page_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2017
section_title: Hot Country Songs
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2017 / Chart history / Hot Country Songs
caption_attribution_description: English: Bebe Rexha performing live at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, California on Friday April 8th, 2016. Bebe opened for Ellie Goulding on her Delirium World Tour.
context_page_description: In 2017, 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 2017, seven different songs topped the Hot Country Songs chart and 34 different songs topped Country Airplay in 52 issues of the magazine.
  In the issue of Billboard dated February 25, singer Sam Hunt reached number one with the song "Body Like a Back Road", which would remain in the top spot through the issue dated October 14. In August the song broke the record for the most weeks spent at number one on the Hot Country Songs listing, surpassing the 24 weeks spent in the top spot by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" in 2012 and 2013.
caption: Bebe Rexha went straight into number one in December with "Meant to Be", a collaboration with Florida Georgia Line.
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