Billboard Music Award for Top Country Artist Billboard Music Award for Top Country Artist The "Billboard" Music Award for Top Country Artist recognizes the most successful country artists on the Billboard Charts over the past year. Garth Brooks has won the most awards with three. Since 2011, Taylor Swift and Luke Bryan are the only artists to have won the award twice, and is also the only artist to be nominated for it every year it was awarded until 2015 and 2016. Dixie Chicks became the first group to win it in the 1999 Billboard Music Awards. The following individuals received two or more Top Country Artist
Twice (group) the highest first week album sales of a K-pop artist in Japan in two years. It was followed by the release of Twice's first original Japanese maxi single titled "One More Time" in October. With over 250,000 unit sales, Twice became the first Korean girl group that earned Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for both album and CD single in the same year. Twice ranked third on Top Artist category of "Billboard Japan"'s 2017 Year-End Rankings. On December 19, 2013, JYP Entertainment (JYPE) announced that they would debut a new girl group in the first