What makes this different
Every few minutes we check every one of the 928 stations in the directory and read the song each one is broadcasting. That gives the site three things no ordinary list can:
The song on air, before you press play. Every station shows what it is playing right now, and the whole dial is on one page at On air now. Search an artist and we will tell you who is playing them this minute.
A playlist and a profile for every station. Each station page keeps a log of what it has played and which artists it plays most, so you can tell a honky-tonk station from a hot-country one before you hear a note.
A chart built from real airplay. The chart counts what country radio actually broadcast this week, across hundreds of stations in 51 countries — not sales, not streams, not a panel.
Streams that actually work
The same check that reads the song also tells us whether a station is on air. Stations that stop answering are marked off air within minutes, and the ones that work are listed first. A radio directory full of dead links is worse than no directory at all.
Why some stations will not play here
This site is served over https, and browsers will not let a secure page play audio from a plain http address. Plenty of smaller stations still stream over http, so rather than hide them we list them with a link you can open in VLC or any other player — and we still show you what they are playing.
We do not host any audio
Every stream plays directly from the station's own server. We do not record, rebroadcast, re-encode or proxy anything. Song titles are the ones the stations broadcast in their own streams. If you run a station and would rather not be listed, tell us and we will take it out.
Where the listings come from
The station list starts from Radio Browser, a community-run open database of radio streams, filtered to stations that play country music. Everything on top of that — what is playing, the playlists, the chart, whether a stream works — we gather ourselves. Listener submissions are checked by hand.
The look
The site is designed after the letterpress show posters that have advertised the Opry and the honky tonks of Lower Broadway for a hundred years: wood type, cream stock, two or three inks. The photographs are printed the same way. They are all openly licensed, and credited here.