Top Country Songs of the Summer
Songs You Know and Love
Country stations across America have played numerous hits this summer, even kicking off some artists' careers, while showcasing new music for the veteran artists.
Below are the top songs of the summer (in no particular order).
Best lyrics: "There's a million things you could be doing / But there's one thing you're sure damn glad you did / Take a drunk girl home / Let her sleep all alone / Leave her keys on the counter, your number by the phone / Pick up her life she threw on the floor / Leave the hall lights on walk out and lock the door / That's how you know the difference between a boy and a man / You take a drunk girl home"
Songwriters: Chris Janson / Tom Douglas / Travis Hill
Released: 2017
Album: Everybody
Nominations: Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year and Music Video of the Year.
Best lyrics: "I believe if you just go by the nightly news / Your faith in all mankind would be the first thing you lose"
Songwriters: David Fisher / Ed Hill / Josh Kear
Released: 2017
Album: What Makes You Country
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "I remember the day I told my Daddy and Mama you're gonna have a grandkid, yep / From Uganda, that's right, we're adopting / And she is the cutest little girl that you've ever seen / Well I was wrapping my head around being a dad / A bigger wrench got thrown in the plans we thought we'd had / Now Lauren's showing', got one on the way / Yeah that's two under two, hey, what can I say?"
Songwriters: Thomas Rhett / Ashley Gorley / Jesse Frasure / Rhett Atkins
Released: 2017
Album: Life Changes
Nominations: Teen Choice Award for Choice Country Song
Best lyrics: " I was born in a town full of red pine trees / County sign says "follow your dreams" / Westbound train makes the whole town shake / Friday night lights decide your fate"
Songwriters: Brandon Lancanster / Josh Osborne / Ashley Gorley / Ross Copperman
Released: 2018
Album: HallelujahNights
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "I swear you're an angel / Sent to this world / What did I do write to deserve you, girl?"
Songwriters: Lindsay Rimes / Matthew John McGinn / Shy Carter
Released: 2016
Album: Kane Brown
Nominations:Teen Choice Award for Choice Country Song
Best lyrics: "We find out when you die the keys to heaven can't be bought / We still don't know what love is but we sure know what it's not."
Songwriters: Josh Osborne / Ross Copperman / Shane L McAnally
Released: 2018
Album: Songs for the Saints
Nominations:N/A
Best lyrics: "Wasn't who I was but every now and then I got to be / David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs"
Songwriters: Travis Denning / Jessie Alexander / Jon Randall
Released: 2018
Album: N/A
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "What Am I doing with my life? / Ok, I quit... I've had enough of this."
Songwriters: Sam Hunt / Zach Crowell / Josh Osborne / Shane McAnally / Charlie Handsome
Released: 2018
Album: N/A
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Girl, I'm living proof that 80 proof / Ain't got a shot at touching you."
Songwriters: Josh Thompson / Brandon Kinney / Jeff Middleton
Released: 2018
Album: Rearview Town
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "But I hope like hell every now and again / I blow across your mind like that summer wind / And you're holding on to sixteen as long as you can / Every time that it comes on"
Songwriters: John Mellancamp / Jody Scott Stevens / Craig Michael Wiseman / David Patrick Ray / Tommy Cecil
Released: 2018
Album: Jake Owen
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "That's just the kind of life that made me who I am / Just taking my mind on a visit / Back in time 'cause I miss it"
Songwriters: Rhett Akins / Ross Copperman / Ben Hayslip / Ashley Gorley
Released: 2017
Album: Texoma Shore
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Not usually the kind to show my heart to the world / I'm pretty good at keeping it together / I hold my composure, for worse or for better."
Songwriters: Carrie Underwood / Lori McKenna / Hillary Lindsey
Released: 2018
Album: Cry Pretty
Nominations: Country Music Association Award for Music Video of the Year and Teen Choice Award for Choice Country Song
Best lyrics: "Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat"
Songwriters: Richard Chase Mcgill / Ryan James Hurd / Miller Zachery Crowell
Released: 2017
Album: What Makes You Country
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "I could try to find her / Get it off my chest now / But I ain't gonna mess it up, so I'll wish her the best now"
Songwriters: Thomas Rhett / Shane McAnally / Jesse Frasure / Ashely Gorley
Released: 2017
Album: Life Changes
Nominations: CMT Music Award Video of the Year and Male Video of the Year, Academy of Country Music Award for Video of the Year, and Country Music Association Award for Music Video of the Year
Best lyrics: "Fortuneteller told me / "No more last chances / "You got no future at all" / Oh but I ain't listenin' / To black-hearted gypsy"
Songwriters: Eric Church / Ray Wylie Hubbard
Released: 2018
Album: Desperate Man
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Sometimes you try to fix somebody / Just to find out they'll never change / So you go out and meet somebody / That makes you feel the way you thought you'd never feel again
Songwriters: Morgan Evans / Chris Destefano / Josh Osborne
Released: 2018
Album: Morgan Evans EP
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Lay my six foot four inch ass out on the ground / Yeah, tomorrow I'll have me a hard hangover / And one hell of a heartache"
Songwriters: Josh Osborne / Thomas Osborne / Lee Miller
Released: 2018
Album: Port Saint Joe
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "You're the kind I wanna take a ride with / Sit by on a Friday night / In the stadium lights, side by side"
Songwriters: Hillary Lindsey / Joshua Miller / David Garcia
Released: 2018
Album: Laps Around the Sun
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "One day I'm the exception / Most days I'm just like most / Somedays I'm headed in the right direction / And some days I ain't even close"
Songwriters: Luke Dick / Bobby Pinson
Released: 2018
Album: The Mountain
Nominations: Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year
Best lyrics: "Everything's gonna be alright / Nobody's gotta worry 'bout nothing / Don't go hitting that panic button / It ain't near as bad as you think"
Songwriters: David Lee Murphy / Jimmy Yeary / Chris Stevens
Released: 2018
Album: No Zip Code
Nominations: Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year
Best lyrics: "What a waste / Taking down the picture and the plans we made, yeah / And it's strange how your face doesn't look so innocent / Your secrets has its consequence and that's on you, babe"
Songwriters: Taylor Swift / Pat Monahan
Released: 2018
Album: Bigger
Nominations: Country Music Association Award for Music Video of the Year
Best lyrics: "I don't mean to be so uptight, but my heart's been hurt a couple times / By a couple guys that didn't treat me right
Songwriters: Bebe Rexha / Tyler Hubbard / David Garcia / Joshua Miller
Released: 2017
Album: All Your Fault: Pt. 2
Nominations: CMT Music Award for Video of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year, Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year and Single of the Year, MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration, Radio Disney Music Award for Best Musical Collaboration and Country Favorite Song, Teen Choice Award for Choice Collaboration and Choice Country Song, Billboard Music Award for Top Country Song, and MuchMusic Video Award for Song of the Summer and Best Collaboration
Best lyrics: 'Will you pick up when I call? / Or just forget we loved at all? / We don't have to talk, I just wanna hear your voice"
Songwriters: Luke Combs / Steven Battey / Sammy Mitchell / Robert Willford
Released: 2017
Album: This One's for You
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Oh knock-knock, here you come a-knockin' on my door / But you're gonna have to wait another minute on the porch / Oh no, no, it's a dangerous thing pouring alcohol on an old flame"
Songwriters: Ashely Gorley / Hillary Lindsey / Luke Laird
Released: 2017
Album: Every Little Thing
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "Thanks for the moon and the stars up above / Forgiveness' a sin in your undying love / Every twist every turn for the way you made sure / All my roads led to her"
Songwriters: Dierks Bentley / Ross Copperman / Josh Kear
Released: 2018
Album: The Mountain
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: All those bottles sitting up on the shelf are just salt on the wound / One sip and I'm picking up the phone trying not to go home without you / And that ain't nothing but a whole lotta pain"
Songwriters: Mitchell Tenpenny / Justin Wilson / Jordan Schmidt
Released: 2018
Album: Mitchell Tenpenny EP
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: And that night we left our hearts on our sleeves and the clothes all over the floor / We both know we can't open the door no more"
Songwriters: Trevor Rosen / Matthew Ramsey / Josh Osborne
Released: 2017
Album: Happy Endings
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "You say what if I hurt you, what if I leave you / What if I find somebody else and I don't need you"
Songwriters: Kane Brown / Matthew McGinn / Jordan Schmidt
Released: 2016
Album: Kane Brown
Nominations: CMT Music Award for Video of the Year, Academy of Country Music Award for Vocal Event of the Year, and BillboardMusic Award for Top Country Song
Best lyrics: "Somebody pass that fifth of Camp this way / I'll turn it up, down, up, down, up, down"
Songwriters: Michael Hardy / CJ Solar / Brad Clawson
Released: 2018
Album: If I Know Me
Nominations: N/A
Best lyrics: "I think cupid is stupid and violets are purple not blue / I hate catching bouquets, the honeymoon phase."
Songwriters: Kelsea Ballerini / Shane L McAnally / Trevor Joseph Rosen
Released: 2017
Album: Unapologetically
Nominations: N/A
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Kayla Simas
Kayla Simas is a teacher and journalist from Staten Island, New York. She enjoys writing, traveling and country music turned up loud.
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