Chris Stapleton Tops Billboard's Top Country Artists Year-End Chart

The beat goes on for Chris Stapleton.

(Undated) - Chris Stapleton is topping Billboard's year-end top country artists chart. 

Kane Brown comes in second, followed by Florida Georgia Line, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean. 

Luke Combs tops the year-end top country albums chart with his project, This One's For You. In second, is Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Other Christmas Classics, then Elvis Presley's It's Christmas Time. 

Further down the list is Kane Brown's Experiment, Dan and Shay's self-titled debut album, and Chris Stapleton's Traveller. 

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