50 Best Country Songs About Pushing Through
Top Country Tracks for Finding Strength
There’s a certain type of grit that shows up when everything feels heavier than it should. The kind that comes when you wake up worn down but still get moving, or when the weight of yesterday sits on your shoulders and you choose to keep going anyway. Music finds that space better than pep talks, and country tracks in particular know how to wear resilience without pretending it’s clean or easy. Some of them aren’t literally tied to pushing through, but the way they hit makes them feel like the soundtrack for those stubborn moments.
It’s not all bootstraps and big choruses. Sometimes it’s a line delivered in a cracked voice, sometimes a fiddle tucked under words that sound plain but carry every mile of road behind them. You can hear it in songs that lean on storytelling, but also in ones that feel closer to chants meant to keep you moving forward. It’s messy, it’s tired, it’s hopeful in the roughest way. There are echoes of other traditions too, like pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle around the same idea of holding on through whatever storm shows up.
That push-forward spirit doesn’t always sound triumphant, and that’s the point. It’s the uneven rhythm of survival set to music that refuses to stop playing, even when silence might be easier. These are the country songs that take that stubborn streak and crank the volume, ready to sit beside anyone clawing their way through the hard parts. Here are the best country songs for pushing through.
Top 10 Perseverance Country Songs
1. 'If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)' by Rodney Atkins
2. 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus
3. 'A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young' by Cody Jinks
4. ''Til You Can't' by Cody Johnson
5. 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack
6. 'Something in the Water' by Carrie Underwood
7. 'Tough People' by Drew Baldridge
8. 'I'm Gonna Love You Through It' by Martina McBride
9. 'Hard Workin' Man' by Brooks & Dunn
10. 'That's Why I'm Here' by Kenny Chesney
Finding Strength in Country Music #11 to 20
11. 'The Journey of Your Life' by Jake Owen
12. 'Choices' by George Jones
13. 'Jesus Take the Wheel' by Carrie Underwood
14. 'The Long Way' by Brett Eldredge
15. 'Humble and Kind' by Tim McGraw
16. 'Wide Open Spaces' by The Chicks
17. 'Rhinestone Cowboy' by Glen Campbell
18. 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn
19. 'Love Like Crazy' by Lee Brice
20. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
Songs About Overcoming Struggles #21 to 30
21. 'Thank You, Misery' by James Robert Webb
22. 'Roots Run Deep' by Austin Michael
23. 'Unstoppable' by TobyMac
24. '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton
25. 'Man of Constant Sorrow' by The Soggy Bottom Boys
26. 'I'm the Boy Who Wouldn't Give Up' by JourneyTune Media
27. 'The Rising' by Bruce Springsteen
28. 'Firework' by Katy Perry
29. 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor
30. 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers
Country Songs About Resilience #31 to 40
31. 'Workin' Man's Ph.D.' by Aaron Tippin
32. 'Keep Your Head Up' by Andy Grammer
33. 'Hard Times' by Tyler Childers
34. 'The Medicine Will' by Brad Paisley
35. 'The Fighter' by Keith Urban
36. 'The Good Ones' by Gabby Barrett
37. 'Dirt Road Anthem' by Jason Aldean
38. 'Me and My Kind' by Cody Johnson
39. 'Where I Come From' by Alan Jackson
40. 'My Town' by Montgomery Gentry
Songs for Pushing Through #41 to 50
41. 'Don't Give Up On Me' by Jason Aldean
42. 'This Is Me' by Keala Settle
43. 'It Won't Always Be Like This' by Carly Pearce
44. 'Workin' Man Blues' by Merle Haggard
45. 'The Comeback' by Casey Donahew
46. 'Rise' by Katy Perry
47. 'I'm a Survivor' by Reba McEntire
48. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
49. 'Just to See You Smile' by Tim McGraw
50. 'I Can't Stop Loving You' by Ray Charles
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