Top Country Singles 1944-2025

We're excited to announce our first new Record Research book in nearly two years!

In honor of International Songwriters Day, we're launching pre-orders for Top Country Singles 1944-2025. Which includes, for the first time ever, a Top 40 Songwriters section dedicated to the late great Bob Kingsley!

Will be in stock by early June, so order your copy today and save $10!

Top Country Singles 1944-2025

And here's the official press release:

Country Singles - Press Release

Edited by Paul Haney - Yesterday at 11:27am

Andy, I saw your order come in this morning. Thank you!

Scanner wrote: How are you calculating the Top Artists list? In the book's description, you mention how Morgan Wallen ranks as the 11th biggest artist ever. Clearly, you must be counting all the album tracks he charted on Hot Country Songs in addition to the singles that charted on Country Airplay. Did you weigh or prioritize placement on one chart more than or over the other to calculate this?

After much deliberation, we decided to keep the point system exactly the same from the last edition. The Country Airplay chart numbers always take precedence over the Hot Country Songs numbers, unless a song ONLY made the Hot Country Songs chart, then it gets full credit. Yes, the album cuts do get counted, but many of them only chart for a few weeks, so it really doesn't skew the numbers as bad as you might think. You may also be surprised how many big Airplay hits that Morgan Wallen has racked up since the previous edition. IMO, the Top 300 artists are a great mix of new and old. And Eddy Arnold is still comfortably sitting at #1.

Robert wrote: Great news! Any chance there could be a digital edition? Like the Adobe edition of a couple of the pop books? A great big book in front of my keyboard can be cumbersome.

We don't have any immediate plans for a digital edition of this particular book. Most of our customers still prefer the print books. That said, we're exploring all digital options since that where the world is headed these days.