In 1992, Dr. Cleve Francis, a 47-year-old Black singer, songwriter and cardiologist, was a Top 10 Country Music Television video countdown charting performer. Three decades later, Rissi Palmer, a ...

Beyoncé never said she was releasing a country album. But what the Beyhive wants, the Beyhive gets. And it didn’t take long for her to make history as the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot ...

Crossover country singer Blanco Brown recently released a cover of a chart-topping AI-generated song, but the reason behind it had everything to do with reclaiming a sound that already belonged to him ...

Linda Martell is a country music trailblazer though she never became a household name. The release of Beyoncé's latest album could change that. Martell became the first female Black artist to crack ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...

You see it on awards shows and on the Billboard charts. Country music is seeing some changes, and it’s bringing with it storytellers of all backgrounds. Some say this is a very long time coming. On ...

Country singer Blanco Brown released a cover of an AI-generated song that mimicked his signature sound. The AI-generated song, "Walk My Walk," reached No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales ...