List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2021

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Singer Walker Hayes
Walker Hayes gained his first number one in July with "Fancy Like".

Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Hot Country Songs ranks songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012.[1] Country Airplay, which began being published in 2012, is based solely on country radio airplay, a methodology that had previously been used from 1990 to 2012 for Hot Country Songs.[1]

The year began with "Big, Big Plans" by Chris Lane returning to number one on the Country Airplay chart, having previously been number one for the chart dated December 19, 2020,[2] while "I Hope" by Gabby Barrett held the number one spot on Hot Country Songs, the song's 22nd week atop the chart.[3][4] Barrett thus continued to extend her record for the longest-running number one song on that chart by a solo female artist, having broken the record two weeks earlier.[5] The song was displaced from the top spot in the issue dated January 23 by Morgan Wallen's "Wasted on You", but went back to number one the following week. In February, Taylor Swift debuted at number one on Hot Country Songs with a re-recorded version of her 2008 number one single, "Love Story". It was her first number one on that listing since 2012's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and her first to enter at the top of the chart. Furthermore, it made Swift the second artist to top the chart twice with different recordings of the same song after Dolly Parton with "I Will Always Love You".[6]

In March, Niko Moon gained his first number one as a performer when "Good Time" topped both charts; he had previously written a number of chart-toppers for the Zac Brown Band. It was the first debut single to simultaneously top both listings since 2014.[7] Walker Hayes achieved his first number one in July when "Fancy Like" topped Hot Country Songs; the song had become a viral success based on a video on social media site TikTok,[8] and by the end of the year had spent 20 weeks at number one. In September, Lainey Wilson gained her first number one when "Things a Man Oughta Know" reached the peak position on Country Airplay,[9] and the following month "My Boy" topped the same chart to give former American Idol contestant Elvie Shane his first chart-topper.[10] Canadian singer MacKenzie Porter gained her first number one in December as a featured artist on Dustin Lynch's "Thinking 'Bout You",[11] which ended the year at number one. The longest-lasting Country Airplay number one was Luke Combs's "Forever After All", which spent six weeks at the top. Combs spent a total of thirteen weeks at number one and had four chart-topping singles, both more than any other act during 2021. Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line, and Jason Aldean were the only other acts to chart more than one number one single during the year, with two each.

Chart history[]

Singer Gabby Barrett
The year began with Gabby Barrett continuing a record-breaking run at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart with "I Hope". She achieved a second number one in April with "The Good Ones".
Singer Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift gained her first country number one for more than eight years with a new recording of her 2008 single, "Love Story". This also made her the second artist in history to top the chart twice with two different versions of the same song.
Singer Lainey Wilson
Lainey Wilson gained her first number one in September with "Things a Man Oughta Know".
Chart history
Issue date Hot Country Songs Country Airplay
Title Artist(s) Ref. Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 2 "I Hope" Gabby Barrett [3] "Big, Big Plans" Chris Lane [4]
January 9 [12] "Champagne Night" Lady A [13]
January 16 [14] [15]
January 23 "Wasted on You" Morgan Wallen [16] "Better Together" Luke Combs [17]
January 30 "I Hope" Gabby Barrett [18] [19]
February 6 "Better Together" Luke Combs [20] [21]
February 13 [22] [23]
February 20 [24] [25]
February 27 "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift [26] "Beers and Sunshine" Darius Rucker [27]
March 6 "I Hope" Gabby Barrett [28] "Down to One" Luke Bryan [29]
March 13 "Good Time" Niko Moon [30] "Good Time" Niko Moon [31]
March 20 "I Hope" Gabby Barrett [32] "Just the Way" Parmalee and Blanco Brown [33]
March 27 "What's Your Country Song" Thomas Rhett [34] "What's Your Country Song" Thomas Rhett [35]
April 3 [36] "Lady" Brett Young [37]
April 10 "The Good Ones" Gabby Barrett [38] "Long Live" Florida Georgia Line [39]
April 17 "Starting Over" Chris Stapleton [40] "The Good Ones" Gabby Barrett [41]
April 24 "The Good Ones" Gabby Barrett [42] [43]
May 1 [44] [45]
May 8 [46] "Made for You" Jake Owen [47]
May 15 "Forever After All" Luke Combs [48] [49]
May 22 [50] "Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s" Sam Hunt [51]
May 29 [52] "Hell of a View" Eric Church [53]
June 5 [54] "Forever After All" Luke Combs [55]
June 12 [56] [57]
June 19 [58] [59]
June 26 [60] [61]
July 3 [62] [63]
July 10 [64] [65]
July 17 "Am I the Only One" Aaron Lewis [66] "Famous Friends" Chris Young and Kane Brown [67]
July 24 "Fancy Like" Walker Hayes [68] "Blame It on You" Jason Aldean [69]
July 31 [70] "Single Saturday Night" Cole Swindell [71]
August 7 [72] [73]
August 14 [74] "Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen." Chase Rice featuring Florida Georgia Line [75]
August 21 [76] "Glad You Exist" Dan + Shay [77]
August 28 [78] "We Didn't Have Much" Justin Moore [79]
September 4 [80] "Waves" Luke Bryan [81]
September 11 [82] [83]
September 18 [84] "Country Again" Thomas Rhett [85]
September 25 [86] "Things a Man Oughta Know" Lainey Wilson [87]
October 2 [88] "You Time" Scotty McCreery [89]
October 9 [90] "Cold Beer Calling My Name" Jameson Rodgers featuring Luke Combs [91]
October 16 [92] "Memory I Don't Mess With" Lee Brice [93]
October 23 [94] "My Boy" Elvie Shane [95]
October 30 [96] "If I Didn't Love You" Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood [97]
November 6 [98] [99]
November 13 [100] "Fancy Like" Walker Hayes [101]
November 20 [102] "If I Didn't Love You" Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood [103]
November 27 "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift [104] "Cold as You" Luke Combs [105]
December 4 [106] "Same Boat" Zac Brown Band [107]
December 11 [108] "Thinking 'Bout You" Dustin Lynch featuring MacKenzie Porter [109]
December 18 "Fancy Like" Walker Hayes [110] [111]
December 25 [112] [113]

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