1. Johnny Cash, 'I Walk the Line' (1956)
2. Patsy Cline, 'Crazy' (1961)
3. Hank Williams, 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' (1949)
4. George Jones, 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' (1980)
5. Jimmie Rodgers, 'Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel #9)' (1930)
6. Tammy Wynette, 'Stand By Your Man' (1968)
7. Ray Charles, 'You Don’t Know Me' (1962)
8. Merle Haggard, 'Mama Tried' (1968)
9. Dolly Parton, 'Jolene' (1973)
10. Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, 'Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' (1978)
11. Stanley Brothers, 'Man of Constant Sorrow' (1951)
12. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, 'I've Got a Tiger By the Tail' (1964)
13. Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys, 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' (1947)
14. Hank Williams, 'Settin' the Woods on Fire' (1952)
15. Kitty Wells, 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' (1952)
16. Glen Campbell, 'Witchita Lineman' (1968)
17. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, 'New San Antonio Rose' (1940)
18. George Strait, 'All My Ex's Live in Texas' (1987)
19. Loretta Lynn, 'Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)' (1966)
20. Kenny Rogers, 'The Gambler' (1978)
21. The Carter Family, 'Can the Circle Be Unbroken' (1935)
22. Ernest Tubb, 'Walking the Floor Over You' (1941)
23. Lefty Frizzell, 'If You've Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time' (1950)
24. Taylor Swift, 'Mean' (2010)
25. Johnny Paycheck, 'Take This Job and Shove It' (1977)
26. Dixie Chicks, 'Goodbye Earl' (1999)
27. Johnny Cash, 'Ring of Fire' (1963)
28. Hank Williams, 'I Saw The Light' (1948)
29. Jimmie Rodgers, 'Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)' (1928)
30. Faron Young, 'Hello Walls' (1961)
31. Hank Williams, 'Your Cheatin' Heart' (1953)
32. Mississippi Sheiks, 'Sitting on Top of the World' (1930)
33. Porter Wagoner, 'A Satisfied Mind' (1955)
34. The Carter Family, 'Wildwood Flower' (1928)
35. The Everly Brothers, 'Bye Bye Love' (1957)
36. Hank Williams, 'Lost Highway' (1949)
37. George Jones and Tammy Wynette, 'Golden Ring' (1976)
38. Patsy Montana, 'I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart' (1935)
39. Kacey Musgraves, 'Follow Your Arrow' (2013)
40. Gram Parsons, '$1000 Wedding' (1974)
41. Townes Van Zandt, 'Pancho and Lefty' (1972)
42. Loretta Lynn, 'Coal Miner’s Daughter' (1970)
43. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, 'Act Naturally' (1963)
44. George Jones, 'The Grand Tour' (1974)
45. Lefty Frizzell, 'Long Black Veil' (1959)
46. Roy Acuff, 'Wabash Cannonball' (1936)
47. Bobbie Gentry, 'Ode to Billie Joe' (1967)
48. Willie Nelson, 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain' (1975)
49. The Louvin Brothers, 'The Christian Life' (1959)
50. Steve Earle, 'Guitar Town' (1986)
51. Johnny Cash, 'Folsom Prison Blues' (1955)
52. Flatt and Scruggs, 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' (1949)
53. Charley Pride, 'Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'' (1971)
54. Brad Paisley, 'Alcohol' (2005)
55. The Flatlanders, 'Dallas' (1990)
56. Carrie Underwood, 'Before He Cheats' (2006)
57. Eric Church, 'Springsteen' (2011)
58. Jeannie C. Riley, 'Harper Valley P.T.A.' (1968)
59. Marty Robbins, 'El Paso' (1959)
60. Tennessee Ernie Ford, 'Sixteen Tons' (1955)
61. Ray Price, 'Crazy Arms' (1956)
62. Emmett Miller, 'Lovesick Blues' (1928)
63. George Jones, 'The Race Is On' (1964)
64. Joey D, 'Hypertension from a diet of red meat, baked potatoes, and Coors with a cigarette chaser' (2024)