{"id":62185,"date":"2022-09-06T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=62185"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:22:27","slug":"the-top-10-best-country-songs-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/the-top-10-best-country-songs-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Best Country Songs of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2hkM6G1bDY?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>We&#8217;ve compiled a list of the best country songs for 2018 that are getting radio play and being sung on stages all over the country. We&#8217;ve listened to hundreds of new releases from the year, but these are the top 10 new country songs that have made this list as the very best in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring 10 new songs from some of the most popular and successful artists in today&#8217;s country music scene, including Cole Swindell, Chase Rice, and Walker Hayes. Our picks include a few old favorites and some newcomers to music charts.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy our list of the Top 10 Best Country Songs of 2018!<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;Undo It&#8221; by Carrie Underwood<\/p>\n<p>Very few artists in today&#8217;s country music scene can match Carrie Underwood&#8217;s vocal prowess. For instance, her 2014 album, &#8220;Blown Away,&#8221; is one of the fastest-selling albums by a female artist in any genre of music. Her voice isn&#8217;t just perfect for country music&#8211;it&#8217;s perfect for any kind of music.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie has also won numerous awards for her singing, including Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards. In fact, she was awarded an Oscar for singing &#8220;Before He Cheats&#8221; with Brad Paisley back in 2007. While<\/p>\n<p>*Editor&#8217;s note: This article was originally published on March 5, 2018, and is periodically updated.<\/p>\n<p>With so many country songs and artists out there, we had to do the hard work for you and find the best of the best. From new country songs to old country classics, here are the top 10 best country songs of 2018. We&#8217;ll continue to update this list as new songs are released in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of country music, then you know there&#8217;s plenty of great songs out there. As the industry moves in a different direction, it has become more complicated to identify the best songs. What makes country music so special is that it speaks to people and offers an escape from what is going on in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to narrow down a list like this can be tricky, but I&#8217;ve come up with 10 songs that showcase what makes country music so special. Here are the top 10 country songs of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With the new year come new lists, and it&#8217;s that time again to take a look at the best country songs of 2018. These are the songs you&#8217;ll love to crease in your 4&#215;4, eyeliner down and romping off to a honky-tonk bar.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Carter Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jan 10, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to another year with new music! If you\u2019re looking for a playlist for all occasions, we\u2019ve got you covered. From slow dance anthems to driving road trip jams, these are the top country songs of 2018 so far.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the best of times&#8230; it&#8217;s the worst of times. It&#8217;s an age of wisdom&#8230; it&#8217;s an age of foolishness. We are all going direct to Heaven&#8230; we are all going direct the other way&#8211;in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.<\/p>\n<p>-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities<\/p>\n<p>The year 2018 is certainly a time where country music doesn&#8217;t seem like a genre that knows where it fits into culture. The genre has and continues to be a major influence on American music as a whole but at the same time, its popularity is nowhere near what it once was. Is this an almost cyclical occurrence? Or is country music finally on its way out? I&#8217;d argue that country music isn&#8217;t dying, just changing. Like any art form that has survived as long as country music has, it will continue to evolve and adapt in order to survive and this year was no different.<\/p>\n<p>While there were many new faces who made major impacts on the genre in 2018 one thing remained constant: the theme of love was not only omnipresent but also omnipotent<\/p>\n<p>Country music has an enormous following and its roots can be traced back to the American Civil War. It was originally sung by poor whites living in the southern United States and is often considered to be the voice of the working class.<\/p>\n<p>Waltzes, polkas, square dances, schottisches and mazurkas are among the earliest forms of country music. This type of music was inherited from Europe but evolved into its own distinctive style during the years after the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>This genre is also known as hillbilly music and is based on folk ballads, early blues and spirituals. The earliest country songs were often about working class people overcoming difficult situations in their lives and were designed to be enjoyed by all members of society.<\/p>\n<p>The following list looks at some of the best country songs of 2018:<\/p>\n<p>The country music format was devised by radio programmers in the 1920s as a way to attract farmers and their families to music broadcasts, which, until then, were mostly based around music from Broadway shows and European opera.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, with the new format, listeners could hear music that reflected rural culture. The early stations programed a wide variety of musical genres, with song selections that included cowboy songs and sentimental ballads. The playlist was later standardized with formats such as easy listening and top 40. This machine-driven selection of music gave rise to the Nashville sound of mainstream country music from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The style of country music played on most commercial radio stations in the United States is modern country music, which has roots in the Bakersfield sound and outlaw country.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, country artists continued to see their records perform well on the pop charts. In 1998, &#8220;To Be With You&#8221; became the first country song to reach number one on Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100 chart since &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221; by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers in 1983. Since 2017, there have been six broadly-categorized subgenres within Country: &#8220;Pop-influenced<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71yx7gBcz1E?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ti_SbTfNI7E?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve compiled a list of the best country songs for 2018 that are getting radio play and being sung on stages all over the country. We&#8217;ve listened to hundreds of new releases from the year, but these are the top 10 new country songs that have made this list as the very best in 2018. 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