100 Most Popular Country Music Stars & Artists

Country and Western music has come a long way from its roots of being male dominated and played on just a fiddle with the rhythm of stomping cowboy boots. These days, women get more than a fair shot and the genre has been diversified with everything from pop, rock and hip hop. Although centralized in Nashville, hopefuls come from all over the country and the world to take their shot at the country music industry, writing songs for stars and performing in clubs and bars in the hopes they’ll be discovered offered a record deal. It’s entirely possible and so is networking to the top. Below is a list of one hundred of some of the scrappiest who have sung their way to the top.