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This is a little genre check-in on country music. It is myself and senior music writer at Nashville

Public Radio, Julie Height. The two of us talk about the continuation of last year's big country

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Country has always been a massive genre in the United States, but it's had a real boom

in recent years. We've seen huge increases in streaming numbers, a much, much bigger presence

on the pop charts.

2024 was this big year.

We had Zach Bryant, Morgan Wallen, but the boom has really continued into this year in ways that maybe surprised me.

But you report on music communities in Nashville.

Perhaps it didn't surprise you in the same way that it surprised me.

I'm curious to hear what does the boom actually look like on the ground in the heart of the country world in Nashville? Yeah. I mean,

I do think of it a little bit like a cyclical thing, but it is, I think it's also been,

there have been a lot of unique aspects of it too. But I've definitely seen on the one hand, you know,

the gratification, the sense of affirmation of all of this outside attention, whether that's,

...