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 is the only artist 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. Lady Antebellum became the first group to win it in 2012, and Luke Bryan became the first male solo artist to win it in 2014.