Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005. List of artists who reached number one on the U.S." I Don't Mind the Thorns (If You're the Rose)" Osmond, Marie Marie Osmond (with Dan Seals)
" Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" Parton, Dolly Dolly Parton (duet with Kenny Rogers) " Love Don't Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)" Issue dateĬharles, Ray Ray Charles (with Willie Nelson) Willie Nelson had one solo number one, one in collaboration with Ray Charles, and one as part of supergroup The Highwaymen. " Have Mercy" by The Judds was the final number one of the year. Gary Morris and Sawyer Brown were also first-time chart-toppers in 1985, with " Baby Bye Bye" and " Step That Step" respectively. He went all the way to the top spot with the Willie Nelson collaboration " Seven Spanish Angels", taken from the album Friendship, on which Charles duetted with a range of contemporary country singers. Although he was far more associated with the soul and rhythm and blues genres during his lengthy career, Charles placed several songs on the country chart during the mid-1980s. Ray Charles also topped the chart for the only time in 1985. Having appeared regularly on the Hot Country chart since 1976, Mel McDaniel achieved his first and only number one in 1985 with " Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On". Additionally Willie Nelson achieved one solo number one, one in collaboration with Ray Charles, and one as a member of the supergroup the Highwaymen, in which he was joined by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Earl Thomas Conley, Exile, the Judds and the Oak Ridge Boys each had three number ones in 1985. The band would eventually extend its streak of consecutive number ones to 21 before its popularity began to wane in the 1990s.
Alabama had released a Christmas single in late 1982 which only peaked at number 35, but the magazine disregarded this for the purposes of the band's number one streak, stating "only a Scrooge would count that against them".
When the group achieved its third number one of the year in August, Billboard regarded it as Alabama's seventeenth consecutive Hot Country number one, breaking the record for consecutive chart-toppers previously held by Sonny James. Only " Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" by Ronnie Milsap managed a second week at the top of the chart.Īlabama, one of the most successful bands in country music history, had the highest number of chart-toppers by a single act in 1985, with four: " (There's A) Fire in the Night", " There's No Way", " 40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" and " Can't Keep a Good Man Down". In 1985, 51 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. The band Alabama had four number ones in 1985.
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