Wikipedia:Today's featured list/May 4, 2020
Fifty-one different songs topped the Hot Country Singles chart in 1985. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine under the title Hot Country Singles in 1985. Alabama (pictured), one of the most successful bands in country music history, had the highest number of chart-toppers by a single act in 1985, with four: "(There's A) Fire in the Night", "There's No Way", "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" and "Can't Keep a Good Man Down". When the group achieved its third number one of the year in August, Billboard regarded it as Alabama's seventeenth consecutive Hot Country number one, breaking the record for consecutive chart-toppers previously held by Sonny James. Earl Thomas Conley, Exile, the Judds and the Oak Ridge Boys each had three number ones in 1985. Ray Charles topped the chart for the only time that year. He went all the way to the top spot with the Willie Nelson collaboration "Seven Spanish Angels", taken from the album Friendship, on which Charles duetted with a range of contemporary country singers. (Full list...)