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Kane Brown leads our list of the best singles of 2022.

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The Country Universe staff predicts the Grammy winners, and shares our personal picks, too.

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In a year good enough to list its 40 best, we kick off our Best of 2017 with the lower half of our Singles list.

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Here are the 2018 Grammy nominees in the general, country, and country-adjacent categories.

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Take your authenticity fetishes elsewhere; this single is just fine.

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