10 Facts About Country pop

Country pop is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience.

Country pop started when pop music singers like Glen Campbell, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, and Anne Murray, began having hits on the country charts.

Country pop's single "Let Me Be There" became a big pop-country crossover hit in 1974.

Country pop won a Grammy award for "Best Female Country Vocal Performance" for the song, and won the Country Music Association's most coveted award for females, "Female Vocalist of the Year".

Country pop was one of country music's most successful artists during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Country pop reached an early peak immediately following the movie Urban Cowboy in the early 1980s.

Country pop enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, primarily because of the beginning proliferation of country music to the FM radio 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 talk radio on the AM dial, as well as a decision by Billboard to no longer count record sales toward the country singles chart, giving country radio full power to determine a chart ranking by their collective airplay.

In 2018, many country artists achieved international pop hit singles in collaborations with mainstream pop artists.

Country pop is a female artist who managed to find widespread success in an industry that endlessly tried to muzzle her.

Collaborations between country and pop artists became even more popularized during this decade, as well.