Country music is booming in 2025 – but its biggest problem is growing

Country music is having its big mainstream moment – but in Nashville it’s a different story (Picture: Rex/Backgrid/Getty)It’s 2025, so perhaps you could be forgiven in thinking the country music genre has advanced beyond its exclusively white, heterosexual, male form. Just look at pop culture: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter country album topped the charts and Chappell Roan’s The Giver is providing queer country its big moment in the sun.
But you would be wrong.
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