page_title: List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1983
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1983 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Reba McEntire at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
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 1983, 50 different releases topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
  One of only two singles to spend more than one week at number one in 1983 was "Islands in the Stream", a collaboration between two of country's leading solo singers, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. The song was a considerable crossover success, also topping the Adult Contemporary chart and reaching number one on the all-genres Billboard Hot 100. In 2005 the song topped a poll run by country music television channel CMT of the best country duets of all time. The only other multi-week number one was "Houston" by Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, which ended the year in the top spot. Five acts tied for the most number ones of the year, with three each, including Alabama, Crystal Gayle and John Anderson.
context_section_description: a. Double A-sided single
caption: Reba McEntire (pictured in 2010) had the first number one of her career in 1983.  She would continue to be a regular chart-topper into the 21st century.
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