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Chart history; Year Notes Ref(s). 1944: Billboard launches the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart, its first country music chart, in the issue dated January 8; the first number one is "Pistol Packin' Mama", up to four different recordings of which are bracketed together and treated as one entry.
The song, composed and originally recorded by Anderson in 1964, told of a tired woman attempting to move from Louisville, Kentucky, to her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. The song rose to #4 on the country charts, [ 1 ] becoming one of her many top ten hits she had in the 1960s, and also becoming one of her signature songs.
1988 in country music, chronicling the history of country music on compact disc (among the first being the Country USA series); Merle Haggard's last No. 1 hit. 1989 in country music, The rise and chart debuts of Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Travis Tritt and Alan Jackson; death of Keith Whitley; Ronnie Milsap has last No. 1 hit, "A Woman in Love."
In 1994, 30 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. [1] Two artists reached number one with three different songs in 1994.
Three songs by Bob Wills reached number one in 1946, including "New Spanish Two Step", which spent 15 consecutive weeks in the top spot.. From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a chart that ranked the top-performing country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart.
Rosanne Cash became the only artist to take a cover version of a Beatles song to number one on the country chart. Cash's then-husband [14] Rodney Crowell topped the chart three times in 1989. Patty Loveless was a first-time chart-topper in 1989. Garth Brooks topped the chart for the first time with "If Tomorrow Never Comes". He would go on to ...
The Crests were another multiracial group, and their song “16 Candles” peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is an ode to a girl on her 16th birthday, and it’s one of the most ...
In 1993, 33 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. [1] The number one song at the start of the year was "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" by Vince ...