With last night’s (Dec 12) Billboard Music Awards, however, not only was the star nominated, but she took home the award for Top Female Country artist ... Billboard Top 100, and shuffled ...

While she was already a star in her home country, her work in the 2000s catapulted her to the top of the U.S. charts, quickly ...

At one time it was the best-selling studio album ever by a female artist, the best-selling country music album ... No.1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, but had to settle for No.2 in the UK ...

Beyoncé had started the awards strong by taking home the award for best country duo/group performance for "II Most Wanted" ...

One of the “Grand Ladies” of the Grand Ole Opry, Jan Howard was among the most popular female country artists of the 1960s ... she was a nervous wreck — and not 100 percent on board with ...

“I’m not saying Melba and I were the first to sing male-female duets in country music, because we weren’t,” Mr. Jones said in his 1996 autobiography, “I Lived to Tell It All,” written ...