If you don't consider Bill Haley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Elvis Presley country singers the answer would be either Sonny James in Feb. 1957 ("Young Love") or Buddy Knox in March 1957 ("Party Doll")
Larry Cunningham - Lovely Leitrim
Joshua.
Elvis Presley s first number one hit was I Forgot To Remember To Forget her in the Country charts.
Elvis Presleyâ??s very first No. 1 record ever was on the Country Music charts with his song, I Forgot To Remember To Forget. The song hit number one in 1955 and was number one for 5 weeks on the Billboard Country charts.
As a solo artist, Beyoncé's first number one single was 2003's "Crazy in Love."
Larry Cunningham - Lovely Leitrim
Joshua.
Elvis Presley s first number one hit was I Forgot To Remember To Forget her in the Country charts.
Elvis Presleyâ??s very first No. 1 record ever was on the Country Music charts with his song, I Forgot To Remember To Forget. The song hit number one in 1955 and was number one for 5 weeks on the Billboard Country charts.
As a solo artist, Beyoncé's first number one single was 2003's "Crazy in Love."
Acker Bilk.
Kitty wells became the first female singer to top the country charts when 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' went to No. 1 in 1952. In 1935, Patsy Montana became the first female country singer to have a million selling record when she released 'I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart'. Jeannie C. Riley became the first woman to have a song top both the country and pop charts with her 'Harper Valley PTA' in 1968.
Elvis' first No.1 on the Country Charts was "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" in September 1955. Cheers.........Mel
Whitney Houston, with her 1987 album, Whitney, became the first female artist to have an album debut at number one on the Billboard charts. The album produced six singles.
The Highwaymen started flourish with the release of their first album in 1985. Their first single Highwayman became number 1 one on the Country Billboard charts.
According to the country music charts, to date, Alabama has had 21 #1 hits.
It depends on what you consider a 'hit'. They had a big hit with Ring Ring in Sweden. But their first number 1 outside of their own country was Waterloo which reached number 1 on American charts (and others such as Australia).