page_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2016
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2016 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Keith Urban showcase - Sydney - First taste (Album)
context_page_description: In 2016, Billboard magazine published two main charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States. The Hot Country Songs chart ranked songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012. The Country Airplay listing, which had been published for the first time in 2012, was based solely on country radio airplay, a methodology which had previously been used for several decades for Hot Country Songs. In 2016, nine different songs topped the Hot Country Songs chart and 40 different songs topped Country Airplay in 52 issues of the magazine.
  In the first issue of Billboard of the new year, Thomas Rhett was at number one on both charts with "Die a Happy Man". On Hot Country Songs the song would continue to hold the top spot through the issue of Billboard dated March 19, finishing with a total of 17 weeks at number one. The song spent six consecutive weeks atop Country Airplay, twice as long as any other song achieved in 2016. Additionally, it was the longest run at number one on Billboard's airplay-based country chart since 2008.
caption: Keith Urban ended the year at number one on Hot Country Songs.
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