Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1964, 11 different singles topped the chart, published at the time under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine. Chart placings were based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, the number one position was held by "Love's Gonna Live Here" by Buck Owens, the song's twelfth week in the top spot; the song would remain at number one through the issue dated February 1 for a total run of sixteen consecutive weeks in the top spot. This set a new record for the longest unbroken run at number one on the Hot Country chart which would stand until 2013 when Florida Georgia Line spent a seventeenth consecutive week atop the chart with "Cruise". Owens had three further number ones in 1964, "My Heart Skips a Beat", "Together Again" and "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)" and spent a total of twenty weeks at number one during the year, more than twice as many as any other artist. He was the only artist to take more than one single to number one in 1964 and twice replaced himself in the top spot when "My Heart Skips a Beat" was displaced from the top of the chart by "Together Again" before regaining the peak position two weeks later.

Two acts had the first Hot Country number ones of their respective careers in 1964. Roger Miller spent six weeks atop the listing in July and August with his first chart-topper, the humorous song "Dang Me", and Connie Smith went to number one for the first time in November with "Once a Day", which remained in the top spot until the end of the year. Smith's song eventually spent eight consecutive weeks at number one, a record for a female singer which stood until 2012 when Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" remained atop the chart for nine weeks. In March 1964 Lefty Frizzell, one of country music's most influential vocalists, gained his final number one with "Saginaw, Michigan". One of the biggest country stars of the early 1950s, his career had been in decline for a number of years and he had not reached the top ten since 1959, but in 1964 he returned to number one for four weeks with "Saginaw, Michigan". Frizzell could not repeat this single's success, however; he would never again reach the top ten and alcoholism led to his death in 1975. In August 1964 "I Guess I'm Crazy" gave Jim Reeves the first of six number ones which he achieved posthumously; the singer had been killed in a plane crash the previous month.

Chart history

Hot Country Singles number ones of 1965

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 4	"Love's Gonna Live Here"	Buck Owens
January 11
January 18
January 25
February 1
February 8	"Begging to You"	Marty Robbins
February 15	"B.J. the D.J."	Stonewall Jackson
February 22	"Begging to You"	Marty Robbins
February 29
March 7	"Saginaw, Michigan"	Lefty Frizzell
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4	"Understand Your Man"	Johnny Cash
April 11
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16	"My Heart Skips a Beat"	Buck Owens
May 23
May 30
June 6	"Together Again"
June 13
June 20	"My Heart Skips a Beat"
June 27
July 4
July 11
July 18	"Dang Me"	Roger Miller
July 25
August 1
August 8
August 15
August 22
August 29	"I Guess I'm Crazy"	Jim Reeves
September 5
September 12
September 19
September 26
October 3
October 10
October 17	"I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)"	Buck Owens
October 24
October 31
November 7
November 14
November 21
November 28	"Once a Day"	Connie Smith
December 5
December 12
December 19
December 26

See also

• 1964 in music
• 1964 in country music
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart