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27-539: The song debuted at #64 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks and peaked at #1 for the week of March 28, 1992 (McEntire's 37th birthday), and it stayed at #1 for two consecutive weeks. "Is There Life Out There" is a mid-tempo song, telling of a female protagonist who married at age twenty. She finds herself wanting to make a better life for herself outside of her family, asking herself "is there life out there." The song's radio edit omits one repetition of

54-503: A given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included: The juke box chart was discontinued in June 1957. Starting with the 20 October 1958, issue, Billboard began combining sales and radio airplay in figuring a song's overall popularity, counting them in one single chart called "Hot C&W Sides". The chart was published under the title Hot C&W Sides through the 27 October 1962, issue and "Hot Country Singles" thereafter,

81-474: A partnership with Nielsen BDS to provide radio airplay charts and related data for over 20 formats. BDS was founded as Broadcast Recognition Systems by Robert Uhlmann and Hal Oppenheimer, in 1982. Uhlmann developed the idea for automating airplay recognition after his experience working in the music industry in Florida. After returning to Kansas City, Uhlmann partnered with financier Hal Oppenheimer to start

108-549: A title it would retain until 1990. On 20 January 1990, the Hot Country Singles chart was reduced from 100 to 75 positions and began to be compiled entirely from information provided by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems , a system which electronically monitors radio airplay of songs. Four weeks later, on February 17, the chart was retitled "Hot Country Singles & Tracks". Beginning with the January 13, 2001, issue,

135-581: The Country Airplay chart, was created using airplay exclusively from country radio stations. Following the change, songs that were receiving airplay on top-40 pop were given a major advantage over songs popular only on country radio, and as an unintended consequence , such songs began having record-long runs at the top of the chart. The first song to benefit from this change was Taylor Swift 's " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together ", which had been declining in popularity but shot up to number one on

162-682: The Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts. It held the position for two weeks in the U.S., and one in Canada. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data along with digital sales and streaming. The current number-one song on

189-409: The United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, and Mexico. Luminate distributes BDS airplay data in their suite of music data products, including Music Connect, BDSRadio, BDS RealTime, ENcore and Musictracking. From August 2006 to its final June 2009 publication, BDS also provided chart data for R&R after Nielsen acquired the trade. On September 10, 2009, the website Radio-Info.com struck

216-407: The chart as of issue November 30 is " A Bar Song (Tipsy) " by Shaboozey . Billboard began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944, issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, Billboard used three charts to measure the popularity of

243-413: The chart the first week the change took effect and stayed there until it set an all-time record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a solo female. This was followed almost immediately by Florida Georgia Line 's " Cruise ", which had the longest stay at number one of any song in the country chart's history (24 weeks), until it was surpassed by Sam Hunt 's " Body Like a Back Road " in 2017 (34 weeks). The record

270-401: The chart was reduced from 75 to 60 positions, and all songs on the chart at the time had their tally of weeks spent on the chart adjusted to count only weeks spent at No. 60 or higher. Effective April 30, 2005, the chart was renamed "Hot Country Songs". Starting in 1990, the rankings were determined by Arbitron -tallied listener audience for each spin that a song received. The methodology

297-620: The chorus at the end. Country music singer Wynonna Judd covered the song from the television special CMT Giants: Reba The song's music video was directed by Jack Cole and featured Huey Lewis as McEntire's character's husband. This video is noted for being one of the first in country music to include significant amounts of dialogue that portray the song's storyline. Portions of the video were shot on Belmont University's campus in Nashville, TN. According to Entertainment Weekly , McEntire and her label ( MCA Records ) received complaints from

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324-561: The company and develop the technology for tracking airplay data, which was originally developed to detect submarines by military contractors in Washington D.C. In 1986, BDS debuted their revolutionary audio recognition technology in front of the Recording Industry Association of America as a new method of monitoring radio airplay of songs and commercial advertising. Prior to the debut of their tracking system

351-600: The couple's daughter is sent home from school with an illness, the couple's son is in a school play, and Maggie—whose job at the busy diner always makes her run behind—irritates her hard-nosed literary professor by her frequent tardiness. However, Maggie is able to find time to bond with her daughter, and eventually wins over the professor with her thought process. Unfortunately, the stresses of pursuing her degree nearly gets to Maggie when she yells at her daughter for inadvertently spilling coffee on her term paper. Andy intervenes and, while Maggie apologizes to her daughter, he dries off

378-455: The first time since its spin-off to E5 Global Media from Nielsen Business Media. The purchase included Soundscan, BDS, and Music360. In October 2020, MRC and Penske Media combined their data businesses to form a joint venture, named P-MRC Data. The joint venture would combine MRC Data, Alpha Data, and Variety Business Intelligence. P-MRC Data rebranded as Luminate in March 2022. The service

405-500: The launch in 1958 of what is now the Hot Country Songs listing), but none did so again until after the 2012 reformulation; between " Almost Persuaded 's" nine-week run in 1966 and the chart's reformulation in 2012, no song spent more than eight weeks atop the chart. Prolonged runs became commonplace again in 2012. As of November 30, 2024 , thirteen songs from this period have topped the chart for at least 16 weeks, and

432-507: The music industry relied on self-reported playlists from radio stations. BDS airplay data was first used on a Billboard chart on January 20, 1990, when Billboard magazine published their newly revised Hot Country Singles chart. On November 30, 1991, Billboard published the first Billboard Hot 100 chart using airplay data from BDS. Since its debut, BDS has become the standard for the radio and music industry because of its accuracy of detecting, tracking and monitoring songs, thus eliminating

459-460: The other charts not indicated. In 1958 the three charts were merged to create Hot C&W Sides (now Hot Country Songs). With at least 50+ weeks at # 1. As of the issue of Billboard dated November 2, 2024 George Strait has the most number one hits, at 44. Dolly Parton has the most number ones of any female artist, with 25. Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Broadcast Data Systems (also known as Nielsen BDS , BDS or Luminate BDS )

486-420: The pages. In the end, Maggie gets an A on her term paper and graduates with honors. Andy proudly tells everyone, "That's my wife." McEntire starred in a 1994 television movie on CBS , also titled Is There Life Out There? , which was based on the song's storyline. "Is There Life Out There" reached Number One on both the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs ) charts and

513-588: The seven longest chart runs have all been since 2012. Note: Songs marked † achieved the listed run on the Most Played in Juke Boxes chart (published 1944–58). Songs marked ‡ achieved the listed run on the Best Sellers on Stores chart (published 1948–58). Songs marked § achieved the listed run on the Most Played by Jockeys chart (published 1949–58). All these songs also had shorter runs at number one on

540-427: The song off subsequent charts, claiming it had made a mistake in including it. The song gained popularity through viral memes rather than radio, as only one country station, Radio Disney Country , had played it at the time of the charting. These are the songs with 16 or more weeks at number one. Fifteen songs accomplished this feat between 1946 and 1964 (including on the country charts published by Billboard prior to

567-433: The song's musical composition, but also how the song is marketed and promoted, the musical history of the artist, airplay the song receives and how the song is platformed on streaming services". The 2019 country rap record " Old Town Road " by Lil Nas X was a subject of controversy over this ambiguous standard after it initially appeared on the country chart, where it debuted and peaked at number 19, before Billboard took

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594-520: The television network CMT over the video that she was "putting message ahead of music", and it was almost banned from the network. The video won Video of the Year at the 1992 Academy of Country Music awards. The video depicts a woman named Maggie O'Connor (McEntire) juggling a career (as a waitress at a local diner), courses at the local college and a family life. Her husband, Andy (Lewis) keeps things under control at home as life becomes hectic for Maggie:

621-484: The use of reporting and call-outs to trades and record labels when it comes to adding and testing tracks. The method has also helped tracks that only received airplay (songs that are not released as singles) become major hits, especially in Billboard' s Hot 100 chart, where several radio-only tracks have reached the top spot. In 1994, SESAC became the first Performance Rights Organization to use data from BDS. BDS

648-503: Was a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data , is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned magazine Billboard , including the Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Hot 100 , when combined with sales and streaming data from Soundscan. BDS monitors airplay on more than 2,000 radio stations, satellite radio, and cable music channels across

675-558: Was acquired by Billboard parent company BPI Communications. In 1994, BPI Communications along with BDS were sold to Dutch media conglomerate Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen (VNU). After VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007, BDS became known as Nielsen BDS. In December 2019, Valence Media , the parent company of Billboard , acquired Nielsen's music data business to establish its data division, MRC Data. The acquisition reunited BDS with Billboard for

702-606: Was changed for the first chart published in 1992 to tally the amount of spins a song received, but in January 2005, the methodology reverted to the audience format. This change was brought on because of " label-sponsored spin programs " that had manipulated the chart several times in 2004. The Hot Country Songs chart methodology was changed starting with the 20 October 2012, issue to match the Billboard Hot 100 : digital downloads and streaming data are combined with airplay from all radio formats to determine position. A new chart,

729-640: Was subsequently broken by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's " Meant to Be " in 2018 (50 weeks). Billboard has not explicitly defined how it determines which songs qualify for the country chart and which ones do not, only that "a few factors are determined (...) first and foremost is musical composition" and that a song must "embrace enough elements of today's country music" to qualify. The 1990–2012 chart did not have such ambiguity, being objectively measured by airplay from specifically identified country stations alone. A later statement from Billboard elaborated on what those "few factors" entailed: "most notably

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