How Country Feels
2012
Three Nashville writers and producer Derek George handed Houser his first Country Airplay number one, and a platinum single.
★ 0.9
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Just Another Day In Paradise
2000
Vassar and Craig Wiseman built it from household mishaps and money worries, and it became his first country number one.
★ 1.1
Bottoms Up
2013
Brett James co-wrote it with Gilbert and Weaver, his first million-selling single and a Hot Country Songs number one.
★ 1.1
Beer In Mexico
2005
Chesney wrote it alone in Cabo San Lucas at Sammy Hagar's birthday party, and it topped the country chart.
★ 1.3
Achy Breaky Heart
1992
Don Von Tress wrote it; the Marcy Brothers cut it first, then Cyrus's video sent line dancing worldwide.
★ 1.5
Burnin' it Down
2014
Two Florida Georgia Line writers, a drum loop, and Aldean pulling country toward R&B; platinum in nine weeks.
★ 1.5
My List
2002
Five weeks atop the country chart for a song about the errands that keep pushing family aside.
★ 1.7
Dirt
2014
Clawson and Tompkins built a whole life around one word; the duo nearly cut the closing lines about mortality.
★ 1.8
I Melt
2003
A number two country hit whose Miami-shot video became the first with nudity that CMT would air.
★ 1.9
I Got a Car
2013
Bubba Strait pitched it off a rodeo friend's CD; his father left it on the coffee table, then cut it.
★ 1.9
Play it Again
2014
Davidson and Gorley's tailgate story carried Bryan to the top two Country Airplay spots at once, a chart first.
★ 1.9
Time is Love
2012
Frank Rogers built it on mandolin, and Billboard named it 2012's top country song despite it never reaching number one.
★ 2.0
How Forever Feels
1998
Tim McGraw cut it first and passed; Chesney took it to six weeks at number one on country radio.
★ 2.2
Back Where I Come From
2000
Mac McAnally's 1990 original about his Mississippi hometown reached number fourteen; Chesney's cover went gold without ever being a single.
★ 2.4
I Go Back
2004
Jack & Diane, Only the Good Die Young, Rock'n Me: the songs Chesney says drag him back.
★ 2.5
Give it All We Got Tonight
2012
A fan campaign called 60 for 60 pushed it to a Mediabase number one, Strait's sixtieth, at sixty.
★ 2.6
Life is a Highway (Rascal Flatts)
2006
Written after Cochrane's famine-relief trip to Africa, and reborn as a Pixar road anthem by Rascal Flatts.
★ 2.6
The Best Day
1999
A father narrating his son's boyhood, written by Dillon and Chamberlain, and Strait's thirty-sixth number one.
★ 2.7
My Best Friend
1999
Bill Luther and Aimee Mayo's ballad for A Place in the Sun, and McGraw took it to country number one.
★ 2.8
Bless the Broken Road
2005
A decade after the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cut it first, Rascal Flatts rode it to five weeks at number one.
★ 2.9