The most listened to country song by a female artist? Trisha Yearwood’s “She’s In Love With The Boy. This is in the 31 years that MRC Data has been measuring radio audience (so, pretty great data). The song was rose from No. 4 to No. 1 on “Billboard’s Hot Country Songs” on August 3, 1991, where it spend its first two weeks on top.

Exactly 30 years from this date on August 3, 2021, Yearwood is at the Grand Ole Opry (where she was inducted in 1999) to perform and welcome its newest member, Carly Pearce. After this, Yearwood was surprised with a special award to celebrate her song being the most listened to country song by a female artist. The award was given to her by Pearce and Billboard senior vice president of charts and data development Silvio Piertoluongo. 

Yearwood opened up saying that she was surprised by this and that she doesn’t “even like surprises. But I was caught completely off-guard by this sweet bombshell. I headed there with the intention of inducting Carly Pearce, which was a first; I have never inducted anyone in the past, so I was focused on that. It was a great honor and then performing with both Carly and Jeannie Seely [an Opry member since 1967]. We did “Making Believe,” the old Kitty Wells’ classic [from 1955]. It was really cool, because the three of us had never performed together and it just seemed very natural.”

Source: Billboard