Best New Country Songs

It's been a busy week in the world of country music, but if you were thinking about taking the day off, think again! It's time for another round up of all of this week's biggest new releases in the world of country and americana and this week's playlist is bursting at the seams with absolute bangers.

Listen along to our Holler Best New Country playlist on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple Music.

It might still be a week to go until Valentine's Day, but love is already very much in the air for this week's Best New Country cover stars Mackenzie Carpenter and Midland. They're hooking up for a little good old fashioned chirpsing on the steamy classic country duet, 'I Wish You Would,' a song that tells the story of two bar flies whose undeniable chemistry draws them closer together in a dive bar.

"‘It's a fun, flirty tune about wanting someone to be more forward, quit guessing and make the first move," Mackenzie Carpenter shared. "It’s about craving a spark with someone and longing for more than a few glances with that person you've noticed from across the bar. Midland has always been a dream collaboration, and they bring a smooth classic vibe to the song.”

“I loved ‘I Wish You Would’ from the jump when Mackenzie and Jamie Moore sent it our way," adds Midland’s Mark Wystrach When I went to lay my part, I was thrown back in time to the era of Conway and Lorretta Lynn and Kenny and Dolly iconic duets,”. “The melodies are hypnotic, and the soaring hook is pure Country gold. The structure of the song is non-symmetrical, so it keeps revealing new sonic surprises leaving you wanting to hear it again and again.”

The song follows previous singles 'Dozen Red Flags,' 'Boots On' and 'Sound of a Heartbreak' and is taken from Mackenzie Carpenter's forthcoming album, Hey Country Queen, due out on March 7th.

It's a huge week for new songs this week. We've broken a record for adding more songs to our Best New Country playlist than we ever have before.

We've got new ones from Old Dominion, Scotty McCreery and HARDY. Plus Charles Wesley Godwin has released 'It's the Little Things' and announced the 7-track Lonely Mountain Town EP for February 28th. A contemplative country-folk toe tapper that calls for a change of pace to take a moment out to appreciate all the smaller things in life, whether it's those first sips of coffee or morning sunrises.

It’s a quieter, more contemplative sound than on Family Ties, but it feels centred, reinvigorated and full of a bold self-belief. It's the old Charles Wesley Godwin that we've come to know and love for sure, but perhaps with a little extra spit and polish that compliments the universality of the song's themes.

“It was really cathartic for me,” he says of re-teaming with his longtime producer, guitarist and bandmate, Al Torrence, at Torrence’s Music Garden Studios in New Brighton, PA, to complete a handful of moving and at times melancholy cuts written throughout 2024 while out on the road.

“These are character songs,” Godwin explains about the songs on the Lonely Mountain Town EP. “Most of them aren’t about my life. They’re just little pieces that I’ve taken from traveling.”

Ken Pomeroy has announced her highly anticipated new album, Cruel Joke, for May 16th via Rounder Records, with the compelling solo acoustic track, 'Stranger' and Olivia Ellen Lloyd gives us another taste of her forthcoming album, Do It Myself, due out in March, with the delightfully woozy 'Beautiful Mess.'

“This record is full of a lot of emotion, and often those emotions are negative or difficult to pin down or just plain complicated," she shared. "I thought that we needed a departure from that theme, if just for once. This is a love song. It’s about clearing all of the clutter between you and another person and putting it all on the table for once. Love can make us do crazy, stupid, reckless things and yet - we still fall in.”

Watch a stunning acoustic performance video for 'Beautiful Mess' below

Mason Ramsey and Harper Grace are taking us back in time to the '50s and the golden age of country with their dreamy cinematic duet 'Live Lonely' as they tell a tale of heartache from both perspectives of the couple, reflecting on a love lost and wondering what could have been.

"'Live Lonely' is like a modern day time capsule into the nostalgia of a country classic," says Harper Grace. "I grew up listening to Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, so this song feels like home to me. Working with Mason has also been a dream and has made me realize again just how much I love storytelling."

"I met Harper Grace at CMA Fest this past summer," Mason Ramsey adds. "She ran up to me in the lobby and said she was a big fan and wanted to write sometime. I went into the write really looking forward to it, we both kind of experienced the same viral success around the same age so I thought we could relate to each other in that way. 'Live Lonely' is the first song we wrote together and I am excited for everyone to hear it."

Maddox Batson knows a thing or two about finding success from a young age. After an unforgettable eighth grade, the 15-year-old country sensation was recently announced as a support act for Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind tour this autumn and he has his own, sold-out headlining tour this spring leading into his performance at Stagecoach festival. He releases the breezy school days anthem, 'I Don't Like You Anymore,' a song that cleverly flips its mean-spirited title on its head as the lyrics reveal that the only reason he doesn't "like" them anymore is because he lurves them... he wants to kiss them... he wants to hug them... he wants to... Sorry, not sure what happened there.

Watch the video for 'I Don't Like You Anymore' below as Maddox Batson takes us back to school and reminds us all what young love feels like.

After playing the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville last night with Vince Gill, Jake Worthington and Rodney Crowell, one of our 25 Artists for 2025 Belle Frantz finally gets around to releasing 'Do Ya,' originally heard playing in the background on episode nine of the Paramount+ original series The Landman back at the beginning of the year.

It's been thirty years since Shania Twain released The Woman in Me, which went onto become her biggest-selling recording at the time of its release, selling 4 million copies by the end of the year, and its after affects are still being felt today.

Carrying that pop country torch in this week's Best New Country we've got Brit country superstar Twinnie who has developed the 'Worst Kind of Crush' and fellow Canadian Robyn Ottolini releases her brilliant new single, 'Singin' Bout Cowboys,' today: "a love song for the ones who let you be YOU, never try to change you or fence you in… everybody might be singin’ bout cowboys but I’m just singing’ bout you."

Elsewhere on this week's Best New Country, the Kenny Powers of country music, Gavin Adcock, is in an unusually reflective mood on the breezy ode to fast living, 'Need To,' while Redferrin is pulling an all-nighter and rolling through on 'Mornin' Montana' and Hayden Coffman is trying to avoid defining whatever this is on 'Don't Come With a Label.'

"A lot of us have been in a 'situationship' or two…this song is about having a fling with somebody and never really putting a label on it," Coffman shared. "Once we got into writing this song we realized many of the best things in life don’t come with a 'label'… they tend to be homegrown… and best when left that way. The beat on this song about a little love fling makes me wanna listen to it next to a bonfire on a cold night!"

Scotty McCreery and Jason Crabb are turning to the bible for guidance in 'Red Letter Blueprint' and Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll are celebrating a 'Hard Fought Hallelujah.'

Angie K has a lot to celebrate this week too. She got engaged to her longtime partner Marissa Boucher on a romantic getaway in Tulum and she's added two new songs to complete the six songs on her latest self-titled EP. We've had 'I'm Goin' Under' stuck in our heads all week. Now it's your turn.

If you've got a predilection for the indier side of country (or the countrier side of indie?) then we've got some real treats in our playlist for you today.

After collaborating on one of 2024's most swoon-worthy singles, 'Right Back to It,' Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman are reunited on the intriguingly titled 'Mud recorded during the Tiger Blood sessions,' as a push-and-pull relationship leaves both of its protagonists exhausted at the end of it.

Plus we've got new ones from Nell King, Sarah Gross and Kassi Valazza has announced her new album, From Newman Street, for May and given us the first taste of it with 'Weight of the Wheel.'

"I wrote this song (and much of the album) during a period of heavy reflection and transition," Valazza says. "I was spending most of my time in bed contemplating what my next move would be. The wheel represents the act of moving through the world in a repetitive nature. It's a glimpse of being stuck in a cycle that’s no longer serving and discovering new passageways through life once the cycle is broken."

We've got all these and more in our Best New Country playlist this week, including new ones from Lola Kirke, Angel White, Adrien Nunez, HALIE, Don Louis, KC Johns and Chris Lane, while Kelleigh Bannen and Lady A's Charles Kelley hook up on the sexy slow burner 'Nothin On' and Hannah Ellis and Nick Wayne are taking a long hard look at life and what happens to love as we get older on 'Waiting To Die.'

Plus if you listen to our Best New Country playlist on Spotify, we've got an extra special treat for you as Riley Green covers ERNEST's 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' exclusively on Spotify.

Every week we try to spotlight a song that we feel especially deserves having a little extra bright light shining on it and this week we've got the debut single from Just Jayne.

Country music needs more girl groups! We've got Trousdale and Remember Monday, and Runaway June have even got a brand new single out this week, but here at Holler we still demand more girl groups in country!

So, we've been getting very excited about the buzz around Just Jayne recently and their first single does not disappoint. They might sound like a boujee North London interiors shop, but actually Just Jayne are a trio of all singing all dancing country pop stars made up of Jillian Steele, Taylor Edwards and Rachel Wiggins, who, after releasing music individually, joined forces to create the country girl group.

Every story has two sides, even the stories you've heard time and time again, and Just Jayne's debut single, 'This Morning,' takes the biggest country song of the last few years - Morgan Wallen's 'Last Night' - and flips the tables over to give us a female perspective of the morning after a drunken night in love.

“‘This Morning’ was the second song we ever wrote together, and the session just felt like three best friends venting about old toxic relationships,” Just Jayne shared. “It tells the story of that person you keep going back to over and over again and finally waking up one day and realizing you deserve better — taking the driver’s seat and saying IT’S OVER!!!!! Everyone has that one person they think of when they hear this song, and whether you’ve been there and are out of it, or you’re singing it to convince yourself to put that toxic cycle to an end, we hope you scream this song at the top of your lungs with your best friends it heals you a little, like it did for us.”

It's only February so the full length country albums are still trickling through but we've still got new ones from Jess and the Bandits, HORSEBATH, Savannah Dexter, Sean Thompson's Weird Ears and Joe Ely. Plus HARDY is coming at you Live from Red Rocks on his new 20-track live album.

NEEDTOBREATHE co-founder and frontman Bear Rinehart's solo project Wilder Woods releases their wonderful new album Curioso and we found it almost impossible to whittle it down to just one song from the record to include on the playlist this week, but we've plumped for the album closer, 'Wild Fire,' just because Maggie Rose is featured on it.

Check out this week's new country and americana song releases and listen to the full playlist below:

1. 1.

   I Wish You Would (feat. Midland)

   Mackenzie Carpenter

2. 2.

   It's the Little Things

   Charles Wesley Godwin

3. 3.

   Do Ya - From the Paramount+ Original Series Landman

   Belle Frantz

4. 4.

   In Case You Missed It

   Jordan Davis

5. 5.

   Beautiful Mess

   Olivia Ellen Lloyd

6. 6.

   I Don't Like You Anymore

   Maddox Batson

7. 7.

   Raised By Wolves

   Lola Kirke

8. 8.

   Live Lonely

   Mason Ramsey and Harper Grace

9. 9.

   How's the Leaving Going

   Kameron Marlowe

10. 10.

    This Morning

    Just Jayne

11. 11.

    RUNNING IN PLACE

    Angel White

12. 12.

    Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Spotify Only

    Riley Green

13. 13.

    Making Good Time

    Old Dominion

14. 14.

    Tastes Like You

    Brett Young

15. 15.

    You'll Be Mine

    Brett Eldredge

16. 16.

    Singin' Bout Cowboys

    Robyn Ottolini

17. 17.

    Don't Come With a Label

    Hayden Coffman

18. 18.

    Need To

    Gavin Adcock

19. 19.

    Worst Kind of Crush

    Twinnie

20. 20.

    Mornin' Montana

    Redferrin

21. 21.

    Red Letter Blueprint (feat. Jason Crabb)

    Scotty McCreery

22. 22.

    Mud

    Waxahatchee

23. 23.

    Wild Fire (feat. Maggie Rose)

    Wilder Woods

24. 24.

    Stranger

    Ken Pomeroy

25. 25.

    Sibling Song

    Sarah Gross

26. 26.

    Sailboat

    Nell King

27. 27.

    Going Under

    Angie K

28. 28.

    Hard Fought Hallelujah (with Jelly Roll)

    Brandon Lake

29. 29.

    Who Believes In Angels?

    Elton John and Brandi Carlile

30. 30.

    ALL I EVER DO

    Adrien Nunez

31. 31.

    To Be Yours

    Runaway June

32. 32.

    What You Have

    HALIE

33. 33.

    River Run

    Moose Miller

34. 34.

    Weight of the Wheel

    Kassi Valazza

35. 35.

    Dust

    CeCe

36. 36.

    XO

    Don Louis

37. 37.

    Break From The Heart

    KC Johns

38. 38.

    Trailer Trash

    Adam Chaffins

39. 39.

    Only in My Dreams

    HORSEBATH

40. 40.

    Evergreen Lover

    barret and Evan Honer

41. 41.

    Die For It

    Ryan Hurd

42. 42.

    Something to You

    McCoy Moore

43. 43.

    What Am I Supposed To Tell The Dog

    Chris Lane

44. 44.

    Nothin' On

    Kelleigh Bannen and Charles Kelley

45. 45.

    Waiting To Die

    Hannah Ellis and Nick Wayne

46. 46.

    Ain't My Old Man

    Bryan Martin

47. 47.

    Dream House

    Adam Doleac

48. 48.

    God's Country - Live from Red Rocks

    HARDY

49. 49.

    West of Tulsa - Live at Cain's Ballroom

    Wyatt Flores

50. 50.

    Broke

    Ryan Griffin

51. 51.

    Gets Me Every Time

    Tyler Rich

52. 52.

    Somewhere Along the Way

    Whitey Morgan and the 78's

53. 53.

    Country Kid

    Sykamore

54. 54.

    Rest of Our Life

    George Pippen

55. 55.

    11 Beers

    Pecos & The Rooftops

56. 56.

    Max Capacity

    Nate Good and Nic D

57. 57.

    Everything (feat. Gretchen Wilson)

    Ira Dean

58. 58.

    Cold Beer Cold

    Callum Kerr

59. 59.

    Whiskey On a Wildfire

    Austin Michael

60. 60.

    Other Side of the World

    Maggie Baugh

61. 61.

    Looks Like

    Sara Berki

62. 62.

    Thoughts of You

    Levi Bloom

63. 63.

    Slow Go the Days

    Tim & The Glory Boys

64. 64.

    The Other Guy

    ROTUNDO

65. 65.

    Bottomless Tears

    Onoleigh

66. 66.

    California King

    Evie

67. 67.

    You Fight Dirty

    Kalsey Kulyk

68. 68.

    Backseat Driver

    Alexis Silva

69. 69.

    New Bad

    Esther Rose

70. 70.

    Little Bird

    Echolalia

71. 71.

    Brother (feat. Cody Jinks)

    Mark Morton

72. 72.

    Country is Coming to Town

    The Wolfe Brothers and Lee Kernaghan

73. 73.

    Lonesome Motor Inn

    Jake Vaadeland

74. 74.

    Middle Aged Lazy

    Scott Ballew

75. 75.

    Beyond Alaska

    Maya Lane

76. 76.

    Don't Matter to Love

    Jess and the Bandits

77. 77.

    Issues

    Savannah Dexter

78. 78.

    Head in the Sand

    Sean Thompson's Weird Ears

79. 79.

    Deportee (feat. Ryan Bingham)

    Joe Ely

80. 80.

    Breathe

    Jade Turner

81. 81.

    it's alright

    Ryan Harris

82. 82.

    One More

    Midnight South

83. 83.

    Neon Lights

    Lusaint

84. 84.

    Louisiana

    Miss Tess

85. 85.

    Gold Rush

    Lucius

86. 86.

    Drunk in Ojai

    Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters

87. 87.

    Your Love Is Safe With me

    Trey Calloway

88. 88.

    Just a Man

    Joel Timmons

89. 89.

    Farewell, Angelina

    The Seldom Scene

90. 90.

    My Love, My Love

    Harper O'Neill

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