Few times since Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts began coexisting have women ruled both lists in the same week. Just as Ella Langley scores her first Hot Country Songs No. 1, ...

In the fall of 1968, Texas-born Jeannie C. Riley became the first woman to get a single to the top of both the Hot 100 pop chart and the Hot Country Singles chart: “Harper Valley PTA,” a sassy ...