Music: CountryUSA: Top 50 Country for 2010

Lee Brice photo courtesy of Curb Records.

Billboard.com has just released it’s year end charts for 2010.  Leading the pack are a group of up and coming male artists with surprisingly few established superstar names in the top 10.  Here are the 50 most popular country songs for the year based on radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS (song, artist, album):

1. “Love Like Crazy” – Lee Brice, Love Like Crazy
2. “Rain Is A Good Thing” – Luke Bryan, Doin’ My Thing
3. “Why Don’t We Just Dance” – Josh Turner, Haywire
4. “All Over Me” – Josh Turner, Haywire
5. “The Man I Want To Be” – Chris Young, The Man I Want To Be
6. “Roll With It” – Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin
7. “Gimmie That Girl” – Joe Nichols, Old Things New
8. “All About Tonight” – Blake Shelton, All About Tonight
9. “Come Back Song” – Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966
10. “She Won’t Be Lonely Long” – Clay Walker, She Won’t Be Lonely Long
11. “The House That Build Me” – Miranda Lambert, Revolution
12. “American Honey” - Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
13. “‘Til Summer Comes Around” – Keith Urban, Defying Gravity
14. “Highway 20 Ride” – Zac Brown Band, The Foundation
15. “Keep On Lovin’ You” – Steel Magnolia, Valentine’s Day Soundtrack
16. “Crazy Town” – Jason Aldean, Wide Open
17. “Our Kind Of Love” – Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
18. “Water” – Brad Paisley, American Saturday Night
19. “A Little More Country Than That” – Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin
20. “Farmer’s Daughter” – Rodney Atkins, It’s America
21. “I’m In” – Keith Urban, Defying Gravity
22. “Lover, Lover” – Jerrod Niemann, Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury
23. “Little White Church” – Little Big Town, The Reason Why
24. “History In The Making” – Darius Rucker, Learn To Live
25. “Temporary Home” – Carrie Underwood, Play On
26. “That’s How Country Boys Roll” – Billy Currington, Little Bit of Everything
27. “Smile” – Uncle Kracker, Happy Hour
28. “Pretty Good At Drinkin Beer” – Billy Currington, Enjoy Yourself
29. “Undo It” – Carrie Underwood, Play On
30. “Stuck Like Glue” – Sugarland, The Incredible Machine
31. “Hillbilly Bone” – Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins, Hillbilly Bone
32. “The Truth” – Jason Aldean, Wide Open
33. “Ain’t Back Yet” – Kenny Chesney, Greatest Hits II
34. “American Saturday Night” – Brad Paisley, American Saturday Night
35. “The Boys of Fall” – Kenny Chesney, Hemingway’s Whiskey
36. “Free” – Zac Brown, The Foundation
37. “If I Die Young” – The Band Perry, The Band Perry
38. “Mine” – Taylor Swift, Speak Now
39. “Unstoppable” – Rascal Flatts, Unstoppable
40. “I Gotta Get To You” – George Strait, Twang
41. “Backwoods” – Justin Moore, Justin Moore
42. “Consider Me Gone” – Reba McEntire, Keep On Loving You
43. “Souther Voice” – Tim McGraw, Southern Voice
44. “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes” – Dierks Bentley, Feel That Fire
45. “White Liar” – Miranda Lambert, Revolution
46. “As She’s Walking Away” – Zac Brown Band with Alan Jackson, You Get What You Give
47. “Why Wait” – Rascal Flatts, Nothing Like This
48. “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
49. “This Ain’t Nothin’” – Craig Morgan, That’s Why
50. “The Breath You Take” – George Strait, Twan