Thirty-eight of the 40 most-played country songs of 2025 have one thing in common, and it's not what you'd expect.

Taste of Country actually looked at the 500 top radio songs up to Aug. 21, 2025. Once you get past No. 100, you begin to see more older songs, known as "recurrent" or "gold" songs at radio stations.

Before getting to that Top 40, here are some general observations, with more to come in additional articles:

Two of the 500 most played songs at country radio this year were released in the 1980s (none earlier).

Forty-six songs are '90s country hits, with Tim McGraw 's "Something Like That" topping this era.

The largest percentage (225 total songs / 45 percent) are 2020s hits.

Morgan Wallen songs accounted for 8.6 percent of the total spins among these 500 artists.

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