Taylor Swift

It's the night of the Jellicle Ball and all these tinier-than-usual cats present themselves to Old Deuteronomy in hopes of being chosen to make the journey to the Heaviside Layer where they will be reborn, to live a new -- and hopefully better -- life. But someone is trying to eliminate the competition.

For decades, ballads have been some of the most popular hits in country music. The latest installment in the NOW series brings together more recent hit ballads from such names as Taylor Swift, Darius Rucker, and Keith Urban.