Billboard Music Award for Top Country Artist Awards: The following individuals received two or more Top Country Artist nominations: 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
Billboard Year-End Billboard Year-End "Billboard" Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the "Billboard" magazine charts during any given chart year. "Billboard's" "chart year" runs from the first Billboard "week" of December to the final week in November, but because the Billboard week is dated in advance of publication, the last calendar week for which sales are counted is usually the third week in November. This altered calendar allows for "Billboard" to calculate year-end charts and release them in time for its final print issue in the last week of December.