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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 1990, 24 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine. The chart was published under the title Hot Country Singles through the February 10 issue and Hot Country Singles & Tracks thereafter. [1]
May 17 — Kree Harrison, singer and musician, who was the runner-up on the twelfth season of American Idol. May 27 — Brett Kissel, Canadian country singer of the 2010s. July 23 — Neil Perry, member of The Band Perry. July 27 — Cheyenne Kimball, member of Gloriana from 2008–2011.
Connie Smith held the record for the longest run at number one by a female artist for nearly 50 years. Sonny James achieved 16 consecutive number ones in the late 1960s and early 1970s. " More Than a Memory " by Garth Brooks was the first song to debut at number one in the history of Billboard' s country charts.
Boyz II Menremained at the top of the BillboardHot 100 chart for 50 weeks during the 1990s. They scored five number-one songs, with three of them spending over 10 weeks atop the chart. The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Careyand Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history ...
2001 in country music, Tributes to those killed in the September 11 attacks. Death of Johnny Russell. 2002 in country music, Toby Keith / Natalie Maines feud; comeback albums from Shania Twain, Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks, The Statler Brothers final concert and retirement. Death of Waylon Jennings.
National Barn Dance, the original country music radio show. (1924–1960) Grand Ole Opry, the most famous country music radio program, broadcasting on WSM from Nashville. (1925–present) Jamboree U-S-A, airing from WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. Spun off a popular music festival, the Jamboree in the Hills. (1933–2007).
e. Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Furthermore, hip hop grew and continued to be highly successful in the decade, with the continuation of the genre's golden age. Aside from rap, reggae, contemporary R&B, and urban music in general remained popular ...
Country. Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.