Country Duets Between Men and Women That Reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100

Perhaps more than any other genre, duets have a deep, storied history within the canon of country music, with several men and women artist pairings crafting entire albums’ worth of duets.

But a select few have made strong showings on both the Billboard country charts and the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart. Most recently, Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves teamed up for “I Remember Everything,” included on Bryan’s new self-titled album. The song debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving both artists their first Hot 100 chart-cresting hit (the song also reached the pinnacle of the Hot Country Songs chart).

Here, we look at other men and women duets that have risen to the upper echelons of the Billboard Country charts, as well as making it to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Artists including Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, Eddie Rabbitt, Gabby Barrett and Florida Georgia Line make the list, but the late singer-entertainer Kenny Rogers towers when it comes to crossover duets.

Rogers was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, and earned 21 No. 1 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, ranging from 1977’s “Lucille” to his Alison Krauss and Billy Dean collaboration “Buy Me a Rose” in 2000. But early in his career, Rogers was earning pop music success as part of the group First Edition, including the 1968 Hot 100 top five hit “Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In).” So, it is no surprise that in the early 1980s, Rogers’ natural country-pop sensibilities stood out on a trio of hit duets that rose into the top 10 on the Hot 100, including one chart-topping track. These followed his 1980 smash hit “Lady,” written by Lionel Richie, which spent six weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was also a No. 1 hit on what was then the Hot Country Singles chart.

By the 1980s, however, the Hot 100 chart was already well-primed for such dual-chart successes, thanks to several (non-duet) Hot 100 chart No. 1s that also peaked on the Hot Country Songs chart in the 1960s and 1970s, including songs from Jeannie C. Riley, Freddy Fender, Glen Campbell, John Denver and Charlie Rich.

Here, we look at several collaborations by men and women artists that rose into the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, listed in ascending order of chart peak.