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Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States since 1944. The first country chart was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records in the issue of the magazine dated January 8, 1944, and tracked the songs most played in the nation's jukeboxes. [1]
These are the songs with 16 or more weeks at number one. Fifteen songs accomplished this feat between 1946 and 1964 (including on the country charts published by Billboard prior to the launch in 1958 of what is now the Hot Country Songs listing), but none did so again until after the 2012 reformulation; between the nine-week run of "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston in 1966 and the chart's ...
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on the weekly country music singles chart published by Billboard magazine. From January 8, 1944 to May 15, 1948, the only country music chart was the Juke Box chart. A Best Sellers chart debuted that week, followed by a Jockeys chart on the week of December 10, 1949. [1]
The song was a considerable crossover success, also topping the Adult Contemporary chart and reaching number one on the all-genres Billboard Hot 100. [2] [3] In 2005 the song topped a poll run by country music television channel CMT of the best country duets of all time. [4]
The song went to #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in 2008 and landed on Billboard's list of the greatest country songs of all time. Though Otto's later releases have received less ...
Two-time winner Roger Miller was the first recipient of the award. 1970 winner Shel Silverstein 1971 winner Marty Robbins 1972 winner Kris Kristofferson 1977 winner Larry Gatlin 1981 winner Willie Nelson 1982 winner Dolly Parton 1986 winner Jimmy Webb 1992 co-winner Naomi Judd Two-time winner Vince Gill 1994 winner Lucinda Williams Two-time winner Shania Twain 2003 winner Alan Jackson Two-time ...
Song Artist Other Nominees 1992 I Saw the Light [1] Wynonna Judd: 1996 My Maria [2] Brooks & Dunn: George Strait-Blue Clear Sky [2] Tracy Lawrence-Time Marches On; Ricochet-Daddy's Money; 2001 Ain't Nothing 'Bout You [3] Brooks & Dunn 2011 Need You Now [4] Lady Antebellum: The Band Perry-If I Die Young; Miranda Lambert-The House That Built Me ...
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.