For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting ... which makes narrowing the field to 40 songs harder in turn. We could have gone to 50 or 100 or more and still missed hundreds ...

A handful of familiar faces help make the Top 5 of October’s Top 40 Country Songs ... and Luke Combs are a few more stars ...

Ten more songs culled from five additional genres – a kind of lightning round which if my math is right, gets us to 40 songs ...

The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who ...