# List of Hot Country Singles & Tracks number ones of 1998

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1998, 26 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine. Chart rankings were based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
At the start of the year Garth Brooks was at number one with "Longneck Bottle", which had been in the top spot since the chart dated December 20, 1997. The song remained there for the first chart of 1998 before being replaced by "A Broken Wing" by Martina McBride. Brooks went on to have two further number ones in 1998, "Two Piña Coladas" and a cover version of Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love". Unrelated singer Kix Brooks and his musical partner Ronnie Dunn, collectively known as Brooks & Dunn, also had three number ones in 1998. The duo topped the listing with "How Long Gone", "Husbands and Wives" and "If You See Him/If You See Her", a collaboration with vocalist Reba McEntire. Other acts to reach number one with more than one song in 1998 were Clint Black, Faith Hill, Hill's husband Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina, George Strait, Shania Twain and Dixie Chicks, whose two chart-toppers came from Wide Open Spaces, their first album to feature new vocalist Natalie Maines.
Tim McGraw spent the most weeks at number one of any act, with ten. His song "Just to See You Smile" spent six weeks at the top, the most by one song, and was ranked number one on Billboard's year-end chart of the most popular country songs. The final number one of the year was "You're Easy on the Eyes" by Terri Clark, who was one of four acts, all of them female, to achieve their first number one in 1998; during the late 1990s, female performers achieved a level of success on the country charts greater than they had in the first half of the decade or would in the subsequent decade. The other first-time chart-toppers were Jo Dee Messina, who reached the top spot for the first time with "Bye, Bye"; Anita Cochran, who spent one week at the top with "What If I Said", a duet with Steve Wariner; and the all-female group Dixie Chicks, who first reached number one in August with "There's Your Trouble".

## Chart history

| Issue date | Title | Artist(s) |
| January 3 | "Longneck Bottle" | Garth Brooks |
| January 10 | "A Broken Wing" | Martina McBride |
| January 17 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| January 24 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| January 31 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| February 7 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| February 14 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| February 21 | "Just to See You Smile" | Tim McGraw |
| February 28 | "What If I Said" | Anita Cochran (duet with Steve Wariner) |
| March 7 | "Round About Way" | George Strait |
| March 14 | "Round About Way" | George Strait |
| March 21 | "Nothin' but the Taillights" | Clint Black |
| March 28 | "Nothin' but the Taillights" | Clint Black |
| April 4 | "Perfect Love" | Trisha Yearwood |
| April 11 | "Perfect Love" | Trisha Yearwood |
| April 18 | "Bye, Bye" | Jo Dee Messina |
| April 25 | "Bye, Bye" | Jo Dee Messina |
| May 2 | "You're Still the One" | Shania Twain |
| May 9 | "Two Piña Coladas" | Garth Brooks |
| May 16 | "This Kiss" | Faith Hill |
| May 23 | "This Kiss" | Faith Hill |
| May 30 | "This Kiss" | Faith Hill |
| June 6 | "I Just Want to Dance with You" | George Strait |
| June 13 | "I Just Want to Dance with You" | George Strait |
| June 20 | "I Just Want to Dance with You" | George Strait |
| June 27 | "If You See Him/If You See Her" | Reba McEntire/Brooks & Dunn |
| July 4 | "If You See Him/If You See Her" | Reba McEntire/Brooks & Dunn |
| July 11 | "The Shoes You're Wearing" | Clint Black |
| July 18 | "I Can Still Feel You" | Collin Raye |
| July 25 | "I Can Still Feel You" | Collin Raye |
| August 1 | "To Make You Feel My Love" | Garth Brooks |
| August 8 | "There's Your Trouble" | Dixie Chicks |
| August 15 | "There's Your Trouble" | Dixie Chicks |
| August 22 | "I'm Alright" | Jo Dee Messina |
| August 29 | "I'm Alright" | Jo Dee Messina |
| September 5 | "I'm Alright" | Jo Dee Messina |
| September 12 | "How Long Gone" | Brooks & Dunn |
| September 19 | "How Long Gone" | Brooks & Dunn |
| September 26 | "How Long Gone" | Brooks & Dunn |
| October 3 | "Where the Green Grass Grows" | Tim McGraw |
| October 10 | "Where the Green Grass Grows" | Tim McGraw |
| October 17 | "Where the Green Grass Grows" | Tim McGraw |
| October 24 | "Where the Green Grass Grows" | Tim McGraw |
| October 31 | "Honey, I'm Home" | Shania Twain |
| November 7 | "Wide Open Spaces" | Dixie Chicks |
| November 14 | "Wide Open Spaces" | Dixie Chicks |
| November 21 | "Wide Open Spaces" | Dixie Chicks |
| November 28 | "Wide Open Spaces" | Dixie Chicks |
| December 5 | "It Must Be Love" | Ty Herndon |
| December 12 | "Let Me Let Go" | Faith Hill |
| December 19 | "Husbands and Wives" | Brooks & Dunn |
| December 26 | "You're Easy on the Eyes" | Terri Clark |