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This is a list of number-one country songs in Canada by year from the RPM Country Tracks chart (1964–2000), Radio & Records Canada Country Top 30 (2004–2009; although it would be replaced as the main chart with the following chart), and Billboard Canada Country chart (2006–2024).
February 14 — "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley #1 selling Country record becomes first Country cross over on Pop Best Seller chart. [citation needed] August 19 — Hank Snow begins a 21-week run at No. 1 [citation needed] on the Billboard country charts with his landmark "I'm Movin' On."
Hank Snow had lengthy runs at the top of all three charts with "I'm Movin' On".. In 1950, Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States: Most-Played Juke Box (Country & Western) Records, Best-Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records and Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys.
A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music judging by the popularity during a given period of time. Although primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right. Record charts are compiled using a variety of criteria.
The oldest Canadian music chart was CHUM Chart, which debuted on May 27, 1957, under the name CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade by Toronto radio station CHUM AM.It was considered the de facto national chart of Canada until 1964, when RPM magazine was founded and CHUM lost its special status and became just a regular single-station chart.
These are lists of Billboard magazine's "Top Country & Western Records" and "Top Country & Western Artists" for 1950, ranked by retail sales and juke box plays. Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On" was 1950's No. 1 country hit based on retail sales and ranked No. 4 based on juke box plays. [1]
Country music has been on a steady rise for the past several years, but in 2024, the genre soared to heights that would have been unimaginable less than a decade ago. It was once a common refrain ...
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]