
The 25 Best Americana Albums of 2025
The Best Americana has never been better with the quality of music, diversity of styles, and the artists’ demographics in terms of race and gender.

The Best Americana has never been better with the quality of music, diversity of styles, and the artists’ demographics in terms of race and gender.

Hailey Whitters contemporizes tradition through modern songs about shotgun weddings, getting drunk, and assorted rites of passage in small-town America.
This year’s best country albums spring from hard-country bands to traditional true believers and from alternative country renegades to pop-country superstars.
Rather than portray caricatures, country artist Hailey Whitters creates characters to whom we all can relate on I’m in Love, even if one isn’t from Iowa.
Hailey Whitters’ “Everything She Ain’t” is a fun song, full of pop energy and country spirit in the vein of early Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves.
Hailey Whitters and Trisha Yearwood team up on the video for “How Far Can It Go”, a cute country-pop song about the power of love.

Hailey Whitters is a self-proclaimed dreamer whose goal is to be a country music star. After a dozen years in the business, this record may make the dream a reality.