Country stars Megan Moroney and Ella Langley coincidentally held arena concerts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on the same weekend, a pairing that highlighted how women are now leading country music's crossover into mainstream pop. Historically, female artists in Nashville rarely reached No. 1 or headlined arena tours, and it was almost unheard of for two women to achieve such success simultaneously; this year, both singers have topped charts and sold huge numbers of tickets in parallel, setting a new precedent for the genre.

Moroney played Dallas' American Airlines Center on Friday 14 August to a sold-out, roughly 20,000-strong crowd on her first headlining arena tour, with fans dressed in pink, camo and sparkles for an atmosphere likened to a girls' night out. Over two hours she performed a mix of honky-tonk, love songs and disco-country tracks including "Medicine", "Convincing", "Table For Two" and "Wish I Didn't". Langley played a separate show in the same region the following night, Saturday 15 August, reflecting a contrasting but equally successful style within the same crossover trend.