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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.
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]
2000 January 1 "Back at One" Brian McKnight: January 8 January 15 January 22 January 29 "I Knew I Loved You" Savage Garden: February 5 February 12 February 19 February 26 March 4 March 11 "Bye Bye Bye" 'N Sync [1] March 18 March 25 April 1 April 8 "Say My Name" Destiny's Child: April 15 "Bye Bye Bye" 'N Sync April 22 "Maria Maria"
What About Now: Lonestar [28] July 31 [29] August 7 [30] August 14 [31] August 21 That's the Way: Jo Dee Messina [32] August 28 [33] September 4 [34] September 11 [35] September 18 What About Now Lonestar [36] September 25 That's the Way Jo Dee Messina [37] October 2 [38] October 9 [39] October 16 Go On: George Strait [40] October 23 [note 2 ...
On terrestrial radio, country music is the dominant format in the United States, with nearly four times as many stations as Top 40 operations. Last year, country superstar Luke Combs' remake of ...
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.)
The country-leaning "Amazed" — which had a brief run in the Hot 100 during the summer of 1999 — had been remixed for Top 40 radio, launching it to its run of pop-radio success. March 7 - George Strait and Alan Jackson release " Murder on Music Row ".
Throughout the decade, a total of 129 singles claimed the top spot of the Hot 100. While Santana 's " Smooth " featuring Rob Thomas topped the chart in the first two weeks of 2000, it was not counted as a number-one single of the 2000s decade by Billboard because it had topped the chart in October 1999, and thus was counted as a number-one ...