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The Billboard Music Award for Top Country Artist recognizes the most successful country artists on the Billboard Charts over the past year. Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift has won the most awards with three each. Dixie Chicks became the first group to win it in the 1999 Billboard Music Awards.
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]
In August, Oliver Anthony entered the Hot Country Songs listing at number one with "Rich Men North of Richmond" (credited to "Oliver Anthony Music"), his first song to enter any of Billboard ' s charts. [12] [13] In September, Kacey Musgraves scored her first number one country single as a featured artist on Bryan's "I Remember Everything ...
The best-selling country artists of all time include Elvis Presley, Tim McGraw, and Shania Twain. We used RIAA's data to compile this list based on total album units sold in the US.
Top country artists. Despite its American flavor, old-school country music is big across the world: the top artist globally, Alan Jackson, has millions of YouTube video views as far afield as ...
Every song to top the Hot Country Songs listing during the year also topped Billboard ' s all-genre multimetric songs chart, the Hot 100, [9] highlighting country music's unprecedented level of mainstream success in 2024. [10] In November, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tied the record for the longest-running number one in the history of the Hot 100. [11]
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]
Michael Jackson (age 11 years, 155 days) is the youngest artist to top the Hot 100. He achieved the record, as part of the Jackson 5, with "I Want You Back" on January 31, 1970. [246] [247] Stevie Wonder (age 13 years, 89 days) is the youngest solo artist to top the Hot 100. He set the record with "Fingertips Pt. 2" on August 10, 1963.