This article, published by American Songwriter, marks the anniversary of George Strait's "All My Ex's Live in Texas" reaching No. 1 on Billboard's country chart on 11 July 1987. The piece celebrates Strait's enduring status as the "King of Country", noting that he holds more number-one hits than any artist in any genre (60) and a record 22 CMA awards. The song came from his seventh studio album, Ocean Front Property, which in January 1987 became the first album to debut at the top of Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.

Although the track's tale of fleeing Texas after a run of failed relationships sounds personal, Strait has said his material is not autobiographical, preferring to keep his private and professional lives separate. The song was instead written by fellow Texan Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer with his fourth wife, Lynda J. Shafer, drawing on his own three failed marriages, though he joked the ex-wives were not the real reason he settled in Tennessee. "All My Ex's Live in Texas" was one of three number-one singles from Ocean Front Property and formed part of an extraordinary run of 11 consecutive chart-topping hits between 1986's "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" and 1989's "Ace in the Hole".