Rodney Atkins

Country Music: Top Country Songs Chart | Billboard. This week's most popular country songs, based on radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music.

Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or at least they would if he was the kind of artist who was ever satisfied. At the age of six, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a Certified Guitar Player by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins.

Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or at least they would if he was the kind of artist who was ever satisfied. At the age of six, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe.

Over the course of Lera Lynn's career, the Nashville-based songwriter has explored the darker corners of American roots music. With her brooding, sinewy vocals and penchant for chronicling the underbelly of interpersonal connection, Lynn's star has continually risen since her 2011 debut, Have You Met Lera Lynn, particularly finding new heights following the release of 2016's daring Resistor and her breakthrough gig with HBO's True Detective.

5 CD collection containing 100 hits with Country music for many well known artists for many decades. Many artists such as Elvis Presley, Sara Evans, Carpenter, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and many more who will make you enjoy the real Country music spirit.

The rising popularity of rock & roll in the 1950s dealt a severe blow to country music sales. In response, country producers especially Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley developed a mellow pop-country hybrid that would become known as the Nashville Sound. By replacing traditional country instrumentation such as fiddle and steel guitar with pop music identifiers like strings, horns and polished backing choruses, the Nashville Sound produced records that were both financially viable and crossover pop hits. In the Nashville system, a single producer, such as Atkins or Bradley, would oversee as many as twenty artists.

The most beautiful country & western songs by Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Lynn Anderson, Willie Nelson, Wanda Jackson and many more on one compilation!

Sony Music Presents Country 100 album 100 original hits and the original artists genre Country.