Longest span of No.1 hits on the US Hot Country Songs chart

Thirty-five years 26 days elapsed between Dolly Parton’s (USA) first (“Joshua”, on 6 February 1971) and 25th (“When I Get Where I’m Going”, feat. Brad Paisley, on 4 March 2006) chart-toppers on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs.

Parton was also a key member of Artists of Then, Now & Forever, a multi-act collective who debuted at No.1 on 8 October 2016 with “Forever Country”, in celebration of 50 years of the Country Music Association Awards. However, as she was not individually credited on “Forever Country”, the track is excluded from Parton’s Hot Country Songs record – as of 29 October 2022 – of No.1s (25), Top 10s (54) and total chart entries (109), and therefore does not extend her 35-year 26-day span of No.1s beyond 4 March 2006.