This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2021.
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The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, or Canada Country charts in 2021:
US | Album | Artist | Record Label | Release Date | Reference |
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3 | The Ballad of Dood and Juanita | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain | August 20 | |
3 | Body Language | Blake Shelton | Warner Nashville | May 21 | [97] |
3 | The Comeback | Zac Brown Band | Southern Ground | October 15 | |
2 | Country Again: Side A | Thomas Rhett | Valory | April 30 | [98] |
4 | Country Stuff (EP) | Walker Hayes | Monument | June 18 | [99] |
1 | Dangerous: The Double Album | Morgan Wallen | Big Loud | January 8 | [100] |
3 | Famous Friends | Chris Young | RCA Nashville | August 6 | [101] |
1 | Fearless (Taylor's Version) | Taylor Swift | Republic Records | April 9 | |
1 | Red (Taylor's Version) | Taylor Swift | Republic Records | November 12 | |
6 | Gold Chain Cowboy | Parker McCollum | MCA Nashville | July 30 | |
2 | Good Things | Dan + Shay | Warner Nashville | August 13 | |
3 | Greenfields | Barry Gibb | Capitol | January 8 | [102] |
3 | Heart | Eric Church | EMI Nashville | April 16 | |
7 | Heartland | Nelly | Columbia Nashville | August 27 | |
3 | Human: The Double Album | Cody Johnson | Warner Nashville | October 8 | |
3 | Life Rolls On | Florida Georgia Line | BMLG | February 12 | [103] |
3 | Macon | Jason Aldean | Broken Bow/Macon | November 12 | [104] |
7 | The Marfa Tapes | Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall | RCA Nashville | May 7 | [105] |
1 | My Savior | Carrie Underwood | Capitol Nashville | March 26 | [106] |
3 | Raise the Roof | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss | Rounder Records | November 19 | [107] |
9 | Renewal | Billy Strings | Rounder Records | September 23 | [108] |
8 | Ruthless | Gary Allan | MCA Nashville | June 25 | [109] |
9 | Still Woman Enough | Loretta Lynn | Legacy | March 19 | [110] |
2 | Soul | Eric Church | EMI Nashville | April 23 | |
1 | Star-Crossed | Kacey Musgraves | Interscope/MCA Nashville | September 10 | [111] |
10 | Same Truck | Scotty McCreery | Triple Tigers | September 17 | |
4 | Time, Tequila & Therapy | Old Dominion | RCA Nashville | October 8 | |
9 | Weekends Look a Little Different These Days | Brett Young | BMLG | June 4 | [112] |
2 | Where Have You Gone | Alan Jackson | EMI Nashville/ACR | May 14 | |
5 | You Hear Georgia | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legged/Thirty Tigers | May 28 | |
9 | 29 (EP) | Carly Pearce | Big Machine | February 19 | [113] |
9 | 29: Written in Stone | Carly Pearce | Big Machine | September 17 | [113] |
US | Album | Artist | Record Label | Release Date | Reference |
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34 | The Album | Chase Rice | Broken Bow/Dack Janiels | May 28 | |
23 | Bet You're from a Small Town | Jameson Rodgers | Columbia Nashville | September 17 | |
11 | Buy Dirt (EP) | Jordan Davis | MCA Nashville | May 21 | |
35 | For You | Parmalee | Stoney Creek | July 30 | |
12 | Good Time | Niko Moon | RCA Nashville | August 27 | |
28 | Hell of a Holiday | Pistol Annies | RCA Nashville | October 22 | |
29 | The Horses and the Hounds | James McMurtry | New West | August 20 | |
41 | In It for the Money (EP) | Jameson Rodgers | Columbia Nashville | August 6 | |
40 | Land of the Free | Home Free | Home Free | June 25 | |
12 | Mercy | Cody Jinks | Late August | November 12 | |
23 | Midtown Diaries (EP) | Mitchell Tenpenny | Columbia Nashville | September 10 | |
11 | Pelago | Ryan Hurd | RCA Nashville | October 15 | |
25 | Peso in My Pocket | Toby Keith | Show Dog-Universal | October 15 | |
47 | Remember Her Name | Mickey Guyton | Capitol Nashville | September 24 | |
12 | Revived Remixed Revisited | Reba McEntire | MCA Nashville | October 8 | [114] |
29 | Same Ol Same Ol | Upchurch | Redneck Nation | June 25 | |
40 | Sayin' What I'm Thinkin' | Lainey Wilson | Broken Bow | February 19 | |
49 | Set in Stone | Travis Tritt | Big Noise Music Group | May 7 | [115] |
21 | Sitting Pretty on Top of the World | Lauren Alaina | 19/Mercury Nashville | September 3 | |
38 | Straight Outta the Country | Justin Moore | Valory | April 23 | |
41 | The Way I Wanna Go | Trace Adkins | Verge Nashville | August 27 | |
12 | What a Song Can Do | Lady A | Big Machine | October 22 | |
12 | & (EP) | Eric Church | EMI Nashville | April 20 |
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CMT Artists of the Year
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