Billboard has compiled a list of the top 25 country music artists of the past 25 years in honor of the genre’s big week of Billboard’s Country Summit and the CMT Music Awards. And who should top the list? None other than George Strait.
With Strait’s several all-time Billboard records, 44 No. 1 hits on Hot Country Songs which is the most by any artist in the chart’s 64-year history, it is no wonder George would earn the #1 spot.
The list is based on actual performance on the weekly Hot Country Songs and Top Country Albums charts from Jan. 5, 1985 through the Billboard issue dated May 29, 2010.
Here is the entire list:
- George Strait
- Garth Brooks
- Reba McEntire
- Alan Jackson
- Tim McGraw
- Kenny Chesney
- Toby Keith
- Randy Travis
- Alabama
- Brooks & Dunn
- Rascal Flatts
- Clint Black
- Hank Williams Jr.
- Shania Twain
- The Judds
- Keith Urban
- Brad Paisley
- Faith Hill
- Dixie Chicks
- Vince Gill
- Ricky Van Shelton
- Dwight Yoakam
- Martina McBride
- Taylor Swift
- Travis Tritt
With the updated version of the list for 2011, Taylor Swift earned a place in the Top 25.
Source: Billboard.com