List of Hot Country Songs number ones of 2005

Craig Morgan's song "That's What I Love About Sunday" was named the number-one country song of 2005 by Billboard;it remains his only number one hit as of May 2022[update].

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 2005, twenty different songs topped the chart, published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks through the April 23 issue, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.[1]

Singer Blake Shelton's song "Some Beach" was at number one at the start of the year, having risen to the top in the issue of Billboard dated December 25, 2004.[2] The song remained at number one for three further weeks until it was replaced at the top by "Awful, Beautiful Life" by Darryl Worley in the issue dated January 22. Australian singer Keith Urban spent the most weeks at number one in 2005, with eleven, comprising five weeks with "Making Memories of Us" and six with "Better Life", the latter of which tied for the most weeks at number one by a single song with "As Good as I Once Was" by Toby Keith. Two other acts reached the top of the chart with more than one song in 2005. Brooks & Dunn topped the chart with "It's Getting Better All the Time" in May and "Play Something Country" in September, although each only spent one week at number one. Rascal Flatts, in contrast, spent eight weeks in total at number one with their two chart-toppers, "Bless the Broken Road" and "Fast Cars and Freedom".

Although it did not spend as long at the top as Urban's and Keith's songs, the song that was ranked number one on Billboard's year-end chart of the most popular country songs was "That's What I Love About Sunday" by Craig Morgan,[3] which spent four weeks at number one in March and April. Despite this success, it remains Morgan's only Hot Country Songs number one.[4] Two other artists reached the top of the chart for the first time in 2005. In March, Josh Gracin achieved his first number one with "Nothin' to Lose",[5] making him the first of a number of former American Idol finalists to achieve success on the country charts.[6] In the final week of the year, Billy Currington topped the chart for the first time with "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right".[7]

## Chart history[edit]

Keith Urban spent eleven weeks at number one. Josh Gracin achieved his first number one in 2005, two years after he was a finalist on American Idol.[8] Jo Dee Messina was one of three female soloists to top the chart in 2005. Billy Currington ended the year at number one. Issue date  | Title  | Artist(s)  | Ref.

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January 1 | "Some Beach"  | Blake Shelton | [9]
January 8 | [10]
January 15 | [11]
January 22 | "Awful, Beautiful Life"  | Darryl Worley | [12]
January 29 | [13]
February 5 | "Mud on the Tires"  | Brad Paisley | [14]
February 12 | "Bless the Broken Road"  | Rascal Flatts | [15]
February 19 | [16]
February 26 | [17]
March 5 | [18]
March 12 | [19]
March 19 | "Nothin' to Lose"  | Josh Gracin | [20]
March 26 | "That's What I Love About Sunday"  | Craig Morgan | [21]
April 2 | [22]
April 9 | [23]
April 16 | [24]
April 23 | "Anything but Mine"  | Kenny Chesney | [25]
April 30 | [26]
May 7 | "It's Getting Better All the Time"  | Brooks & Dunn | [27]
May 14 | "My Give a Damn's Busted"  | Jo Dee Messina | [28]
May 21 | [29]
May 28 | "Making Memories of Us"  | Keith Urban | [30]
June 4 | [31]
June 11 | [32]
June 18 | [33]
June 25 | [34]
July 2 | "Fast Cars and Freedom"  | Rascal Flatts | [35]
July 9 | [36]
July 16 | [37]
July 23 | "As Good as I Once Was"  | Toby Keith | [38]
July 30 | [39]
August 6 | [40]
August 13 | [41]
August 20 | [42]
August 27 | [43]
September 3 | "Mississippi Girl"  | Faith Hill | [44]
September 10 | [45]
September 17 | "Play Something Country"  | Brooks & Dunn | [46]
September 24 | "A Real Fine Place to Start"  | Sara Evans | [47]
October 1 | [48]
October 8 | "Something to Be Proud Of"  | Montgomery Gentry | [49]
October 15 | [50]
October 22 | "Better Life"  | Keith Urban | [51]
October 29 | [52]
November 5 | [53]
November 12 | [54]
November 19 | [55]
November 26 | [56]
December 3 | "Come a Little Closer"  | Dierks Bentley | [57]
December 10 | [58]
December 17 | "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off"  | Joe Nichols | [59]
December 24 | "Come a Little Closer"  | Dierks Bentley | [60]
December 31 | "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right"  | Billy Currington | [61]

## See also[edit]

* 2005 in music
* List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart

## References[edit]

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