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- July 12 – The song, "It's Your Love" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill becomes the first song in 20 years to spend six weeks atop '' Billboard Magazine '' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The last song to do so was 1977's "Lukenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" by Waylon Jennings . In that span, more than 750 songs had reached No. 1 on the country chart, a majority of them for just one week. "It's Your Love" sparks a renewed wave of songs that spend at least five weeks at No. 1, thanks in part to newer chart tracking methods and programming changes at country radio stations. However, as of 2006 , no No. 1 song has approached the mega-week No. 1 status (i.e., spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1), a feat that was common through the early 1960s.
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