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Best Country Music by Year
Here are our recommendations for the best country music, organized according to year and decade.
- Best of Country in 2009 (5)
- Best of Country in 2008 (23)
- Best of Country in 2007 (21)
- Best of Country in 2006 (14)
- Best of Country in 2005 (25)
- Best of Country Pre-2005 (19)
The Top 10 Country Albums of the 2000s
The women of country music made a strong showing in the decade of the 2000s. Of course, most of the guys you'd expect to be on this list are here, too.
Top 10 Country Artists of the 2000s (Based on No. 1 Hits)
Compiling this list of the top 10 country artists of the 2000s wasn’t extremely difficult because those who made the list were head-and-shoulders above the rest in terms of No. 1 hits.
Top 10 Country Albums of the 1980s
Country music went back to basics in the '80s, resulting in classic albums by Randy Travis, Clint Black, and George Jones.