The 50 Best Pop Country Songs of the Last 20 Years

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Want to ostracize yourself from your peer group in one fell swoop? Fervently defend your undying love for Top 40 country music. That'll do the trick. Despite ire, skepticism, and stereotypes, the past 20 years have produced hundreds of good pop country songsclass="redactor-invisible-space">. Here are the top 50, chosen purely for our own selfish reasons.