“That’s still the question.” None of this made much of a difference to Lil Nas X four months ago. He released “Old Town Road ... country music establishment rejecting the work of ...

And its performer is black, still a relative rarity in the country music industry. And yet not even four months have passed since Billboard heaved Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” off the same ...

Late last year, a delightfully strange song began to make its way around the teen-favorite social app TikTok. Equal parts country twang and hip-hop bass, “Old Town Road” lent itself well to ...

fans and executives alike have been scrambling to work out the method behind his one-song success. Of the dissections of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” which has sat at the top of music charts ...

This is an opinion piece. The song of the summer for 2019 has unquestionably been Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring 1990s country icon, Billy Ray Cyrus. As of June 10, the country-hip ...

Set against a cowboy-themed game, the music video for Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" uses language of the Wild Wild West with a hip hop spin. The genre-blending tune was a breakout hit five weeks ago ...

Prior to hitting No. 1, the song gained traction when Billboard made the controversial choice to exclude "Old Town Road" from the country charts, even after Nashville legend Billy Ray Cyrus ...

Behind the unlikely success of “Old Town Road”—the current hit song that combines hip-hop and country styles—is a 40-year-old executive whose savvy in building audiences on streaming-music ...