page_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2019
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2019
caption_attribution_description: English: Dan + Shay performing at the New Daisy Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, February 2017
context_page_description: Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are the two main 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 holding the top spot. It 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.
context_section_description: Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are the two main 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 holding the top spot. It 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. Some sources, however, reported that "Beautiful Crazy" 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 country listing, contending that it did not sufficiently fit the genre, an action which caused controversy.
  Three songs tied for the year's longest run atop the Hot Country Songs chart.  "Beautiful Crazy" by Luke Combs 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 run atop that listing; no other song spent more than three consecutive weeks in the peak position.  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, a feat no other act had achieved since the magazine began publishing a chart using that methodology in 1990.  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 controversial 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%.
caption: Dan + Shay began the year at number one on both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "PhotoScape", "Image DateTime": "2017:02:17 22:05:31", "Image ExifOffset": "238", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/50", "EXIF FNumber": "5/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "400", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:02:17 22:05:31", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:02:17 22:05:31", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "3", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "181/32", "EXIF ApertureValue": "85/32", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "85/32", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "1579/100", "EXIF SubSecTime": "62", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "62", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "62", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4711", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3352", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "381029/36", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "243200/23", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "412052004423"}