Cody Johnson Setlist 2026 — Songs, Order & Running Time

Cody Johnson setlist — songs, song order and run time

A current Cody Johnson setlist runs twenty-three to twenty-six songs across a deliberate 110 to 125 minutes with no intermission and no backing tracks, and the run order is built around four guaranteed singalongs that every Leather Tour night routes through. "'Til You Can't" — the lead single off the October 2021 Human: The Double Album that ran to No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart, won the 2022 CMA Song of the Year and Single of the Year and picked up the 2023 Grammy nomination for Best Country Song — closes the night more often than any other song; the band stretches the last chorus to thirty seconds of arena singing back at Johnson loud enough to make the room shake. "The Painter" — the love song Johnson wrote for his wife Brandi Johnson and the next No. 1 single off the same album — lands roughly a third of the way through the night and gets the first full-arena phone-light singalong. "Human" — the title-track No. 1 single off the same album — anchors the back half of the main set with a four-on-the-floor production drop and is one of the louder moments of any night on the tour. "Dear Rodeo" — the rodeo-retirement duet with Reba McEntire that won the 2021 ACM Music Event of the Year and is by far the most emotionally charged moment of any current Leather Tour set — typically lands in the mid-set acoustic block with the full band stripped to acoustic guitar, fiddle and steel; on the Texas dates with a Houston, Dallas, Austin or San Antonio date the room sings the chorus loud enough to drown the band. "On My Way to You" — the lead single off the January 2019 Ain't Nothin' to It major-label debut that delivered Johnson's first national No. 1 — lands in the same mid-set hit run alongside "Husbands and Wives" (the Brooks & Dunn cover Johnson recorded as a duet with Reba McEntire) and the deeper Cowboy Like Me and Leather album material. The typical structure is a 90-minute main set on the A-stage with the full eight-piece road band — twin fiddles, full pedal steel, two electric guitars, Telecaster lead — a 15-to-20-minute acoustic mid-set with the band stripped to acoustic and steel where Johnson plays "Dear Rodeo" and the dance-hall throwback "With You I Am" stripped back, then a return to the full band for the back-half hit run that lands "Human", "The Painter" and the encore closer "'Til You Can't". "Long Haired Country Boy" — the Charlie Daniels cover Johnson has played at every show since the prison-guard days — typically gets the back-half cover-set slot. Encore is typically a single track, sometimes two if the curfew allows. Check setlist.fm after the first night of any new Leather Tour leg for the current night-by-night run order — fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of last call.

Songs Cody Johnson Fans Expect to Hear

A confirmed Cody Johnson setlist is not published before each show, but headline sets lean heavily on the catalogue's biggest songs. These are Cody Johnson's 15 most popular tracks right now, ranked by streaming popularity — the songs most likely to make the 2026 set.

1. 'Til You Can't
2. On My Way to You
3. With You I Am
4. Diamond In My Pocket
5. Me and My Kind
6. Dirt Cheap
7. Nothin' on You
8. Dance Her Home
9. Ride With Me
10. Dear Rodeo
11. Human
12. Texas Kind of Way
13. I'm Gonna Love You
14. Wild as You
15. The Painter

Popularity from the iTunes Search API · listen on Apple Music. Not a confirmed running order; fan-reported setlists appear on Setlist.fm after each show.

Cody Johnson 2026 Tour Setlist Structure

Cody Johnson, the American traditional country act, currently has 7 confirmed live dates — the most recent routing points at Manchester AO Arena in Manchester, so the song order below reflects how traditional country headline sets of this size are typically paced.

Recent Cody Johnson concerts have averaged between 18 and 24 songs spread across roughly 90 to 120 minutes of performance time (excluding opener). The shows typically follow this rough structure:

1. Opener (song 1 to 2). A high-energy hit to set the tone.
2. Hit block (song 3 to 7). A run of the most-streamed singles.
3. Acoustic / storytelling moment (song 8 to 10). Stripped-back arrangements and banter.
4. Deep-cut set (song 11 to 15). Fan favorites and newer album tracks.
5. Peak run (song 16 to 20). The dancefloor anthems and biggest singalongs.
6. Encore (song 21 to 24). A 2 to 3 song encore featuring the signature closer.

Does the Cody Johnson Setlist Change Night to Night?

The core of the Cody Johnson 2026 setlist — the singles and the staging — stays consistent across the tour so production cues work from night to night. Smaller changes (a deep cut swap, a city-specific cover, or an acoustic surprise) happen on some nights. For the exact setlist from a specific Cody Johnson show, check fan-submitted setlists on Setlist.fm after the concert.

Cody Johnson Setlist — FAQ

About Cody Johnson

Cody Wayne Johnson was born May 18, 1987 in Sebastopol, Texas — an unincorporated community in the East Texas pines about an hour and a half north of Houston — and raised between Huntsville and the rodeo grounds his father took him to as soon as he could climb a fence. He picked up a guitar in his early teens, picked up bull riding around the same time, and rode the Texas amateur rodeo circuit through high school and into his early twenties as a working bull rider with serious enough chops to chase a pro card. The day job that funded the music for the first eight years of the career was a corrections officer at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, the prison-town the East Texas Department runs out of; Johnson worked the gates and the towers in uniform from 2008 through about 2013 while gigging four and five nights a week at the dance halls — Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Billy Bob's in Fort Worth, the Houston honky-tonks — and self-releasing studio records under his own CoJo Music imprint. Black and White and Six Strings (2006) was the first record; Cowboy Like Me (2010), A Different Day (2011), Cowboy Like Me Deluxe (2013), Cowboy Like Me Bonus (2014), Gotta Be Me (2016) and Cowboy Like Me's various reissues followed across the next decade. By 2014 the Texas country radio format had Johnson at the top of its airplay chart and Billy Bob's Fort Worth on its books for sold-out multi-night runs; the major-label conversation that Nashville had spent five years not having with him finally happened in early 2018 when Warner Music Nashville signed Johnson on a deal that — unusually for a Music Row contract — let him keep his band, his producer Trent Willmon and his publishing imprint intact.

Ain't Nothin' to It came out in January 2019 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the largest country debut of the year. The Cowboy Like Me dance-hall material that Johnson had been chart-topping the Texas regional format with for a decade was the spine of the record; "On My Way to You" was the lead single and his first national No. 1. Human: The Double Album arrived in October 2021 as a sprawling double-album set with seventeen tracks across two discs, and "'Til You Can't" — the song that flipped the catalogue from regional Texas-country headliner to stadium-tier — landed as the lead single. The song ran to No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart, won the 2022 CMA Song of the Year and Single of the Year, picked up the 2023 Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, and put Johnson on the front row of the country format's award-circuit conversation for the first time. "The Painter" — the love song he wrote for his wife Brandi Johnson, the high-school sweetheart he has been married to since 2011 and with whom he has three daughters — followed as the next No. 1; "Human" anchored the next cycle. Leather arrived in November 2023 with the title track and "The Fall" as the two anchor singles, extended the Texas dance-hall material into another platinum-selling record, and built out the Leather Tour stadium-and-arena routing that has rolled continuously since. A CMA Award winner, an ACM-recognised touring operation, and one of the very few Texas-traditional country headliners selling rodeo grounds and arenas at scale, Johnson remains based out of Huntsville with Brandi and the daughters and runs the CoJo Music imprint as his publishing home.

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