List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1976

[3] The song remained in the top spot until the issue of Billboard dated January 31, 1976, when it was replaced by "This Time I've Hurt Her More than She Loves Me" by Conway Twitty.

[5][6] CB also featured, to a lesser extent, in the song "One Piece at a Time",[7] which was the final chart-topper for Country Music Hall of Famer and icon of the genre Johnny Cash.

[11] As well as Jennings, Conway Twitty, Marty Robbins and Red Sovine each spent three weeks at number one.

He would go on to enter the listing with three more singles but his chart career ended in 1978,[12] after which Maggard (real name Jay Huguely) would concentrate on the field of television production.

[13] Two female singers gained their first number ones via duets with established male vocalists: Mary Lou Turner with Bill Anderson and Helen Cornelius with Jim Ed Brown.

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Johnny Cash reached number one in 1976 with the song " One Piece at a Time ", about an assembly line worker who constructs his own car using stolen parts from a variety of different models. After the song became successful, an auto shop built the car described in the lyrics. [ 1 ] Cash is pictured in the driving seat of the car.
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Emmylou Harris (pictured in 2005) had two number ones in 1976.
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Helen Cornelius (pictured in 2012) achieved her only chart-topper with a duet with Jim Ed Brown .
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Conway Twitty was the only artist to have three number ones in 1976.