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

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Top hits of the year

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The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, or Canada Country charts in 2025:

See also: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2025

Singles released by American and Australian artists

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Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
9 4 1 "4x4xU" Lainey Wilson [6]
17 23 26 "After All the Bars Are Closed" Thomas Rhett [7]
1 — — "All the Way" BigXthaPlug
featuring Bailey Zimmerman 		[8]
13 8 26 "Am I Okay?" Megan Moroney [9]
16 9 4 "Backseat Driver" Kane Brown [10]
20 4 29 "Bigger Houses" Dan + Shay [11]
18 2 29 "Boys Back Home" Dylan Marlowe
featuring Dylan Scott 		[12]
42 16 41 "Coming Home" Old Dominion [13]
50 14 39 "Country House" Sam Hunt [14]
— 20 42 "Country Song Came On" Luke Bryan [15]
16 24 36 "Cowboys Cry Too" Kelsea Ballerini
featuring Noah Kahan 		[16]
28 10 6 "Damn Good Day to Leave" Riley Green [17]
17 18 39 "Fix What You Didn't Break" Nate Smith [18]
25 2 50 "Forever to Me" Cole Swindell [19]
16 2 2 "Friends Like That" John Morgan
featuring Jason Aldean 		[20]
1 — 43 "The Giver" Chappell Roan [21]
8 22 23 "Good News" Shaboozey [22]
7 5 1 "Guy for That" Post Malone
featuring Luke Combs 		[23]
20 26 58 "Happen to Me" Russell Dickerson [24]
12 54 — "Hard Fought Hallelujah" Brandon Lake
featuring Jelly Roll 		[25]
13 10 40 "Holy Smokes" Bailey Zimmerman [8]
21 1 34 "Hometown Home" LoCash [26]
3 36 56 "I Ain't Comin' Back" Morgan Wallen
featuring Post Malone 		[27]
12 2 1 "I Ain't Sayin'" Jordan Davis [28]
6 4 1 "I Never Lie" Zach Top [29]
5 38 — "I'm a Little Crazy" Morgan Wallen [27]
7 3 6 "I'm Gonna Love You" Cody Johnson
featuring Carrie Underwood 		[30]
1 1 1 "I'm the Problem" Morgan Wallen [27]
8 40 57 "Indigo" Sam Barber
featuring Avery Anna 		[31]
2 19 38 "Just in Case" Morgan Wallen [27]
— 16 28 "Just to Say We Did" Kenny Chesney [32]
5 1 1 "Liar" Jelly Roll [33]
1 1 1 "Love Somebody" Morgan Wallen [27]
— 15 22 "Park" Tyler Hubbard [34]
2 31 39 "Smile" Morgan Wallen [27]
16 2 1 "Texas" Blake Shelton [35]
12 12 10 "Think I'm in Love with You" Chris Stapleton [36]
37 12 41 "This Heart" Corey Kent [37]
17 1 39 "This Town's Been Too Good to Us" Dylan Scott [12]
46 12 41 "Tough People" Drew Baldridge [38]
11 13 5 "Weren't for the Wind" Ella Langley [39]
25 3 53 "Whiskey Drink" Jason Aldean [40]
6 2 3 "Wind Up Missin' You" Tucker Wetmore [41]
9 11 11 "Worst Way" Riley Green [17]

Singles released by Canadian artists

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Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
– – 7 "Another One" Brett Kissel [42]
— — 18 "Bourbon" Morgan Griffiths [43]
– – 6 "CRZY" Dallas Smith [44]
– – 9 "Broken Heart Thing" Madeline Merlo
(featuring Dustin Lynch) 		[45]
– 45 10 "Golden Child" Meghan Patrick [46]
– – 14 "Happy Ever After You" MacKenzie Porter & Jake Etheridge
(Thelma & James) 		[47]
– – 9 "Have Your Beer" MacKenzie Porter [47]
– – 8 "Leave Me Too" Josh Ross [48]
– – 13 "Life for Me" Jess Moskaluke [49]
– – 8 "Quitter" Cameron Whitcomb [50]
36 16 2 "Single Again" Josh Ross [48]
– – 6 "Things My Mama Says" Hailey Benedict [51]
– – 17 "Til I Don't" Sacha [52]
– – 7 "What Good Is a Memory" Tyler Joe Miller [53]
– – 12 "Worth the Double" Jade Eagleson [54]
– – 7 "You Didn't Hear It from Me" James Barker Band [55]

Top new album releases

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See also: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2025
See also: List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2025
US Album Artist Record label Release date Reference
2 The High Road Kane Brown RCA Nashville January 24 [56]
4 Foxes in the Snow Jason Isbell Southeastern March 7 [57]
4 What Not To Tucker Wetmore UMG Nashville April 25 [58]

Other top albums

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US Album Artist Record label Release date Reference
27 Look Up Ringo Starr UMG Nashville January 10 [59]
12 The Select Ty Myers Capitol Nashville January 24 [60]
12 Relapse, Lies & Betrayal Warren Zeiders Warner Records March 14 [61]
25 Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett Island Records [62]
29 Arcadia Alison Krauss & Union Station Down the Road March 28 [63]
27 Honkytonk Hollywood Jon Pardi Capitol Nashville April 11 [64]
28 The Price of Admission Turnpike Troubadours Bossier City Records [65]
Evangeline vs. the Machine Eric Church UMG Nashville May 2 [66]

Upcoming

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Album Artist Record label Release date Reference
For Recreational Use Only Blake Shelton Wheelhouse May 9 [67]
I'm the Problem Morgan Wallen Big Loud May 16 [68]
Let Go Letters Avery Anna Warner Nashville [69]
Easy Does It Dylan Scott Curb May 30 [70]
Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets Rascal Flatts Big Machine June 6 [71]
Corn Queen Hailey Whitters Pigasus/Big Loud [72]
Personal History Mary Chapin Carpenter Lambent Light [73]
Broken Branches Dierks Bentley Capitol Nashville June 13 [74]
Whiskey Lies & Alibis William Beckmann Warner Nashville June 20 [75]
2.0 Brett Young Big Machine [76]
Songs for a New Moon Charles Kelley June 25
Parker McCollum Parker McCollum MCA Nashville June 27 [77]
Spanish Moss Cole Swindell Warner Nashville [78]
The Mirror Trisha Yearwood MCA Nashville July 18 [79]
Tennessee Lightning Ashley Monroe Mountainrose Sparrow August 8 [80]
Learn the Hard Way Jordan Davis MCA Nashville August 15

Hall of Fame inductees

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Country Music Hall of Fame

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(announced on March 25, 2025)[81]

Deaths

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References

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