Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Billboard number-one country songs/archive1
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. Billboard added a second chart in 1947 based on retail sales, and a third in 1949 based on radio airplay. The jukebox chart was discontinued in 1957, and the following year, the remaining two charts were dropped and replaced with a chart, initially entitled Hot C&W Sides, which combined sales and airplay data into one overall ranking. This chart was renamed Hot Country Singles in 1962, Hot Country Singles and Tracks in 1990, and Hot Country Songs in 2005. In 1990, its methodology changed to use only airplay data from country music radio stations. In 2012, this changed again to use data from stations of all formats as well as sales and streaming information. At the same time, a new Country Airplay chart was introduced, which continued the former methodology of tracking plays on country stations only.
- Contributor(s): ChrisTheDude
This is a complete overview of the songs that have topped Billboard's country music charts since the first one was launched in 1944. It's taken me just over four years to get to this point, so I hope you like it :-) The 2021 list will be nominated for FL once the year has finished and (assuming both this and that pass) added to the FT at that point and so on going forward...... --ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:41, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support. A tremendous amount of work, even if the world's greatest country singer is missing. Obviously a topic which will require constant ongoing maintenance but it's clearly in good hands as regards this. ᵹʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 15:12, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- It does raise the question though--and this has no bearing on this nomination passing--do we want to look at adding an optional fourth column to the topic box template to reduce the height of some particularly large topics like this? Three would still be the expected default I assume but we could conceivably neaten up some with four columns. ᵹʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 15:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- That is a fair point, I have raised it at the relevant template talk page here. Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 15:02, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
- It does raise the question though--and this has no bearing on this nomination passing--do we want to look at adding an optional fourth column to the topic box template to reduce the height of some particularly large topics like this? Three would still be the expected default I assume but we could conceivably neaten up some with four columns. ᵹʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 15:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support: I'll just note that the lead article has already been promoted to FL but (as of this writing) the bot hasn't processed the promotion yet. I also think four columns would be a better idea for this unusually large topic. Great work! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support more than 70 years spanned by these lists, kudos for such a large acheivement! --K. Peake 16:40, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support Meets the criteria. Superb work on all of these lists. Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 15:10, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support. I reviewed some of these lists for their FL nominations, and this is some excellent work.--AlexandraIDV 04:40, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Support: Great work with these lists. Aoba47 (talk) 01:03, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
- Support – Impressive work and a job well done. – zmbro (talk) 16:48, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
- Support Outstanding achievement. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 18:27, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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