Country music is fusing with hip-hop more than ever before since the release of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” Shaboozey is a big name name in this fusion. Still, Shaboozey feels that he’s very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mashup of rap and country is a winning formula: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has matched a Billboard record set by Lil Nas ...

At its juiciest, country music is full of surprises. For example, the success of Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road” made the latter want to leave the music industry. Here’s why that didn’t ...

Back in 2019, nothing was bigger — or more controversial — in country music than Lil Nas X's viral hit, "Old Town Road." Amid all the controversy and hype, Lil Nas X says he felt a little embarrassed ...

"Old Town Road" is one of the biggest country songs of the year, and yet there are a lot of people who don't call it a country song at all. There aren't a lot of songs that combine trap music and ...

Over the next few months, the indie song by a little-known artist called Lil Nas X found fans on SoundCloud and music-streaming apps. It even landed, unceremoniously, on several Billboard charts - ...

Before Beyoncé sparked debate about what and what isn’t country, before Jelly Roll started climbing the charts, and before Post Malone, Lana Del Rey, and Machine Gun Kelly started dipping their toes ...

The new, viral song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X hit the Billboard charts in three different categories, but this week that changed when Billboard said the song “does not embrace enough of today’s ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...