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)[reply]


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