Billboard Staff: 100 Country Songs (2025)

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The 100 Best Country Songs of All Time: Staff Picks
Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance.

05/8/2025

100 Rascal Flatts, “Bless the Broken Road”
99 LeAnn Rimes, “Blue”
98 Eric Church, “Drink in My Hand”
97 Skeeter Davis, “The End of the World”
96 Old Crow Medicine Show, “Wagon Wheel”
95 Lee Greenwood, “God Bless the U.S.A.”
94 Tom T. Hall, “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine”
93 Morgan Wallen, “Whiskey Glasses”
92 The Chicks, “Goodbye Earl”
91 Kacey Musgraves, “Follow Your Arrow”
90 Deana Carter, “Strawberry Wine”
89 Martina McBride, “Independence Day”
88 DeFord Bailey, “Pan American Blues”
87 Lady A, “Need You Now”
86 Lee Ann Womack feat. Sons of the Desert, “I Hope You Dance”
85 Vince Gill, “Go Rest High on That Mountain”
84 Alan Jackson, “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”
83 Little Big Town, “Girl Crush”
82 Dwight Yoakam, “Guitars, Cadillacs”
81 Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn, “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man”
80 Hank Williams Jr., “Family Tradition”
79 Bob Wills, “San Antonio Rose”
78 Sam Hunt, “Body Like a Back Road”
77 Eddy Arnold, “Make the World Go Away“
76 Emmylou Harris, “Boulder to Birmingham”
75 Toby Keith, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy”
74 David Allan Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name”
73 Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, “Pancho and Lefty“
72 Tanya Tucker, “Delta Dawn”
71 Trisha Yearwood, “The Song Remembers When”
70 Brad Paisley feat. Alison Krauss, “Whiskey Lullaby”
69 Loretta Lynn, “The Pill”
68 Charlie Rich, “Behind Closed Doors“
67 Tim McGraw, “Live Like You Were Dying”
66 Freddy Fender, “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”
65 Ray Price, “For the Good Times“
64 Roy Acuff, “Wabash Cannonball”
63 Ronnie Milsap, “Smoky Mountain Rain”
62 Waylon Jennings, “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)”
61 John Denver, “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
60 Vern Gosdin, “Chiseled in Stone”
59 Brooks & Dunn, “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
58 Webb Pierce, “There Stands the Glass”
57 Jamey Johnson, “In Color”
56 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, “Fishin’ in the Dark”
55 George Strait, “The Chair”
54 Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton, “Islands in the Stream”
53 Buck Owens, “Act Naturally”
52 Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, “Jackson”
51 Kris Kristofferson, “Me and Bobby McGee”
50 Hank Williams, “Lovesick Blues”
49 Kitty Wells, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”
48 Patsy Cline, “I Fall to Pieces”
47 The Highwaymen, “Highwayman”
46 Alabama, “Mountain Music”
45 Eddie Rabbitt, “Drivin’ My Life Away”
44 Conway Twitty, “Hello Darlin’”
43 The Judds, “Why Not Me”
42 Jimmie Rodgers, “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)”
41 Glen Campbell, “Rhinestone Cowboy”
40 Alan Jackson, “Chattahoochee”
39 Don Williams, “Good Ole Boys Like Me”
38 Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey”
37 Shania Twain, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”
36 Keith Whitley, “I’m No Stranger to the Rain”
35 Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats”
34 Ray Charles, “You Don’t Know Me”
33 Faron Young, “Hello Walls”
32 Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
31 Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You”
30 Miranda Lambert, “The House That Built Me”
29 Bobbie Gentry, “Ode to Billie Joe”
28 George Jones, “The Race Is On”
27 The Chicks, “Wide Open Spaces”
26 Roger Miller, “King of the Road”
25 Garth Brooks, “The Dance”
24 Ernest Tubb, “Walking the Floor Over You”
23 Reba McEntire, “Fancy”
22 Merle Haggard, “If We Make It Through December”
21 Charlie Daniels, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
20 Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire”
19 Hank Williams, “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
18 Randy Travis, “Forever and Ever, Amen”
17 George Strait, “Amarillo by Morning”
16 Lefty Frizzell, “Long Black Veil”
15 Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler”
14 Glen Campbell, “Wichita Lineman”
13 Charley Pride, “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
12 Marty Robbins, “El Paso”
11 Merle Haggard, “Mama Tried”
10 Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man”
9 Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places”
8 The Carter Family, “Can the Circle Be Unbroken”
7 Loretta Lynn, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
6 Hank Williams, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
5 Johnny Cash, “I Walk the Line”
4 George Jones, “He Stopped Loving Her Today”
3 Willie Nelson, “On the Road Again”
2 Patsy Cline, “Crazy”
1 Dolly Parton, “Jolene”

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