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All three charts are considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958. [ 2 ] In the first issue of Billboard of 1950, Christmas songs were at number one on two charts, with " Blue Christmas " by Ernest Tubb in the top spot on the juke box chart and Gene Autry 's recording of " Rudolph the ...
The record for the longest-running country number one was broken by "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line, which spent 24 weeks atop the Hot Country Songs chart in 2012 and 2013, [9] a figure subsequently exceeded by "Body Like a Back Road" by Sam Hunt (34 weeks in 2017) and "Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line (50 weeks in 2017 and ...
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."
The list of the best classic country songs of all times just keeps growing and growing! When it comes to sad songs (oh, the sad songs), country music does it so right, capturing those somber, sick ...
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1978, 31 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports ...
He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."
Until 2013 (when changes to chart methodology will result in longer chart runs), the song – a 12-bar blues song metaphorically using a train trip to describe a young man's breakup with a high-class girlfriend – is one of just three that will stay as long atop the charts in chart history.
Country Music's Top Ten, 1983–1992. One-hour program presenting the week's top 10 country hits per Radio & Records , along with a feature artist interview, a top 10 song from that week a year earlier, and a "pick hit" (a song that, in the judgement of the hosts and producers, would become a future top 10 hit).