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
Billboard Year-End at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November/December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked lower than one would expect on a year-end tally, yet are ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart years. Between 1959 and 1963 the chart was divided in a stereo chart and a mono chart and were named "Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs (1959–1960), Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts (1960–1961), Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic (1961) and Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural (1961–1963)". Billboard Year-End "Billboard"