List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2019

Singers Dan + Shay
Dan + Shay began the year at number one on both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay.

Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Hot Country Songs ranks songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012. Country Airplay, which was published for the first time in 2012, is based solely on country radio airplay, a methodology that had previously been used for several decades for Hot Country Songs.

Both charts began the year with "Speechless" by Dan + Shay retaining the top spot from the final chart of 2018. The song remained atop the airplay chart for the first two weeks of 2019 before being replaced by "Good Girl" by Dustin Lynch, and held the top spot on Hot Country Songs for a further two weeks before Dan + Shay replaced themselves at number one with "Tequila". The latter song broke the record for the longest time taken to climb to number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, reaching the top spot in its 54th week on the listing. It reached the top of the chart more than six months after it had been number one on Country Airplay, and marked the first time for five years that an act had replaced itself at number one on Hot Country Songs. In early March, Luke Combs reached the top of both charts with "Beautiful Crazy" and topped both listings simultaneously for seven weeks. Industry observers reported that the track would have been replaced at number one on Hot Country Songs in early April by rapper Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road" had Billboard not taken the decision to remove that track after its first week on the listing, contending that it did not sufficiently fit the country genre. This decision caused controversy: one former music label executive claimed that a similar track by a white artist would have been treated differently.

Three songs tied for the year's longest unbroken run atop the Hot Country Songs chart. "Beautiful Crazy" held the top spot for eleven consecutive weeks, a figure matched by both "The Git Up" by Blanco Brown and the year's final number one on the listing, "10,000 Hours", on which Dan + Shay collaborated with Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber. Dan + Shay thus spent a total of 19 weeks at number one in 2019, the most by any act. "The Git Up" spent twelve weeks in total at number one but non-consecutively, being interrupted for a single week by "God's Country" by Blake Shelton. The seven-week run at number one on Country Airplay achieved by "Beautiful Crazy" was the year's longest unbroken spell atop that listing and the longest-running country number one based on radio plays since Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" in 2004. Combs achieved two further airplay chart-toppers with "Beer Never Broke My Heart" in August and "Even Though I'm Leaving" in November. When the former song reached number one, Combs achieved the feat of topping Billboard's radio-based country chart with his first six singles, something which no other act had achieved since the magazine began publishing a chart using that methodology in 1990. Combs tied with Thomas Rhett for the most number ones during the year, with three each. However, Rhett spent significantly less time at number one, topping the chart for three weeks compared to Combs' twelve. Dan + Shay, Jason Aldean, and Old Dominion were the only other acts to chart more than one number one song during 2019, with two each. In August, Maren Morris reached number one on the airplay chart with "Girl", the first chart-topper by a female vocalist for 17 months. The under-representation of female artists on the playlists of country radio stations had become a hot topic; an academic study published earlier in the year found that between 2000 and 2018 the proportion of airplay on country stations for songs by women fell from 33% to 11%.

Chart history

Singer Luke Combs
Luke Combs reached the top of both charts in early March with "Beautiful Crazy".
Singer Chase Rice
Chase Rice achieved his first number one with "Eyes on You".
Singer Maren Morris
"Girl" was a chart-topper for Maren Morris.
Musician Marshmello
Electronic dance music producer Marshmello collaborated with singer Kane Brown on "One Thing Right", which topped Hot Country Songs for one week.
Chart history
Issue date Hot Country Songs Country Airplay
Title Artist(s) Ref. Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 5 "Speechless" Dan + Shay "Speechless" Dan + Shay
January 12
January 19 "Good Girl" Dustin Lynch
January 26 "Sixteen" Thomas Rhett
February 2 "Tequila" "Girl Like You" Jason Aldean
February 9
February 16 "This Is It" Scotty McCreery
February 23
March 2 "Beautiful Crazy" Luke Combs "Beautiful Crazy" Luke Combs
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13
April 20 "Here Tonight" Brett Young
April 27
May 4 "Make It Sweet" Old Dominion
May 11 "Eyes on You" Chase Rice
May 18 "Whiskey Glasses" Morgan Wallen
May 25 "God's Country" Blake Shelton "Love Ain't" Eli Young Band
June 1 "Good as You" Kane Brown
June 8 "Whiskey Glasses" Morgan Wallen "Whiskey Glasses" Morgan Wallen
June 15 "God's Country" Blake Shelton
June 22
June 29 "Look What God Gave Her" Thomas Rhett
July 6 "Rumor" Lee Brice
July 13 "The Git Up" Blanco Brown "God's Country" Blake Shelton
July 20 "God's Country" Blake Shelton
July 27 "The Git Up" Blanco Brown "Some of It" Eric Church
August 3 "Girl" Maren Morris
August 10 "Beer Never Broke My Heart" Luke Combs
August 17
August 24 "All to Myself" Dan + Shay
August 31 "Rearview Town" Jason Aldean
September 7 "The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home" Justin Moore
September 14 "Knockin' Boots" Luke Bryan
September 21
September 28 "Living" Dierks Bentley
October 5 "I Don't Know About You" Chris Lane
October 12 "One Thing Right" Marshmello and Kane Brown "Prayed for You" Matt Stell
October 19 "10,000 Hours" Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber
October 26 "Good Vibes" Chris Janson
November 2 "Love You Too Late" Cole Swindell
November 9 "Every Little Thing" Russell Dickerson
November 16 "What Happens in a Small Town" Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell
November 23 "Even Though I'm Leaving" Luke Combs
November 30
December 7
December 14 "One Man Band" Old Dominion
December 21 "Remember You Young" Thomas Rhett
December 28 "Even Though I'm Leaving" Luke Combs

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