List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2013
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In 2013, Billboard magazine published two main charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States. The Hot Country Songs chart ranked songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced the previous year.[1] The Country Airplay listing, which had been published for the first time in 2012, was based solely on country radio airplay, a methodology which had previously been used for several decades for Hot Country Songs.[1]
At the start of the year, the number one song on the Hot Country Songs listing was "Cruise" by the duo Florida Georgia Line. After falling from the top spot at the end of January, the song rebounded to the top in April, beginning a run of 19 consecutive weeks at number one. Its final total was 24 weeks at the top of the chart, breaking the record for the most cumulative weeks spent atop one of Billboard's country charts which had stood for nearly 60 years.[2] This revival of the song's fortunes was due to the late spring release of a remix featuring a guest appearance by the rapper Nelly, which proved extremely popular on pop music radio.[3][4][5] Thanks to the incorporation into the chart's methodology of spin data from all radio formats, as opposed to just country stations, this support from top 40 radio allowed "Cruise" to hold the top spot throughout the summer.[4][6] The remix did not prove as popular on country radio, however, and by the late summer the song was in the unusual position of topping the Hot Country Songs chart but receiving so few spins on country stations that it did not appear in the 60-position airplay listing at all.[7]
The dominance of "Cruise" on the Hot Country Songs chart meant that most of the chart-toppers on the Country Airplay chart did not reach the top of the other listing; of the 31 songs which topped the airplay chart during 2013, only five also topped Hot Country Songs, and on only four occasions during the year was the same song at number one on both charts. Four acts who topped the airplay listing during the year achieved the first number-one hits of their careers. In February Randy Houser gained his first number one with "How Country Feels".[8] Pistol Annies, a supergroup composed of female singers Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, reached number one for the first time in June when they were featured on the song "Boys 'Round Here" by Blake Shelton,[9] Lambert's then-husband.[10] Brett Eldredge was a first-time chart-topper when "Don't Ya" spent two weeks in the top spot at the end of August.[11] Finally, the band Parmalee reached number one for the first time when "Carolina" topped the chart in the issue of Billboard dated December 21.[12] Gary Allan scored his first number one in more than eight years when "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" topped both the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in February.[13]
Chart history
Hot Country Songs
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Issue date | Title | Artist(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
January 5 | "Cruise" | Florida Georgia Line | [14] |
January 12 | "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | Taylor Swift | [15] |
January 19 | "Cruise" | Florida Georgia Line | [16] |
January 26 | [17] | ||
February 2 | "Better Dig Two" | The Band Perry | [18] |
February 9 | "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" | Gary Allan | [19] |
February 16 | "Better Dig Two" | The Band Perry | [20] |
February 23 | "Wanted" | Hunter Hayes | [21] |
March 2 | [22] | ||
March 9 | "Sure Be Cool If You Did" | Blake Shelton | [23] |
March 16 | [24] | ||
March 23 | [25] | ||
March 30 | [26] | ||
April 6 | [27] | ||
April 13 | "Wagon Wheel" | Darius Rucker | [28] |
April 20 | "Cruise" | Florida Georgia Line | [29] |
April 27 | [30] | ||
May 4 | [31] | ||
May 11 | [32] | ||
May 18 | [33] | ||
May 25 | [34] | ||
June 1 | [35] | ||
June 8 | [36] | ||
June 15 | [37] | ||
June 22 | [38] | ||
June 29 | [39] | ||
July 6 | [40] | ||
July 13 | [41] | ||
July 20 | [42] | ||
July 27 | [43] | ||
August 3 | [44] | ||
August 10 | [45] | ||
August 17 | [46] | ||
August 24 | [47] | ||
August 31 | "That's My Kind of Night" | Luke Bryan | [48] |
September 7 | [49] | ||
September 14 | [50] | ||
September 21 | [51] | ||
September 28 | [52] | ||
October 5 | [53] | ||
October 12 | [54] | ||
October 19 | [55] | ||
October 26 | [56] | ||
November 2 | [57] | ||
November 9 | [58] | ||
November 16 | [59] | ||
November 23 | "We Were Us" | Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert | [60] |
November 30 | [61] | ||
December 7 | [62] | ||
December 14 | "Stay" | Florida Georgia Line | [63] |
December 21 | [64] | ||
December 28 | [65] |
Country Airplay
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See also
- 2013 in music
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart
- List of number-one country albums of 2013 (U.S.)
- List of number-one country singles of 2013 (Canada)
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