Showing posts with label country music. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Country Music: Annual Awards, 1922-2024

Country Music:

Annual Song Awards, 1922-2024

This page offers a consolidated list of the country songs of each year as determined by various organizations and entities. They include:

  • Academy of Country Music: Singles and Songs of the Year, 1967-2023
  • American Music Awards: Country Song of the Year, 1974-1995, 2016-2022
  • Billboard: Country Song of the Year, 1944-2024. The magazine began its country chart in 1944 and the song with the most weeks at #1 each year from then through 1997 is noted below. After 1997, Billboard’s Country Song of the Year is based on the year-end charts at Billboard.com.
  • Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI): Country Song of the Year, 1998-2024. Music publishing company tracks most-played songs each year.
  • Country Music Association: Singles and Songs of the Year, 1967-2024
  • Dave’s Music Database: the highest-ranked country song each year, 1922-2024
  • Grammys: Country Song of the Year, 1965-2024

See links at bottom of page for more details on above.

Note: awards were typically given a year after the date noted. For example, the Highwomen’s “Crowded Table” won the Grammy for Country Song of the Year in 2021, but it was for the eligibility year of 2020.

Click here to see other ‘Songs of the Year’ lists.

2024:
  • Billboard: Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
  • BMI: Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Chris Stapleton “White Horse”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “White Horse”
  • DMDB: Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
  • Grammy: Kacey Musgraves “The Architect”
2023:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Luke Combs “Fast Car”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Jordan Davis “Next Thing You Know”
  • Billboard: Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
  • BMI: Morgan Wallen “You Proof”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Luke Combs “Fast Car”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Luke Combs “Fast Car”
  • DMDB: Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
  • Grammy: Chris Stapleton “White Horse”

2022:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Cole Swindell “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Cole Swindell “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
  • AMA: -- (show canceled)
  • Billboard: Parmalee “Take My Name”
  • BMI: Luke Combs “Forever After All”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Cody Johnson “Til You Can’t”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jordan Davis with Luke Bryan “Buy Dirt”
  • DMDB: Morgan Wallen “You Proof”
  • Grammy: Cody Johnson “Til You Can’t”
2021:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean “If I Didn’t Love You”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lainey Wilson “Things a Man Oughta Know”
  • AMA: Morgan Wallen “Wasted on You”
  • Billboard: Luke Combs “Forever After All”
  • BMI: Lee Brice “One of Them Girls”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”
  • DMDB: Walker Hayes “Fancy Like”
  • Grammy: Chris Stapleton “Cold”
2020:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carly Pearce & Lee Brice “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • AMA: Gabby Barrett “The Good Ones”
  • Billboard: Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope”
  • BMI: Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • DMDB: Gabby Barrett “The Good Ones”
  • Grammy: The Highwomen “Crowded Table”

2019:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Blake Shelton “God’s Country”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Old Dominion “One Man Band”
  • AMA: Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber “10,000 Hours”
  • Billboard: Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses”
  • BMI: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Carly Pearce & Lee Brice “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Luke Combs “Beautiful Crazy”
  • DMDB: Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope”
  • Grammy: Tanya Tucker “Bring My Flowers Now”
2018:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • AMA: Dan + Shay “Speechless”
  • Billboard: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  • BMI: Brett Young “In Case You Didn’t Know”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”
  • DMDB: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • Grammy: Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy”
2017:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Tin Man”
  • AMA: Kane Brown “Heaven”
  • Billboard: Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road”
  • BMI: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Little Big Town “Better Man”
  • DMDB: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  • Grammy: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”

2016:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • AMA: Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • BMI: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
  • DMDB: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • Grammy: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
2015:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Nobody to Blame”
  • AMA: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
  • Billboard: Sam Hunt “Take Your Time”
  • BMI: Brett Eldredge “Beat of the Music”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
  • DMDB: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • Grammy: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
2014:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lee Brice “I Don’t Dance”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Automatic”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line with Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll”
  • BMI: Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Automatic”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”
  • DMDB: Jason Aldean “Burnin’ It Down”
  • Grammy: Glen Campbell “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”
2013:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Mama’s Broken Heart”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lee Brice “I Drive Your Truck”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • BMI: Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Brice “I Drive Your Truck”
  • DMDB: Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”
  • Grammy: Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go Round”

2012:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • Billboard: Josh Turner “Time Is Love”
  • BMI: Rodney Atkins “Take a Back Road”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Little Big Town “Pontoon”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • DMDB: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Blown Away”
2011:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson “Don’t You Wanna Stay”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Eli Young Band “Crazy Girl”
  • Billboard: Eli Young Band “Crazy Girl”
  • BMI: Josh Turner “All Over Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • DMDB: Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
  • Grammy: Taylor Swift “Mean”
2010:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • Billboard: Lee Brice “Love Like Crazy”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • DMDB: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • Grammy: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
2009:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • Billboard: Lady Antebellum “I Run to You”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “Love Story”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “I Run to You”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jamey Johnson “In Color”
  • DMDB: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • Grammy: Taylor Swift “White Horse”

2008:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Trace Adkins “You’re Gonna Miss This”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Jamey Johnson “In Color”
  • Billboard: James Otto “Just Got Started Lovin’ You”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “Teardrops on My Guitar”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: George Strait “I Saw God Today”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • DMDB: Taylor Swift “Love Story”
  • Grammy: Sugarland “Stay”
2007:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • Billboard: Rodney Atkins “Watching You”
  • BMI: Rascal Flatts “What Hurts the Most”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • DMDB: Kid Rock “All Summer Long”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
2006:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • Billboard: Rodney Atkins “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)”
  • BMI: Toby Keith “As Good As I Once Was”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • DMDB: Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel”
2005:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • Billboard: Craig Morgan “That’s What I Love about Sunday”
  • BMI: Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack “I May Hate Myself in the Morning”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss “Whiskey Lullaby”
  • DMDB: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  • Grammy: Rascal Flatts “Bless the Broken Road”
2004:

2003:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • Billboard: Lonestar “My Front Porch Looking In”
  • BMI: Dixie Chicks “Landslide”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Johnny Cash “Hurt”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • DMDB: Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
  • Grammy: Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
2002:

2001:
2000:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • Billboard: Toby Keith “How Do You Like Me Now?!”
  • BMI: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • DMDB: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • Grammy: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”

1999:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • Billboard: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • BMI: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Spaces”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • DMDB: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • Grammy: Shania Twain “Come on Over”
1998:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw “Just to See You Smile”
  • BMI: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • DMDB: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • Grammy: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
1997:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Deana Carter “Strawberry Wine”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Deana Carter “Strawberry Wine”
  • DMDB: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  • Grammy: Bob Carlisle “Butterfly Kisses”

1996:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • Billboard: Brooks & Dunn “My Maria”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “Go Rest High on That Mountain”
  • DMDB: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • Grammy: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
1995:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Tracy Byrd “The Keeper of the Stars”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw “I Like It, I Love It”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Alison Krauss & Union Station “When You Say Nothing at All”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Martina McBride “Independence Day”
  • DMDB: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • Grammy: Vince Gill “Go Rest High on That Mountain”
1994:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • AMA: Vince Gill “Whenever You Come Around”
  • Billboard: Joe Diffie “Pickup Man”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • DMDB: Alan Jackson “Summertime Blues”
  • Grammy: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”

1993:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Love the Way You Love Me”
  • AMA: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • Billboard: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”
  • DMDB: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • Grammy: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Passionate Kisses”
1992:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”
  • AMA: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • Billboard: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “Look at Us”
  • DMDB: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • Grammy: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”

1991:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Billy Dean “Somewhere in My Broken Heart”
  • AMA: Garth Brooks “The Thunder Rolls”
  • Billboard: Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “When I Call Your Name”
  • DMDB: Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
  • Grammy: The Judds “Love Can Build a Bridge”
1990:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Garth Brooks “The Dance”
  • AMA: Garth Brooks “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
  • Billboard: George Strait “Love Without End, Amen”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Vince Gill “When I Call Your Name”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
  • DMDB: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • Grammy: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
1989:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Clint Black “A Better Man”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
  • AMA: Randy Travis “Deeper Than the Holler”
  • Billboard: Ronnie Milsap “A Woman in Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Keith Whitley “I’m No Stranger to the Rain”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vern Gosdin “Chiseled in Stone”
  • DMDB: Garth Brooks “The Dance”
  • Grammy: Rodney Crowell “After All This Time”
1988:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • AMA: Randy Travis “I Told You So”
  • Billboard: Keith Whitley “When You Say Nothing at All”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: K.T. Oslin “‘80s Ladies”
  • DMDB: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • Grammy: K.T. Oslin “Hold Me”
1987:

1986:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • AMA: The Judds “Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ol’ Days”
  • Billboard: Hank Williams, Jr. “Mind Your Own Business”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Dan Seals “Bop”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • DMDB: Dwight Yoakam “Guitars, Cadillacs”
  • Grammy: The Judds “Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ol’ Days”
1985:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Highwaymen “The Highwayman”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Ronnie Milsap “Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)”
  • AMA: Willie Nelson “Forgiving You Was Easy”
  • Billboard: The Judds “Have Mercy”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.”
  • DMDB: Dan Seals “Bop”
  • Grammy: The Highwaymen “The Highwayman”
1984:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • AMA: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • Billboard: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Anne Murray “A Little Good News”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Gary Morris “Wind Beneath My Wings”
  • DMDB: Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.”
  • Grammy: Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans”
1983:

1982:
1981:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: David Frizzell “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”
  • AMA: Anne Murray “Could I Have This Dance” / Willie Nelson “On the Road Again”
  • Billboard: Alabama “Love in the First Degree”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today”
  • DMDB: Juice Newton “Angel of the Morning”
  • Grammy: Dolly Parton “9 to 5”
1980:

1979:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Gatlin Brothers “All the Gold in California”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Moe Bandy “It’s a Cheating Situation”
  • AMA: Barbara Mandrell “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed”
  • Billboard: Eddie Rabbitt “Every Which Way But Loose”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
  • DMDB: The Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
  • Grammy: Kenny Rogers “You Decorated My Life”
1978:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Don Williams “Tulsa Time”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Anne Murray “You Needed Me”
  • AMA: Linda Ronstadt “Blue Bayou”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Kendalls “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
  • DMDB: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
  • Grammy: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
1977:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • AMA: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • DMDB: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
  • Grammy: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
1976:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Mickey Gilley “Bring It on Home to Me”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Mickey Gilley “Don’t Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time”
  • AMA: Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Good Hearted Woman”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Good Hearted Woman”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • DMDB: Bellamy Brothers “Let Your Love Flow”
  • Grammy: Larry Gatlin “Broken Lady”

1975:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • AMA: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • Billboard: C.W. McCall “Convoy”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Freddy Fender “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: John Denver “Back Home Again”
  • DMDB: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • Grammy: B.J. Thomas “Hey Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song”
1974:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • AMA: Charlie Rich “The Most Beautiful Girl”
  • Billboard: Charlie Rich “A Very Special Love Song”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • DMDB: Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You”
  • Grammy: Charlie Rich “A Very Special Love Song”
1973:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • AMA: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • Billboard: Merle Haggard “If We Make It Through December”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • DMDB: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • Grammy: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”

1972:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • Billboard: Freddie Hart “My Hang-Up Is You”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • DMDB: Eagles “Take It Easy”
  • Grammy: Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
1971:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • Billboard: Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • DMDB: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
  • Grammy: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
1970:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Ray Price “For the Good Times”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Ray Price “For the Good Times”
  • Billboard: Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Johnny Cash “Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down”
  • DMDB: Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”
  • Grammy: Marty Robbins “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife”
1969:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • Billboard: Johnny Cash “Daddy Sang Bass”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Porter Wagoner “The Carroll County Accident”
  • DMDB: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • Grammy: Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue”
1968:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Roger Miller “Little Green Apples”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Glen Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman”
  • Billboard: Henson Cargill “Skip a Rope”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Bobby Goldsboro “Honey”
  • DMDB: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man”
  • Grammy: Roger Miller “Little Green Apples”

1967:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Wynn Stewart “It’s Such a Pretty World Today”
  • Billboard: Jack Greene “All the Time”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Jack Greene “There Goes My Everything”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jack Greene “There Goes My Everything”
  • DMDB: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe”
  • Grammy: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind”
1966:
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Bobby Austin “Apartment #9”
  • Billboard: David Houston “Almost Persuaded”
  • DMDB: Jim Reeves “Distant Drums”
  • Grammy: David Houston “Almost Persuaded”
1965:
1964:
  • Billboard: Connie Smith “Once a Day”
  • DMDB: Roger Miller “Dang Me”
  • Grammy: Roger Miller “Dang Me”

1963:
  • Billboard: Buck Owens “Love’s Gonna Live Here”
  • DMDB: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”
1962:
1961:
  • Billboard: Leroy Van Dyke “Walk on By”
  • DMDB: Patsy Cline “Crazy”

1960:
  • Billboard: Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”
  • DMDB: Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”
1959:
1958:
1957:
  • Billboard: Ferlin Husky “Gone”
  • DMDB: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”
1956:
  • Billboard: Ray Price “Crazy Arms”
  • DMDB: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”
1955:
  • Billboard: Webb Pierce “In the Jailhouse Now”
  • DMDB: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons”
1954:
1953:
1952:
  • Billboard: Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life”
  • DMDB: Hank Williams “Jambalaya on the Bayou”
1951:
  • Billboard: Pee Wee King “Slow Poke”
  • DMDB: Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart”
1950:
  • Billboard: Hank Snow “I’m Moving On”
  • DMDB: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz”

1949:
1948:
  • Billboard: Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses”
  • DMDB: Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses”
1947:
  • Billboard: Eddy Arnold “I’ll Hold You in My Heart Till I Can Hold You in My Arms”
  • DMDB: Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”
1946:
  • Billboard: Al Dexter “Guitar Polka”
  • DMDB: Merle Travis “Dark As a Dungeon”
1945:
  • Billboard: Tex Ritter “You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often”
  • DMDB: Dick Thomas “Sioux City Sue”
1944:
  • Billboard: Al Dexter “So Long Pal”
  • DMDB: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right”
1943: DMDB: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama”
1942: DMDB: Elton Britt “There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere”
1941: DMDB: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You”
1940: DMDB: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine”

1939: DMDB: Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again”
1938: DMDB: Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball”
1937: DMDB: Rex Griffin “The Last Letter”
1936: DMDB: Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart”
1935: DMDB: The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)”
1934: DMDB: The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”
1933: DMDB: The Delmore Brothers “Brown’s Ferry Blues”
1932: DMDB: --
1931: DMDB: Jimmie Rodgers “T.B. Blues”
1930: DMDB: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World”

1929: DMDB: Clarence (Tom) Ashley “The Coo Coo Bird”
1928: DMDB: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)”
1927: DMDB: Dock Boggs “Country Blues”
1926: DMDB: Charlie Poole “White House Blues”
1925: DMDB: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song”
1924: DMDB: Uncle Dave Macon “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy”
1923: DMDB: Fiddlin’ John Carson “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane”
1922: DMDB: Eck Robertson “Sallie Gooden”

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Monday, November 28, 2022

Today in Music (1925): The Grand Ole Opry started on radio.

November 28, 1925

The Grand Ole Opry started on radio.

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music program broadcast live in Nashville, Tennessee. The show features performers in the country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and Americana genres as well as comedy and skits. It is the longest-running radio broadcast in American history. WK

George D. Hay started the show on November 28, 1925 as an hour-long barn dance. The radio station, WSM, hired him after he hosted a similar barn dance program at WLS in Chicago. The first Opry episode was broadcast live in the studio at the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville. It featured a 77-year-old fiddler named Uncle Jimmy Thompson, an African-American harmonica player named DeFord Bailey, and a hammered-dulcimer player named Kitty Cora Cline. WN The name “Grand Ole Opry” didn’t come about until December 10, 1927, when Hay opened the show announcing that the station’s classical classical music appreciation program had just aired selections from grand opera and now he would present the Grand Ole Opry.

It expanded to four hours in the 1930s and became a Saturday night musical tradition which reached primarily regional audiences (although close to 30 states could access the program). WK It debuted nationally on NBC radio in 1939. On occasion, performances have been televised. The show’s growing importance helped establish Nashville as America’s “country music capital.” WK

When the Opry outgrew its radio station studio, it was moved to the Hillsboro Theatre from 1934 to 1936, then the Dixie Tabernacle from 1936 to 1939. It was then hosted at the War Memorial Auditorium before moving to the Ryman Auditorium in 1943. Since 1974, it has been broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry House which is east of downtown Nashville. The Country Music Association Awards were presented at the Opry from 1974 to 2004. In 2015, the site was added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

Hank Williams made his debut on the Opry in 1949, performing six encores. WN Other notable performers over the years included Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, the Byrds, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, the Everly Brothers, Red Foley, the Gatlin Brothers, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson, George Jones, Alison Krauss, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patty Loveless, Loretta, Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Ronnie Milsap, Bill Monroe, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Webb Pierce, Elvis Presley, Rascal Flatts, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Blake Shelton, Ricky Skaggs, Hank Snow, Marty Stuart, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Ernest Tubb, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Kitty Wells, Bob Wills, Tammy Wynette, and Trisha Yearwood.

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Country Music’s All-Time Classics According to the Classic Pop Yahoo Group

Classic Pop Yahoo Group: Country Music’s All Time Classics,

Top 100 Songs

Steve Sullivan was one of my early fans on my Dave’s Music Database Facebook page. I was delighted when I found out he did the research behind one of my music bibles – Pop Memories 1890-1954, published by Record Research.

His post on May 31 ranks more than 1000 all-time country and bluegrass songs. He taps more than 50 sources, including Billboard’s country charts from 1939 through 2011, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the National Recording Registry, country music awards, National Public Radio, the works of multiple music authors, and nearly every issue of the Journal of Country Music from 1970 through 2006. I’ve posted the top 100 songs from that list, but the links for all four parts of the list are posted below. Dave’s Music Database has done a list of the top 100 country songs of all time as well. You can check it out here.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
2. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
3. George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
4. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
5. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (1944)
6. Kitty Wells “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
7. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
8. Roy Acuff “Wabash Cannonball” (1947)
9. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1956)
10. Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces (1961)”

11. The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
12. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (1928)
13. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1946)
14. Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1970)
15. Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
16. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
17. Hank Snow “I’m Movin’ On” (1950)
18. Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
19. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
20. The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (1935)

21. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
22. Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
23. Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
24. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
25. Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
26. Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
27. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
28. Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
29. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1941)
30. Jim Reeves “He’ll Have to Go” (1960)

31. Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” (1975)
32. Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
33. Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again” (1939)
34. Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
35. Fiddlin’ John Carson “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (1923)
36. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Mule Skinner Blues” (1940)
37. Patsy Montana “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (1935)
38. Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
39. Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
40. Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)

41. George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
42. The Stanley Brothers “Rank Strangers” (1960)
43. Hank Williams “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
44. Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
45. Al Dexter “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (1943)
46. Eck Robertson “Sallie Gooden” (1922)
47. Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
48. Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
49. Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
50. Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)

51. Roy Acuff “The Great Speckled Bird” (1936)
52. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
53. Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
54. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
55. Ted Daffan “Born to Lose” (1943)
56. Red Foley “There’ll Be Peace in the Valley” (1951)
57. Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)
58. Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
59. Ray Price “For the Good Times” (1970)
60. Webb Pierce “There Stands the Glass” (1953)

61. Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
62. Lefty Frizzell “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (1950)
63. Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses” (1948)
64. Garth Brooks “The Dance” (1990)
65. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” (1990)
67. Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
68. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
69. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
70. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)

71. The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
72. Hank Snow “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (1954)
73. Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” (1987)
74. Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (1978)
75. Eddy Arnold “The Cattle Call” (1944/1955)
76. Vernon Dalhart “The Wreck of the Old ‘97” (1924)
77. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
78. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “Steel Guitar Rag” (1936)
79. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Earl’s Breakdown” (1951)
80. Webb Pierce “Slowly” (1954)

81. Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart” (1951)
82. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers “Lovesick Blues” (1928)
83. Gid Tanner & Skillet Lickers “Soldier’s Joy” (1929)
84. Elton Britt “There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere” (1943)
85. Roy Rogers & Dale Evans “Happy Trails” (1952)
86. George Jones “The Grand Tour” (1974)
87. Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
88. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
89. Ray Price “City Lights” (1958)
90. Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)

91. The Carter Family “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1928)
92. The Delmore Brothers “Blues Stay Away from Me” (1949)
93. Buck Owens “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)
94. Charlie Poole “Don’t Let Your Deal Do Down Blues” (1925)
95. The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City” (1969)
96. Jimmie Rodgers “Waiting for a Train” (1928)
97. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
98. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (1947)
99. Merle Travis “Dark As a Dungeon” (1946)
100. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

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First posted 6/1/2012; last revised 12/16/2022.

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