MSN picked up the Billboard news from Record Research that Ashley Gorley and Shane McAnally have been named the No. 1 and No. 2 songwriters on Billboard’s Country Singles charts.
Two modern songwriters – Ashley Gorley (“I Had Some Help,” “I Am Not Okay”) and Shane McAnally (“Body Like a Back Road,” “Mama’s Broken Heart”) – ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on Record Research’s first-ever study of the Top Country Songwriters 1944-2025, based on the Billboard charts. Billboard unveils the top 10 exclusively in this edition, while a full list of the top 40 appears in Joel Whitburn’s Top Country Singles 1944-2025, due to be published by Record Research June 4. The book arrives concurrently with the launch of the annual CMA Fest in Nashville.
– MSN