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Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 2000, 19 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.
Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" spent 25 weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and also topped the all-genre Hot 100, the first song by a solo male country singer to do so since 1981. Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine.
The chart was renamed Hot Country Singles in 1962, Hot Country Singles and Tracks in 1990, and Hot Country Songs in 2005. [1] [2] In 1990, its methodology changed to use only airplay data from country music radio stations. [1] In 2012, this changed again to use data from stations of all formats as well as sales and streaming information. [3]
Faith Hill's single "Breathe" was the first country music recording to be ranked number one since Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959. ( Patsy Cline 's " I Fall to Pieces " ( 1961 ) and Glen Campbell 's " Rhinestone Cowboy " ( 1975 ) had each come close, ranking second.)
At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2023, the list was published on November 21, calculated with data from November 19, 2022, to October 21, 2023. [2]
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
Hot Gospel Songs is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It ranks the popularity of gospel songs using the same methodology developed for the Billboard Hot 100, [1] the magazine's flagship songs chart, [2] by incorporating data from the sales of downloads, streaming data, [3] [4] and airplay across all monitored radio stations.