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Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1980, 43 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 ...
number-one country songs. Eddy Arnold, Conway Twitty and George Strait have all held the record for the greatest number of country number ones. 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 ...
Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1980, ten different albums topped the chart, based on sales reports submitted by a representative sample of stores nationwide. The chart was published under the title Top Country LP's (with an apostrophe) through the ...
Chart history. Sylvia (pictured in 2016) topped the chart with "Nobody", which was her only song to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100. [ 11] Ricky Skaggs (pictured in 2016) had three number ones in 1982. Ed Bruce had his only number one in 1982 with "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had". Janie Fricke was a two-time chart-topper in 1982.
January 25 — At age 84, octogenarian comedian George Burns becomes by far the oldest performer (to that time) to have a single in the top 40 of Billboard ' s Hot Country Singles chart with "I Wish I Was 18 Again." The song peaks at No. 15 in March. March 2 — The Public Broadcasting Company (PBS) telecasts the Grand Ole Opry for the third ...
Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" was a country chart-topper and also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. A re-release of Elvis Presley's "Guitar Man" gave the "King of Rock and Roll" a country number one more than three years after his death in 1977. Dottie West had two number ones in 1981. Her daughter Shelly West had one.
During the 1980s, George Michael scored four number-one singles as a solo artist, three with Wham! and one as a duet with Aretha Franklin. Olivia Newton-John 's " Physical " remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (10 weeks). #. Reached number one. Artist (s)
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980. The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over 20 weeks. [citation needed]