Canada Country is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. This 50-position chart lists the most popular

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

songs, calculated weekly by airplay on 31 country music stations across the country as monitored by

Nielsen BDS Broadcast Data Systems (also known as BDS or Luminate BDS), is a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned ...

. Songs are ranked by total plays. As with most other ''Billboard'' charts, the Canada Country chart features a rule for when a song enters

recurrent rotation In broadcasting, rotation is the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station or satellite radio channel, or music videos on a TV network. They are usually in a different order each time. However, they are not completely shu ...

. A song is declared recurrent if it has been on the chart longer than 30 weeks and is lower than number 20 in rank. These are the Canadian number-one country singles of

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, per the BDS Canada Country Airplay chart. Note that ''Billboard'' publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance. " River Bank" by

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attained the number-one spot on the year-end chart despite only peaking at number two in 2014.

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Current ''Billboard'' Canada Country chart
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Number-one country singles

Canada Country The ''Billboard'' charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in '' Billboard'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, p ...

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