JoleneDolly Parton
Jolene
1973 · From Jolene
Dolly pleading with her rival rather than fighting her, written the same day as "I Will Always Love You."
★ 9.3
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9 to 5
1980 · From 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
Parton played the typewriter part on her acrylic fingernails, credited on the album, then took it to number one.
★ 7.5
Love Story
2008 · From Fearless
Swift wrote it in twenty minutes on her bedroom floor, gave Romeo and Juliet a happy ending, banjo included.
★ 7.3
Take Me Home, Country Roads
1971
Danoff and Nivert finished it with Denver one December night, and they premiered it hours later at the Cellar Door.
★ 7.3
You Belong With Me
2009 · From Fearless
Banjo, fiddle and mandolin under a scene Swift wrote after overhearing a touring musician's phone call with his girlfriend.
★ 6.8
I Can't Make You Love Me
1991
Bruce Hornsby's piano behind a vocal Raitt cut in one take, then refused to try again.
★ 6.7
Before He Cheats
2006
Tompkins and Kear wrote it hoping Gretchen Wilson would cut it; Underwood's version stayed sixty-four weeks on the Hot 100.
★ 6.1
That Don't Impress Me Much
1998
Twain and Lange built it on three men who fall short, and that hooded leopard print did the rest.
★ 6.0
You're Still the One
1998
Written as a reply to everyone who doubted her marriage to Mutt Lange, and it won two country Grammys.
★ 5.4
Need You Now
2009
Four writers, one late-night phone call, and a chorus that took Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys.
★ 5.2
Teardrops On My Guitar
2007 · From Taylor Swift
Nathan Chapman's production stays hushed while Swift and Liz Rose leave the real classmate's name, Drew, in the lyric.
★ 5.1
I Hope You Dance
2000
Sanders and Sillers wrote it in 1999; five weeks at country number one, and every graduation since has borrowed it.
★ 4.6
Mine
2010 · From Speak Now
A leak forced its release nearly two weeks early, and Swift's lead Speak Now single still debuted at number three.
★ 4.5
Cruise
2012
Twenty-four weeks atop the country chart, a Nelly remix, and the first country single ever certified diamond.
★ 4.3
If I Die Young
2010
Kimberly Perry wrote it alone, and banjo, fiddle and mandolin carry her meditation on mortality across fifty-three Hot 100 weeks.
★ 4.2
How Do I Live
1997
Diane Warren wrote it for Con Air, the studio thought Rimes too pop, and her version charted 69 weeks.
★ 4.0
Breathe (Faith Hill)
1999
Six weeks atop country radio and Billboard's top single of 2000, all built on a hushed opening verse.
★ 4.0
This Kiss
1998
Chapman, Lerner and Roboff built the hook; Hill cut it at Ocean Way and rode it to number seven.
★ 3.9
Amazed
1999
Mayo and Lindsey wrote it while falling for each other, and eight weeks at country number one followed.
★ 3.4
From This Moment On
1998
Twain got the idea at a soccer match in Italy; Bryan White sang the original duet version.
★ 3.1