List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1985
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1985, 51 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1] Only "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" by Ronnie Milsap managed a second week at the top of the chart.
Alabama had the highest number of chart-toppers by a single act, with four: "Can't Keep a Good Man Down", "(There's A) Fire in the Night", "There's No Way" and "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')". When the group achieved its fourth number one of the year, Billboard regarded it as Alabama's seventeenth consecutive Hot Country number one, breaking the record previously held by Sonny James.[2] Two years earlier, the band had released a Christmas single which only peaked at number 35, but the magazine disregarded this release for the purposes of the band's number one streak, stating "only a Scrooge would count that against them".[2] Earl Thomas Conley, Exile, The Judds and The Oak Ridge Boys each had three number ones in 1985. Additionally Willie Nelson achieved one solo number one, one in collaboration with Ray Charles, and one as a member of the supergroup The Highwaymen, in which he was joined by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson.[3]
Having appeared regularly on the Hot Country chart since 1976, Mel McDaniel achieved his first and only number one in 1985 with "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On".[4] Ray Charles also topped the chart for the only time in 1985.[5] Although he was far more associated with the soul and rhythm and blues genres during his lengthy career,[6] Charles placed several songs on the country chart during the mid-1980s, and went all the way to the top spot with the Willie Nelson collaboration "Seven Spanish Angels", taken from the album Friendship, on which Charles duetted with a range of contemporary country singers.[7] Gary Morris and Sawyer Brown were also first-time chart-toppers in 1985.[8][9]
Chart history
See also
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005. Record Research. p. ix. ISBN 9780898201659.
- 1 2 Grein, Paul (August 3, 1985). "Chart Beat". Billboard. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
- ↑ Thompson, Gayle (December 6, 2017). "33 Years Ago: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson record 'Highwayman'". The Boot. Townsquare Media. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
- ↑ "Mel McDaniel Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
- ↑ "Ray Charles Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ↑ Unterberger, Richie. "Ray Charles Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ↑ Erlewine, Steven Thomas. "Friendship review". AllMusic. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
- ↑ "Gary Morris Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ↑ "Sawyer Brown Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
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