Check Out Chappell Roan, Tate McRae and the Surprising List of Artists Who Hit Top Country Songs’ Top 10 for the First Time in 2025

Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart often showcases a wide range of artists, some of whom are deeply entrenched in the country format and others who are dipping their toes in country waters momentarily either as a solo act or as part of collaborations.

Over the past few years, pop and R&B artists including Beyoncé and Post Malone have landed on the chart, while country-leaning acts such as Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves and Oliver Anthony who don’t receive much terrestrial radio play have also found a welcome home on Top Country Songs.

Unlike the Country Airplay chart, which uses radio airplay impressions as its sole metric, Top Country Songs measures the week’s most popular country songs using three metrics: radio airplay audience impressions, sales data and streaming activity data, all tracked and compiled by Luminate. Also unlike the Country Airplay chart, tunes also often take up months-long residency at the top of the Top Country Songs chart: Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” spent 25 weeks at No 1 in 2023, while Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” logged 27 weeks at No. 1 in 2024 and continued at the top spot for another 18 weeks this year.

This year had a few surprising names, including a number of artists who aren’t usually associated with the country format — making it safe to say that Top Country Songs may be one of the most diverse tallies Billboard compiles.

Eight artists logged their first Top Country Songs Top 10 during Billboard’s charting year in 2025. They span several different genres, which shows just how attractive the country genre is to artists from other styles and how welcoming the genre is. (By contrast, only four acts registered their first Top 10 on the Country Airplay chart in 2025. That’s a sharp drop from 2024, when 17 artists had their first Top 10 on the chart — but that probably says more about how slowly the Country Airplay chart moves than radio having some unwillingness to add new artists this year.)

Below, in alphabetical order, is a list, compiled by Billboard charts data analyst Russ Penuell, of the artists who reached the top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart for the first time in 2025: