It’s a new year and in Australia summer is in full swing. You may be on holiday, or hanging out at the beach, or having a barbecue. Perhaps you’re on a road trip and in need of hours’ worth of appropriate tunes to keep you company.
This playlist of Australian and NZ country music artists contains only songs released in 2024, specially selected for being just right for any of the above-mentioned activities. It is in a custom order, designed to be the perfect country music soundtrack for your summer. You may wish to hit ‘shuffle’ or reorder the playlist alphabetically – that’s your prerogative. Just don’t tell me about it because I spent a long time trying to get this custom order right …
Some artists appear more than once and that’s because they’ve released songs that are especially suitable for this soundtrack. There’s an alphabetical list of artists with their tracks below the YouTube and Spotify players. If you’d like the custom order, please download/view this PDF:
Alphabetical list
**A**
Abbie Ferris – ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’
Abbie Ferris – ‘That Ain’t You’
Adam Harvey – ‘It’s Gettin’ Late’
Amber Lawrence – ‘Kick the Doors Down’
Amber Lawrence – ‘You Can Admit You Like Country Music’
Amber Lawrence & Andrew Swift – ‘Fumes and Fireworks’
Andrew Swift – ‘(Hot Damn) It’s Been a Minute’
Ashleigh Dallas – ‘Secondhand Stories’
**B**
Baeden Faint – ‘A Whole Lot More’
Bella Mackenzie – ‘COWBOY’
Beth Lucas & Mark Lavender – ‘Pieces’
Billy Gudgeon – ‘Back to Country’
Billie Rose – ‘Slaying Ghosts’
Billie-Jo Porter – ‘Howl at the Moon’
Billie-Jo Porter & Andrew Swift – ‘This Is Us Here’
Bonnie Kellett & Billie-Jo Porter – ‘Anything Could Happen’
Braydin Good – ‘Honest’
Braydin Good – ‘This Town’
Briana Dinsdale – ‘Whiskey Worked That Way’
Brittany Elise – ‘Hi It’s Me’
Brooke Schubert – ‘Baby Blue Lies’
Bud Rokesky – ‘Six Months’
Bud Rokesky – ‘Wasted’
**C**
Caitlyn Shadbolt ft Melanie Dyer, Sammy White, Sarah Buckley – ‘Country Music Never Made More Sense’
Cass Hopetoun – ‘To Be a Lady’
Cassidy-Rae – ‘Bless Your Heart’
Cassidy-Rae – ‘Fangirl’
Cassidy-Rae – ‘Good Night’
Chloe Styler – ‘Time Bomb’
Chloe Swannell – ‘Livin’ in the Country’
Christie Lamb – ‘Damn Best’
Christie Lamb – ‘If the Boot Fits’
Clancy Pye – ‘Drink About’
Claudia Tripp – ‘Rodeo’
Colin Lillie – ‘Honkytonk Southern Sky’
Corey Legge – ‘I’m Coming Back’
Courtney Keil – ‘All About You’
Courtney Keil – ‘Just Like Flying’
**D**
Danni K – ‘Little Bit More’
Dave Kent – ’80 Proof’
Dave Kent – ‘Country Music’
Dear Tommie & Nathan Lamont – ‘Right Turn’
Denvah – ‘One of Them Cowboys’
**E**
Emily Joy – ‘A Little Part of Me’
Emmagen Rain – ‘Love Me Like a Cowboy’
**F**
Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham – ‘Birdsong’
**H**
Hayley Jensen – ‘Outskirts’
Hayley Jensen – ‘Stomping Ground’
Homegrown Trio – ‘Heartbreaker’
**I**
Jake Davey – ‘Second Chance’
Jake Whittaker – ‘SHOEY’
Jade Gibson – ‘Down the Road’
Jay Santilli – ‘Someone Else’s Dream’
Jayne Denham – ‘Lovin’ a Wild Thing’
Jemma Beech – ‘One Horse Town’
Jimbo Stokes – ‘Got Me Good’
Jimbo Stokes – ‘Hold On Let’s Go’
Josie – ‘Life on the Flip Side’
Josie – ‘Our Place’
Josh Setterfield – ‘Something That You Just Might Like’
**K**
Kaitlyn Thomas – ‘Hell of a Long Time’
Katie Brooke – ‘Can’t Fake That’
Katie Jayne – ‘Too Big for Your Boots’
Kirsty Lee Akers – ‘Girls Are Why the West is Wild’
Kora Naughton – ‘Mad About You’
**L**
Laura Frank – ‘We Won’t Stop Runnin’
Lee Kernaghan & James Johnston – ‘Who I Am’
Lee Martin – ‘Free’
Lily Grace – ‘Give Me That’
Lisa De Angelis – ‘Wildwood (Time to Grow Up)’
Lozz Benson – ‘Kickin the Dirt’
Loren Ryan – ‘HOEDOWN’
Loren Ryan and Nathan Lamont – ‘My Favourite Summer’
Lucy Parle – ‘Love Yourself Better’
Luke O’Shea – ‘I Don’t Bounce Back’
**M**
Mak & Shar – ‘Best Thing’
Mak & Shar – ‘Untamed Heart’
Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields – ‘Prairie Song’
Max Jackson – ‘Fixing Things’
Max Jackson – ‘Hold My Horses’
Max Jackson – ‘Who You Did it With’
Melanie Dyer – ‘Had to be There’
Melanie Dyer – ‘Honeymoonin”
Michael Carpenter and Angus Gill – ‘All in (Or Not at All)’
Michael Carpenter and the Banks Brothers – ‘Running Out of Gas’
Miranda Easten & Steffany Beck – ‘Hell & Back’
**N**
Nathan Lamont – ‘I’m Calling Shotgun’
Nathan Lamont – ‘Name On It’
Nathan Lamont – ‘Skin to Skin’
**O**
Olivia Foy – ‘Rumour’
**P**
Piper Butcher – ‘Turn the Key’
**R**
Rachael Fahim – ‘Dance Around It’
Raechel Whitchuch – ‘Back Where I Belong’
Robbie Mortimer – ‘Blow the Speakers’
Robbie Mortimer – ‘You Got That Love’
Ruby Jane and Jen Mize – ‘Hoot N’ Holler’
**S**
Sam Snape – ‘Old Dog, Old Ute, Old Hat’
Sammi Palinkas – ‘Let Your Hair Down’
Sammy White – ‘Henhouse’
Sandee Facy – ‘Ain’t My First Rodeo’
Saralyn – ‘I Hope That I’ll Remember’
Sara Berki – ‘Tear You Apart’
Sara Berki – ‘twice’
Shanleigh Rose – ‘Ricochet’
Shara Rose – ‘Finding My Way’
Small Town Romance – ‘Wish the Worst’
Stefanie Duzel – ‘Aint’ Gon Be Me’
Sweet Talk – ‘Real Good Cookin”
**T**
Tammy Moxon – ‘Ready Now’
Tania Kernaghan – ‘Saddle Sisters’
Taylor Moss – ‘Dream Baby’
Taylor Moss – ‘Small Town Problems’
The April Family – ‘Ain’t Gonna Fit Inside Your Box’
The Buckleys – ‘Too Fast’
The Pleasures – ‘Let’s Go Again’
The Smith & Western Jury – ‘Have Mercy’
The Smith & Western Jury – ‘Not Even the Devil’
The Wolfe Brothers – ‘Little By Little’
Tom Curtain – ‘GOOD LIFE’
Tori Forsyth – ‘Aces and Eights’
Troy Cassar-Daley – ‘Let’s Ride’
Tyla Rodrigues – ‘I Believe in Roses’
Tyla Rodrigues – ‘Wish I Would’
**W**
Wade Forster – ‘Chemistry’
Will Day – ‘Find Myself a Dirt Road’
Wolfe Brothers + Kaylee Bell – ‘Beer in a Bar’
**Z**
Zac & George – ‘Be Like’
