Number One Country Song

Too much gender bias on this list being recognized here by a male voter.

Number one country song. It reached the top of the chart more than six months after it had been number one on country airplay and marked the first time for five years that an act had replaced itself. 16 crazy patsy cline. Wynette topped the chart for the first time when she collaborated with david houston on the song my elusive dreams 6 and returned to the top. J joyce a mcbryde s mcanally n hayford.

Plus the song doesn t represent. Hot country songs ranks songs based on digital downloads streaming and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats a methodology introduced in 2012. Two months later meant to be by bebe rexha and florida georgia line entered the hot country chart at number one only the fourth time a song had debuted in the top position of the hot country songs chart. In my humble opinion this is the number one greatest country song ever written.

Don t understand song of the south being on this list at all. The latter song broke the record for the longest time taken to climb to number one on the hot country songs chart reaching the top spot in its 54th week on the listing. In 1968 24 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 submitted by stores. This is a list of number one country songs in the united states by year from the billboard hot country songs chart and its predecessors.

Another female vocalist who would go on to achieve a string of number one hits and be viewed as an all time great of country music tammy wynette also reached number one for the first time in 1967. Country music belongs to all areas of the country not just the south. Hot country songs and country airplay are the two main charts that rank the top performing country music songs in the united states published by billboard magazine. Hot country songs.

In 1962 sheb wooley reached number one with his first country chart entry that s my pa which spent one week in the top spot in march. Wooley had achieved success on the pop charts in 1958 with the million selling novelty song the purple people eater but had never previously appeared on the country listing. Hot country songs is a chart that ranks the top performing country music songs in the united states published by billboard magazine.