Variety

Will Country Radio Play Beyoncé’s New Songs? A Superstar’s Surprise Move Will Put Old Rules to the Test

Is Beyoncé going to get some love at the country radio format, now that she’s released a single, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” that openly embraces the genre? That’s a big question mark, as radio programmers, ...
Radio Ink

OUT NOW: Meet The Top PDs In Country Radio

Ask Jelly, Lainey, Lana, Morgan, Diplo, or Beyoncé and they’ll tell you: country music has never been hotter. It’s the perfect time for Radio Ink’s annual Country Radio Seminar edition as the format ...
The New York Times

Does Country Radio’s Treehouse Have Room for Beyoncé?

The pop superstar’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” could be a litmus test for a format that’s long been inhospitable to women and Black artists. By Ben Sisario When Beyoncé dropped two songs during the ...
Radio Ink

Mike Preston On Keeping Country Radio Country

Managing two competing Country stations within the same cluster is a unique challenge, but the experience has given Cumulus Media Dallas Program Director Mike Preston rare insights – ones that he ...
The Washington Post

Beyoncé has a country hit. How will country radio handle that?

NASHVILLE — As the country radio programmers settled into their seats bright and early on a recent Friday morning for a presentation in a hotel ballroom at the annual Country Radio Seminar, they were ...
Radio World

Radio and the Roots of Country Music

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...
Business Insider

On 'Cowboy Carter,' Beyoncé beats country radio's gatekeepers at their own game

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American Songwriter

Zach Top’s Neotraditional Country Banger “Sounds Like the Radio” Is the Most-Added Single on Country Radio

“They don’t make good country music anymore,” is a myth that nearly every fan of the genre hears on a regular basis. However, there are plenty of artists in the game making traditional-sounding ...
NPR

A radio station is now playing Beyoncé's country song after an outcry from fans

An Oklahoma-based radio station said it is now playing Beyoncé's new country single, "Texas Hold 'Em," after its initial move to not play the song drew quick criticism from fans over what they ...
NPR

Beyoncé is getting played on country radio. Could her success help other Black women?

When an employee of the KYKC, a country music radio station based in a small southern Oklahoma town, hit send on an email earlier this week responding to a listener's request to hear a new song, they ...
Business Insider

6 songs that were shunned by country radio and rejected by Nashville — but still became hits

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