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. 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, and Garth Brooks became the first male solo artist to win it in 1992 Billboard Music Awards.