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Revision as of 20:57, 17 May 2021

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place, or will take place, in 2021.

2021 in music
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Events

  • January 4 – Florida Georgia Line announce plans to release solo music, but will not be separating.[1]
  • January 20 – Following the release of his album Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen becomes the first artist to have six songs in the top ten of the Hot Country Songs charts at the same time.[2] He also becomes the first artist to debut at the top of the Hot Country Songs and Top Country Albums charts simultaneously, as well as the first artist to have more than one song debut at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart.[3]
  • January 27 – At the age of 84, legendary singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson officially announces his retirement from performing after more than five active decades in the entertainment industry.[4]
  • February 3 –
    • Morgan Wallen, whose album Dangerous was number one on the Billboard 200 at the time, has his recording contract with Big Loud Records indefinitely suspended after a video emerges of him using a racial slur. Wallen was also removed from numerous playlists and dropped from more than 400 radio stations. The Academy of Country Music Awards subsequently announced that he would be removed from eligibility for their forthcoming 2021 ceremony.[5][6]
    • T.J Osborne, frontman and half of successful duo Brothers Osborne, comes out as gay, making him the first openly gay male artist signed to a major country label.[7]
  • February 23 – Taylor Swift's "Love Story (Taylor's Version)", a re-recorded version of her 2008 hit "Love Story", debuts at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming the first artist to hit #1 twice on that chart with a single song, since Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You", in 1974 and 1982.
  • March 5 – Lonestar lead singer Richie McDonald announces that he will be leaving the band to pursue a career with The Frontmen of Country, a trio also consisting of Tim Rushlow and Larry Stewart, the former lead singers of Little Texas and Restless Heart, respectively, and will be replaced with former Sons of the Desert lead singer Drew Womack. McDonald previously departed Lonestar in 2007 to pursue a solo career, but then returned in 2011.[8]
  • April 1 – Confederate Railroad lead singer Danny Shirley breaks his back in an undisclosed accident.[9]

Grand Ole Opry

Top hits of the year

See also: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2021
See also: List of number-one country singles of 2021 (Canada)

The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, and/or Canada Country charts in 2021:

Singles released by American and Australian artists

Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
1 15 12 "7 Summers" Morgan Wallen [12]
13 — — "865" Morgan Wallen [12]
25 25 4 "All Night" Brothers Osborne [13]
15 11 6 "Almost Maybes" [A] Jordan Davis [14]
7 1 2 "Beers and Sunshine" Darius Rucker [15]
1 1 1 "Better Together" Luke Combs [16]
18 10 20 "Blame It on You" [A] Jason Aldean [17]
5 1 3 "Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s" [A] Sam Hunt [18]
7 1 1 "Champagne Night" Lady A [19]
20 31 43 "Chasing After You" [A] Ryan Hurd
with Maren Morris 		[20]
15 — — "Cover Me Up" Morgan Wallen [12]
17 — — "Dangerous" Morgan Wallen [12]
5 1 1 "Down to One" Luke Bryan [21]
16 — — "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" Elle King
& Miranda Lambert 		[22]
13 8 2 "Famous Friends" [A] Chris Young
featuring Kane Brown 		[23]
1 3 1 "Forever After All" [A] Luke Combs [16]
10 17 28 "Glad You Exist" [A] Dan + Shay [24]
11 8 2 "Gone" [A] Dierks Bentley [25]
1 1 3 "The Good Ones" Gabby Barrett [26]
1 1 10 "Good Time" Niko Moon [27]
10 2 10 "Happy Does" Kenny Chesney [28]
2 5 1 "Hell of a View" [A] Eric Church [29]
6 2 1 "Hole in the Bottle" Kelsea Ballerini [30]
18 4 33 "How They Remember You" Rascal Flatts [31]
4 2 26 "I Should Probably Go to Bed" Dan + Shay [24]
3 1 1 "Just the Way" Parmalee
& Blanco Brown 		[32]
7 1 9 ”Lady” Brett Young [33]
9 — — "Lil Bit" Nelly
& Florida Georgia Line 		[34]
4 1 1 "Long Live" Florida Georgia Line [35]
1 57 — "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift [36]
3 1 1 "Made for You" [A] Jake Owen [37]
23 14 22 "Minimum Wage" [A] Blake Shelton [38]
2 — — "Mr. Perfectly Fine" Taylor Swift [36]
8 5 35 "Momma's House" Dustin Lynch [39]
19 — — "More Surprised Than Me" Morgan Wallen [12]
18 — — "Neon Eyes" Morgan Wallen [12]
28 23 13 "Next Girl" [A] Carly Pearce [40]
2 54 — "No Body, No Crime" [A] Taylor Swift
featuring Haim 		[36]
12 7 23 "Nobody" [A] Dylan Scott [41]
12 15 1 "One Too Many" [A] Keith Urban
featuring P!nk 		[42]
5 — — "Sand in My Boots" Morgan Wallen [12]
7 10 1 "Settling Down" [A] Miranda Lambert [43]
19 13 43 "Single Saturday Night" [A] Cole Swindell [44]
1 2 3 "Starting Over" Chris Stapleton [45]
23 16 7 "Undivided" [A] Tim McGraw
& Tyler Hubbard 		[46]
10 — — "Warning" Morgan Wallen [12]
1 — — "Wasted on You" Morgan Wallen [12]
1 1 1 "What's Your Country Song" Thomas Rhett [47]
6 — — "You All Over Me" Taylor Swift
featuring Maren Morris 		[36]

Singles released by Canadian artists

Songs Airplay Canada Single Artist References
— — 13 "All Night to Figure It Out" [A] Jade Eagleson [48]
— — 1 "Boys" Dean Brody
featuring Mickey Guyton 		[49]
— — 20 "Diamonds in a Whiskey Glass" Gord Bamford [50]
— — 5 "Drinkin' Songs" MacKenzie Porter [51]
— — 15 "Every Time You Take Your Time" Aaron Goodvin [52]
— — 8 "F-150" [A] Robyn Ottolini
— — 1 "A Few Good Stories" Brett Kissel [53]
— — 9 "Fighting" [A] Tyler Joe Miller
— — 15 "Give It to Me Straight" [A] Tenille Arts [54]
— — 17 "It Didn't" Madeline Merlo [55]
— — 5 "Make a Life, Not a Living" [A] Brett Kissel [53]
— — 15 "Mapdot" Jess Moskaluke [56]
— — 13 "Neverland" [A] Andrew Hyatt [57]
— — 18 "Never Giving Up on You" [A] Meghan Patrick [58]
— — 5 "Not Gonna Not" Reklaws [59]
— — 11 "Only a Woman" Matt Lang [60]
— — 1 "River's Still Running" High Valley [61]
— — 14 "Shotgun Rider" [A] Tebey [62]
— — 1 "Some Things Never Change" Dallas Smith
featuring Hardy 		[63]
7 3 9 "Somebody Like That" Tenille Arts [54]
— — 10 "Without a Prayer" Tim & the Glory Boys [64]

Top new album releases

See also: List of Billboard number-one country albums of 2021
US Album Artist Record Label Release Date Reference
1 Dangerous: The Double Album Morgan Wallen Big Loud January 8 [65]
1 Fearless (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift Republic Records April 9
3 Greenfields Barry Gibb Capitol January 8 [66]
3 Heart Eric Church EMI Nashville April 16
3 Life Rolls On Florida Georgia Line BMLG February 12 [67]
1 My Savior Carrie Underwood Capitol Nashville March 26 [68]
9 Still Woman Enough Loretta Lynn Legacy March 19 [69]
2 Soul Eric Church EMI Nashville April 23
2 Country Again: Side A Thomas Rhett Valory April 30 [70]

Other top albums

US Album Artist Record Label Release Date Reference
38 Straight Outta the Country Justin Moore Valory April 23
18 29 (EP) Carly Pearce Big Machine February 19 [71]
12 & (EP) Eric Church EMI Nashville April 20

Announced

Album Artist Record Label Release Date
Set in Stone Travis Tritt Big Noise Label Group May 7 [72]
The Marfa Tapes Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall RCA Nashville May 7[73]
Where Have You Gone Alan Jackson ACR Records May 14[74]
Body Language Blake Shelton Warner Nashville May 21[75]
Weekends Look a Little Different These Days Brett Young BMLG June 4[76]
Front Porch Singin' The Oak Ridge Boys June 11[77]
Gentle Man Rory Feek June 18[78]
Always Like New Jennifer Nettles Concord Records June 25
Heart on My Glass Meghan Patrick Warner Canada / Riser House June 25[79]
Upbringing Chase Bryant Green Iris Records July 16[80]
Stand For Myself Yola Easy Eye Sound July 30[81]
Texas to Tennessee Clay Walker Show Dog Nashville July 30[82]
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine Vol. 2 Various artists Thirty Tigers August 10[83]

Deaths

Hall of Fame inductees

Bluegrass Hall of Fame

Country Music Hall of Fame

Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame

Major awards

Academy of Country Music Awards

Americana Music Honors & Awards

American Music Awards

ARIA Awards

Billboard Music Awards

CMT Music Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Grammy Awards

International Bluegrass Music Awards

Juno Awards

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