Leading Country Music Chart, The Top Country Songs 2011

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The Top Country Songs 2011, commonly known as “Hot Country Songs,” is a chart published weekly by the United States Billboard review.

The chart features the top country music About Country Music - For a long time in the 21st century, country music played a minor role within the pop music scene. Shortly after World War II, many new radio stations in urban areas focused primarily on this music, often accompanied by local advertising. In the 1930s, country's status was consolidated in the mainstream pop music landscape. The… tracks each week, calculated based on airplay and often sales.

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As of the summer of 2011, the leading country song of the year is “Honey Bee” by Blake Shelton.

Billboard began tracking the popularity of country songs in its January 8, 1944 issue. The chart initially focused on the genre’s top jukebox selections and was called “Most Played Juke Box Folk Records.” The number of positions on the chart varied from 2 to 8 each week, and the length of the chart was inconsistent.

From 1948 to 1958, Billboard used three charts to measure the popularity of country music:

The number 1 sellers chart, which debuted on May 15, 1948, as Best Selling Retail Folk Records.
A jockeys chart, which started on December 10, 1949, as Country. It expanded to 50 positions on January 11, 1964, 75 positions on October 15, 1966, and the top 100 country songs beginning July 14, 1973.

From its inception in 1973 through August 2009, American Country Countdown used this chart in their programs, featuring the top 40 singles/tracks each week.

Like other Billboard charts, specific chart rules apply. Starting from the chart week of December 2, 2006, a song is considered recurrent on the country charts if it has been on the charts for more than twenty weeks, does not gain spins or audience impressions, and ranks below #10 in either spins or audience impressions. Since December 2008, any song that hasn’t shown growth in audience or spins for over two weeks is also considered recurrent, regardless of whether it has charted for twenty weeks or not.

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