50 Best Country Songs About Stars

Best Country Songs Featuring Stars

There’s a strange thing that happens when songs point to the sky. It can be a clear night on the back of a truck bed, headlights off, bugs swarming in the dark, and you suddenly hear a voice crooning about stars that feel a little too close. Sometimes it’s wide open wonder, sometimes it’s laced with loneliness. The images can be literal or they can be borrowed as shorthand for dreams, distance, or people you can’t reach anymore. Even the ones that lean heavy on metaphor still live in that same space, where looking up feels like a stand-in for everything bigger than you.

Not all tracks spell it out clean. Some spin stories of small towns that get measured against the glow above, others turn the stars into quiet witnesses to heartbreak. It’s the same kind of move you find in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, where a single word can carry weight far beyond its plain meaning. You can catch that shift in tone where a star is less a light in the sky and more a symbol of what someone lost, or what they think they’ll find if they keep moving. Even the upbeat ones land with a hint of longing, tucked under the shine.

That’s part of what makes these cuts stick. They swing between wonder and ache, with a mix of simple language and heavy feeling that ends up lingering long after the track fades out. Some tracks might not be strictly tied to stars in the literal sense, but the way they use the word earns them a spot in the same constellation. Here are the best country songs featuring stars.

1. 'Keeper of the Stars' by Tracy Byrd

2. 'I Saw the Light' by Hank Williams

3. 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay

4. 'Stars Like Confetti' by Dustin Lynch

5. 'When the Stars Come Out' by Chris Stapleton

6. 'Stars Over Texas' by Aaron Watson

7. 'When God Made Girls' by RaeLynn

8. 'Stars' by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

9. 'Texas, When I Die' by Ed Bruce

10. 'Written in the Stars' by The Head and the Heart

11. 'All of the Stars' by Ed Sheeran

12. 'Somewhere Over Laredo' by Lainey Wilson

13. 'Nothing On But The Stars' by Dierks Bentley

14. 'Stars' by The Weepies

15. 'The Stars' by Lady A

16. 'Stars Tonight' by Lady A

17. 'You Never Even Call Me by My Name' by David Allan Coe

18. 'My Stars' by The Steeldrivers

19. 'Southern Star' by Gregory Alan Isakov

20. 'Shooting Star' by Willie Nelson

21. 'Neon Moon' by Brooks & Dunn

22. 'Starlight' by Muse

23. 'Under the Milky Way' by The Church

24. 'Stars' by Simply Red

25. 'Star of the Show' by Thomas Rhett

26. 'I'm Already There' by Lonestar

27. 'To the Stars' by The Cadillac Three

28. 'Stars Over the Water' by The Judds

29. 'Humble and Kind' by Tim McGraw

30. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert

31. 'I Loved Her First' by Heartland

32. 'When the Stars Go Blue' by Ryan Adams

33. 'Watching You' by Rodney Atkins

34. 'My Little Girl' by Tim McGraw

35. 'The Greatest Man I Never Knew' by Reba McEntire

36. 'Family Bible' by Willie Nelson

37. 'Simple as Dirt' by Chris LeDoux

38. 'We'll Be The Stars' by Sabrina Carpenter

39. 'Looking at the Moon and Wishing on a Star' by Charline Arthur

40. 'Neon Star (Country Boy Lullaby)' by Morgan Wallen

41. 'Till the Stars Fade' by Sunset Country Vibe

42. 'Georgia On a Fast Train' by Billy Joe Shaver

43. 'Check Yes or No' by George Strait

44. 'Daddy Sang Bass' by Johnny Cash

45. 'Simple Life' by Ricky Skaggs

46. 'Mama Tried' by Merle Haggard

47. 'The Ballad of Stars and Strangers' by The Tallest Man on Earth

48. 'The Stars are Out Tonight' by David Bowie

49. 'Lasso the Moon' by Gary Morris

50. 'When The Stars Go Blue' by The Corrs featuring Bono