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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]
The release of Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection continues a trend towards chronicling the genre's history via compact disc during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Time-Life Music's Country USA series continued to issue new albums, while Columbia Records issues its five-volume Country Classics series during the summer.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
Willie Nelson sets a new record as the oldest artist to achieve a number one country song at age 70. [69] 2004: 2005: The chart's name changes to Hot Country Songs. Josh Gracin becomes the first American Idol finalist to achieve a country number one. [2] [70] [71] 2006: George Strait achieves his 41st number one, breaking Conway Twitty's record.
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'."
In 1993, 33 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. [1] The number one song at the start of the year was "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" by Vince ...
Clint Black's album Killin' Time, which had first reached number one in 1989, continued to spend time in the top spot for much of 1990. Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1990, seven different albums topped the chart, based on sales reports submitted ...
American country music duo the Judds recorded a total of 90 songs from 1978 to 2011. 80 of these songs were recorded as the Judds (77 studio recordings, two live recordings that were never recorded in the studio, and one studio work tape that was never completed for a studio album).