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John Michael Montgomery had three number ones in 1994.

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1994, 30 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. [1]

Two artists reached number one with three different songs in 1994. Clay Walker topped the chart with " Live Until I Die", " Dreaming with My Eyes Open" and " If I Could Make a Living", and John Michael Montgomery achieved the feat with " I Swear", " Be My Baby Tonight" and " If You've Got Love". Montgomery also spent the most cumulative weeks at the top of the chart, with seven, one more than Neal McCoy, who spent six weeks at the top with " No Doubt About It" and " Wink". Despite this level of chart success in 1994, the two songs remain McCoy's only number one hits. [2] Clay Walker's three number ones each spent only a single week in the top spot. Other artists to achieve more than one number one in 1994 were Brooks & Dunn, Joe Diffie, Faith Hill and Alan Jackson.

In addition to McCoy, acts who reached number one for the first time in 1994 included Mary Chapin Carpenter with " Shut Up and Kiss Me", [3] Little Texas with " My Love", [4] and John Berry with " Your Love Amazes Me". [5] Trisha Yearwood spent two weeks at number one in September with " XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)", which went on to serve as the theme song to her Food Network show Trisha's Southern Kitchen. [6] The track was co-written by Alice Randall, who became the first African-American woman to write a country number one. [7]

Chart history

A man in a baseball cap, yellow T-shirt and blue jeans singing into a microphone with his arms spread wide
Neal McCoy had two number ones in 1994, which spent a combined six weeks at the top of the chart, but they remain the only chart-toppers of his career.
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Joe Diffie was one of several acts to have two number ones in 1994.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter had her only number one to date in 1994.
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Trisha Yearwood spent two weeks at number one with " XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)", which went on to serve as the theme song to her Food Network show Trisha's Southern Kitchen.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 1 " Wild One" Faith Hill [8]
January 8 [9]
January 15 [10]
January 22 [11]
January 29 " Live Until I Die" Clay Walker [12]
February 5 " I Swear" John Michael Montgomery [13]
February 12 [14]
February 19 [15]
February 26 [16]
March 5 " I Just Wanted You to Know" Mark Chesnutt [17]
March 12 " Tryin' to Get Over You" Vince Gill [18]
March 19 " No Doubt About It" Neal McCoy [19]
March 26 [20]
April 2 " My Love" Little Texas [21]
April 9 [22]
April 16 " If the Good Die Young" Tracy Lawrence [23]
April 23 [24]
April 30 " Piece of My Heart" Faith Hill [25]
May 7 " A Good Run of Bad Luck" Clint Black [26]
May 14 " If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)" Shenandoah [27]
May 21 " Your Love Amazes Me" John Berry [28]
May 28 " Don't Take the Girl" Tim McGraw [29]
June 4 [30]
June 11 " That Ain't No Way to Go" Brooks & Dunn [31]
June 18 " Wink" Neal McCoy [32]
June 25 [33]
July 2 [34]
July 9 [35]
July 16 " Foolish Pride" Travis Tritt [36]
July 23 " Summertime Blues" Alan Jackson [37]
July 30 [38]
August 6 [39]
August 13 " Be My Baby Tonight" John Michael Montgomery [40]
August 20 [41]
August 27 " Dreaming with My Eyes Open" Clay Walker [42]
September 3 " Whisper My Name" Randy Travis [43]
September 10 " XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)" Trisha Yearwood [44]
September 17 [45]
September 24 " Third Rock from the Sun" Joe Diffie [46]
October 1 [47]
October 8 " Who's That Man" Toby Keith [48]
October 15 " She's Not the Cheatin' Kind" Brooks & Dunn [49]
October 22 [50]
October 29 " Livin' on Love" Alan Jackson [51]
November 5 [52]
November 12 [53]
November 19 " Shut Up and Kiss Me" Mary Chapin Carpenter [54]
November 26 " If I Could Make a Living" Clay Walker [55]
December 3 " The Big One" George Strait [56]
December 10 " If You've Got Love" John Michael Montgomery [57]
December 17 " Pickup Man" Joe Diffie [58]
December 24 [59]
December 31 [60]

See also

References

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