Music Connection reviewed the latest book from Record Research Inc., Joel Whitburn’s History of Top Country Singles 1944-2025,.

This comprehensive examination of “every song that appeared on Billboard’s Country singles charts from 1944 through 2025” is a reference guide, as opposed to the sort of book you’d read cover-to-cover. However, there’s plenty of fun to be had thanks to the “artist-by-artist listings, multiple song and artist rankings, a chronological list of every No. 1 Country hit, and the inaugural all-time Country Songwriters section.” We at MC are nerds when it comes to these lists, packed with facts, figures and microscopic information. We’d wager plenty of our readers are too.