Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data along with digital sales and streaming.

Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records".

Starting with the 20 October 1958, issue, Billboard began combining sales and radio airplay in figuring a song's overall popularity, counting them in one single chart called "Hot C&W Sides".

The record was subsequently broken by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be" in 2018 (50 weeks).

The 1990–2012 chart did not have such ambiguity, being objectively measured by airplay from specifically identified country stations alone.

[10] The 2019 country rap record "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X was a subject of controversy over this ambiguous standard after it initially appeared on the country chart, where it debuted and peaked at number 19, before Billboard took the song off subsequent charts, claiming it had made a mistake in including it.

Note: Songs marked † achieved the listed run on the Most Played in Juke Boxes chart (published 1944–58).