“Billboard” put out its annual year-end report on the top country artists, songs, producers, etc, and the standout again this year was Morgan Wallen.<\/p>\n
He’s at the top of NINE different lists, three more than a year ago.<\/p>\n
They include Top Country Artist, Top Male Country Artist, top album for “Dangerous: The Double Album”, and “Wasted on You” was the Top Hot Country Song AND the most-streamed country song in 2022.<\/p>\n
Here are a few more artists and songs that topped Billboard’s lists this year.<\/p>\n
Top Female Country Artist: Carrie Underwood<\/p>\n
Top Duo or Group: Zac Brown Band<\/p>\n
Top New Country Artist on a major label: Zach Bryan<\/p>\n
Most-heard song on country radio: “Take My Name” by Parmalee<\/p>\n
Most digital downloads for an artist: Walker Hayes. “Fancy Like” was the most-downloaded song of the year.<\/p>\n
Top Country Tour: Kenny Chesney. He filled 1.3 million seats, and his tour grossed over $135 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Billboard” put out its annual year-end report on the top country artists, songs, producers, and the standout again this year was Morgan Wallen.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,45,602,171,2666,3867,1713,4345,229,4286],"class_list":["post-22461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billboard","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-parmalee","tag-take-my-name","tag-walker-hayes","tag-wasted-on-you","tag-zac-brown-band","tag-zach-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 14:49:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/12\/illboard-country-lists-dominated-by-morgan-wallen\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22464,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions\/22464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}