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Zac Brown Band reached number one for the first time in December 2008.

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 2008, 26 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

At the start of the year the number one was "Our Song" by Taylor Swift, which had risen to the top in the issue dated December 22, 2007. It remained at the top of the chart until the issue dated February 2, when it was replaced by "Letter to Me" by Brad Paisley. Both Swift and Paisley had three songs at number one in 2008. Paisley reached the top with "Letter to Me", "I'm Still a Guy" and "Waitin' on a Woman" and Swift with "Our Song", "Should've Said No" and "Love Story". Carrie Underwood also had three chart-toppers in 2008 with "All-American Girl", "Last Name" and "Just a Dream". Paisley and Swift tied for the most weeks at number one by an artist in the year, each spending eight weeks at the top. The last number one of the year was "Roll with Me", the final number one single by Montgomery Gentry.

Four acts topped the chart for the first time in 2008. The first was James Otto, who reached number one for the first time in May with "Just Got Started Lovin' You". Although it only spent two weeks at number one, Otto's song was ranked number one on Billboard's year-end chart of the most popular country songs. In October, former Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker scored his first country number one with "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", making him the first African-American to have a solo number one since Charley Pride in 1983. Jimmy Wayne and the Zac Brown Band also topped the chart for the first time in 2008. Additionally, veteran reggae band The Wailers received a secondary credit on Kenny Chesney's song "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" for one of its two weeks in the top spot. This gave the group its first appearance at number one on Hot Country Songs and marked the first appearance at number one on the chart by any act of the reggae genre and the first by any act from Jamaica.

Chart history

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Darius Rucker was the first African-American singer to have an individual country number one in 25 years.
A man in a dark t-shirt, jeans and cowboy hat playing the guitar on a stage in front of an audience
Brad Paisley spent eight weeks at number one in 2008.
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Carrie Underwood achieved three number-one hits in 2008.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 5 "Our Song" Taylor Swift
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2 "Letter to Me" Brad Paisley
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 1 "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" Rodney Atkins
March 8
March 15 "All-American Girl" Carrie Underwood
March 22
March 29 "Small Town Southern Man" Alan Jackson
April 5
April 12 "You're Gonna Miss This" Trace Adkins
April 19
April 26
May 3 "I Saw God Today" George Strait
May 10
May 17 "Just Got Started Lovin' You" James Otto
May 24
May 31 "I'm Still a Guy" Brad Paisley
June 7
June 14
June 21 "Last Name" Carrie Underwood
June 28 "Better as a Memory" Kenny Chesney
July 5
July 12 "Back When I Knew It All" Montgomery Gentry
July 19 "Home" Blake Shelton
July 26
August 2 "Good Time" Alan Jackson
August 9
August 16 "All I Want to Do" Sugarland
August 23 "Should've Said No" Taylor Swift
August 30
September 6 "You Look Good in My Shirt" Keith Urban
September 13 "Do You Believe Me Now" Jimmy Wayne
September 20 "Waitin' on a Woman" Brad Paisley
September 27 "Do You Believe Me Now" Jimmy Wayne
October 4 "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" Darius Rucker
October 11
October 18 "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" Kenny Chesney with The Wailers
October 25
November 1 "She Never Cried in Front of Me" Toby Keith
November 8 "Just a Dream" Carrie Underwood
November 15
November 22 "Love Story" Taylor Swift
November 29
December 6 "Chicken Fried" Zac Brown Band
December 13
December 20 "Roll with Me" Montgomery Gentry
December 27
  1. The Wailers were only credited in the issue dated October 25.

See also

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