If anyone has earned the right to write the book on heartbreak, it’s Reba McEntire — and on her brand-new EP, Hurt Like That, the Queen of Country tears another page out of it.

Out today (May 22) via MCA, Hurt Like That is the second installment in Reba’s monthly music capsule series, a rolling celebration of her 50-year career that pairs a freshly recorded song with handpicked classics from her catalog. The title track, written by Kellys Collins and Casey Wood and produced by Dave Cobb, is a tender, slow-burning ballad that proves no one has wrapped their voice around longing and loneliness quite like Reba has over the last five decades.

Billboard called it out as a must-hear, praising how McEntire “wraps her inimitable voice around this tender ballad of longing and loneliness.” And honestly? They’re not wrong. The new cut sits comfortably alongside heartbreak benchmarks like “Somebody Should Leave,” “For My Broken Heart,” “What Am I Gonna Do About You,” and “The Clown” — a tracklist that essentially functions as a masterclass in country sadness.

Hurt Like That – EP Tracklist:
1. “Hurt Like That” (produced by Dave Cobb)
2. “Somebody Should Leave” (produced by Harold Shedd)
3. “For My Broken Heart” (produced by Tony Brown and Reba McEntire)
4. “What Am I Gonna Do About You” (produced by Jimmy Bowen and Reba McEntire)
5. “The Clown” (produced by Buddy Cannon and Reba McEntire)

The EP follows last month’s One Night In Tulsa capsule and its companion “The Making of Reba” playlist. Up next: “The Rise of Reba” playlist drops June 1, tracing her meteoric ascent through the ’80s as country music’s then-next big thing (spoiler: she became the biggest).

It’s been a banner stretch for the Hall of Famer. Her 1990 album Rumor Has It was just inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry as part of the class of 2026, and on May 20 she was honored with the Music Heals Golden Ukulele at the inaugural Music Heals Live! event in Nashville for her work with Musicians On Call.

Fifty years in, 35 #1 singles deep, and 58 million albums later, Reba is still finding new ways to make heartbreak sound this good.

Stream Hurt Like That – EP on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UXqAaa6dQYAk18Lv7PEgX