Remember When George Strait Earned His 40th No. 1 Song?
By the time "She Let Herself Go" ascended to the top of the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated Jan. 14, 2006, George Strait was plenty familiar with the feeling of having a No. 1 song on that chart: He'd done it 39 times before, after all. This time, though, was different.
With "She Let Herself Go," Strait's 40th career No. 1 Hot Country Songs song, the country legend tied the record for most No. 1s on that chart, held by Conway Twitty, who had set the record two decades earlier with his 1986 single — and, in fact, his final