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, September 4, 2026.

Taking her newborn to the ARIA Award ceremony, duetting with Paul Kelly, prioritising authenticity and “creating really good shit!” – Fanny Lumsden proves you can have it all as long as you don’t “try to be perfect”.

Groundwater Country Music Festival completes this year's program wih the addition of Andrew Farriss, Tori Forsyth, and many others.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have gotten behind the campaign. When Nashville celebrates Dolly Parton Day this week, proceeds from the country couple's bar will go to The Imagination Library.

The Countrytown exclusive edition of 'Traditions' is a stunning sky-blue stained-glass window-coloured variant, pressed on 140-gram vinyl.

"Contrary to popular belief, I am alive," Moroney wrote on social media following rumours that she'd died.

Tori Darke will lead a tribute to Dolly Parton as this year's The Bend Classic program is revealed.

Maren Morris appears on a reimagined version of Michelle Branch's song, 'Goodbye To You.'

'Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album' arrives on the same day as the game - 19 November.