Best New Country Songs

It's time for another of our weekly roundups of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and Americana. It's been another eventful week in country music. Post Malone joined the three surviving members of Nirvana - Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic - on Saturday Night Live's star-studded 50th Anniversary spectacular to perform ’Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ a billboard popped up in Nashville promoting Chappell Roan's first ever country song and Riley Green had everyone zooming in on his sunglasses and comparing the sharks in his and Megan Moroney's separate Instagram posts. Ella Langley appears to have unfollowed Megan Moroney, presumably because she just couldn't bear to look at any more instagram posts of Megan on holiday.

Time to focus on the music again now though. The week ends with the biggest ever Best New Country featuring brand new music from Nate Smith & HARDY, Hailey Whitters, Charley Crockett, Russell Dickerson and lots more. Listen along to our Holler Best New Country playlist on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple Music.

This week's Best New Country cover star is Tucker Wetmore. Having notched up back-to-back spots on Billboard's Hot 100 chart with his debut singles 'Wine Into Whiskey' and 'Wind Up Missin' You,' the Washington-born singer-songwriter proves it was no fluke with his super catchy new single, '3,2,1,' as he gives us the first taste of his brand new album What Not To, due out on April 25th.

"I’ve spent my whole life learning what not to do, and thanks to you, I’ve had the opportunity to turn some of those experiences into my debut album," Tucker wrote on his socials, announcing the album as the single dropped last night. “What Not To is yours April 25th.. The first drop '3,2,1' is out now.. Thank you for being on this ride with me.. I’m beyond blessed and forever grateful. I love you all."

Nate Smith and HARDY have teamed up for what's set to be one of the biggest country bops of the year! Their new single, 'Nobody Likes Your Girlfriend,' is a dashboard-pounding, lighters-in-the-air bro anthem for anyone out there who loves their buddy to bits, but no matter how much effort they put in, they just don't seem to be able to get along with his girlfriend. In the case of Smith and HARDY, these two besties have had just about enough! They're telling their homeslice, man to man, that everyone who cares about him does not care for her.

“I wrote it a couple years ago with some good friends of mine," HARDY shared about the song, written with Jessie Jo Dillon, Ben Johnson and Hunter Phelps."I’ve always believed in the song, so I sent it to Nate on a whim and he said, ‘Hell yeah, love it!’”

Watch the video for 'Nobody Likes Your Girlfriend' below.

Now that we've got your boots well and truly tapping, get ready to put them through the floorboards as Hailey Whitters brings in Molly Tuttle on guitar and harmony vocals for the bluegrassy sawdust kicker, 'Prodigal Daughter,' while she Whitters continues to tease a new full-length project for later in the year and gives us further clues to its musical direction with a song that channels Kerosene era Miranda Lambert and The Chicks' Wide Open Spaces.

"Ran crooked as a creek-bed but my innocence was pure," she sings as she reflects on a love that led her astray."Had mama sweatin’ bullets for my soul she wasn’t sure / He was twenty-one / Whole lotta fun / Powder from a gun / And we went up in Holy smoke and holy water From doe-eyed girl to prodigal daughter."

“‘Prodigal Daughter’ represents a return to my roots, my faith and what's important to me,” explains Whitters about the new song, co-written with Paul Sikes and Bryan Simpson, who she collaborated with on her platinum hit 'Everything She Ain’t.' “Over the last few years, I've been listening to a lot of bluegrass music, and I’ve been so excited by the new faces propelling the genre - especially artists like Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings. Their music definitely inspired this one, and I was lucky enough to get Molly to be a part of it and to record with some of my favorite bluegrass musicians like Bryan Sutton, Stuart Duncan, Justin Moses and Charlie Worsham to help me define a new sound for this record.”

After last week's Best New Country playlist was invaded by pop stars, Ashley Cooke has invited another one along to this week's party, teaming up with global pop superstar Joe Jonas for an unforgettable heartbreak anthem. 'All I Forgot' is an emotionally charged anthem about love, loss and all those little memories that sit at the bottom of the bottle.

Written by an all-star lineup of writers including Cooke, JKash, Griff Clawson, David Alexander, Naliya, Charlie Puth and Joe Jonas, the song finds the pair swapping harmonies as they flow through a melody soaked through with boozy late-night regret.

"Starting 2025 with a brand new one that feels perfect for all of us ready for a little sunshine after the storm," Carly Pearce posted alongside a demo of a new song at the beginning of the year, and having teased us for the last couple of months it seems like she's finally ready to let us know the thing that she knew that we didn't know. It seems she's been busy in the studio recording a deluxe version of her critically acclaimed latest album.

She announced the deluxe version and the new single, 'no rain,' from the stage last night at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, telling the audience, "I feel like my whole mission has just become about making people understand that you are not alone in your journey and in your struggle, and I wrote this song a couple of months ago."

"I have a tattoo on my left arm of a cross and somewhere in the last year I have lost that in a way, and I have felt really defeated and I have felt sad and I have felt lost at times, " she said, "and I look down and I think, I have this cross on my arm, why am I so afraid, this is ridiculous. I need to understand that seasons come and go and if it's a rainy day there's going to be a sunny day again. So I also got the name of this song tattooed on me, because I also wanted to remember that if there is no rain, there are no flowers."

hummingbird: no rain, no flowers adds three never-before-heard songs, as well as two new live versions of 'Oklahoma' and 'Things I Don't Chase,' and Carly gives us the first of these extra songs today with the soothing ballad 'no rain.'

Holler was lucky enough to premiere the new video from everybody's favourite coastal cowgirl Emily Zeck this week. Her new single 'Loud Mouth Women' is a tribute to the long line of loud mouth women she comes from and all those women who spoke with the caps lock on to pave the way for women everywhere to speak up.

"This song is so special to me," Emily Zeck shared. "I feel like it connects me to all of the strong-willed women that came before me, and the women all over the world who will listen and resonate with this. It was so fun bringing my vision to life with the music video, and it turned out just as uncomfy and odd as I wanted it to. Here’s to all the women who ain’t afraid to say something when they see something. Cheers!"

Watch the video for 'Loud Mouth Women' on Holler here.

Currently out on the road with Ella Langley, Carter Faith is wondering how different her life might have been if she'd prioritised her own mental health a little bit more on her powerful new single, 'If I Had Never Lost My Mind…'

“This song is about the stories we tell ourselves in times of messiness,” says Faith of the song, which she debuted live at the legendary Ryman Auditorium. “Whether it’s love lost or not, I can drive myself crazy remembering the pain and ruminating on the ‘what-if’s. This song grieves what would have happened ‘If I Had Never Lost My Mind…’”

Charley Crockett gives us another taste of his forthcoming Lonesome Drifter album with 'Game I Can’t Win,' Noeline Hofmann poignantly interprets Luke Bell's 'The Bullfighter' and Jaime Wyatt gives us a little after-dinner aperitif for her 2023 album Feel Good with the bonus track 'I'd Rather Be Lonely.'

We've got new songs from Tyler Braden and Crowe Boys, while Ian Munsick announces his new album, Eagle Feather, for April with the typically madcap 'Horses Not Hearts' and Maddie & Tae are having a lot of first base fun 'Kissing Cowboys' on their brilliant new single.

Lily Fitts finally stops teasing us and releases 'In the Dirt,' MaRynn Taylor knows how you feel on 'same girl same,' and Hannah McFarland puts out her debut EP, Broken Hearts. We've got 'Whiskey into Water' in the playlist today, a song that finds the singer asking God to give her a hand as she tries to work through the turmoil of forgiving a past love for their struggles with drinking.

“My debut EP is a story of heartbreak and healing," McFarland says. "It is five songs that will forever be close to my heart, because they were my first steps into the ‘big league’ of the industry. Every word in every song on this EP was from my heart, meticulously thought out and experienced. My goal is to let my listeners in on who I am, not just as an artist, but as a person. I want to be the voice when others feel like they don’t know how to put their feelings into words, and I think Broken Hearts can do just that. We hurt together and heal together.”

One of our February 10 Artists You Need to Know, Elizabeth Nichols follows up her huge viral hit, 'I Got a New One' from last year and proves that old adage that one woman's trash is another woman's treasure on her brilliant new single.

“Trailer Treasure” is a country love song that flips the script on what it means to find real gold," she told us. "It’s about choosing love over luxury. The song celebrates a love that’s raw, real, and worth more than superficial things."

Still riding high in the charts with Sam Barber and 'Indigo,' Avery Anna returns to wish you all a "Happy Anti-Valentine's Day" with 'Mr. Predictable.' While Zach John King is feeling equally down on love in his stark wintery ballad 'Cold Shoulder' as he relives a painful break up, remembering the icy emotions he felt as he tried to move on.

“I wrote ‘Cold Shoulder’ to paint a vivid picture of what it feels like to lose someone you love," the singer shared. "I wanted it to be incredibly visual—so that when you listen, you feel like you're right there in the moment. At its core, it's a simple story about one of the hardest nights of my life. We recorded it in a single take, which is a really special detail. It’s the most stripped-down song I’ve ever released, and I’m excited for people to hear a different side of me."

Elsewhere in this week's roundup Taylor Rae shares her bluesy new single 'Cologne' from upcoming album The Void and . Plus, we've got new ones from Evan Honer, Russell Dickerson, Pug Johnson and Eli Young Band, while Connor Price and Walker Hayes team up on 'Happier.'

Warren Zeiders releases another song from his forthcoming Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal, album and Waylon Wyatt is in a soppy mood as he croons his way through the charming 'I'd Be Delighted.'

Watch the video for 'I'd Be Delighted' below

Piper Leone's latest single 'Joke's on Me' has been getting a lot of Holler love this week as she imagines an interaction with an ex-boyfriend, where her impulses get the best of her, and she gets her heart broken all over again.

"I sometimes write songs to keep me from doing something stupid," Leone says about the song. "When I want to do something but I know I shouldn't, I write a song about it instead. It has a way of keeping me accountable to lessons I've already learned. Also, I love the turn of a phrase - something clever, something that's like, 'ouch!,' but that also makes you laugh."

Caitlin Cannon has announced her new album for May 9th with the infectious, cosmic country title track 'Love Addict,' one of 10 songs on the album that explore themes of love, loss, and addiction in what promises to be one of the most wonderfully eccentric americana records you'll hear all year.

“Originally titled ‘Oxi’ - short for oxytocin in this case - ‘Love Addict’ is just a sexy little science lesson," says Cannon. "And yeah, I’ve been to those meetings. Honestly, I can get addicted to almost anything that feels good. The band really nailed the mood and groove which epitomizes that intoxicating feeling. Maybe that’s why we couldn’t stop, and the track ended up pushing five minutes. I like that about it.”

Watch the video for 'Love Addict' below with an all star cast featuring Pam Tillis, Logan Ledger, Oliver Bates Craven and producer Misa Arriaga himself.

Hurray For the Riff Raff has shared their incredible first new single on the one-year anniversary of bandleader Alynda Segarra's memoiristic opus, The Past Is Still Alive. Filled with poetic prowess and personal truths, the song conveys a contempt for the dark side of the internet and the alienating, undermining effects it has on artists and outsiders. "And you can paint your portal on the wall with the intention to break through," sings Alynda Segarra."But every time you bang your head against it, tiny little pieces fall out of you."

"Everybody wants to play Billy the Kid, nobody wants to be Calamity Jane," Segarra sings, alongside references to Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo (in a black ski mask) on the scrappy slacker country anthem, backed by Phil Cook on organ, Yan Westerlund on drums, Hand Habits' Meg Duffy on electric guitar, and The Past Is Still Alive producer Brad Cook on bass. Listening to this has made us very excited for what else is in store for us from Hurray For The Riff Raff this year.

We'll end this week's singles roundup with a very special mention for Nate Good who is celebrating a whole year of being in Best New Country with his new single, '52 Weeks.' He's been releasing a new song every week since this time last year! He must be exhausted. Congratulations Nate!!! See you next week?

Rvshvd and Randy Houser both give their most recent albums the deluxe treatment and we've got songs from both in our playlist today. While Kameron Marlowe releases his brilliant new Sad Songs for the Soul project, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

If you've ever had your heart broken then you'll love find a lot to love on this genuinely beautiful, thoughtful and deeply soothing record, as Kameron Marlowe strips his sound back for a simpler, more soulful sound than his fans might be used to. If you're unlucky enough to be going through a heartache right now, this album will feel like drinking a pint of Gaviscon.

We've got songs off new albums from Cristina Vane, Sunny War and Chase Matthew, while Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood releases his latest album, Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams, which includes the sublime 'The Forks of Cypress' featuring Waxahatchee.

Every week we turn our Holler spotlight on a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week americana singer songwriter Annie Dressner is basking in its glow with her new single 'For the Thrill of It' featuring Kathryn Williams. It's reminding us of early Lucinda and Mary Lou Lord and Jenny Lewis and it makes us want to swing off the back off a milk float and sing it at the tops of our voices.

Currently in the studio recording her fifth album, produced by Brit Americana legend Peter Bruntnell, the new single comes ahead of a UK tour with Danny and the Champions of the World in March.

Despite its light-hearted lyrics that touch on seemingly minor social transgressions - like taking single items from multipacks and double dipping chips - the upbeat jangly americana of 'For the Thrill of It' conceals the song's darker message about the pervasive issue of misogyny in the music industry, where inappropriate behaviour too often goes unaddressed or overlooked, and the song aims to inspire positive change in attitudes towards women in music and to encourage women to feel safe in speaking out.

Watch the video for 'For the Thrill of It (feat. Kathryn Williams)' below

After making a guest appearance in our Best New Country playlist last Friday for her collab with pint-sized Gen-Z pop princess Sabrina Carpenter, this week Dolly Parton turns her attention to the pre-rising fives, teaming up with The Wiggles on their toe-tapping new single about kindness, community and just generally being 'Friends!'

The fun doesn’t stop there, we've got a whole album of country songs from The Wiggles on the way, with Dolly’s iconic hit '9 to 5' reimagined by The Wiggles as 'Counting 1 to 5' and another new Dolly duet 'We Will Always Be Friends.'

Due out in March, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up! also includes collaborations with Lainey Wilson, Orville Peck, Dasha, Morgan Evans, Jackson Dean, Kaylee Bell and MacKenzie Porter.

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

1. 1.

   3, 2, 1

   Tucker Wetmore

2. 2.

   Nobody Likes Your Girlfriend

   Nate Smith and HARDY

3. 3.

   Prodigal Daughter (feat. Molly Tuttle)

   Hailey Whitters

4. 4.

   Mr. Predictable

   Avery Anna

5. 5.

   Game I Can't Win

   Charley Crockett

6. 6.

   The Bullfighter

   Noeline Hofmann

7. 7.

   No Rain

   Carly Pearce

8. 8.

   I DON'T WANNA KNOW

   Chase Matthew

9. 9.

   Loud Mouth Women

   Emily Zeck

10. 10.

    I'd Be Delighted

    Waylon Wyatt

11. 11.

    If I Had Never Lost My Mind...

    Carter Faith

12. 12.

    Without You

    Warren Zeiders

13. 13.

    Horses Not Hearts

    Ian Munsick

14. 14.

    Trailer Treasure

    Elizabeth Nichols

15. 15.

    Kissing Cowboys

    Maddie & Tae

16. 16.

    Whiskey Into Water

    Hannah McFarland

17. 17.

    One More Place I've Never Been

    Preston Cooper

18. 18.

    In the Dirt

    Lily Fitts

19. 19.

    Hole In Me

    Pug Johnson

20. 20.

    Cold Shoulder

    Zach John King

21. 21.

    If You Stay

    Kameron Marlowe

22. 22.

    GOD & GUNS N' ROSES

    Tyler Braden

23. 23.

    Bootstraps

    Crowe Boys

24. 24.

    Love Addict

    Caitlin Cannon

25. 25.

    Happen To Me

    Russell Dickerson

26. 26.

    All I Forgot (feat. Joe Jonas)

    Ashley Cooke

27. 27.

    Happier

    Connor Price and Walker Hayes

28. 28.

    Praying For Your Downfall

    Jensen McRae

29. 29.

    Tallahassee

    Cloe Wilder

30. 30.

    Everything I Wanted

    Evan Honer

31. 31.

    Joke's on Me

    Piper Leone

32. 32.

    I'd Rather Be Lonely

    Jaime Wyatt

33. 33.

    Quiet In This House

    Gareth

34. 34.

    Same Song and Dance

    Tyler Nance

35. 35.

    Junk Drawer

    Cole Phillips

36. 36.

    For the Thrill of It (feat. Kathryn Williams)

    Annie Dressner

37. 37.

    Rise

    Sunny War

38. 38.

    Room On The Porch (feat. Ruby Amanfu)

    Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'

39. 39.

    same girl same

    MaRynn Taylor

40. 40.

    Nothing On The Wild

    Eli Young Band

41. 41.

    Still That Cowboy (feat. Miranda Lambert)

    Randy Houser

42. 42.

    Pyramid Scheme

    Hurray For The Riff Raff

43. 43.

    The Forks of Cypress (feat. Waxahatchee)

    Patterson Hood

44. 44.

    Human Highway (feat. Emily Nenni)

    John R. Miller

45. 45.

    Lovesick

    Sara Jean Stevens

46. 46.

    Cowgirl Suit

    Emily Hines

47. 47.

    Mountain Language

    Fust

48. 48.

    Far Behind

    Dylan Wolfe

49. 49.

    Athensville

    Leslie Jordan

50. 50.

    Fireball

    Mason Via

51. 51.

    Muddy Water Rockstar (feat. Brantley Gilbert)

    Austin Snell

52. 52.

    Friends!

    The Wiggles and Dolly Parton

53. 53.

    Hell Out Of It (feat. Michael Ray)

    Colt Ford

54. 54.

    He's Got You

    Rvshvd

55. 55.

    Rolling Stone (Sincerely)

    Allie Colleen

56. 56.

    Help Me Make It Through the Night

    Annie Bosko

57. 57.

    The Way She Lies

    Spencer Hatcher

58. 58.

    Feels Like Home

    Parmalee

59. 59.

    Cupid's A Cowgirl

    Alexandra Kay

60. 60.

    Late Night Dancing

    Ollie

61. 61.

    F-150

    Kidd G

62. 62.

    I Can't Quit

    Shane Stevens and Sara Evans

63. 63.

    Cancel (feat. Cody Johnson)

    Randy Houser

64. 64.

    Bayou (By You)

    Brent Morgan

65. 65.

    Luck on the Bright Side

    Drayton Farley

66. 66.

    Coming to a Bar Near You

    Tyler Farr

67. 67.

    AMERICAN DREAMS

    Tiger La Flor

68. 68.

    Miles Don't Matter

    Jordana Bryant

69. 69.

    52 Weeks

    Nate Good

70. 70.

    Exit Sign

    Morgan Johnston

71. 71.

    Maybe I'm Alright

    Charles Esten and Keb' Mo'

72. 72.

    Picture This

    Caleb Lanthrop

73. 73.

    Therapy

    Kaylee Rose

74. 74.

    Paper Boy

    Kat Velasco

75. 75.

    Better Place

    Colt Graves

76. 76.

    Call Me Pretty

    Brooke Lee

77. 77.

    Denim on Denim

    Mary Heather Hickman

78. 78.

    Cologne

    Sam Stoane

79. 79.

    Like a Lady

    Hannah Anders

80. 80.

    Work

    Jonathan Hutcherson

81. 81.

    Fall In, Fall Out

    Josh David and Kaylee Rose

82. 82.

    Song For A Lonely Road

    Alejandro Preschel

83. 83.

    Whims of Good Men

    Cristina Vane

84. 84.

    Old Melodies

    Paul Thorn

85. 85.

    Cologne

    Taylor Rae

86. 86.

    Walter

    Levi Foster

87. 87.

    Let Things Go

    Caamp

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