Each week, the team at Countrytown finds the best new country songs to add to our weekly playlist, The Country Drop. Here's our picks released this week, October 2, 2026.

On 'The Hard Truth,' Wynonna Judd's first new album in ten years, she has stripped things back to create her deepest, most revealing record yet, produced by her husband, Cactus Mose.

Johnston won the prestigious Jeff Walker Global Country Artist Award, which recognises outstanding achievements by a country artist based outside of the United States.

James Johnston will make his Grand Ole Opry performance debut in November.

The event takes place on Saturday, 21 November, at the Taree Showgrounds in NSW.

The road to the release of the rising country star's debut album was long and winding - including being dropped from her label and suffering from depression - but it has been worth the wait.

Like Parton’s original, Musgraves kept the arrangement intimate and had nowhere to hide, her vocals front and centre.

Relive all the action from the opening night of Noah Kahan's Australian leg of his Great Divide tour.