Top 50 songs on Radio 1973-2023

[maddkat]

aircheck is giving us a list...
1 TIM MCGRAW/Live Like You Were Dying 2004 10( weeks at #1)
2 TOBY KEITH/I Love This Bar 2003 6
3 LONESTAR/Amazed 1999 9
4 KENNY CHESNEY/The Good Stuff 2002 6
5 ALAN JACKSON & JIMMY BUFFETT/It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere 2003 7
6 KEITH URBAN/Somebody Like You 2002 7
7 MORGAN WALLEN/Last Night 2023 3
8 GEORGE STRAIT/She’ll Leave You With A Smile 2003 3
9 MARK WILLS/19 Somethin’ 2003 6
10 GEORGE STRAIT/The Best Day 2000 3
11 DOLLY PARTON/Here You Come Again 1977 6
12 RASCAL FLATTS/My Wish 2006 3
13 STEVE HOLY/Good Morning Beautiful 2002 5
14 TIM MCGRAW/My Next Thirty Years 2000 6
15 CHARLIE RICH/The Most Beautiful Girl 1973 5
16 TIM MCGRAW/My Best Friend 2000 3
17 LUKE COMBS/Even Though I’m Leaving 2019 3
18 LONESTAR/I’m Already There 2001 6
19 DUSTIN LYNCH f/MACKENZIE PORTER/Thinking ‘Bout You 2021 4
20 MARTINA MCBRIDE/I Love You 1999 5
21 FREDDY FENDER/Before The Next Teardrop Falls 1975 4
22 JO DEE MESSINA/That’s The Way 2000 3
23 TOBY KEITH/As Good As I Once Was 2005 5
24 FAITH HILL/Breathe 1999 6
25 LEE ANN WOMACK/I Hope You Dance 2000 6

next week 26-50

 

[FanSince04]

Wow. I’m surprised by some of these songs.

 

[countrymusicfan15]

Hmm I don’t know about a lot of these being above Before He Cheats??? Wasn’t it on the charts for like 50+ weeks and 5 weeks at #1?

 

[PRGuy79]

Something is fishy about this list...

 

[Burst]

A lot of iconic and monumental songs

…and then there’s Morgan Wallen

 

[CU4ever]

I just don't understand how some songs I've never even heard of are top 25, and songs that only got 3 weeks as well, yet not JTTW or BHC which were huge, and we all hear still to this day

 

[maddkat]

here's how they determined the list and why it's so screwy

Methodology: To determine the Top 100 and account for drastically
different methodologies over the years, songs were ranked by inverse
points for every week within the top 15 (i.e. 15 points for a week at No.
1, 14 points for No. 2, etc.). Points for all songs that peaked prior to the
monitored era, when chart runs were typically much shorter, were adjusted
proportionally so the average points of all reporting-era songs equaled that
of all monitored-era songs. Finally, bonus points were given to the top 10
songs from each of the five 10-year spans covered by the charts.
Creating a ranking that accounts for multiple chart methodologies across
50 years is admittedly difficult, if not impossible to perfectly balance. As
noted above, the ‘90s boom – arguably the most pivotal time in the format’s
history – is underrepresented for a number of reasons, the least of which
is methodology. For starters, the industry operated quite differently in that
span – songs moved up and off the chart in a span of weeks, not months.
Also of note for all eras, this list is a reflection solely of current airplay in
the moment. Recurrent and gold airplay – the test of time, if you will – is
an altogether different measure, one that may actually be impossible to
quantify as far back as 50 years ago. Nevertheless, the final Top 100 offers
some discussion-worthy insights.
It should be no surprise that the 10-week No. 1 “Live Like You Were Dying”
leads the list – one of six inclusions for McGraw. Rascal Flatts also landed
six on the Top 100, but they are both eclipsed by Toby Keith’s eight songs.

 

[CU4ever]

They've published the rest of the chart as part of a "Fifty Year Top 100". Here's where Carrie ended up...

37 JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL
88 WASTED
95 BEFORE HE CHEATS

 

[FanSince04]

They've published the rest of the chart as part of a "Fifty Year Top 100". Here's where Carrie ended up...

37 JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL
88 WASTED
95 BEFORE HE CHEATS

How did BHC end up so low? Wasted made the list but LN, AAG, and BA did not? This is weird…

 

[CU4ever]

How did BHC end up so low? Wasted made the list but LN, AAG, and BA did not? This is weird…

I think it maybe has to do with those songs only being out 20 years so there’s 30 years they weren’t out, and maybe radio was different those years as well. I’d like to think if this was just the last 20 years, they’d all be much higher

 

[FanSince04]

I think it maybe has to do with those songs only being out 20 years so there’s 30 years they weren’t out, and maybe radio was different those years as well. I’d like to think if this was just the last 20 years, they’d all be much higher

That doesn’t explain Wallen…

 

[CU4ever]

That doesn’t explain Wallen…

To be fair that was one of the biggest hits in decades. But yeah I don’t know what happened considering how big of a hit BHC was and why it is so low