</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Walk_On_By_(Leroy_Van_Dyke_song)" title="Walk On By (Leroy Van Dyke song)">Walk On By</a>" was atop the chart for 19 weeks in 1963, during the 1958–1990 period of a unified sales, jukebox and airplay chart; three songs topped the various separate country charts for 21 weeks each between 1948 and 1955). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/170px-Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/255px-Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/340px-Kacey_Musgraves_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3432" data-file-height="5148" /></a><figcaption>Multi-Grammy winner <a href="/wiki/Kacey_Musgraves" title="Kacey Musgraves">Kacey Musgraves</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The way audiences consumed their music also changed during the 2010s, as <a href="/wiki/Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">streaming services</a> became more prominent, thus affecting how artists marketed their songs.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Being played on the radio was no longer a requirement to be a contender in the country industry, as it had been for decades before; one such example was <a href="/wiki/Kacey_Musgraves" title="Kacey Musgraves">Kacey Musgraves</a>. Despite receiving little airplay for her singles sent to country radio, Musgraves won the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy award">Grammy award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Album_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Album of the Year">Album of the Year</a> in 2019, for her fourth studio album <i><a href="/wiki/Golden_Hour_(Kacey_Musgraves_album)" title="Golden Hour (Kacey Musgraves album)">Golden Hour</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Musgraves's success was unprecedented in the sense that she earned fans from both the pop and country genres without the benefit of airplay on country radio, instead promoting her music through online media platforms such as <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apple_Music" title="Apple Music">Apple Music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Hoya</i> pointed out Musgraves's groundbreaking approach, writing, "Musgraves's refusal to bend the knee for Nashville record label executives, coupled with her massive success, proves she is the Nashville big machine's worst nightmare. She is a female artist who managed to find widespread success in an industry that endlessly tried to muzzle her."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The disparity between male and female artists on country radio became even more obvious during the back half of this decade, with one study finding that male artists accounted for 5.5 to 1 in total airplay during the years 2000–2018.<sup id="cite_ref-www.billboard.com-2019_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.billboard.com-2019-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, that number only increased, with a ratio of male vs. female at 9.7 to 1.<sup id="cite_ref-www.billboard.com-2019_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.billboard.com-2019-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, radio consultant Keith Hill made controversial comments about why women received less representation on the radio, referring to male artists as the "salad" and women as "tomatoes"; the controversy became known as <a href="/wiki/Tomato-gate" title="Tomato-gate">Tomato-gate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Collaborations between country and pop artists became even more popularized during this decade, as well. In October 2019, country duo <a href="/wiki/Dan_%2B_Shay" title="Dan + Shay">Dan + Shay</a> released a joint single with pop singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Justin_Bieber" title="Justin Bieber">Justin Bieber</a>, "<a href="/wiki/10,000_Hours" title="10,000 Hours">10,000 Hours</a>", which went to number one on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2020, country singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Kelsea_Ballerini" title="Kelsea Ballerini">Kelsea Ballerini</a> released "<a href="/wiki/The_Other_Girl_(song)" title="The Other Girl (song)">The Other Girl</a>" as a joint single with pop singer <a href="/wiki/Halsey_(singer)" title="Halsey (singer)">Halsey</a> from her third studio album <i><a href="/wiki/Kelsea" title="Kelsea">kelsea</a></i>. The single peaked within the top twenty of both the Hot Country Songs and U.S. <a href="/wiki/Adult_Top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult Top 40">Adult Top 40</a> charts. At the February 2020 <a href="/wiki/Country_Radio_Seminar" class="mw-redirect" title="Country Radio Seminar">Country Radio Seminar</a>, there was discussion on the increase in fan attention to pop and country collaborations, in addition to an increase in the use of streaming services.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, <i>American Idol</i> finalist <a href="/wiki/Gabby_Barrett" title="Gabby Barrett">Gabby Barrett</a> topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs for over 20 weeks with her single, <a href="/wiki/I_Hope_(Gabby_Barrett_song)" title="I Hope (Gabby Barrett song)">"I Hope</a>", which was later remixed into a duet with pop singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Puth" title="Charlie Puth">Charlie Puth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their collaboration went on to top <i>Billboard's</i> <a href="/wiki/Adult_Pop_Songs" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult Pop Songs">Adult Pop Songs</a> chart in October 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its 45th week, the single reached the top five of the all-genre <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a>, achieving the slowest climb to the top five in the chart's history.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two artists who were influential in shifting mainstream attitudes about the genre's more pop-inflected sound were <a href="/wiki/Sam_Hunt" title="Sam Hunt">Sam Hunt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maren_Morris" title="Maren Morris">Maren Morris</a>. As <i>NPR Music</i> wrote, "Sam Hunt and Maren Morris arrived on the scene in the years that followed, each of them possessing fluency in the postures and cadences of millennial pop that turned heads and blurred boundaries. '[M]odern country singers love to flaunt phrases and attitudes borrowed from hip-hop, but Hunt's borrowings are softer and sneakier,' noted Kelefa Sanneh."<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jon Caramanica said: "Think of all the ways dissenters have tried to upend country in recent years: by sneaking in rhythmic vocal tics learned from rappers, by thinning out the genre's musical baggage, by pledging inclusive values. Ms. Morris, an astute synthesizer, has studied and perfected them all."<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an article published in 2019, <i>Time</i> called Morris "the future of country music."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2020, Morris won three <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association" title="Country Music Association">Country Music Association</a> awards, including two for her 2019 single "<a href="/wiki/The_Bones_(song)" title="The Bones (song)">The Bones</a>"; it also received a Grammy nomination for <a href="/wiki/Best_Country_Song" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Country Song">Best Country Song</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The year previously, she won <a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" title="Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year">Album of the Year</a> for her sophomore effort <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_(Maren_Morris_album)" title="Girl (Maren Morris album)">Girl</a>,</i> signifying a critical, mainstream shift in attitude about what constituted the country sound.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The Bones" also received Song of the Year at the <a href="/wiki/56th_Academy_of_Country_Music_Awards" title="56th Academy of Country Music Awards">56th ACM awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/170px-Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/255px-Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/340px-Maren_Morris_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3379" data-file-height="5069" /></a><figcaption>CMA Award-winner <a href="/wiki/Maren_Morris" title="Maren Morris">Maren Morris</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In January 2021, <i><a href="/wiki/Nashville_Scene" title="Nashville Scene">Nashville Scene</a></i> pointed out the commercial impact and critical acclaim brought on by songs considered to be crossover hits, writing, "The walls around the country genre seem evermore flimsy these days. Thanks in part to streaming, '<a href="/wiki/Old_Town_Road" title="Old Town Road">Old Town Road</a>' became the most-certified song in RIAA history earlier this month, racking up 14 million sales. Morris's 'The Bones,' winner of two CMA Awards and nominated for a Grammy, topped four different <i>Billboard</i> charts and peaked at No. 12 on the weekly Hot 100. 'The Middle,' her 2018 dance-pop collaboration with producers Zedd and Grey, peaked at No. 5 on the weekly Hot 100 Songs and was nominated for three Grammys."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Still, the debate on what constituted the country sound continued into the 2020s. Despite placing at the top of Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, Kacey Musgraves's album <a href="/wiki/Star-Crossed_(album)" title="Star-Crossed (album)">Star-Crossed</a> was deemed ineligible for nomination in the <a href="/wiki/Best_Country_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Country Album">Best Country Album</a> category for the <a href="/wiki/64th_Annual_Grammy_Awards" title="64th Annual Grammy Awards">64th Grammys</a>, owing to the policy that potential nominated albums must contain at least "51 percent of new country recordings".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Billboard</i>, however, pointed out that Musgraves was hardly the first to face controversy from the Grammys; previous records nominated in Pop categories included Dolly Parton's "<a href="/wiki/Here_You_Come_Again_(song)" title="Here You Come Again (song)">Here You Come Again</a>" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" by <a href="/wiki/Glen_Campbell" title="Glen Campbell">Glen Campbell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Musgraves did, however, earn two nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Performance for the album track, "Camera Roll."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, three pop country songs placed within the first four spots on Billboard's all-genre Hot 100 for the first time in the chart's 65-year history.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Billboard</i> noted the overall increase in the popularity of pop country and credited Morgan Wallen with 40 percent of its growth, calling the phenomenon the "Wallen Effect".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The popularity of pop country continues to surge, with a 2023 <i>Economist</i> poll finding it has become more popular than hip hop in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gone_Country_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gone Country (song)">Gone Country</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Long_Time_Gone" title="Long Time Gone">Long Time Gone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Murder_on_Music_Row" title="Murder on Music Row">Murder on Music Row</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-parody" title="Self-parody">Self-parody</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Country_pop&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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