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Countess Vaughn

Countess Vaughn (born 1978, Idabel, Oklahoma) is an American actress and singer, Star Search junior champion, best known as Kim Parker on Moesha and its spin-off The Parkers (1999-2004).

Counting Cars

Counting Cars is a History channel reality series (2012-2021, 10 seasons) following Danny "The Count" Koker and Count's Kustoms in Las Vegas restoring and flipping classic cars, a Pawn Stars spin-off.

Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, known for Adam Duritz's songwriting and the 1993 debut August and Everything After.

Counting On

Counting On, originally Jill & Jessa: Counting On, was a TLC reality spinoff of 19 Kids and Counting following the older Duggar children; it ran 11 seasons from December 2015 to 2020, was canceled by TLC in June 2021 after Josh Duggar's child-pornography arrest, and was removed from streaming in 2026 after Joseph Duggar's molestation arrest.

Counting Stars

Counting Stars is a 2013 OneRepublic song written by Ryan Tedder from the album Native; UK number one, US Billboard Hot 100 number two, RIAA Diamond certified, over three billion Spotify streams, re-recorded in 2023.

Counting the Stars at Night

Counting the Stars at Night (별 헤는 밤, Byeol heneun bam) is a Korean lyric poem written by Yun Dong-ju in 1941 and published after his death in 1948.

Country and She Knows It

"Country and She Knows It" is a 2026 country song by Luke Bryan, an up-tempo party anthem built on the hook "She country and she knows it".

Country Bear Jamboree

Country Bear Jamboree: Audio-Animatronics bear country-music stage show opened October 1, 1971 at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World; copied to Disneyland 1972 and Tokyo Disneyland 1983; reimagined 2024 as Country Bear Musical Jamboree.

Country Comfort

Country Comfort is a 2021 Netflix multi-camera family sitcom created by Caryn Lucas, starring Katharine McPhee as singer-nanny Bailey and Eddie Cibrian as widower Beau; one season of 10 episodes, Emmy-winning cinematography, canceled July 2021.

Country Grammar

Country Grammar is Nelly's debut album, released June 27, 2000; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, spawned "Ride Wit Me" (No. 3 pop), and was RIAA Diamond-certified for over 10 million copies.

Country Joe and the Fish

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic folk-rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965 by Joe McDonald and Barry "The Fish" Melton, known for the antiwar "Fixin' to Die Rag."

Country Joe McDonald

Country Joe McDonald (Joseph Allen McDonald, 1942–2026) was an American folk-rock singer-songwriter, leader of Country Joe and the Fish, famed for the anti-Vietnam War "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" and the Fish Cheer at Woodstock 1969; he died in Berkeley from Parkinson's disease.

Country Life (Roxy Music album)

Country Life is Roxy Music's fourth studio album, released 15 November 1974. Known for its censored cover with models Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald, it peaked at No. 3 in the UK and was the band's first US Top 40 album.

Country Life Vlog

Country Life Vlog (Kənd Həyatı) is the Ramikhanov family's Azerbaijani YouTube channel, started 2019 in Hil, Gusar; silent outdoor cooking videos by Aziza Ramikhanova, 8.53M subscribers, 3B views, distinct from smaller same-name channels.

Country music

Country music: American popular genre from the rural South, rooted in British Isles folk, blues, and gospel; first recorded 1922 (Eck Robertson), defined by Bristol Sessions, bluegrass, honky-tonk, western swing, and Nashville's industry.

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association is a Nashville-based trade association founded in 1958, the first formed to promote a music genre, known for the CMA Awards and CMA Fest.

Country Music Association Awards

Country Music Association Awards (CMA Awards), peer-voted country music honors first held October 20, 1967 in Nashville; 12 categories chosen by 7,000+ CMA members, airing on ABC since 2006, with the 60th ceremony November 18, 2026 on ABC and Disney+.

Country music festival

Country music festival: multi-day events devoted to country music, from CMA Fest (Fan Fair, 1972, Nashville, longest-running), Stagecoach in Indio, to Tamworth Australia (60,000 visitors), covering history, economics, and audience culture.

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Nashville nonprofit museum (chartered 1964, opened 1967 on Music Row, downtown since 2001) preserving country music history and administering the CMA-elected Hall of Fame, 158 members as of 2025.

Country pop

Country pop, also called country crossover, is a music genre blending country songwriting with pop production, emerging in Nashville in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Country rap

Country rap, also called hick-hop, is a music genre combining country music and hip hop, from raps over country instrumentals to country vocals over rap beats.

Country rock

Country rock is a music genre fusing country and western with rock and roll, pioneered around 1967-1969 by the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, smoothed into 1970s mainstream success by the Eagles and Poco, and later feeding alt-country and Americana.

Country Squire

Country Squire (2019) is Tyler Childers's third studio album, released via RCA Nashville and his Hickman Holler imprint, produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson; nine songs, 35 minutes, Metascore 85, first major-label release.

Country Strong

Country Strong is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Shana Feste, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, and Leighton Meester, about a country star's comeback tour; Metascore 45, $20.2M US gross, Oscar-nominated song.

Countryballs

Countryballs, also called Polandball, are satirical user-generated internet comics of countries drawn as flag-painted balls with two white eyes, no mouth, and broken English (Engrish). Originated around September 2009 on Krautchan; main hub r/polandball.

Couple Friendly

Couple Friendly (కపుల్ ఫ్రెండ్లీ) is a 2026 Telugu romantic drama, Ashwin Chandrasekar's debut, starring Santosh Soban and Manasa Varanasi as a live-in couple in Chennai; released February 14, 2026 with an A certificate, streaming on Prime Video from March 13, 2026.

Couples Retreat

Couples Retreat (2009) is a Universal comedy directed by Peter Billingsley, written by Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, and Dana Fox. Four couples at a tropical resort must attend mandatory therapy; critics panned it (Metascore 23, RT 10%).

Couples Weekend

Couples Weekend (formerly A Tree Fell in the Woods) is a 2026 American comedy-drama, Nora Kirkpatrick's feature directorial debut, starring Josh Gad, Alexandra Daddario, Daveed Diggs, and Ashley Park as two couples whose New Year's cabin retreat unravels after an affair is discovered; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released May 8, 2026 by Vertical.

Couplet

Couplet: two successive lines of poetry, usually rhymed (aa) and of equal length. Also the heroic couplet (rhymed iambic pentameter, from Chaucer 1386, refined by Dryden and Pope); distinguished from French couplet meaning stanza and the Chinese couplet form.

Coupling (British TV series)

Coupling (BBC Two/BBC Three, 2000-2004) is a British sitcom by Steven Moffat about six London friends and sex, often called a British Friends; its 2003 NBC remake was cancelled after three weeks.