A lot of people say the end of good country music was about 1981. This is about right, though there were still some good post-1981 country records. But why 1981? The main problem was the film Urban Cowboy, which came out in 1980. More precisely, the problem is the soundtrack to same, which (despite not being that bad) was a huge hit and pretty much every track on that shot up the charts. The Urban Cowboy soundtrack featured a combination of country and pop music (mirroring the film's story of a cowboy moving to the city and reflecting it in the combination of cultures in the songs). At any rate, the Nashville Music Industry saw the success of that record, noticed that country records were selling more than they ever had and decided that: