Country music in 2021 – by the numbers…
33 songs went to number-one on the Billboard country airplay chart in 2021 – one song even did it twice (more on that in a bit)
5 artists hit number-one for the first time in 2021 (Blanco Brown, Niko Moon, Lainey Wilson, Elvie Shane, & MacKenzie Porter)
6 collaborations topped the Billboard chart. (Parmalee & Blanco Brown, Chris Young & Kane Brown, Chase Rice & Florida Georgia Line, Jameson Rodgers & Luke Combs, Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood, Dustin Lynch & MacKenzie Porter)
9 songs had multi week number-one songs
1 song went to number-one twice – Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood‘s “If I Didn’t Love You” hit number-one – lost the spot and then return to the top for a total of 3 weeks.
Speaking of returning to the top spot on the Billboard country music airplay chart – Luke Combs took 4 songs to number-one in 2021, totaling 13 weeks – more than any other artist. “Better Together” claimed 5 weeks, “Forever After All” was 6, “Cold Beer Calling My Name” with Jameson Rodgers, and “Cold As You” both had one week stays at number-one.
Check out the full list of number-one songs on the Billboard country music chart for 2021, here…
January 2nd – Chris Lane – “Big, Big Plans”
January 9th – Lady A – “Champagne Night” (2 weeks)
January 23rd – Luke Combs – “Better Together” (5 weeks)
February 27th – Darius Rucker – “Beers And Sunshine”
March 6th – Luke Bryan – “Down To One”
March 13th – Niko Moon – “Good Time”
March 20th – Parmalee & Blanco Brown – “Just The Way”
March 27th – Thomas Rhett – “What’s Your Country Song”
April 3rd – Brett Young – “Lady”
April 10th – Florida Georgia Line – “Long Live”
April 17th – Gabby Barrett – “The Good Ones” (3 weeks)
May 8th – Jake Owen – “Made For You” (2 weeks)
May 22nd – Sam Hunt – “Breaking Up Was Easy In the 90s”
May 29th – Eric Church – “Hell Of A View”
June 5th – Luke Combs – “Forever After All” (6 weeks)
July 17th – Chris Young & Kane Brown – “Famous Friends”
July 24th – Jason Aldean – “Blame It On You”
July 31st – Cole Swindell – “Single Saturday Night” (2 weeks)
August 14th – Chase Rice & Florida Georgia Line – “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen”
August 21st – Dan + Shay – “Glad You Exist”
