The Greatest Country Song the Year You Were Born

From the chart topping songs to timeless classics. Find out the greatest country song from the year you were born.

2016 – Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”

2015 – Sam Hunt “Take Your Time”

2014 – Florida Georgia Line feat. Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll”

2013 – Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”

2012 – Florida Georgia Line “Cruise”

2011 – Eric Church “Springsteen”

2010 – Taylor Swift “Mean”

2009 – Neko Case “People Got a Lotta Nerve”

2008 – Jamey Johnson “In Color”

2007 – Kenny Chesney “Never Wanted Nothing More”

2006 – Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”

2005 – Brad Paisley “Alcohol”

2004 – Gretchen Wilson “Redneck Woman”

2003 – Gary Allan “Songs About Rain”

2002 – Kenny Chesney “The Good Stuff”

2001 – Blake Shelton “Austin”

2000 – Lee Ann Womack “I Hope You Dance”

1999 – Lonestar “Amazed”

1998 – Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Spaces”

1997 – Tim McGraw w/Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”

1996 – LeAnn Rimes “Blue”

1995 – Tim McGraw “I Like It, I Love It”

1994 – Martina McBride “Independence Day”

1993 – Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”

1992 – Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”

1991 – Reba McEntire “Fancy”

1990 – The Flatlanders “Dallas”

1989 – Garth Brooks “The Dance”

1988 – Lucinda Williams “Passionate Kisses”

1987 – George Strait “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”

1986 – Steve Earle “Guitar Town”

1985 – The Bellamy Brothers “Old Hippie”

1984 – Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”

1983 – Kenny Rogers w/Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”

1982 – Alabama “Mountain Music”

1981 – Roseanne Cash “Seven Year Ache”

1980 – George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

1979 – The Bellamy Brothers “If I Said You had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"

1978 – Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

1977 – Johnny Paycheck “Take This Job and Shove It”

1976 – George Jones and Tammy Wynette “Golden Ring”

1975 – Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”

1974 – Gram Parsons “$1000 Wedding”

1973 – Dolly Parton “Jolene”

1972 – Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

1971 – Charlie Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”

1970 – Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter”

1969 – Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”

1968 – Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man”

1967 – Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe”

1966 – Loretta Lynn “Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)”

1965 – Buck Owens “Before You Go”

1964 – Buck Owens “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail”

1963 – Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”

1962 – Ray Charles “You Don’t Know Me”

1961 – Patsy Cline “Crazy”

1960 – Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”

1959 – Lefty Frizzell “Long Black Veil”

1958 - Ray Price “City Lights”

1957 – The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love”

1956 – Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line”

1955 – Porter Wagoner “A Satisfied Mind”

1954 – Webb Pierce “Slowly”

1953 – Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart”

1952 – Hank Williams “Settin’ the Woods on Fire”

1951 – Stanley Brothers “Man of Constant Sorrow”

1950 – Lefty Frizzell “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time”

1949 – Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”

1948 – Hank Williams “I Saw the Light”

1947 – Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky”

1946 – Harry Choates “Jole Blon”

1945 – Al Dexter “I’m Losing My Mind Over You”

1944 – Red Foley “Smoke on the Water”

1943 – The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll”

1942 – Bing Crosby “White Christmas”

1941 – Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You”

1940 – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose”