page_title: List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1986
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1986 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Marie Osmond sings for the crew of the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) during the special Suzanne Somers show aboard the carrier.
context_page_description: Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1986, 52 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores. No song managed more than a single week at number one during the year.
  The first number one of the year was "Have Mercy" by mother-daughter duo the Judds. In the fall, Conway Twitty achieved his 40th and final Hot Country number one with "Desperado Love", 18 years after he first topped the chart with "Next in Line". Twitty's total of 40 number ones would remain a record for the highest number of country chart-toppers by an artist until 2006, when the record was broken by George Strait. Two female acts tied for the most number ones of the year, each reaching the top spot three times: the Forester Sisters and the Judds. More than a dozen acts each achieved two number ones, including Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris, who each achieved one solo number one as well as performing together on the hit "Makin' Up for Lost Time".
caption: Marie Osmond was another artist with two chart-toppers in 1986.
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