

As of the issue of Billboard dated September 3, Morgan Wallen has achieved the most number-one country songs in 2022, with five of his songs topping one or both charts. In May, Ashley McBryde reached number one for the first time when her collaboration with Carly Pearce, " Never Wanted to Be That Girl", topped the Country Airplay chart, and Mitchell Tenpenny gained his first chart-topper in August when " At the End of a Bar", a collaboration with Chris Young, topped the same listing. Ĭody Johnson achieved his first number one single in February, when " 'Til You Can't" topped Hot Country Songs, and Breland achieved the same feat on the Country Airplay chart in April when he collaborated with Dierks Bentley and Hardy on " Beers on Me". In April, Elle King and Miranda Lambert's " Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" became the first duet by two women to top a Billboard chart based on country music radio play in nearly 30 years, since Reba McEntire and Linda Davis's " Does He Love You" in November 1993. This tied a record set by Travis Denning's " After a Few" in June 2020 for the slowest climb to the top of that listing. "Thinking 'Bout You" was replaced in the top spot in the issue dated January 22 by Michael Ray's " Whiskey and Rain", which reached number one in its 65th week on the chart. In the issue of Billboard dated January 1, 2022, " Fancy Like" by Walker Hayes held the top spot on the Hot Country Songs chart, and " Thinking 'Bout You" by Dustin Lynch and MacKenzie Porter was atop the Country Airplay chart both songs retained their positions from the final chart of 2021. 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. 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.

Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Elle King collaborated with Miranda Lambert on the chart-topper " Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)".
