Country music came into its own in a big way during the 1990s. With more FM radio stations offering artists exposure, blockbuster album sales followed — as did superstardom for acts such as Shania Twain and Garth Brooks, both of whom had multiple full-length projects be certified diamond, for shipping in excess of 10 million albums.
Yet the ’90s also introduced several new acts that would shape country music for decades to come, and found veteran artists receiving a bump in notoriety (and record sales), courtesy of a mainstream musical climate that embraced the genre like never before. Read on for The Boot’s picks for the Top 10 Country Albums of the 1990s.