List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2023
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. Country Airplay, which was first 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. In the issue dated January 7, 2023, "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen was at number one on Country Airplay, the song's tenth week in the top spot, extending a record set the previous week for the longest-running number-one single based strictly off country radio rotation. Zach Bryan's "Something in the Orange" was the year's first number one on Hot Country Songs; topping the chart in its 36th week on the listing, it gave the singer his first number-one country single. A week later, Jelly Roll achieved the same feat when he topped the Country Airplay chart with "Son of a Sinner", and Nate Smith did the same in February with "Whiskey on You". Later in February, Katelyn Brown achieved her first number one as a featured artist on her husband Kane Brown's "Thank God". The track was only the second duet by a married couple to top a chart based on country radio airplay, following Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" in 1997. In August, Oliver Anthony went straight in at number one with "Rich Men North of Richmond" (credited to "Oliver Anthony Music"), the singer's first song to enter any of Billboards charts. In September, Kacey Musgraves scored her first number one country single as a featured artist on Bryan's "I Remember Everything", which topped Hot Country Songs. As of the issue dated October 28, Wallen has had the year's most country number ones, having had four songs top one or both charts. Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Bryan, and Bailey Zimmerman are the only other acts with more than one country number one during 2023. In July, Combs reached number one on Country Airplay with a rendition of Tracy Chapman's 1988 song "Fast Car", the first cover of a pop single to top a Billboard chart based on plays on country music radio since Blake Shelton's version of Michael Bublé's "Home" topped Hot Country Songs in 2008. Additionally, it made Chapman the first black woman to solely compose a country number one. Wallen has spent the most total weeks at number one on both listings, with 25 on Hot Country Songs and 13 on Country Airplay. His track "Last Night" has had the year's longest unbroken run in the top spot of both charts, with 25 weeks at number one on Hot Country Songs and eight weeks atop Country Airplay. It also topped the magazine's all-genre chart, the Hot 100, the first song by a solo male country singer to do so since 1981. "Try That in a Small Town" by Jason Aldean topped both Hot Country Songs and the Hot 100 in July when its sales increased dramatically following controversy around its music video, and another song which was considered controversial, "Rich Men North of Richmond", achieved the same feat in August. "I Remember Everything" became the third song to top both listings in September. Chart history

See also
2023 in country music
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart
List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2023

References

External links
Current Hot Country chart
Current Country Airplay chart

2023
Number-one country singles
United States Country Singles