Country is a genre of popular music that originated with blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country.
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Term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century.
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In 2009, in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.
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Term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres.
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The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working class Americans and blue-collar American life.
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US Congress has formally recognized Bristol, Tennessee as the "Birthplace of Country Music", based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927.
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Third generation started at the end of World War II with "mountaineer" string band Country music known as bluegrass, which emerged when Bill Monroe, along with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were introduced by Roy Acuff at the Grand Ole Opry.
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The late 1960s in American Country music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres.
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Fourth generation music included outlaw country with roots in the Bakersfield sound, and country pop with roots in the countrypolitan, folk music and soft rock.
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Record sales declined during the Great Depression, but radio became a popular source of entertainment, and "barn dance" shows featuring country music were started by radio stations all over the South, as far north as Chicago, and as far west as California.
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Country music charted 48 singles during the decade; 31 reached the top ten and 26 reached the top four.
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Country music gained national television exposure through Ozark Jubilee on ABC-TV and radio from 1955 to 1960 from Springfield, Missouri.
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Country music rock is a genre that started in the 1960s but became prominent in the 1970s.
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The late 1960s in American Country music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres.
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Truck driving country music is a genre of country musicand is a fusion of honky-tonk, country rock and the Bakersfield sound.
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At this point, country music was mainly heard on rural AM radio stations; the expansion of FM was particularly helpful to country music, which migrated to FM from the AM band as AM became overcome by talk radio.
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Country influences combined with Punk rock and alternative rock to forge the "cowpunk" scene in Southern California during the 1980s, which included bands such as the Long Ryders, Lone Justice and the Beat Farmers, as well as the established punk group X, whose music had begun to include country and rockabilly influences.
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Country music made history by becoming the seventh woman to win Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the first woman in history to win the award twice, as well as twice consecutively.
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Some modern artists that primarily or entirely produce country pop music include Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Kelsea Ballerini, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Chris Lane, and Dan + Shay.
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Country music has been a particularly popular form of musical expression among Indigenous Australians.
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Mainstream country music is culturally ingrained in the prairie provinces, the British Columbia Interior, Ontario, and in Atlantic Canada.
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Country music is popular in the United Kingdom, although somewhat less so than in other English-speaking countries.
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The Bee Gees had some fleeting success in the genre, with one country hit as artists and a major hit as songwriters ; Barry Gibb, the band's usual lead singer and last surviving member, acknowledged that country music was a major influence on the band's style.
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Niche country subgenre popular in the West Country is Scrumpy and Western, which consists mostly of novelty songs and comedy music recorded there.
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In Ireland, Country and Irish is a music genre that combines traditional Irish folk music with US country music.
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Daniel O'Donnell achieved international success with his brand of music crossing country, Irish folk and European easy listening, earning a strong following among older women both in the British Isles and in North America.
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In Poland an international country music festival, known as Piknik Country, has been organised in Mragowo in Masuria since 1983.
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Great American Country was launched in 1995, as a country music-oriented channel that would later add lifestyle programming pertaining to the American Heartland and South.
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Computer science and music experts identified issues with algorithms on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, specifically the categorical homogenization of music curation and metadata within larger genres such as country music.
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The broader modern Nashville-based Country music industry has underrepresented significant Black and Latino contributions within Country music, including popular subgenres such as Cajun, Creole, Tejano, and New Mexico music.
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