#570 - Bobby and Eddie Rank Their Top 10 Country Artists Right Now + Bobby's Thoughts on FGL Getting Back Together + Are The Raging Idiots Broken Up? + Reaction to Maren Morris' Criticism of Country Music

Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Bobby and Eddie share their Top 10 country artists right now. They decide to do it as a true 10-to-1 countdown, which leads to a few quick switches, disagreements, and some “how is he that low?” reactions as they compare lists and explain their rankings. Then Bobby weighs in on the latest Country Music Headlines about Florida Georgia Line possibly getting back together and what that would actually mean in 2026, plus their reaction to Maren Morris’ criticism of country music and the conversation it’s sparked. And they address the big question floating around: are The Raging Idiots done, or is something else going on?

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:11.1	Welcome to episode 570.
0:12.8	This is more of in the headlines in the news, Bobbycast, Country Music.
0:16.5	And so Eddie and I have not shared our results with each other.
0:19.2	But just like college football,
0:21.9	we're going to do our rankings. Yeah. Okay. Today's January 16th. So as of January 16th,
0:28.4	2026, top 10 artists in country music. Current artists in country music. So, and I was for sure to say
0:36.5	you don't list Johnny Cash. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No all times. And also, I'm not going to argue with you because there are no rules. Man, it was tough to put it, to rank them. You can go first. Okay. So you want to start at 10? Yeah, go 10 to 1. So at number 10 on your rankings. I think 10 was probably the hardest because I was going to leave some people off.
1:12.2	So. You want to start at 10? Yeah, go 10 to 1. So at number 10 on your rankings. I think 10 was probably the hardest because I was going to leave some people off. So 10, you're not going to like this, but I'm going with Chris Stapleton. Do you think we need to go the opposite? I'm thinking about how we, if we should go the opposite way. Yeah, because I think 10, the last five are the hard ones. So I'm going to act like I didn't hear tennis Chris Ableton.
1:13.0	I'm going to be surprised.
1:13.5	You know what?
1:14.0	Scratch that.
1:14.2	Okay.
1:16.3	And we're probably going to share a lot of the same artists.
1:17.2	They're just going to be ranked different. Yes.
1:17.9	Okay, you can go number one.
1:19.0	Number one, this is, I had to think hard about this because I think because of his weight loss, he moved everything to number one is jelly roll.
1:29.2	Okay.
1:30.5	He's been in the news a lot. He's still making music. He's still playing shows. He's on the top. He's in the top of the world right now. And he's lost a lot of weight, which puts them on magazine covers. The men's health I think men's health. Men's health.
1:44.2	They followed him for a year.
1:44.6	That's a really cool thing. They keep rolling out social media on it. It's really cool. Okay, you have jelly roll at one. Jelly roll. Number two, Morgan Wallen. Which I think without jelly roll doing all that stuff, I think Morgan Wallen would have been number one for sure. Okay. He's top. Number three.
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