50 Best Country Songs About Numbers

Country Songs With Numbers in the Title

There’s a strange little pull when you hear a song tied to numbers. They can feel like markers on a map, reminders of time, or even shorthand for something harder to explain. Country music leans into that in ways that don’t always line up with what the title promises. Sometimes the number really means what it looks like. Other times it slips into metaphor and never circles back. It’s the kind of detail that sits in your head long after the track fades, the way certain pop, rock, country, and R&B songs do with colors or places.

Numbers in country tracks show up everywhere, from highways to tallying heartbreaks, and they rarely feel accidental. You catch yourself counting along, even if the story is unraveling in the background. A countdown might sound casual, but paired with a fiddle it gets sharp around the edges. A lonely highway number can pull the same weight as a name. And then there are the songs that stretch the theme, not literally hung up on digits but carrying the vibe all the same. Those are the ones that sneak in and stay put.

The real magic is how uneven it all feels. Some songs lean heavy on nostalgia, some blur into road trip anthems, others spill heartbreak in a way that makes the number feel like a punchline no one laughs at. They don’t all land in the same mood, and that’s exactly the point. It’s messy, scattered, and sometimes a little funnier than the songwriter meant. Which brings us to the best country songs with numbers in their titles.

1. '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton

2. '18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses' by Kathy Mattea

3. 'Sixteen Tons' by Tennessee Ernie Ford

4. 'Five More Minutes' by Scotty McCreery

5. '10,000 Hours' by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber

6. 'Twenty-One' by the Pistol Annies

7. '1944' by Johnny Cash

8. 'I Got My Number One Son' by Garth Brooks

9. 'Forty-Eight' by the Zac Brown Band

10. 'You're Still the One' by Shania Twain

11. '17' by the Smashing Pumpkins

12. '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' by Paul Simon

13. 'One More Time' by Dwight Yoakam

14. 'Two Pina Coladas' by Garth Brooks

15. 'One' by U2

16. 'Seven Spanish Angels' by Ray Charles and Willie Nelson

17. '3 AM' by Matchbox Twenty

18. 'Four Strong Winds' by Neil Young

19. 'Two Black Cadillacs' by Carrie Underwood

20. 'One Too Many' by Keith Urban and P!nk

21. 'A Pirate Looks at Forty' by Jimmy Buffett

22. '500 Miles' by Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan and Stark Sands

23. 'One Way or Another' by Blondie

24. 'Twenty Years Ago' by Kenny Rogers

25. 'Three Times a Lady' by The Commodores

26. 'Two Dozen Roses' by Shenandoah

27. '36' by the Drive-By Truckers

28. 'Three' by the Avett Brothers

29. 'One Night at a Time' by George Strait

30. 'When I'm 64' by the Beatles

31. '1-2-3-4' by Al Martino

32. 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton

33. '2016' by Sam Hunt

34. 'One Last Kiss' by the Judds

35. 'Two Sparrows in a Hurricane' by Tanya Tucker

36. 'Eighteen' by Toby Keith

37. 'Seven Summers' by Chris Young

38. 'One Day at a Time' by Cristy Lane

39. 'I Got a Feelin' by Billy Currington

40. 'Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House' by Garth Brooks

41. '49' by John Prine

42. '25 Minutes to Go' by Johnny Cash

43. 'One Way Ticket (Because I Can)' by LeAnn Rimes

44. '7th Gear' by Kip Moore

45. '1982' by Randy Rogers Band

46. '16 and Single' by Josh Abbott Band

47. 'Two of Us' by Louis Tomlinson

48. 'Two of a Crime' by Miranda Lambert

49. 'Two More Bottles of Wine' by Emmylou Harris

50. 'When I Get Where I'm Going' by Brad Paisley