Canada Country was a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine. [1]
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by airplay on 31 country music stations across the country as monitored by Nielsen BDS. [2] Songs are ranked by total plays. As with most other Billboard charts, the Canada Country chart features a rule for when a song enters recurrent rotation. A song is declared recurrent if it has been on the chart longer than 30 weeks and is lower than number 20 in rank. [3]
These are the Canadian number-one country singles of 2008, per the BDS Canada Country Airplay chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
| Issue date | Country Song | Artist | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 5 | "Our Song" | Taylor Swift | [4] |
| January 12 | "Letter to Me" | Brad Paisley | [5] |
| January 19 | "Our Song" | Taylor Swift | [6] |
| January 26 | "Letter to Me" | Brad Paisley | [7] |
| February 2 | [8] | ||
| February 9 | [9] | ||
| February 16 | [10] | ||
| February 23 | "In My Next Life" | Terri Clark | [11] |
| March 1 | "All-American Girl" | Carrie Underwood | [12] |
| March 8 | [13] | ||
| March 15 | [14] | ||
| March 22 | [15] | ||
| March 29 | [16] | ||
| April 5 | "You're Gonna Miss This" | Trace Adkins | [17] |
| April 12 | [18] | ||
| April 19 | [19] | ||
| April 26 | "I Saw God Today" | George Strait | [20] |
| May 3 | "Picture to Burn" | Taylor Swift | [21] |
| May 10 | "I'm Still a Guy" | Brad Paisley | [22] |
| May 17 | [23] | ||
| May 24 | [24] | ||
| May 31 | [25] | ||
| June 7 | [26] | ||
| June 14 | [27] | ||
| June 21 | "Good Time" | Alan Jackson | [28] |
| June 28 | [29] | ||
| July 5 | [30] | ||
| July 12 | [31] | ||
| July 19 | [32] | ||
| July 26 | [33] | ||
| August 2 | "Put a Girl in It" | Brooks & Dunn | [34] |
| August 9 | "Good Time" | Alan Jackson | [35] |
| August 16 | "You Look Good in My Shirt" | Keith Urban | [36] |
| August 23 | [37] | ||
| August 30 | [38] | ||
| September 6 | [39] | ||
| September 13 | "Waitin' on a Woman" | Brad Paisley | [40] |
| September 20 | [41] | ||
| September 27 | [42] | ||
| October 4 | "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" | Kenny Chesney | [43] |
| October 11 | [44] | ||
| October 18 | [45] | ||
| October 25 | [46] | ||
| November 1 | [47] | ||
| November 8 | [48] | ||
| November 15 | [49] | ||
| November 22 | "Love Story" | Taylor Swift | [50] |
| November 29 | [51] | ||
| December 6 | "Already Gone" | Sugarland | [52] |
| December 13 | [53] | ||
| December 20 | [54] | ||
| December 27 | "Country Boy" | Alan Jackson | [55] |
Broadcast Data Systems 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.
Pop Airplay is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio, refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR). The current number-one song on the chart is "Die With a Smile" by Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga.