The Top Country Song From The Year You Were Born

Here’s the Top country song played in the year you were born! This list highlights the greatest country songs across the decades, showing the evolution of the genre from its roots to modern-day hits.

2020s

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• 2023: “Last Night” – Morgan Wallen
• 2022: “She Had Me at Heads Carolina” – Cole Swindell
• 2021: “Fancy Like” – Walker Hayes
• 2020: “I Hope” – Gabby Barrett

2010s

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• 2019: “Whiskey Glasses” – Morgan Wallen
• 2018: “Meant to Be” – Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
• 2017: “Body Like a Back Road” – Sam Hunt
• 2016: “Humble and Kind” – Tim McGraw
• 2015: “Take Your Time” – Sam Hunt
• 2014: “Play It Again” – Luke Bryan
• 2013: “Cruise” – Florida Georgia Line
• 2012: “Springsteen” – Eric Church
• 2011: “Honey Bee” – Blake Shelton
• 2010: “Love Like Crazy” – Lee Brice

2000s

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• 2009: “Need You Now” – Lady A
• 2008: “Just Got Started Lovin’ You” – James Otto
• 2007: “Watching You” – Rodney Atkins
• 2006: “Jesus, Take the Wheel” – Carrie Underwood
• 2005: “As Good as I Once Was” – Toby Keith
• 2004: “Live Like You Were Dying” – Tim McGraw
• 2003: “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” – Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
• 2002: “The Good Stuff” – Kenny Chesney
• 2001: “I’m Already There” – Lonestar
• 2000: “How Do You Like Me Now?!” – Toby Keith

1990s

• 1999: “Amazed” – Lonestar
• 1998: “This Kiss” – Faith Hill
• 1997: “It’s Your Love” – Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
• 1996: “My Maria” – Brooks & Dunn
• 1995: “I Like It, I Love It” – Tim McGraw
• 1994: “Don’t Take the Girl” – Tim McGraw
• 1993: “Chattahoochee” – Alan Jackson
• 1992: “Achy Breaky Heart” – Billy Ray Cyrus
• 1991: “Down Home” – Alabama
• 1990: “Friends in Low Places” – Garth Brooks

1980s

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• 1989: “The Church on Cumberland Road” – Shenandoah
• 1988: “I Told You So” – Randy Travis
• 1987: “Forever and Ever, Amen” – Randy Travis
• 1986: “Morning Desire” – Kenny Rogers
• 1985: “Seven Spanish Angels” – Ray Charles & Willie Nelson
• 1984: “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” – Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson
• 1983: “Islands in the Stream” – Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
• 1982: “Always on My Mind” – Willie Nelson
• 1981: “9 to 5” – Dolly Parton
• 1980: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” – George Jones

1970s

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• 1979: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” – Charlie Daniels Band
• 1978: “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” – Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
• 1977: “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” – Waylon Jennings
• 1976: “Teddy Bear” – Red Sovine
• 1975: “Rhinestone Cowboy” – Glen Campbell
• 1974: “I Will Always Love You” – Dolly Parton
• 1973: “Behind Closed Doors” – Charlie Rich
• 1972: “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.” – Donna Fargo
• 1971: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” – Charley Pride
• 1970: “For the Good Times” – Ray Price

1960s

• 1969: “Daddy Sang Bass” – Johnny Cash
• 1968: “Folsom Prison Blues” – Johnny Cash (Live at Folsom Prison)
• 1967: “All the Time” – Jack Greene
• 1966: “Almost Persuaded” – David Houston
• 1965: “King of the Road” – Roger Miller
• 1964: “Dang Me” – Roger Miller
• 1963: “Still” – Bill Anderson
• 1962: “Wolverton Mountain” – Claude King
• 1961: “I Fall to Pieces” – Patsy Cline
• 1960: “Please Help Me, I’m Falling” – Hank Locklin

1950s

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• 1959: “The Battle of New Orleans” – Johnny Horton
• 1958: “Oh Lonesome Me” – Don Gibson
• 1957: “Young Love” – Sonny James
• 1956: “Heartbreak Hotel” – Elvis Presley
• 1955: “In the Jailhouse Now” – Webb Pierce
• 1954: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” – Hank Snow
• 1953: “Kaw-Liga” – Hank Williams
• 1952: “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” – Hank Williams
• 1951: “Slow Poke” – Pee Wee King
• 1950: “I’m Moving On” – Hank Snow

1940s

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• 1949: “Lovesick Blues” – Hank Williams
• 1948: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” – Eddy Arnold
• 1947: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” – Tex Williams
• 1946: “New San Antonio Rose” – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• 1945: “You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often” – Tex Ritter
• 1944: “Smoke on the Water” – Red Foley
• 1943: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” – Al Dexter
• 1942: “Jole Blon” – Harry Choates
• 1941: “Wabash Cannonball” – Roy Acuff
• 1940: “Walking the Floor Over You” – Ernest Tubb