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Post by sabre14 on Apr 22, 2014 18:41:52 GMT -5
^ Wow, hello 80's Meaning? The video! ;)
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 22, 2014 18:42:54 GMT -5
Awesome, isn't it? Anne Murray NEVER looked any prettier!
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 22, 2014 18:44:38 GMT -5
Awesome, isn't it? Anne Murray NEVER looked any prettier! Cool to see her rockin' the fur coat.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 28, 2014 16:19:40 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Bottoms Up" Brantley Gilbert Greatest Gainer No. 20 "River Bank" Brad Paisley Debut No. 53 "All Alright" Zac Brown Band Debut No. 54 "Young In America" Danielle Bradbery Debut No. 60 "Dirt Road" Kip Moore
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 29, 2014 17:19:15 GMT -5
1. BOTTOMS IS TOPS: Brantley Gilbert collects the third #1 hit of his career this week with Bottoms Up. It is the lead single to his Just As I Am CD. It follows hit other chart toppers Country Must Be Country Wide (2011) and You Don't Know Her Like I Do (2012). By collecting his third #1, he ties Justin Moore at the Valory label for the most #1s. Moore's trio: 1. Small Town USA-2009 2. If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away-2011 3. Til My Last Day-2013 Had Point at You, the follow up to title #3 not peaked at #2, Moore would have the lead all to himself. 2. WITHOUT ATLANTIC: The Zac Brown Band has the Hot Shot Debut this week with All Alright at #53. For their first five years, they had an association with Atlantic Records. This is their first release just on their Southern Ground label. 3. A TIE: We have three songs taking six point jumps for fastest climbing songs of the week. They are: 1. Meanwhile Back At Mama's-Tim McGraw and Faith Hill-#41 to #35 2. Drunk On A Plane-Dierks Bentley-#45 to #39 3. Feelin' It-Scotty McCreery-#48 to #42 4. PRICE'S FAREWELL: Ray Price debuts at #22 on the country albums chart with Beauty Is: The Final Sessions. He recorded the songs while battling pancreatic cancer. He died in December, 2013. 5. HALL OF FAME SALUTE: Congratulations to Ronnie Milsap, Mac Wiseman, and Hank Cochran for making it to the Country Music Hall of Fame. 6. AN 80S LOOK: These were the chart topping hits during the last week of April during the 1980s: 1980: Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again-Debby Boone-Warner Bros. 1981: Rest Your Love On Me-Conway Twitty-MCA 1982: Mountain Music-Alabama-RCA 1983: You're The First Time I've Thought About Leaving-Reba McEntire-Mercury 1984: Right Or Wrong-George Strait-MCA 1985: Girls Night Out-the Judds-RCA 1986: Once In A Blue Moon-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 1987: Don't Go To Strangers-T. Graham Brown-Capitol 1988: It's Such A Small World-Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash-Columbia 1989: The Church On Cumberland Road-Shenandoah-Columbia 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Country music's first #1 duet of the 1990s was our top song 23 years ago this week. It belongs to Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton with Rockin' Years. Shelton signed to the Columbia label in 1986. Seeing since I recently discussed Shelton's career, we will gloss over his first three CDs and their hits. 1. Wild-Eyed Dream a. Wild-Eyed Dream-1987-#24 b. Crime Of Passion-1987-#7 c. Somebody Lied-1987-#1 d. Life Turned Her That Way-1988-#1 e. Don't We All Have The Right-1988-#1 2. Loving Proof a. I'll Leave This World Loving You-1988-#1 b. From A Jack To A King-1989-#1 c. Hole In My Pocket-1989-#4 d. Living Proof-1989-#1 3. RVS III a. Statue Of A Fool-1990-#2-his biggest #2 hit b. I've Cried My Last Tear For You-1990-#1 c. I Meant Every Word He Said-1990-#2 d. Life's Little Ups And Downs-1991-#4 Parton followed Shelton to Columbia in 1987 after an almost two decade stay at RCA. Her debut CD for Columbia, Rainbow bombed. However, her other musical statement, Trio with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt was a rousing success. The #1 platinum CD yielded four top tens: 1. To Know Him Is To Love Him-1987-#1 2. Telling Me Lies-1987-#3 3. Those Memories Of You-1987-#5 4. Wildflowers-1988-#6 Because Trio was a more traditional sounding CD than Rainbow, Parton decided to go in a country direction with her next CD, White Limozeen. She enlisted Ricky Skaggs to produce the CD. Two chart toppers were produced in 1989: Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That and Yellow Roses. Three more top 40 hits followed in 1990. Parton charted a duet with Kenny Rogers, the title track to his CD Love Is Strange (#21 in 1990). Parton was ready to release her third Columbia CD, Eagle When She Flies. She recorded a song written by her brother, Floyd Parton called Rockin' Years. She envisioned the song as a duet with George Jones. However, Jones was on his last legs at Epic, a sister label of Columbia when he released his last CD for them, Friends In High Places in 1991. Jones would then sign to MCA where he joined another George (Strait, that is). It was decided Parton would sing with Shelton, Columbia's hottest artist at the time. Released in February, 1991 Rockin' Years became Parton's 24th chart topping hit and Shelton's eighth #1 hit in May. When it topped the chart, Parton became the first female artist to top the chart in three consecutive decades (1970s, 1980s, and 1990s). Two weeks later, the Eagle When She Flies CD topped the country albums chart, interrupting the reign of Garth Brooks' No Fences CD. Parton would chart three more singles from her platinum selling CD: 1. Silver And Gold-1991-#15 2. Eagle When She Flies-1991-#33 3. Country Road-1992-#46 Rockin' Years was placed on Shelton's CD, Backroads. Shelton's CD reached #3 on the chart. It is certified platinum. He would enjoy four more hits from his CD: 1. I Am A Simple Man-1991-#1 2. Keep It Between The Lines-1991-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 3. After The Lights Go Out-1992-#13 4. Backroads-1992-#2 Shelton would continue to have hits until Where Was I hit #20 in 1994. He left Columbia that year after eight years at the label. Parton would follow suit the following year. She would enjoy three more top 40 hits when her duet with Brad Paisley, When I Get Where I'm Going topped the chart in 2006. A few chart achievements were set: 1. Parton became the first female artist with 25 #1 hits. 2. Parton became the first female artist with #1s in four consecutive decades. 3. Parton became the oldest female with a #1 hit at the age of 60. 4. Parton's first #1 was Joshua in 1971. It now gives her a 35 year span of chart topping hits, the longest in country music history. Shelton's last CD was released in 2000 called Fried Green Tomatoes. The Decision is his last charted single (#71 in 2000). He has been retired from the business for the past eight years. As for Parton, she just released a CD called Blue Smoke. Her last chart appearance was very recent, a duet with Rogers called You Can't Make Old Friends (#57 in 2013). That was the title track to his CD. That was added to her CD. By the way, there is a version of Rockin' Years between Parton and Jones. It is on his 2008 CD, Burn Your Playhouse Down. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 4, 1991: 1. ROCKIN' YEARS-DOLLY PARTON AND RICKY VAN SHELTON-COLUMBIA 2. Down Home-Alabama-RCA 3. If I Know Me-George Strait-MCA 4. Drift Off To Dream-Travis Tritt-Warner Bros. 5. Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 6. In A Different Light-Doug Stone-Epic 7. Pocket Full Of Gold-Vince Gill-MCA 8. Only Here For A Little While-Billy Dean-Capitol 9. Heroes-Paul Overstreet-RCA 10. Time Passes By-Kathy Mattea-Mercury
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Post by areyoureadytojump on May 3, 2014 15:15:45 GMT -5
Awesome, isn't it? Anne Murray NEVER looked any prettier! And the song does not sound country. A more pop sound... Something like George Michael's "Different Corner"
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Post by onebuffalo on May 5, 2014 17:27:40 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Give Me Back My Hometown" Eric Church Eric Church claims his fourth leader on Country Airplay, as "Give Me Back My Hometown" steps 2-1. He'd most recently reigned as a featured artist (with Luke Bryan) on Jason Aldean's "The Only Way I Know," which topped the Feb. 16, 2013 chart. Church had last topped Country Airplay as a lead artist when "Springsteen" spent two weeks at the summit (June 23-30, 2012). He achieved his first No. 1 with "Drink in My Hand" (Jan. 28, 2012). Greatest Gainer No. 13 "Beachin' " Jake Owen Debut No. 54 "Wanted Me Gone" Josh Thompson Debut No. 60 "Pull Me Back" Leah Turner
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Post by onebuffalo on May 6, 2014 17:34:28 GMT -5
1. GIVE ME #1: Eric Church lands his fourth #1 hit this week with Give Me Back My Hometown. This is from his current CD, The Outsiders which started on a #25 note last year with the title track. His other chart toppers are: 1. Drink In My Hand-2012 2. Springsteen-2012 3. The Only Way I Know-with Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan-2013 2. BRYAN NEXT TO BRYAN: Luke Bryan is neighbors with himself this week (is that possible?). His duet with Florida Georgia Line, This Is How We Roll is at #4 while at #5 is his own Play It Again. 3. Z.B.B. FAST: The Zac Brown Band score the fastest climbing song of the week as All Alright vaults thirteen spaces to #40. 4. THOMPSON NEIGHBORS: Making the Hot Shot Debut this week is Josh Thompson with Wanted Me Gone at #54. At #55 is Thompson Square with Testing The Water. 5. CAN THEY SING?: At #2 on the country albums chart is Nashville: On The Record (18,000 sold). It is a CD sung by the actual cast members of the TV show. Nashville has already spun three soundtracks with another on the way. 6. AN 80S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling albums during the first week of May during the 1980s: 1980: Gideon-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 1981: Somewhere Over The Rainbow-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1982: Mountain Music-Alabama-RCA 1983: The Closer You Get-Alabama-RCA 1984: Deliver-Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 1985: 40 Hour Week-Alabama-RCA 1986: Greatest Hits-Alabama-RCA 1987: Trio-Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt-Warner Bros. 1988: Always & Forever-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1989: Greatest Hits III-Hank Williams, Jr.-Warner Bros. 7. A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Emmylou Harris has one of the purest voices in music, period. One of her finest performances (she's had many) was our top song 34 years ago this week. It was Beneath Still Waters. Harris signed to the Reprise label in 1974 (later Warner Bros.). In 1978, she released her first greatest hits album called Profile-The Best Of Emmylou Harris. It contained hits from her first four albums: Pieces Of The Sky (1975-#7), Elite Hotel (1976-#1), Luxury Liner (1977-#1), and Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town (1978-#3). The track listing for the album is as follows: 1. One Of These Days-1976-#3 2. Sweet Dreams-1976-#1-chart wise, her biggest hit 3. To Daddy-1978-#3 4. You Can Never Tell C'est La Vie-1977-#6 5. Making Believe-1977-#8 6. Easy From Now On-1978-#12 7. Together Again-1976-#1 8. If I Could Only Win Your Love-1975-#4 9. Too Far Gone-1979-#13 10. Two More Bottles Of Wine-1978-#1 11. Boulder To Birmingham 12. Hello Stranger It was time to release her fifth studio album and it was called Blue Kentucky Girl. It was heavy on the bluegrass and her label wondered if it would be a success (country was crossing over to pop during this time). However, Harris said the album sounded contemporary. She also wanted to capture the live side of music. She ended up being right and did both to perfection. Coincidentally, ALL three single releases ended up being remakes. Other songs from the album will be discussed as well. The first single, Save The Last Dance For Me was a #1 pop and #1 r&b hit for The Drifters in 1960. This time, it was a #4 hit for Harris in 1979. Buck Owens, Ron Shaw, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Dolly Parton also charted top 40 versions. The title track was next and it was originally a #7 hit for Loretta Lynn in 1965. Harris took her version to #6. The third single, Beneath Still Waters was a #38 hit for Diana Trask in 1970. Released in February, 1980 it climbed all the way to the top in May becoming Harris' fourth chart topping hit. That was written by Dallas Frazier who would see crossover success the following year when his Elvira was a #1 country, #5 pop, and #8 adult contemporary hit for the Oak Ridge Boys. Harris kept her streak intact for having a gold certified album with her first six releases. The album won Harris a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female in 1980. Two album cuts worth mentioning are Sister's Coming Home. The Willie Nelson tune features Tanya Tucker on backup vocals. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues was written by Hot Band member Rodney Crowell and features harmony vocals by Parton and Linda Ronstadt. It was one of the earliest recordings all three women did together before their Trio CD was released in 1987. The Roses In The Snow album was next. Two singles were released: Wayfaring Stranger hit #7 while The Boxer peaked at #13 (both 1980). Between those singles, a song from The Roadie soundtrack was released. It was a duet with Roy Orbison called That Lovin' You Feeling Again. It became Harris' biggest crossover hit by peaking at #6 country, #55 pop, and #10 A.C.. While she was on the chart with The Boxer, she won the C.M.A. Female Vocalist of the Year, interrupting Barbara Mandrell's reign (she won it in 1979 and 1981). She won a Grammy in 1981 for her duet with Orbison in the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group category. Beneath Still Waters appeared on her second greatest hits album called Profile II in 1984. Her last CD was released last year called Old Yellow Moon. That was a duets CD with Crowell. Her 1995 CD, Wrecking Ball was just reissued with additional tracks. Her last charted single was in 1994 called Thanks To You (#65). Her last chart appearance was in 2005, a vocal collaboration between Keni Thomas and Vince Gill called Not Me (#47). She was inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Post by onebuffalo on May 8, 2014 10:11:32 GMT -5
Tomorrow will be the silver anniversary of the death of Keith Whitley. To say we lost him too soon would be an understatement (we sill miss you). The following will set everyone back, but had he lived this July, he would have celebrated his 60th birthday. Over the years, I have talked about him twice in my weekly columns. I first saluted him for I'm No Stranger To The Rain which hit #1 a month before his death. The Don't Close Your Eyes CD was certified gold a month after his death. The last year of Whitley's life was the greatest in terms of his country music success. The second time I talked about him was the remake Alison Krauss had with When You Say Nothing At All. I will be repeating both stories here, plus the rankings of Whitley's and Lorrie Morgan's #1s and #2s.
7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: To say we lost Keith Whitley way too soon would be an understatement. His death is STILL being felt today. Twenty-one years ago this week, his biggest hit I'm No Stranger To The Rain was our #1 song. Whitley's musical journey started in the early 1960s when he appeared on a TV show in Charleston, West Virginia. He formed the East Kentucky Mountain Boys with Ricky Skaggs during the late 1960s. They had a great love for bluegrass music, particularly the Stanley Brothers. They were hired by the Stanleys in 1970. One story has it that the Brothers were late for a show. They walked in and heard Whitley and Skaggs singing the Stanleys and said Keith and Ricky were singing them BETTER than they did! After recording several albums together, they (Whitley and Skaggs) decided to go their separate ways during the late 1970s. In 1978, Keith joined the progressive bluegrass band J.D. Crowe and the New South. A live album was recorded on Rounder Records. Three years later, Whitley saw Skaggs' star rise when Don't Get Above Your Raising (#16) and You May See Me Walkin' (#9) became his first major hits. In 1982, Whitley moved to Nashville in hopes of landing a recording contract. That happened in 1984with RCA Records. Other acts signed to the label at this time were the Judds, Vince Gill, and Restless Heart. The Judds and Restless Heart saw success right away. Vince Gill had to wait awhile, but Whitley did NOT see success with his debut CD, A Hard Act To Follow in 1984. It yielded two top 80 hits. 1985 was a pivotal year for Whitley. First, he saw Skaggs win the C.M.A. Entertainer of the Year and he worked on his second CD (L.A. To Miami). Its second single release, Miami, My Amy became his first major hit (#14 in 1986). He followed up with three top tens: 1. Ten Feet Away-1986-#9 2. Homecoming '63-1987-#9 3. Hard Livin'-1987-#10 Whitley said Miami, My Amy 'literally saved my life' and gave him much needed confidence to continue. He was set to release his third CD during the last quarter of 1987, but shelved it for two reasons: to find stronger material and a new producer. RCA agreed and this time Garth Fundis was brought in to produce the CD and find the right songs. Both were accomplished in spades. The Don't Close Your Eyes Era (1988-1989) started with a top 20 hit in 1988: Some Old Side Road (#16). Then the CD produced three chart topping hits: 1. Don't Close Your Eyes-1988 2. When You Say Nothing At All-1988 3. I'm No Stranger To The Rain-1989 Finally, what Nashville knew all along (and even more important, Whitley himself) is that he was on the verge of something big. Rain hit #1 in April. On May 9, his brother-in-law found him dead in his home from alcohol poisoning. Nashville (and the rest of the country music world) was shocked and went into mourning. He was 33 years old (believe it or not he would have turned 55 this July!). The Don't Close Your Eyes CD was cerified gold in June. Whitley had recorded songs for his next CD. It was approved for release by his wife (now widow) Lorrie Morgan. The CD was I Wonder Do You Think Of Me and yielded the following hits: 1. I Wonder Do You Think Of Me-1989-#1 2. It Ain't Nothin'-1990-#1 3. I'm Over You-1990-#3 During the chart run of title #1, Rain won the C.M.A. Award for Single of the Year. A greatest hits CD was released in 1990. A new recording, 'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose (with Morgan) hit #13 that year. It won the C.M.A. Vocal Event of the Year. Whitley was not done having major hits. He had two more: 1. Brotherly Love-with Earl Thomas Conley-1991-#2 2. Somebody's Doin' Me Right-1992-#15 You can say 1994 was Whitley's year. A tribute CD was released (Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album) and a single was released that became Alison Krauss' first solo top ten: When You Say Nothing At All (#3 in 1995). It won the C.M.A. Single of the Year in 1995. The CD went gold that year. Whitley's career has been surveyed on three other CDs (The Essential Keith Whitley, Super Hits, and 16 Biggest Hits). He will be inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. Yhis is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 8, 1989: 1. I'M NO STRANGER TO THE RAIN-KEITH WHITLEY-RCA 2. Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye-George Strait-MCA 3. Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time-Vern Gosdin-Columbia 4. The Church On Cumberland Road-Shenandoah-Columbia 5. Old Coyote Town-Don Williams-Capitol 6. Tell It Like It Is-Billy Joe Royal-Atlantic 7. There's A Tear In My Beer-Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams, Sr.-Warner Bros. 8. Hey Bobby-K.T. Oslin-RCA 9. Fair Shake-Foster and Lloyd-RCA 10. You Got It-Roy Orbison-Virgin
7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Keith Whitley continues to influence country music to this day. Look at the timing of Tim McGraw's signing to Big Machine last month. It was during the 23rd anniversary of the death of Whitley and the 23rd anniversary of McGraw moving to Nashville. A tribute CD was released five years after his death called Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album. A song from the CD, When You Say Nothing At All peaked at #3 seventeen years ago this week for Alison Krauss and Union Station. Whitley signed to RCA Records in 1984. Whitley's breakthrough CD was released in 1985 called L.A. To Miami and contained the following hits: 1. Miami, My Amy-1986-#14 2. Ten Feet Away-1986-#9 3. Homecoming '63-1987-#9 4. Hard Livin'-1987-#10 The Golden Age of Keith Whitley happened during the last year of his life when his Don't Close Your Eyes CD was released. Four more hits were produced: 1. Some Old Side Road-1988-#16 2. Don't Close Your Eyes-1988-#1 3. When You Say Nothing At All-1988-#1 4. I'm No Stranger To The Rain-1989-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit and C.M.A. Single of the Year A month after title #4 hit #1, Whitley died of alcohol poisoning. He was two months shy of 34. That did not silence Whitley as he collected six more hits from three CDs: 1. I Wonder Do You Think Of Me: a. I Wonder Do You Think Of Me-1989-#1 b. It Ain't Nothin'-1990-#1 c. I'm Over You-1990-#3 2. Greatest Hits: a. 'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose-with Lorrie Morgan-1990-#13-C.M.A. Vocal Event of the Year 3. Kentucky Bluebird: a. Brotherly Love-with Earl Thomas Conley-1991-#2 b. Somebody's Doin' Me Right-1992-#15 Then, a bunch of country artists (the majority of them being new artists) gathered together to record a tribute CD to Whitley. The track listing for Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album is as follows: 1. Don't Close Your Eyes-Alan Jackson 2. Ten Feet Away-Diamond Rio 3. I'm Gonna Hurt Her On The Radio-Keith Whitley 4. I'm Over You-Tracy Lawrence 5. When You Say Nothing At All-Alison Krauss and Union Station 6. Charlotte's In North Carolina-Keith Whitley 7. I Just Want You-Keith Whitley and Lorrie Morgan 8. Little Boy Lost-Daron Norwood 9. All I Ever Loved Was You-Ricky Skaggs and Shenandoah 10. I'm No Stranger To The Rain-Joe Diffie 11. I Never Go Around Mirrors-Mark Chesnutt 12. Come Back Kid-Keith Whitley 13. A Voice That Still Rings True-Ricky Skaggs, Tanya Tucker, and Lisa Stewart While that CD was being recorded in 1994, a development was happening with one of its participating artists. Shenandoah, after a two CD association with RCA (where they had a sextet of top 40 hits between 1992-1994 including a #1 in If Bubba Can Dance I Can Too in 1994) switched to Liberty Records. Their debut hit for them, the title track of their CD In The Vicinity Of The Heart (preceded by the word 'Somewhere') was a duet with Krauss, peaked at #7 in 1995 becoming their 14th top ten and Krauss' first. Seizing the moment, BNA released When You Say Nothing At All in April, 1995 and it proceeded to a #3 peak in June. Rounder Records, Krauss' label (since 1987) liked the tune as well and included it on her Now That I've Found You: A Collection CD. That became her best selling CD (double platinum). Radio stations even created a Whitley/Krauss 'duet' of When You Say Nothing At All. The tribute CD is certified at the gold level. What was even more surprising is that after ten years of being in the business, Krauss was a hitmaker. Her efforts did not go unnoticed as she was the big winner at the 1995 C.M.A. Awards. She won four of them: 1. Female Vocalist of the Year 2. Horizon Award 3. Single for When You Say Nothing At All 4. Vocal Event with Shenandoah for Somewhere In The Vicinity Of The Heart She continued to have major country successes with Vince Gill on High Lonesome Sound (#12 in 1996 and was the title track of his CD) and Brad Paisley on Whiskey Lullaby (#3 in 2004 and was off his Mud On The Tires CD). The latter is Paisley's best vocal collaboration as Krauss' vocals are hauntingly beautiful (take that, Alabama, Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban). I see she gets credit for backing up Kenny Rogers on his #1 hit in 2000, Buy Me A Rose (along with Billy Dean). Her last country chart appearance was back in 2007 when her remake of the John Waite hit, Missing You (with Waite) hit #34. That was off her A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection CD. Her last CD was released last year called Paper Airplane (her only #1 country CD). That won a Grammy Award this year for Best Bluegrass Album (her 27th award, making her the most awarded female at the Grammys). This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 10, 1995: 1. Summer's Comin'-Clint Black-RCA 2. You Ain't Much Fun-Toby Keith-Polydor 3. WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL-ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION-BNA 4. I Don't Believe In Goodbye-Sawyer Brown-Curb 5. Texas Tornado-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic 6. I'm Still Dancin' With You-Wade Hayes-Columbia 7. You Don't Even Know Who I Am-Patty Loveless-Epic 8. Standing On The Edge Of Goodbye-John Berry-Patriot 9. Tell Me I Was Dreaming-Travis Tritt-Warner Bros. 10. If I Were You-Collin Raye-Epic
6. THEIR ELEVEN BIGGEST-COUPLES EDITION: Keith Whitley and Lorrie Morgan were married between 1986-1989. Whitley had his first #1 in August, 1988 while Morgan had her last #1 in August, 1995. These are their biggest hits. First number-weeks at #1 or #2, second number-weeks in the top 40. K.W.: 1. I'm No Stranger To The Rain-1989-2-14 2. When You Say Nothing At All-1988-2-14 3. It Ain't Nothin'-1990-1-17 4. Don't Close Your Eyes-1988-1-16 5. I Wonder Do You Think Of Me-1989-1-14 6. Brotherly Love-with Earl Thomas Conley-1991-1-18 (#2) L.M.: 1. What Part Of No-1993-3-18 2. Five Minutes-1990-1-20 3. I Didn't Know My Own Strength-1995-1-16 4. Out Of Your Shoes-1989-3-22 (#2) 5. Watch Me-1992-2-18 (#2)
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Post by rbundy1987 on May 12, 2014 19:53:00 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Get Me Some Of That" Thomas Rhett Thomas Rhett dominates Country Airplay for a second time as "Get Me Some of That" jumps 3-1. He achieved his first leader in October with "It Goes Like This," which topped the chart for three weeks.
Greatest Gainer No. 17 "My Eyes" Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen Sebastian Debut No. 51 "Show You Off" Dan + Shay Debut No. 57 "Tonight Tonight" John King Debut No. 60 "Drink You Away" David Fanning
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Post by onebuffalo on May 13, 2014 8:29:20 GMT -5
1. GET ME #1: Thomas Rhett scores the second #1 hit of his career this week with Get Me Some Of That. It follows It Goes Like This from last year. He is batting 50% with his singles going to the top as his first two, Something To Do With My Hands hit #15 in 2012 and Beer With Jesus peaked at #19 in 2013. 2. STILL AT #11: Bigger Picture announced last week they were shutting down operations. However, that has not stopped Craig Campbell from being at the #11 spot for a second week with his biggest hit to date, Keep Them Kisses Comin'. 3. A FAST NIGHT: Love And Theft have the fastest climbing song of the week with Night That You'll Never Forget. It goes up five to #45. 4. FROM #11 TO #51: Dan + Shay's debut single, 19 You + Me peaked at #11. Their second single grabs Hot Shot Debut honors at #51 with Show You Off. 5. #1 HITS: These were the chart topping songs in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989: 2009: She's Country-Jason Aldean-Broken Bow 2004: You'll Think Of Me-Keith Urban-Capitol 1999: Please Remember Me-Tim McGraw-Curb 1994: If Bubba Can Dance I Can Too-Shenandoah-RCA 1989: Is It Still Over-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: George Strait topped the chart for five weeks in 1997 with his second biggest hit, One Night At A Time. In the process, three artists had to settle for second place. In order, they are: Collin Raye with On The Verge, Alabama with Sad Lookin' Moon, and Tracy Lawrence with Better Man, Better Off. First up is Raye with On The Verge. On The Verge was the SIXTH single of Raye's 1995 CD, I Think About You. It started on a #2 note with One Boy, One Girl (I Like It, I Love It by Tim McGraw was #1). Not That Different kicked off Raye's 1996 on a #3 note while the title track also peaked at #3. Love Remains hit #12, breaking a streak of 14 consecutive top tens for Raye. Fifth single, What If Jesus Comes Back Like That failed to hit the top twenty at #21, his worst showing since 1991's All I Can Be Is A Sweet Memory (#29). Epic decided to release a sixth single from I Think About You. It was On The Verge. Released in February 1997, it was #2 for two weeks while Strait was on top during his second and third weeks with One Night At A Time. Chart wise, On The Verge is Raye's biggest #2 hit. Raye's next CD was a greatest hits CD called The Best Of Collin Raye: Direct Hits. While On The Verge was absent from this CD, two new songs became hits: What The Heart Wants (#2 in 1997) and Little Red Rodeo (#3 in 1998). His version of Journey's Open Arms is on the CD. His last chart appearance was in 2007 with A Soldier's Prayer (#59). His last CD was released last year called Still On The Line The Songs Of Glen Campbell. On The Verge is on his 2002 hits CD, 16 Biggest Hits. Sad Lookin' Moon was the lead single to Alabama's 1997 CD, Dancin' On The Boulevard. The single was released in February (with the Raye single) and found its way to #2 behind Strait during his fourth week at #1. Sad Lookin' Moon was Alabama's fifth #2 hit and their second biggest #2 hit (Here We Are from 1991 is their biggest). Dancin', Shaggin' On The Boulevard proceeded to a #3 peak. They faltered a bit with the next two releases: Of Course I'm Alright (1997-#22) and She's Got That Look In Her Eyes (1998-#21). Sad Lookin' Moon was repeated on their next CD, For The Record: 41 Number One Hits. That CD yielded two more hits for Alabama: How Do You Fall In Love (1998-#2) and Keepin' Up (1999-#14). Their last chart appearance was their chart topping duet with Brad Paisley on Old Alabama in 2011. Their last CD was released last year called Country: Alabama (minus a Christmas CD released that year as well). Lastly, Lawrence's single, Better Man, Better Off, like Alabama's was the lead single to his CD, The Coast Is Clear. Released in March, it found a home at #2 while Strait was enjoying his final week at #1. It was his sixth and final #2 hit (Is That A Tear from 1997 is his biggest). How A Cowgirl Says Goodbye followed and it peaked at #4. The title track hit #26. The fourth single failed to chart, the first time that happened in Lawrence's career: One Step Ahead Of The Storm. The era ended on a #46 note, While You Sleep. Better Man, Better Off appeared on his next CD, a greatest hits CD called The Best Of Tracy Lawrence. Lawrence's last chart appearance was in 2009 with Up To Him (#47). His last CD was released last year called Headlights, Taillights, And Radios. Well, Raye, Alabama, and Lawrence could not top Strait, so who did? Why, it's Bryan White. He did it with his fourth single from Between Now And Forever. It also became his fourth and final #1, Sittin' On Go. This is what the chart looked like back then: BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 17, 1997: 1. One Night At A Time-George Strait-MCA 2. SAD LOOKIN' MOON-ALABAMA-RCA 3. BETTER MAN, BETTER OFF-TRACY LAWRENCE-ATLANTIC 4. ON THE VERGE-COLLIN RAYE-EPIC 5. Good As I Was To You-Lorrie Morgan-BNA 6. I Miss You A Little-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 7. Sittin' On Go-Bryan White-Asylum 8. She's Sure Taking It Well-Kevin Sharp-Asylum 9. A Girl's Gotta Do What A Girl's Gotta Do-Mindy McCready-BNA 10. A Little More Love-Vince Gill-MCA Videos: On The Verge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCx0bP3DWi8Sad Lookin' Moon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmF-wy_sJMEBetter Man, Better Off: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrSHLyihag
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Post by onebuffalo on May 19, 2014 17:05:16 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Play It Again" Luke Bryan Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 28 "Small Town Throwdown" Brantley Gilbert Featuring Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett Debut No. 43 "Bartender" Lady Antebellum Debut No. 59 "That's How We Do Summertime" Chasin' Crazy Debut No. 60 "Donkey" Jerrod Niemann
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Post by onebuffalo on May 20, 2014 10:59:16 GMT -5
1. PLAY IT AGAIN: Luke Bryan lands the ninth #1 hit in his career with Play It Again. It is the third chart topper from his Crash My Party CD following the title track (2013) and Drink A Beer (2014). Between those, he peaked at #2 with That's My Kind Of Night. This is his second consecutive CD to yield a trio of chart toppers following Tailgates & Tanlines. Those #1s are (all 2012): 1. I Don't Want This Night To End 2. Drunk On You 3. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 2. BRYAN'S AT #2 TOO: Luke Bryan is at #2 for the week as his duet with Florida Georgia Line, This Is How We Roll stays there for a second week. This is the first time in 32 years that an artist has held the top two positions. Willie Nelson was the last artist to do so when Always On My Mind was #1 for the second week while his duet with Waylon Jennings, Just To Satisfy You was at #2. The duet replaced Nelson at the top for two weeks. 3. THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE: Hot Shot Debut honors go to Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, and Thomas Rhett at #28 with Small Town Throwdown. This is the second single from Gilbert's Just As I Am CD which just produced a #1 hit in Bottoms Up. Rhett is at #4 this week with his second chart topper, Get Me Some Of That while at #7 is Moore's Lettin' The Night Roll. 4. D + S FAST: Dan + Shay have the fastest climbing song of the week as Show You Off goes up nine to #42. 5. BARTENDER'S HERE: Lady Antebellum debut a lead single from an upcoming CD. It is Bartender at #43. Their last CD, Golden produced two chart topping hits: Downtown (2013) and Compass (2014). 6. SECOND #1 FOR HAYES: Hunter Hayes' second CD, Storyline debuts at #1 on the country albums chart after 69,000 copies were sold. It follows his self-titled debut from 2011 as his other top seller. 7. MORE NASHVILLE: At #4 on the albums chart is the fourth soundtrack to the TV show, Nashville called Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 2 Volume 2. A CD featuring the cast of Nashville was recently released. They are touring to support the CD. 8. #1 CDS: These were the top selling CDs in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989: 2009: Hannah Montana: The Movie-Soundtrack-Walt Disney 2004: When The Sun Goes Down-Kenny Chesney-BNA 1999: A Place In The Sun-Tim McGraw-Curb 1994: Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 1989: Greatest Hits III-Hank Williams, Jr.-Warner Bros. 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Dwight Yoakam's best selling CD is his most critically acclaimed: 1993's This Time. The first single, Ain't That Lonely Yet was our #2 song 21 years ago this week. During the 1980s, Yoakam was successful with his first three studio CDs. The chart topping platinum CDs and their hits are: 1. Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. a. Honky Tonk Moon-1986-#3 b. Guitars, Cadillacs-1986-#4 c. It Won't Hurt-1986-#31 2. Hillbilly Deluxe a. Little Sister-1987-#7 b. Little Ways-1987-#8 c. Please, Please Baby-1988-#6 d. Always Late With Your Kisses-1988-#9 3. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room a. Streets Of Bakersfield-with Buck Owens-1988-#1 b. I Sang Dixie-1989-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit c. I Got You-1989-#5 He released a greatest hits CD in 1989 called Just Lookin' For A Hit. A top 40 single was produced in Long White Cadillac (#35). He entered the 1990s by releasing his fifth CD, If There Was A Way. First single, Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose was released in late 1990. It almost became a top ten in early 1991. Instead, it peaked at #11. The second single became Yoakam's first top ten of the 1990s: You're The One (#5). Nothing's Changed Here peaked at #15. 1992 started on a #7 note for Yoakam with It Only Hurts When I Cry. He charted a fifth top 20 hit with The Heart That You Own (#18). A duet with Patty Loveless (both born in Pikeville, Kentucky) ended the era with Send A Message To My Heart (#47). That was recorded during a transitional period for Loveless. She ended her stay at MCA and signed to Epic. The CD kept Yoakam's platinum streak perfect to date. Yoakam participated in the Honeymoon In Vegas soundtrack. His version of Suspicious Minds was a top 40 hit in 1992 (#35). It was time for a follow up CD and it was titled This Time. It shows Yoakam standing in front of an oversized clock face with his head bowed. The first single, Ain't That Lonely Yet was released in March, 1993. It made its way to #2 for two weeks, unable to dislodge John Michael Montgomery's first chart topper, I Love The Way You Love Me from the top. Yoakam stayed at #2 for a third week while Should've Been A Cowboy by Toby Keith side stepped Yoakam for the top. The Keith single became country's most played song of the 1990s. Not bad for a first single. A Thousand Miles From Nowhere was released in June. It too proceeded to a #2 peak while Sawyer Brown collected their third and final #1, Thank God For You. Fast As You was the third single and the third #2 from the CD. The artist holding him back this time was Faith Hill with her first chart topper, Wild One. Fast As You remains Yoakam's last top ten single to date. In February 1994, two major events took place: 1. Yoakam won his ONLY Grammy Award for Ain't That Lonely Yet in the Best Country Vocal Performance, Male category. 2. The fourth single from This Time was released-Try Not To Look So Pretty (#14). The era closed on a #22 note with Pocket Of A Clown. The CD is certified triple platinum. Yoakam released a live CD in 1995 simply called Dwight Live. A studio CD was next. Its title was Gone. Nothing was the first single and it peaked at #20. Three more singles were released. Two charted in 1996: Gone That'll Be Me (#51) and Sorry You Asked (#59). Heart Of Stone did not chart, the first time that Yoakam failed to do so. Under The Covers was the next CD (1997). Yoakam redid the Everly Brothers' Claudette and took it to #47 that year. A Long Way Home from 1998 yielded two chart singles: Things Change (#17) and These Arms (#57). Ain't That Lonely Yet makes an appearance on his 1999 greatest hits CD, Last Chance For A Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits From The 1990s. Yoakam redid the Queen hit, Crazy Little Thing Called Love. It became Yoakam's last top twenty hit in 1999 (#12). Thinking About Leaving peaked at #54. An acoustic CD was next called dwightyoakamacoustic.net (2000). Another CD was released that year called Tomorrow's Sounds Today. It yielded his last top 40 hit in 2001 with What Do You Know About Love (#26). I Want You To Want Me was a Cheap Trick hit. This time, Yoakam made it a #49 hit. Another duet with Owens, I Was There failed to chart. It was the last single release of Owens' career before his death in 2006. Minus a soundtrack that was released in 2001 called South Of Heaven, West Of Hell that Yoakam starred in, his tenure at Reprise Records was over after 17 years (1985-2002). He signed to the Audium label in 2002 for a two CD deal. His debut for them, Population Me was produced by his long time producer, Pete Anderson. A pair of #52 singles were produced in 2003: The Back Of Your Hand and The Late Great Golden State. The other CD, 2004's Dwight's Used Records was a CD of half remakes and half new tunes. Blame The Vain was released on New West Records in 2005. It contains his last charted singles: Intentional Heartache (#54) and the title track (#58). New West released Yoakam's tribute CD to Owens called Dwight Sings Buck (2007). Yoakam decided to come back to the Warner family by releasing 3 Pears last year. The CD reached #3 on the country albums chart. His last CD is called 21st Century Hits: Best Of 2000-2012. You can find Ain't That Lonely Yet in his 2002 box set called Reprise, Please Baby and The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam from 2004. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 22, 1993: 1. I Love The Way You Love Me-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 2. AIN'T THAT LONELY YET-DWIGHT YOAKAM-REPRISE 3. Tender Moment-Lee Roy Parnell-Arista 4. Hearts Are Gonna Roll-Hal Ketchum-Curb 5. Tell Me Why-Wynonna Judd-MCA 6. Made For Lovin' You-Doug Stone-Epic 7. Alright Already-Larry Stewart-RCA 8. Should've Been A Cowboy-Toby Keith-Mercury 9. Hometown Honeymoon-Alabama-RCA 10. Alibis-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic
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Post by onebuffalo on May 28, 2014 10:12:35 GMT -5
1. PLAYING AGAIN: Luke Bryan continues to have the #1 song with Play It Again. If Play It Again manages a third week at the top, it will match his longest reigning chart topper from last year, Crash My Party. 2. A BAD DUET: Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood grab Hot Shot Debut honors this week at #48 with Something Bad. It is the second release from the Lambert CD, Platinum. Lead single, Automatic is at #4. If Lambert/Underwood hit the top with their duet, it will be the second chart topping duet for both artists. In 2011, Underwood and Brad Paisley hit the top with Remind Me while last year, We Were Us was a #1 duet for Lambert and Keith Urban. 3. LADY A FAST: Lady Antebellum have the fastest climbing song of the week as Bartender serves up sixteen spots to #27. 4. MIDPOINT: We are in the last week of May which means 50% of the chart year is over. Let us review those chart topping hits over the last six months (Play It Again's second week starts the second half). 1. We Were Us-Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert-1 2. Sunny And 75-Joe Nichols-1 3. Carolina-Parmalee-1 4. Drunk Last Night-Eli Young Band-1 5. Stay-Florida Georgia Line-4 6. Sweet Annie-Zac Brown Band-1 7. Whatever She's Got-David Nail-1 8. Drink A Beer-Luke Bryan-2 9. When She Says Baby-Jason Aldean-3 10. Compass-Lady Antebellum-1 11. Helluva Life-Frankie Ballard-1 12. I Hold On-Dierks Bentley-1 13. Doin' What She Likes-Blake Shelton-2 14. Drink To That All Night-Jerrod Niemann-2 15. Bottoms Up-Brantley Gilbert-1 16. Give Me Back My Hometown-Eric Church-1 17. Get Me Some Of That-Thomas Rhett-1 18. Play It Again-Luke Bryan-1 5. THREE FOR THREE: Since joining Big Machine in 2010, Rascal Flatts maintain their perfect track record of having chart topping CDs. Rewind is tops this week after 61,000 were sold. It joins Nothing Like This (2010) and Changed (2012) as the other top sellers. 6. HELLO DOLLY: Dolly Parton enters the albums chart at #2 with her latest, Blue Smoke after 37,000 were sold. It is her first top ten CD in six years as Backwoods Barbie hit #2 in 2008. 7. A 70S LOOK: These were the chart topping songs during the last week of May during the 1970s: 1970: My Love-Sonny James-Capitol 1971: I Won't Mention It Again-Ray Price-Columbia 1972: The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.-Donna Fargo-Dot 1973: Satin Sheets-Jeanne Pruett-MCA 1974: Pure Love-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 1975: Thank God I'm A Country Boy-John Denver-RCA 1976: One Piece At A Time-Johnny Cash-Columbia 1977: Luckenbach, Texas Back To The Basics Of Love-Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson-RCA 1978: Do You Know You Are My Sunshine-Statler Brothers-Mercury 1979: If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me-Bellamy Brothers-Warner Bros. 8. MILSAP'S 50: 2014 marks 50 years that Ronnie Milsap has been in the music business. In 1973, he signed a country contract with RCA Records. We will be ranking his top 50 hits. For #1 and #2 hits, weeks in those positions will be first while weeks in the top 40 will be second. For all other songs, their stay in the top 40 will determine their rankings. Ready? 1. My Heart-1980-3-13 2. It Was Almost Like A Song-1977-3-12 3. Only One Love In My Life-1978-3-11 4. A Woman In Love-1989-2-24 5. Lost In The Fifties Tonight In The Still Of The Night-1985-2-14 6. There's No Gettin' Over Me-1981-2-11 7. Daydreams About Night Things-1975-2-11 8. I'm A Stand By My Woman Man-1976-2-11 9. Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends-1974-2-09 10. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby-1986-1-14 11. What A Difference You've Made In My Life-1978-1-14 12. In Love-1986-1-14 13. Show Her-1984-1-14 14. Still Losing You-1984-1-14 15. She Keeps The Home Fires Burning-1985-1-13 16. Make No Mistake, She's Mine-with Kenny Rogers-1987-1-13 17. Inside-1983-1-13 18. How Do I Turn You On-1987-1-13 19. Where Do The Nights Go-1988-1-13 20. Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me-1989-1-13 21. Pure Love-1974-1-12 22. Don't You Know How Much I Love You-1983-1-12 23. He Got You-1982-1-12 24. Snap Your Fingers-1987-1-12 25. Nobody Likes Sad Songs-1979-1-12 26. Cowboys And Clowns-1980-1-12 27. Let My Love Be Your Pillow-1977-1-12 28. Any Day Now-1982-1-11 29. I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World-1982-1-11 30. Why Don't You Spend The Night-1980-1-11 31. What Goes On When The Sun Goes Down-1976-1-11 32. Smoky Mountain Rain-1980-1-10 33. Let's Take The Long Way Around The World-1978-1-10 34. I'd Be A Legend In My Time-1975-1-10 35. Am I Losing You-1981-1-09 36. Back On My Mind Again-1979-3-12 (#2) 37. Stranger Things Have Happened-1990-2-18 (#2) 38. Old Folks-with Mike Reid-1988-1-13 (#2) 39. Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You-1991 (#3) 40. Turn That Radio On-1992 (#4) 41. Button Off My Shirt-1988 (#4) 42. Houston Solution-1989 (#4) 43. Just In Case-1976 (#4) 44. Stranger In My House-1983 (#5) 45. Since I Don't Have You-1991 (#6) 46. Prisoner Of The Highway-1984 (#6) 47. In No Time At All-1979 (#6) 48. Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry-1975 (#6) 49. I Hate You-1973 (#10) 50. All Is Fair In Love And War-1992 (#11) 9. A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Ronnie Milsap is also celebrating the 40th anniversary of his first #1 this week, Pure Love written by Eddie Rabbitt. Thirty-four years ago this week, Milsap scored the biggest hit of his career with My Heart. My Heart was named the biggest hit of 1980 according to the American Country Countdown and Billboard. He repeated the feat in 1985 with his classic, Lost In The Fifties Tonight In The Still Of The Night. Billboard also named Milsap Country Singles Artist of the Year for 1980. He managed to top the chart three more times that year with Why Don't You Spend The Night, Cowboys And Clowns, and Smoky Mountain Rain. I am providing links to both Pure Love and My Heart. Congratulations to Milsap for making it to the Country Music Hall of Fame this year! Videos: Pure Love: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izi_YQGuENcMy Heart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHJTxkvQvY
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 2, 2014 15:46:14 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (3 weeks)*** "Play It Again" Luke Bryan Greatest Gainer No. 8 "My Eyes" Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen Sebastian Debut No. 53 "Shotgun" Sheryl Crow Debut No. 55 "Tattoo" Hunter Hayes Debut No. 59 "Kiss Me When I Am Down" Ryan Kinder
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 3, 2014 17:14:03 GMT -5
1. PLAY EQUALS PARTY: For the third week, Luke Bryan has the #1 hit in Play It Again. It matches Crash My Party from last year as his longest reigning chart topper. If Play It Again manages a fourth week at the top, it will be his biggest hit. 2. NOT THIS TIME: Sliding to #5 from #2 is the duet between Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan, This Is How We Roll. F.G.L.'s streak of chart toppers has come to an end at four. Their first four singles hit #1. They are: 1. Cruise-2012 2. Get Your Shine On-2013 3. 'Round Here-2013 4. Stay-2014-chart wise, their biggest hit 3. NO LABEL, BUT A TOP TEN: Craig Campbell nets his first top ten this week with Keep Them Kisses Comin' at #10. However, his label Bigger Picture has ceased operations. 4. HER BIGGEST IN EIGHT YEARS: Faith Hill has not seen the top twenty in eight years. That changes this week as her duet with Tim McGraw, Meanwhile Back At Mama's is at #19. She last visited the top twenty in 2006 with her last top ten, Sunshine And Summertime (#7). 5. FAST ONE: Eric Church has the fastest climbing song of the week as Cold One vaults twenty spots to #36. 6. I AM #1: Brantley Gilbert has his first chart topping CD this week with Just As I Am. It sold 211,000 copies last week. 7. A 70S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling albums during the first week of June during the 1970s: 1970: Just Plain Charley-Charley Pride-RCA 1971: Rose Garden-Lynn Anderson-Columbia 1972: The Best Of Charley Pride, Volume 2-Charley Pride-RCA 1973: Behind Closed Doors-Charlie Rich-Epic 1974: Very Special Love Songs-Charlie Rich-Epic 1975: Before The Next Teardrop Falls-Freddy Fender-ABC/Dot 1976: The Sound In Your Mind-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1977: Ol' Waylon-Waylon Jennings-RCA 1978: Stardust-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1979: The Gambler-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 8. A BLAST FROM THE PAST: This week marks the 40th anniversary of I Will Always Love You becoming Dolly Parton's third chart topping hit. I am repeating what I said when I first saluted Parton's 1982 version in October, 2011 during the 29th anniversary of it hitting the top. Ready? Let us go back to 1960 when Porter Wagoner launched his television show called The Porter Wagoner Show (how original!). He hired a very talented woman by the name of Norma Jean. She was in his touring group and started to make appearances on the TV show. She had a somewhat successful recording career, collecting a very lucky thirteen top 40 hits with five of them being major hits. They are: 1. Let's Go All The Way-1964-#11 2. Go Cat Go-1964-#8 3. I Wouldn't But A Used Car From Him-1965-#8 4. The Game Of Triangles-with Liz Anderson and Bobby Bare-1966-#5 5. Heaven Help The Working Girl-1968-#18 She was with Wagoner until 1967 when she decided to move back to her native Oklahoma to get married. It was the same year Parton had her first major hit in Something Fishy (#17). It caught the attention of Wagoner who hired her for his show. During Parton's first year on the show she heard the audience saying, 'We want Norma Jean!'. It was also in 1967 that Parton switched from the Monument label to RCA Records (Wagoner's and Jean's label as well). Wagoner told RCA that he would absorb ANY losses that RCA occurred if Parton was a bust (I do not think that happened). To make sure Parton would be accepted, her first RCA album was a duets album with Wagoner. Her first six top tens were duets with him. They were: 1. The Last Thing On My Mind-1968-#7 2. Holding On To Nothin'-1968-#7 3. We'll Get Ahead Someday-1968-#5 4. Yours Love-1969-#9 5. Just Someone I Used To Know-1969-#5 6. Tomorrow Is Forever-1970-#9 Parton finally landed her first solo top ten in 1970 with Mule Skinner Blues Blue Yodel No. 8 (#3) and her first #1 in 1971 with Joshua. During this time they won a trio of C.M.A. Awards: 1968 Vocal Group of the Year and the 1970 and 1971 Vocal Duo of the Year. It should be noted that Wagoner not only produced their duets, but Parton's solo work as well (even though Bob Ferguson received official credit). Whether you like the Wagoner produced hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s, you have to admit Parton's vocals were polished and pure. He was very organized in the studio as well. Between 1971-1973, Parton racked up six major hits with Wagoner and six major solo hits. Her most successful duet with Wagoner during this time was If Teardrops Were Pennies (#3 in 1973) and after Joshua, her most successful solo hit was her persoanl favorite, Coat Of Many Colors (#4 in 1971). 1973 was a watershed year for Parton. For the first time, she contemplated leaving Wagoner for greener pastures. Their relationship was strained because of the vision they each had for Parton's career. She wanted to be a crossover artist, but Wagoner would have nothing to do with it. Second, she was preparing her next album called Jolene. The first single was the title track and it became her second country chart topper in 1974. It gave her a debut showing on the pop chart where it peaked at #60 (she always wanted pop action with one of her songs and finally got it). Her next single told everyone how she felt about Wagoner and her feelings at the time. It was a goodbye song that did NOT take a pitiful view of the situation. It was I Will Always Love You. The song was released in April (when she left his show) and hit #1 in June. With the success of Jolene and I Will Always Love You, Parton became a bigger star than Wagoner. Parton finished off 1974 with two more #1s: Please Don't Stop Loving Me (with Wagoner-their ONLY #1 together) and Love Is Like A Butterfly. Then Parton had her much coveted crossover era (1977-1985) with the aforementioned Here You Come Again and 9 To 5. 9 To 5 was her first strarring role in a movie and she enjoyed it so much that she wanted to do another one. This time it was The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas in 1982. It also starred Burt Reynolds. She wrote new songs for the film, but needed another when Miss Mona splits with the sheriff. She decided to rerecord I Will Always Love You. That song was released in July and reached #1 in October making Parton the first artist to take the same song to #1 twice (in different versions, of course). The second recording of the song peaked at #53 pop and #17 A.C.. The record was a double-sided hit when Do I Ever Cross Your Mind was the b-side (I contend to this day that both songs would have been #1 if released separately). Then the song laid dormant for a decade. One of the hottest female music superstars of the early 1990s decided to try her hand at acting just like Parton did in 1980. Her name is Whitney Houston and the movie was The Bodyguard (also starring Kevin Costner). They needed a closing number for the film. The first song selected was What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted (a #7 pop hit for Jimmy Ruffin in 1966). However, Paul Young recorded his version that was a #22 pop hit in early 1992 for the Fried Green Tomatoes movie. So the producers had to start all over again. They had two conditions: one, the song had to be a Motown classic or pop oldies and two, the song could NOT be country. So, they were presented a tape of mostly Motown songs and a song that was on a Linda Ronstadt album called Prisoner In Disguise: I Will Always Love You. The song's producer, David Foster was not familiar with the song. He produced a demo for Houston, who fell in love with it. She recorded the song just five times with most of the fourth take being used for the film. Then Costner wanted an a cappella opening for the song. Foster refused at first but saw Houston sing the song the way Costner wanted and Foster was hooked (so was Clive Davis, the head of Arista Records). It ended up being the first single off the soundtrack and became Houston's biggest hit EVER. It spent 14 weeks at #1 on the pop chart (a record later broken by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men with One Sweet Day-16 chart topping weeks), #1 on the r&b chart for 11 weeks, and it topped the A.C. list for five weeks. The song won Houston and Parton a slew of awards between 1993-1994. The last figure I have for the royalties Parton collected for the song is in the neighborhood of $7 million dollars (could be more and if it is, please let me know). After the Houston version ran its course, Parton decided to let everyone know where the song came from by recording it for the third time in 1995. This time, she chose a duet partner in Vince Gill (himself hot on the charts at the time). It was placed on her Something Special CD and his Souvenirs CD. With interest in the song still strong (thanks to Houston), it made a third appearance on the country chart. The duet peaked at #15 because Gill was on the chart with his solo hit, Go Rest High On That Mountain (#14). BOTH songs won C.M.A. Awards: I Will for Vocal Event of the Year and Go Rest for Song of the Year. Videos for I Will Always Love You: 1974 version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-F4rfU4ns1982 version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy_7-ACO6Ac1995 version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafBLDVtF7Y&feature=related
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 9, 2014 16:52:16 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (4 weeks)*** "Play It Again" Luke Bryan With a fourth straight week atop Billboard's Country Airplay chart with "Play It Again," Luke Bryan surpasses his previous best No. 1 run, set when "Crash My Party" linked a three-week reign last July. He becomes the second act this year to lead for four weeks: Florida Georgia Line's "Stay" began a four-week command on Jan. 4. While Capitol Records isn't yet promoting the song to formats outside country, it's already nearing the Adult Pop Songs chart due to unsolicited play from intrigued stations like KVIL Dallas, WBMX Boston, WOMX Orlando, Fla., and WTIC Hartford, Conn. Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 32 "Day Drinking" Little Big Town Debut No. 46 "Payback" Rascal Flatts Debut No. 56 "Love" Jana Kramer
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Post by Marv on Jun 9, 2014 17:37:41 GMT -5
Is this now the song to beat in the race to finish #1 for the year @ Billboard, or will he have to overcome the hefty advantage which some of the year's previous #1 singles still enjoy by virtue of needing 25+ weeks to reach #1, such as 'Drink To That All Night?'
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 10, 2014 8:38:00 GMT -5
1. BRYAN'S BIGGEST: Luke Bryan continues his grip on the #1 position in country music with Play It Again. It is his fourth week at top and is his biggest hit. His second biggest hit is the title track to his current CD, Crash My Party, a three week #1 from last year. Play It Again is the second four week #1 this year. His duet partners, Florida Georgia Line reigned for that long with Stay. If Bryan can get a fifth week at the top, it will be the first five week #1 since Lady Antebellum's Need You Now ruled the last five weeks in 2009. 2. A LITTLE DEBUT: Little Big Town has the Hot Shot Debut this week as Day Drinking starts at #32. They are hoping their chart fortunes pick up as the last two Tornado singles did not do as well as the first two. Those hits were: 1. Pontoon-2012-#1 2. Tornado-2013-#2 3. Your Side Of The Bed-2013-#27 4. Sober-2014-#31 3. CHURCH DOES IT AGAIN: For the second week in a row, Eric Church has the fastest climbing song of the week as Cold One skips seven to #29. 4. #1 HITS: These were the chart topping hits in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989: 2009: Then-Brad Paisley-Arista 2004: Redneck Woman-Gretchen Wilson-Epic 1999: Please Remember Me-Tim McGraw-Curb 1994: That Ain't No Way To Go-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 1989: Love Out Loud-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 5. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Randy Travis ruled the roost for three big weeks in 1987 with his classic, Forever And Ever, Amen. In the process, two artists settled for second place with their songs. They are the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Baby's Got A Hold On Me and T.G. Sheppard with You're My First Lady. First up, the Dirt Band. In 1986, the Dirt Band celebrated their twentieth anniversary with a greatest hits CD called Twenty Years Of Dirt. A new song off the CD became a hit: Stand A Little Rain (#5 in 1986). An old song also became a hit, this time in country. Fire In The Sky originally hit #76 pop in 1981. In 1987, it hit #7 country. During the time the CD was on the charts, longtime member John McEuen left the band. He was replaced by former Eagle, Bernie Leadon. He joined Bob Carpenter, Jimmie Fadden, Jimmy Ibbotson, and Jeff Hanna. Their first CD together was Hold On. The first single, Baby's Got A Hold On Me was released in March, 1987 (along with the Travis single) and peaked at #2 behind Travis (their labelmate) in June for one week. Their most popular recording was next and it was Fishin' In The Dark. That became their third and final chart topping hit in October (chart wise, their biggest hit). Oh What A Love ended the era in 1988 on a #5 note. Hold On features their version of Joe Knows How To Live which became a #1 hit for Eddy Raven in 1988. A follow up CD, Workin' Band was released in 1988. Leadon's involvement with the Dirt Band ended shortly after the release of this CD which yielded a trio of top ten hits: 1. Workin' Man Nowhere To Go-1988-#4 2. I've Been Lookin'-1988-#2 3. Down That Road Tonight-1989-#6 Another greatest hits CD was released in 1989 called More Great Dirt, the second CD where you will find Baby's Got A Hold On Me. That ended their five year association with Warner Bros.. They signed to the short-lived Universal label (later Capitol) where they released their second Will The Circle Be Unbroken album (first one came out in 1972). It won a C.M.A. Award for Album of the Year and two Grammys for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (for the album) and Best Bluegrass Recording for their version of Bruce Hornsby's The Valley Road. A trio of top 40 hits were produced: 1. Turn Of The Century-1989-#27 2. And So It Goes-with John Denver-1989-#14 3. When It's Gone-1990-#10 Title #3 became their last top ten and top 40 hit. During the 1990s, they released the following CDs: 1. The Rest Of The Dream-1990 2. Live Two Five-1991 3. Not Fade Away-1992-check out Mama Tried on this CD 4. Acoustic-1992-check out Bless The Broken Road on this CD 5. Bang, Bang, Bang-1999-the title track is their final chart appearances (#52 in 1998 and #63 in 1999) In the 2000s, they managed to release a trio of CDs. They are: 1. Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III-2002 2. Welcome To Woody Creek-2004 3. Speed Of Life-2009 T.G. Sheppard signed to Columbia Records in 1985 after an eight year stay at Warner Bros. (1977-1985). His debut CD for Columbia, Livin' On The Edge started with the #21 peaking Fooled Around And Fell In Love (a #3 pop hit for Elvin Bishop in 1976). Doncha? hit #8 in 1985 while In Over My Heart kicked off Sheppard's 1986 on a #9 note. His second Columbia CD, It Still Rains In Memphis contains his last chart topper, Strong Heart. Half Past Forever Till I'm Blue In The Heart kicked off his 1987 becoming his biggest #2 hit. You're My First Lady was released in March (with the other two singles by Travis and the Dirt Band) and proceeded to a #2 peak the week after the Dirt Band reached their peak position. A follow up CD, 1987's 1ne 4 the $ (One For The Money) only yielded the title track (#2). Crossroads, his 1988 CD yielded Don't Say It With Diamonds (#48 in 1988) and You Still Do (#14 in 1989). You're My First Lady appears on his 1988 greatest hits CD, Biggest Hits. His final chart appearance occurred in 1991 with Born In A High Wind (#63). He has managed to release four more CDs: 1. Nothin' On But The Radio-1997 2. Live At Billy Bob's Texas-2002 3. Timeless-2004 4. Partners In Rhyme-2007 After the Dirt Band's and Sheppard's turn to try to unseat Travis from his lofty perch, one artist did manage to topple him. That was Earl Thomas Conley with That Was A Close One. It was his thirteenth chart topping hit, the third single from Too Many Times, and his second #1 from the CD. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 13, 1987: 1. Forever And Ever, Amen-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 2. BABY'S GOT A HOLD ON ME-NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND-WARNER BROS. 3. YOU'RE MY FIRST LADY-T.G. SHEPPARD-COLUMBIA 4. You're Never Too Old For Young Love-Eddy Raven-RCA 5. That Was A Close One-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 6. Chains Of Gold-Sweethearts of the Rodeo-Columbia 7. Little Sister-Dwight Yoakam-Reprise 8. All My Ex's Live In Texas-George Strait-MCA 9. It's Only Over For You-Tanya Tucker-Capitol 10. Love, You Ain't Seen The Last Of Me-John Schneider-MCA
P.S.: I can not find a decent video for Baby's Got A Hold On Me, so I will be providing one for You're My First Lady. Enjoy!
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 16, 2014 15:05:05 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Beat Of The Music" Brett Eldredge After charting a pair of mid-charting hits in 2011, led by his No. 23-peaking debut entry "Raymond," Eldredge has now tallied two consecutive No. 1s. He drums up his second topper, "Beat of the Music," after "Don't Ya" led for two weeks in August 2013. Both leaders (and "Raymond") are from his debut album, "Bring You Back," which has reached No. 2 in a 39-week run on the Top Country Albums chart. Greatest Gainer No. 4 "My Eyes" Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen Sebastian Debut No. 53 "Leave The Night On" Sam Hunt Debut No. 59 "Somewhere In My Car" Keith Urban Debut No. 60 "I Can't Wait (Be My Wife)" Ben Rue
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 18, 2014 10:03:08 GMT -5
1. ELDREDGE'S #1 MUSIC: Brett Eldredge collects his second #1 hit this week in Beat Of The Music. It is the follow up to his first, last year's Don't Ya. 2. A NEW PEAK: Despite Bigger Picture closing, Craig Campbell enjoys a new peak position of #9 for Keep Them Kisses Comin'. 3. TWO FOR TWO: Since joining Red Bow in 2012, Joe Nichols has seen a resurgence in his career. His first single for them was the chart topping Sunny And 75 from last year. His second single is his second top ten for them, Yeah at #10. 4. KRAMER'S FAST: Jana Kramer has the fastest climbing song of the week as Love takes a seven point jump to #49. 5. CAR TIMES TWO: Keith Urban debuts his fourth Fuse single, Somewhere In My Car at #59. His previous single, Cop Car peaked at #8, his lowest charted top ten single. 6. SPEAKING OF WHICH: Cop Car was written by Sam Hunt. He has the Hot Shot Debut at #53 with his second single, Leave The Night On. His first, Raised On It did not chart in 2013. 7. A LAMBERT FIRST: Miranda Lambert has the #1 CD in country and top 200 charts for the first time. Her fifth CD, Platinum opened with 180,000 sold. She is now perfect on the country albums chart as her first four CDs hit the top. They are: 1. Kerosene-2005 2. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend-2007 3. Revolution-2009 4. Four The Record-2011 8. #1 CDS: These were the top selling CDs in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989: 2009: Hannah Montana: The Movie-Soundtrack-Walt Disney 2004: Here For The Party-Gretchen Wilson-Epic 1999: Come On Over-Shania Twain-Mercury 1994: Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 1989: Sweet Sixteen-Reba McEntire-MCA 9. A BLAST FROM THE PAST: If you have The Essential Marty Robbins 1951-1982 box set like me, Robbins is quoted by saying his biggest mistake was to leave Columbia Records and sign with Decca. When he came back to Columbia, he was rewarded with a chart topping hit, our top song from 38 years ago this week, El Paso City. El Paso City is really part of a trilogy that started naturally with El Paso, Robbins' #1 country and pop hit from December, 1959 to January, 1960. It is song #19 in the aforementioned box set. Then comes the unreleased Faleena (from El Paso). That is the woman the two cowboys were fighting over in El Paso. It is the longest song in the trilogy at eight minutes (yes). That is the 41st song in the box set. El Paso City completes the story. It is the 50th and final song in the box set. Of course, ALL three songs were written by Robbins. Not saying Robbins' time at Decca/MCA was not successful, but there weren't many memorable hits like he had during his first two decades at Columbia. Those top 40 hits were: 1. This Much A Man-1972-#11 2. Walking Piece Of Heaven-1973-#6 3. A Man And A Train-1973-#40 4. Love Me-1973-#9 5. Twentieth Century Drifter-1974-#10 6. Don't You Think-1974-#12 7. Two Gun Daddy-1974-#39 8. Life-1975-#23 Robbins came back to Columbia in 1975. His 'second' first album for them was called No Signs Of Loneliness Here. No singles were released, so Robbins was in a holding pattern, albeit briefly. Then came the El Paso City album of 1976 and Robbins was paired with the #1 producer at Columbia/Epic at the time, Billy Sherrill. The title track is about its predecessor, El Paso. Robbins was so clever in his writing that one of the lyrics went like this: 'I don't recall who sang the song-But I recall the story that I heard'. Well, who sang the original anyway and why did he have to recall something that he already knew? El Paso City was released in April, 1976 and climbed all the way to the top in June, becoming Robbins' 15th chart topping hit and first since 1970s' My Woman, My Woman, My Wife, which won a Grammy Award. Second and final single, Among My Souvenirs hit the top in October, becoming the last time he saw his name at the top of the page. Believe it or not, Among My Souvenirs by Connie Francis shared the same top ten space on the pop chart while Robbins was at #1 with El Paso in 1960. Robbins continued to do well over the next several years with four follow up albums. Those are (with their hits): 1. Adios Amigos-1977 a. Adios Amigos-1977-#4 b. I Don't Know Why I Just Do-1977-#10 2. Don't Let Me Touch You-1977 a. Don't Let Me Touch You-1977-#6 b. Return To Me-1978-#6 3. Performer-1978 a. Please Don't Play A Love Song-1978-#17 b. Touch Me With Magic-1979-#15 4. All Around Cowboy-1979 a. All Around Cowboy-1979-#16 b. Buenos Dias Argentina-1979-#25 He entered the 1980s by releasing six singles from three albums. Only two cracked the top 40 (both in 1980): She's Made Of Faith (#37) and An Occasional Rose (#28). However, in January 1981, Robbins suffered his second heart attack (his first was in August, 1969). Because of that, Robbins did NOT crack the top 40 in 1981, the first year that happened since his debut in 1952. That would change with the Come Back To Me album in 1982. First single, Some Memories Just Won't Die cracked the top ten at #10 during the summer. The follow up, Tie Your Dream To Mine hit #24. During the chart run of the latter, Robbins was inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in October. On December 1, Robbins suffered his third heart attack. He had emergency surgery, but it was just too much. He died a week later. Before that heart attack, he recorded a song for the Clint Eastwood movie, Honkytonk Man. Robbins sang the title track which reached #10 in early 1983. It served as the lead single to his Some Memories Just Won't Die album, released in 1983. It yielded his final chart appearances (both 1983): Change Of Heart (#48) and What If I Said I Love You (#57). His last CD was released in 2005 called The Essential Marty Robbins. To add local flavor to this column, Route 62 starts (or ends) in El Paso and ends (or starts) in Niagara Falls. R.I.P. 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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 23, 2014 16:01:48 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Lettin' The Night Roll" Justin Moore Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 27 "American Kids" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 60 "Roller Coaster" Luke Bryan
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 16:06:10 GMT -5
Aw, rats! I had Luke at #61, just shy of an official debut, but I'll bet he pushed off the Aldean album track then. There are a couple of other scenarios that could have happened (BB perhaps pulling "Automatic" a week early, but then someone like ZBB or Eric would've had to be ahead of Kenny and I don't think that's very likely), and it's highly unlikely that any of the struggling artists (George, Natalie Stovall, Easton) went recurrent. Natalie has only been without a bullet for 1 week anyway and it's possible she may have eeked out a bullet this week. So most likely "This Nothin' Town" got bumped out of the 60.
The chart is really backed up but it looks like another house-cleaning is coming soon. It looks like even the #59 song will probably have at least 1 million impression, and nearly 3.5 million will be needed to make the top 40. And perhaps 9 million needed to crack the top 30? Those numbers are incredibly high for those particular thresholds (59, top 40, top 30, etc).
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 24, 2014 15:22:30 GMT -5
1. LETTIN' MOORE AT #1: Justin Moore tops the chart for the fourth time in his career with Lettin' The Night Roll. This is from his current CD, Off The Beaten Path which has produced a #2 hit, Point At You. His other CDs have produced chart toppers as well. They are: 1. Justin Moore-Small Town USA-2009 2. Outlaws Like Me-If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away-2011 and Til My Last Day-2013 2. FIFTH SINGLE UPDATES: There are two artists charting fifth singles from their current CDs. They are: 1. Blake Shelton-My Eyes with Gwen Sebastian is at #2 for the week. If it moves to #1, it will be the fifth chart topper from Based On A True Story following: 1. Sure Be Cool If You Did-2013 2. Boys 'Round Here-2013 3. Mine Would Be You-2013 4. Doin' What She Likes-2014 2. Luke Bryan-His Crash My Party CD is represented for the fifth time on the singles chart as Roller Coaster debuts at #60. The CD has produced four top two hits: 1. Crash My Party-2013-#1 2. That's My Kind Of Night-2013-#2 3. Drink A Beer-2014-#1 4. Play It Again-2014-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 3. AN AMERICAN HIGH: Kenny Chesney scores the Hot Shot Debut of the week at #27 with American Kids. It is the lead single to an upcoming CD. His previous CD, Life On A Rock spawned two major hits (both 2013): Pirate Flag (#3) and When I See This Bar (#14). His last #1 came in 2012 with Come Over. 4. HUNT'S ON THE MOVE: Taking an enormous twenty point jump to #33 is Sam Hunt with Leave The Night On, the week's fastest climbing song. 5. FOR THE SECOND TIME: Billy Currington lands at #10 with the title track to his current CD, We Are Tonight. It has already produced a #1 in Hey Girl. It is the second time this decade he has charted consecutive top tens. He last did it in 2010 with Pretty Good At Drinkin' Beer (#1) and another #1 in Let Me Down Easy in 2011. 6. A 60S LOOK: These were the chart topping hits during the last week of June during the 1960s: 1960: Please Help Me, I'm Falling-Hank Locklin-RCA 1961: Hello Walls-Faron Young-Capitol 1962: Wolverton Mountain-Claude King-Columbia 1963: Act Naturally-Buck Owens-Capitol 1964: My Heart Skips A Beat-Buck Owens-Capitol 1965: Before You Go-Buck Owens-Capitol 1966: Think Of Me-Buck Owens-Capitol 1967: All The Time-Javck Greene-Decca 1968: D-I-V-O-R-C-E-Tammy Wynette-Epic 1969: Running Bear-Sonny James-Capitol 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: February, 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles invading America (thank you, Ed Sullivan!). Twenty-five years later (or twenty-five years ago), Rosanne Cash took a John Lennon/Paul McCartney tune to the top, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party. In 1987, Cash was basking in the afterglow of her successful 1985 CD, Rhythm & Romance. The gold album produced a quartet of top five hits. They are: 1. I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me-1985-#1-Grammy Award winner 2. Never Be You-1986-#1-chart wise, her biggest hit and Billboard's top single of the year 3. Hold On-1986-#5 4. Second To No One-1986-#5 A greatest hits CD was planned in 1987. However, her then-husband and producer, Rodney Crowell nixed the idea. He said, "Rosie is an artist! And really good artists don't put out greatest hits records." So they went to work on a studio CD instead. Called King's Record Shop, it yielded four #1 hits. They are: 1. The Way We Make A Broken Heart-1987 2. Tennessee Flat Top Box-1988 3. If You Change Your Mind-1988 4. Runaway Train-1988 Between titles #2 and #3, Crowell and Cash enjoyed a #1 duet in It's Such A Small World. That came from the Crowell CD, Diamonds & Dirt which produced a quintet of chart toppers. Billboard named Cash Country Singles Artist of the Year. Shortly after that song disappeared from the charts, Cash decided it was time for a greatest hits CD. This is what she said about it: "After ten years, it was time. I like the symmetry of doing it in a ten-year period. This is the first one I've had out. The record company's asked me about it before and I never wanted to do it-I really hated the idea. But to compile ten years' worth of work, I thought it was worth it. Also, I'm proud that I've got ten years' worth of this kind of work to put together on an album." Cash recorded two new songs for the CD called Hits 1979-1989. They are I Don't Want To Spoil The Party and Black And White. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party was the b-side of the Beatles' #1 pop hit, Eight Days A Week in 1965. She recorded the former saying she was a die hard Beatles fan and even a fan club president. The track listing of the CD is as follows: 1. Seven Year Ache-1981-#1 2. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party-1989-#1 3. Hold On-1986-#5 4. Blue Moon With Heartache-1982-#1 5. My Baby Thinks He's A Train-1981-#1 6. No Memories Hangin' 'Round-with Bobby Bare-1979-#17 7. I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me-1985-#1 8. I Wonder-1983-#8 9. Never Be You-1986-#1 10. The Way We Make A Broken Heart-1987-#1 11. Tennessee Flat Top Box-1988-#1 12. Black And White-1989-#37 Released in March 1989, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party hit #1 in June, becoming her eleventh and final chart topping hit. It also gave her six #1s in a row, the longest streak by a female artist (Carrie Underwood would match that in 2008 with Just A Dream). However, Cash was not the first artist in 1989 to take a Beatles tune to the top ten. The Sweethearts of the Rodeo took I Feel Fine to #9 (a #1 pop hit for the Beatles in 1964). Cash's chart domination began to wane after I Don't Want To Spoil The Party. Black And White, the other new song peaked at #37. Problems in the Cash/Crowell marriage were surfacing during this time, so Cash released the very dark Interiors CD in 1990. It gave her a final top 40 hit in What We Really Want (#39 in 1990) and On The Surface, her last chart appearance in 1991 at #69. Cash and Crowell divorced in 1992. Other Beatles songs have charted in country. They are: 1. Something-#3 for the Beatles in 1969, #6 for Johnny Rodriguez in 1974 2. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You-#95 for the Beatles in 1964, #23 for Anne Murray in 1980 Murray scored a #8 pop and #1 adult contemporary hit in 1974 with You Won't See Me. Murray was told by Lennon it was his favorite Beatles' cover ever. The other side of the record, He Thinks I Still Care became Murray's first country chart topper. The Beatles even covered Buck Owens' first chart topper, Act Naturally. Getting back to Cash, considering her aversion to her first hits CD, has released several others. They are: 1. Retrospective-1995 2. Super Hits-1998 3. The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash-2005 4. The Essential Rosanne Cash-2011 Her current CD was released this year called The River & The Thread on BLue Note Records. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 24, 1989: 1. I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY-ROSANNE CASH-COLUMBIA 2. Come From The Heart-Kathy Mattea-Mercury 3. Lovin' Only Me-Ricky Skaggs-Epic 4. Call On Me-Tanya Tucker-Capitol 5. Hole In My Pocket-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 6. In A Letter To You-Eddy Raven-Universal 7. Beyond Those Years-Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 8. What's Going On In Your World-George Strait-MCA 9. Sowin' Love-Paul Overstreet-RCA 10. Houston Solution-Ronnie Milsap-RCA
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Post by drummerman2009 on Jun 30, 2014 19:02:28 GMT -5
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*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "My Eyes" Blake Shelton featuring Gwen Sebastian Greatest Gainer No. 20 "American Kids" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 59 "I Can't Outrun You" Thompson Square Debut No. 60 "Trailer Hitch" Kristian Bush
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 1, 2014 11:40:49 GMT -5
1. SHELTON EYES #1: For the seventeenth time in his career, Blake Shelton has the top song in country music. This week it is My Eyes. We will be listing his chart toppers now and will be referring to this list a few times. 1. Austin-2001-chart wise, his biggest hit 2. The Baby-2003 3. Some Beach-2004 4. Home-2008 5. She Wouldn't Be Gone-2009 6. Hillbilly Bone-with Trace Adkins-2010 7. All About Tonight-2010 8. Who Are You When I'm Not Looking-2011 9. Honey Bee-2011 10. God Gave Me You-2011 11. Drink On It-2012 12. Over-2012 13. Sure Be Cool If You Did-2013 14. Boys 'Round Here-2013 15. Mine Would Be You-2013 16. Doin' What She Likes-2014 17. My Eyes-2014 My Eyes is the fifth single release from Based On A True Story. It joins titles #13-#16 as the other #1s from the CD. Shelton joins Rodney Crowell and Brad Paisley as other artists with a quintet of chart toppers from their CDs. Crowell's and Paisley's are: 1. Rodney Crowell-Diamonds & Dirt a. It's Such A Small World-with Rosanne Cash-1988 b. I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried-1988 c. She's Crazy For Leavin'-1989 d. After All This Time-1989-chart wise, his biggest hit e. Above And Beyond-1989 2. Brad Paisley-5th Gear a. Ticks-2007 b. Online-2007 c. Letter To Me-2008-chart wise, his biggest hit d. I'm Still A Guy-2008 e. Waitin' On A Woman-2008-repeated from previous album and rerecorded for this album My Eyes is Shelton's twelfth consecutive chart topper going back to Hillbilly Bone (title #6). It is the third longest streak of chart toppers by a male artist following: 1. Sonny James-16-1967-1971 2. Buck Owens-14-1963-1967 3. Blake Shelton-12-2010-2014 With 17 #1 hits, Shelton passes Randy Travis at Warner Bros. with the most #1s at the label. Travis falls to second with his 16 between 1986-2003. Finally, Gwen Sebastian provides backup vocals on My Eyes. She is the first contestant from The Voice connected to a chart topping hit. 2. FAST ROLLER: Luke Bryan has the fastest climbing song of the week as Roller Coaster flies up fourteen to #46. 3. BUSH'S TURN: Kristian Bush, one half of Sugarland debuts this week at #60 with Trailer Hitch. It is his first solo outing. His Sugarland partner, Jennifer Nettles has charted three times (once while Sugarland were active and twice since their hiatus). Nettles' singles are: 1. Who Says You Can't Go Home-with Bon Jovi-2006-#1 2. That Girl-2013-#37 3. Me Without You-2014-#50 4. NELSON'S #1: The top country album chart artist of all time is back on top with his current CD. Willie Nelson scores his 16th #1 album with Band Of Brothers (37,000 sold). He now has the second biggest total of #1 albums behind George Strait (25). Nelson's chart topping albums are: 1. Red Headed Stranger-1975 2. Wanted! The Outlaws-with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser-1976 3. The Sound In Your Mind-1976 4. The Troublemaker-1976 5. Waylon & Willie-with Waylon Jennings-1978 6. Stardust-1978 7. Willie And Family Live-1979 8. Honeysuckle Rose-Soundtrack-1980 9. Somewhere Over The Rainbow-1981 10. Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits & Some That Will Be-1981 11. Always On My Mind-1982 12. Pancho & Lefty-with Merle Haggard-1983 13. City Of New Orleans-1984 14. Highwayman-with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson-1985 15. The Promiseland-1986 16. Band Of Brothers-2014 5. A 60S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling albums during the first week of July during the 1960s: 1964: Moonlight And Roses-Jim Reeves-RCA 1965: Connie Smith-Connie Smith-RCA 1966: Distant Drums-Jim Reeves-RCA 1967: The Best Of Eddy Arnold-Eddy Arnold-RCA 1968: Honey-Bobby Goldsboro-United Artists 1969: Songs My Father Left Me-Hank Williams, Jr.-MGM 6. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Billboard named it the top adult contemporary hit of 1982. It is time to salute it. Don't worry, it is by a country artist during his crossover era (1977-1985). It is Any Day Now by Ronnie Milsap, our #1 hit from 32 years ago this week. Milsap signed to RCA Records in 1973. He instantly scored a hit with his first single, I Hate You (#10). He only had to wait a year to score his first #1, Pure Love and see some pop action with his next single, Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends (#1 country and #95 pop). That was his pop debut as a country artist as he previously debuted as an r&b artist in 1970 with Loving You Is A Natural Thing (#87). Milsap said at the time in order to sell more records, you needed to crossover. Which he did big time in 1977 with his eighth country chart topper, It Was Almost Like A Song. It also peaked at #16 pop and was his A.C. debut at #7. A follow up, What A Difference You've Made In My Life hit #1 country and #80 pop in 1978. He hit all three charts later that year with Only One Love In My Life (#1 country, #63 pop, and #24 A.C.). He only made the country chart with several releases until 1980-1981 when he achieved a new mark in his career. RCA decided it was time to release a greatest hits album in 1980. A new recording, Smoky Mountain Rain hit #1 country in December, giving Milsap his sweet sixteenth #1 country hit. It also gave him his first A.C. chart topper in February, 1981. Between the time Smoky Mountain Rain hit #1 on those charts, it peaked at #24 pop. During this time, Billboard named Milsap Country Singles Artist of the Year and My Heart, chart-wise, his biggest hit, Top Country Single of the Year. His biggest crossover hit was just around the corner. In 1981, RCA released the There's No Gettin' Over Me album and the title track was pegged as the first single. It not only hit #1 country for two weeks, but #5 pop for five weeks, and even hit the runner up position on the A.C. chart for four weeks. The second single, I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World hit #1 country, #20 pop, and #3 A.C. in 1982. The Inside Ronnie Milsap album started with Any Day Now. That was originally a #23 pop and #2 r&b hit for Chuck Jackson in 1962 called Any Day Now My Wild Beautiful Bird. When Milsap decided to record the song, he changed the key of the song to make it sound different. Released in April 1982, it found a home at the top of the country chart in July for a week while hitting #14 pop, his second biggest hit there. It was a #1 A.C. hit for five weeks, becoming his biggest hit there. However, Milsap was the second artist to make it a top 40 country hit. Don Gibson took it to #26 in 1979. Second single, He Got You hit all three charts at #1 country, #59 pop, and #15 A.C.. Right after that song peaked, Billboard named Any Day Now the #1 A.C. hit of the year (#37 in country). Inside ended with the title track which became a #1 country hit and #27 A.C. hit in 1983. His 1983 album, Keyed Up started with probably is his most famous release, Stranger In My House. It broke his streak of ten consecutive chart topping hits at ten (going back to 1980's Why Don't You Spend The Night) by peaking at #5. It also hit #23 pop and became a #8 A.C. hit. Don't You Know How Much I Love You returned Milsap to #1 country while it became his second last pop chart appearance at #58. It peaked at #12 A.C.. Show Her kicked off Milsap's 1984 on a #1 country and #17 A.C. note. One More Try For Love started with Still Losing You, a #1 country and #29 A.C. hit in 1984. Milsap had hoped for big pop success for She Loves My Car while spending over $100,000 for the video. However, a change at RCA wiped his plans for pop airplay and it remains his last chart appearance there at #84. A second greatest hits album was released in 1985. Lost In The Fifties Tonight In The Still Of The Night hit #1 country for two weeks while becoming his last top ten on the A.C. chart at #8. It essentially ended his crossover era. Two more Milsap hits crossed over to the A.C. chart. They are: 1. Make No Mistake, She's Mine-with Kenny Rogers-1987-#1 country and #42 A.C. 2. Since I Don't Have You-1991-#6 country and #25 A.C. His last country chart appearance was in 2006 with Local Girls (#54). His current CD is called Summer Number Seventeen. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame this year. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 3, 1982: 1. ANY DAY NOW-RONNIE MILSAP-RCA 2. Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby-Janie Frickie-Columbia 3. Listen To The Radio-Don Williams-MCA 4. I Don't Think She's In Love Anymore-Charley Pride-RCA 5. Take Me Down-Alabama-RCA 6. 'Till You're Gone-Barbara Mandrell-MCA 7. Would You Catch A Falling Star-John Anderson-Warner Bros. 8. Are The Good Times Really Over I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver-Merle Haggard-Epic 9. Slow Hand-Conway Twitty-Elektra 10. Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands-Lee Greenwood-MCA
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 7, 2014 16:46:54 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Beachin'" Jake Owen Greatest Gainer No. 14 "American Kids" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 39 "Home Sweet Home" Justin Moore Featuring Vince Neil Justin Moore snares the top debut on Country Airplay with "Home Sweet Home," from "Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Motley Crue" album, due Aug. 19. The countrified treatment of the Motley Crue classic features the band's lead singer Neil, who makes his first Country Airplay visit. The song has other country ties: Carrie Underwood's cover debuted and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009. (The band's original reached No. 89 on the Hot 100 in 1985; a re-release rose to No. 37 in 1992.) Debut No. 56 "God Made Girls" RaeLynn Debut No. 58 "Girl In A Country Song" Maddie & Tae Debut No. 60 "Get It On" Joey Hyde
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1. A BEACHIN' #1: Jake Owen lands his fifth #1 this week with Beachin'. In the meantime, he becomes the 121st artist in country music to score five chart topping hits. They are: 1. Barefoot Blue Jean Night-2011 2. Alone With You-2012 3. The One That Got Away-2012 4. Anywhere With You-2013 5. Beachin'-2014 This is his second single off his current CD, Days Of Gold. The title track peaked at #15 last year. Beachin' could have been his sixth #1, but Don't Think I Can't Love You hit #2 in 2009. 2. PAISLEY'S BACK: After his last two singles failed to reach the top ten, Brad Paisley is back in that section of the chart as River Bank hits #8. It is his first top ten since last year's Beat This Summer peaked at #2. He followed it up with I Can't Change The World (#22) and The Mona Lisa (#19). River Bank is the lead single from his upcoming Moonshine In The Trunk CD. 3. MOTLEY CRUE COUNTRY: Scoring the Hot Shot Debut of the week is the duet between Justin Moore and Vince Neil on the Motley Crue hit, Home Sweet Home at #39. Home Sweet Home was originally a #89 pop hit for Motley Crue in 1985. The duet comes from an upcoming tribute CD, Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Motley Crue. 4. DOT'S BACK: Dot Records (later ABC/Dot) was a force in country music back in the 1970s. MCA bought them out and that name has not graced the charts in three and a half decades. Big Machine restarted the label this year and Maddie & Tae become the first act to chart on the reactivated label as Girl In A Country Song debuts at #58. Big Machine and MCA enjoy distribution from the Universal Music Group. 5. BRYAN'S FAST: For the second week in a row, Luke Bryan has the fastest climbing song of the week with Roller Coaster (#46 to #34). 6. #1 HITS: These were the chart topping hits in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989: 2009: Sideways-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 2004: Whiskey Girl-Toby Keith-DreamWorks 1999: Write This Down-George Strait-MCA 1994: Wink-Neal McCoy-Atlantic 1989: In A Letter To You-Eddy Raven-Universal 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: One of the biggest names in country music during the 1980s topped the charts 18 times during that decade. His name is Earl Thomas Conley and his first #1, Fire And Smoke was our top song 33 years ago this week. In 1970, after trying to launch a career in Nashville, Conley moved to Huntsville, Alabama. He met future producer Nelson Larkin who thought Conley had the goods to be a recording artist. Larkin and Conley released their first single on Larkin's Prize label. It was a remake of Joan Baez's #3 pop and #1 adult contemporary hit of 1971, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It did not chart. It should be noted that Conley dropped his middle name during this time. Two years later, Conley and Larkin went to Nashville were they signed to an independent label, GRT. Their first single, When I'm Under The Table, I'll Be Over You did not chart in 1974. 1975 saw Conley have his breakthrough year on two fronts. He made his debut at Billboard with I Have Loved You, Girl But Not Like This Before (#87). He followed that with another #87 peaking single, It's The Bible Against The Bottle For Daddy's Soul. During this time, he scored major songwriting success. Mel Street (also on GRT) scored a top 20 hit with Smokey Mountain Memories (#13) and This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me for Conway Twitty in 1976 (#1). His biggest hit on GRT was next and it was High And Wild (#67). He ended his tenure there with a #77 hit, Queen Of New Orleans. Those singles caught the attention of Warner Bros., who signed Conley to his first major label in 1978. Conley kicked off his 1979 with his first top 40 hit, Dreamin's All I Do (#32). He followed that with an almost top 40, Middle Age Madness (#41). As the E.T.C. Band, his third and final Warner single, Stranded On A Dead End Street peaked at #26 just before 1979 ended. Those songs came from the Blue Pearl album. 1980 saw Conley dropped by Warners and he signed to another, Sunbird, an indie label. He continued to work with Larkin and they kicked off their second decade together by releasing the Fire And Smoke album. Lead single, Silent Treatment was released in late 1980 and by peaking at #7 in early 1981, became the first of 26 top tens Conley would have. The title track was next and that was released in April, 1981. It climbed all the way to the top in July, becoming Conley's and Sunbird's first chart topping hit. However, an indie label like Sunbird could not keep up on the promotion side of things, so they sold Conley's contract to RCA, who released the next two singles: Tell Me Why (1982-#10-during the chart run of this song, Billboard named Fire And Smoke Top Country Single of the Year) and After The Love Slips Away (1982-#16-the b-side being his version of Smokey Mountain Memories). The first album RCA released on Conley was 1982's Somewhere Between Right And Wrong. The first single, Heavenly Bodies hit #8, while the title track, Conley's most uptempo release to date hit #1 in late 1982. 1983 saw a new version of I Have Loved You, Girl But Not Like This Before become the first of three #2 hits for Conley. The landmark 1983 album, Don't Make It Easy For Me became the first to yield a quartet of chart topping hits. They are: 1. Your Love's On The Line-1983 2. Holding Her And Loving You-1983-Song of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association 3. Don't Make It Easy For Me-1984 4. Angel In Disguise-1984 RCA threw a party to celebrate Conley's milestone that summer. He went to work on the Treadin' Water album of 1984 which contained a trio of chart toppers. Those were: 1. Chance Of Lovin' You-1984 2. Honor Bound-1985 3. Love Don't Care Whose Heart It Breaks-1985 Between titles #1 and #2, Conley charted his first duet. It was with his labelmate, Gus Hardin with All Tangled Up In Love (#8 in 1985 off her Wall Of Tears album). It was time for a greatest hits CD. Fire And Smoke appeared on it with seven other hits. Two new songs continued Conley's chart topping streak: Nobody Falls Like A Fool (1985-chart wise, his biggest hit) and Once In A Blue Moon (1986). Conley's vocals were front and center of his 1986 CD, Too Many Times. This CD only had three Conley tunes on it. The title track was a duet with Anita Pointer. It peaked at #2 in late 1986, breaking Conley's #1 streak at nine. However, all three singles from 1987 hit the top: 1. I Can't Win For Losin' You 2. That Was A Close One 3. Right From The Start While Conley was charting with title #3, RCA broke up his professional relationship with Larkin. They maintained their personal relationship. Conley chose Randy Scruggs and Emory Gordy, Jr. (married Patty Loveless in 1989) to produce The Heart Of It All in 1988. Like Don't Make It Easy For Me, it produced four #1 hits. They are: 1. What She Is Is A Woman In Love-1988 2. We Believe In Happy Endings-with Emmylou Harris-1988 3. What I'd Say-1989 4. Love Out Loud-1989 A fifth single, You Must Not Be Drinking Enough peaked at #26, breaking Conley's second longest #1 streak at seven. A second greatest hits CD appeared in 1990. Like the first, two new songs were added but unlike the first, they were not chart toppers (both 1990): Bring Back You Love To Me (#11) and Who's Gonna Tell Her Goodbye (#61). Conley decided to go in a traditional slant for his 1991 CD, Yours Truly. It was his last successful CD as it gave him his last chart appearances: 1. Shadow Of A Doubt-1991-#8 2. Brotherly Love-with Keith Whitley-1991-#2 3. Hard Days And Honky Tonk Nights-1992-#36-last top 40 hit 4. If Only Your Eyes Could Lie-1992-#74-his last chart appearance. In 1992, RCA dropped Conley after eleven years at the label. He went on hiatus for the next five years. He released a CD in 1998 called Perpetual Emotion which was half new songs and half rerecorded hits. Four years later, Blake Shelton scored a top 20 hit with a song written by Conley called All Over Me (#18). You can find Fire And Smoke on three more hits CDs: 1. Essential Earl Thomas Conley-1996 2. Super Hits-1998 3. 16 Biggest Hits-2006-his last CD Nelson Larkin passed away last year. He was 70 years old. Considering Conley has 18 chart toppers, he is certainly an underrated artist. He has no awards to show for his efforts. This is how the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 11, 1981: 1. FIRE AND SMOKE-EARL THOMAS CONLEY-SUNBIRD 2. Feels So Right-Alabama-RCA 3. Lovin' Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again-Glaser Brothers-Elektra 4. Dixie On My Mind-Hank Williams, Jr.-Elektra 5. Surround Me With Love-Charly McClain-Epic 6. By Now-Steve Wariner-RCA 7. The Matador-Sylvia-RCA 8. Fool By Your Side-Dave & Sugar-Elektra 9. Prisoner Of Hope-Johnny Lee-Asylum 10. Too Many Lovers-Crystal Gayle-Columbia
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 14, 2014 16:35:24 GMT -5
Country Airplay *** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Yeah" Joe Nichols Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 16 "Dirt" Florida Georgia Line Debut No. 56 "Mean To Me" Brett Eldredge
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