Best of 2018

Who gets your vote?

To determine the five biggest stories of each month of 2018, The Boot's staff looked at website traffic; the featured stories received the most visitors throughout the month in which they broke.

A death, a secret, an arrest, a close call and a confession that brought tabloid attention — they all make this list of country music news stories that had us saying O-M-G.

The best selling songs of 2018 weren't all feel good songs.

Is Chris Stapleton slipping?

What a good year for fashion!

It certainly was not all good news.

The fans have spoken.

The best country albums of any given year are situational.

In both its high and lows, the year has been a memorable one.