# List of Hot Country Songs number ones of 2009

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 2009, 30 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.
Four acts achieved their first number-one hit in 2009. The first was Mac McAnally, whose appearance as a guest vocalist on Kenny Chesney's cover version of his 1990 song "Down the Road" gave him his first appearance at the top of the chart in a career which stretched back to the 1970s. The group Lady Antebellum spent one week at number one in July with its first chart-topper, "I Run to You", and returned to the top with "Need You Now", which spent the last five weeks of the year at number one, the longest spell at the top by a single song. The six weeks which the trio spent at number one was the most by any act in 2009. "Need You Now" also achieved considerable crossover success, topping the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts and reaching number 2 in Billboard's all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100. In October, both Justin Moore and Chris Young reached the top spot for the first time, with "Small Town USA" and "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)" respectively. This would be the first of five consecutive number-one hits for Young over a two-year period.
In addition to Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker and Sugarland all achieved two number ones in 2009. Aldean's "Big Green Tractor" spent four weeks at number one in the fall, the first song to spend four weeks in the top spot since February of the previous year. Keith Urban was the only act to reach number one with three different songs, "Sweet Thing", "Only You Can Love Me This Way", and "Start a Band", a duet with Brad Paisley.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Title | Artist(s) |
| January 3 | "Here" | Rascal Flatts |
| January 10 | "Here" | Rascal Flatts |
| January 17 | "Already Gone" | Sugarland |
| January 24 | "Start a Band" | Brad Paisley duet with Keith Urban |
| January 31 | "Country Boy" | Alan Jackson |
| February 7 | "She Wouldn't Be Gone" | Blake Shelton |
| February 14 | "She Wouldn't Be Gone" | Blake Shelton |
| February 21 | "Feel That Fire" | Dierks Bentley |
| February 28 | "Down the Road" | Kenny Chesney with Mac McAnally |
| March 7 | "God Love Her" | Toby Keith |
| March 14 | "Sweet Thing" | Keith Urban |
| March 21 | "Sweet Thing" | Keith Urban |
| March 28 | "It Won't Be Like This for Long" | Darius Rucker |
| April 4 | "It Won't Be Like This for Long" | Darius Rucker |
| April 11 | "It Won't Be Like This for Long" | Darius Rucker |
| April 18 | "River of Love" | George Strait |
| April 25 | "Here Comes Goodbye" | Rascal Flatts |
| May 2 | "It's America" | Rodney Atkins |
| May 9 | "It's America" | Rodney Atkins |
| May 16 | "She's Country" | Jason Aldean |
| May 23 | "It Happens" | Sugarland |
| May 30 | "It Happens" | Sugarland |
| June 6 | "Then" | Brad Paisley |
| June 13 | "Then" | Brad Paisley |
| June 20 | "Then" | Brad Paisley |
| June 27 | "Out Last Night" | Kenny Chesney |
| July 4 | "Out Last Night" | Kenny Chesney |
| July 11 | "Sideways" | Dierks Bentley |
| July 18 | "Sideways" | Dierks Bentley |
| July 25 | "I Run to You" | Lady Antebellum |
| August 1 | "People Are Crazy" | Billy Currington |
| August 8 | "People Are Crazy" | Billy Currington |
| August 15 | "Alright" | Darius Rucker |
| August 22 | "You Belong with Me" | Taylor Swift |
| August 29 | "You Belong with Me" | Taylor Swift |
| September 5 | "Big Green Tractor" | Jason Aldean |
| September 12 | "Big Green Tractor" | Jason Aldean |
| September 19 | "Big Green Tractor" | Jason Aldean |
| September 26 | "Big Green Tractor" | Jason Aldean |
| October 3 | "Small Town USA" | Justin Moore |
| October 10 | "American Ride" | Toby Keith |
| October 17 | "American Ride" | Toby Keith |
| October 24 | "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)" | Chris Young |
| October 31 | "Only You Can Love Me This Way" | Keith Urban |
| November 7 | "Toes" | Zac Brown Band |
| November 14 | "Toes" | Zac Brown Band |
| November 21 | "Cowboy Casanova" | Carrie Underwood |
| November 28 | "Need You Now" | Lady Antebellum |
| December 5 | "Need You Now" | Lady Antebellum |
| December 12 | "Need You Now" | Lady Antebellum |
| December 19 | "Need You Now" | Lady Antebellum |
| December 26 | "Need You Now" | Lady Antebellum |