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Post by onebuffalo on Sept 27, 2010 10:01:43 GMT -5
In advance of the Billboard Chart Highlights (coming this afternoon), I will be posting the #1 song plus all of the debuting songs according to the MediaBase charts (which will give you a pretty good idea of how Billboard will look later today). Ready?
#1-Kenny Chesney-The Boys Of Fall-39.4 Highest Debut-Tim McGraw-Felt Good On My Lips-#38-3.4 Toby Keith-Bullets In The Gun-#44-2.4
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Post by Zazie on Sept 27, 2010 12:29:35 GMT -5
In advance of the Billboard Chart Highlights (coming this afternoon), I will be posting the #1 song plus all of the debuting songs according to the MediaBase charts (which will give you a pretty good idea of how Billboard will look later today). Ready? #1-Kenny Chesney-The Boys Of Fall-39.4 Highest Debut-Tim McGraw-Felt Good On My Lips-#38-3.4 Toby Keith-Bullets In The Gun-#44-2.4 I don't know what you mean by "debuting" on the Mediabase chart. Northerncountry posts 70 or so positions on the MB chart, and I'm sure there is more than one "debut" on his list. If you are assuming that the top 50 as listed on AllAccess constitutes the "chart," I believe you are making a mistake. For example, looking at today's AllAccess, we see Jerrod Niemann listed at #48 with a "last week" position of 58. You can't have 58 songs on a 50 position chart, so there have to be at least 58 positions on their chart.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2010 17:23:57 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Highlights--10/9 Chart
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "The Boys of Fall" Kenny Chesney Greatest Gainer No. 23 "Put You In A Song" Keith Urban Hot Shot Debut No. 33 "Felt Good On My Lips" Tim McGraw Debut No. 37 "Bullets In The Gun" Toby Keith Debut No. 46 "Let Me Down Easy" Billy Currington Debut No. 49 "What Do You Want" Jerrod Niemann Debut No. 53 "Hello World" Lady Antebellum
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Post by onebuffalo on Sept 28, 2010 10:08:15 GMT -5
1. KENNY'S BOYS ARE #1: Kenny Chesney collects the 18th #1 hit in his career with The Boys Of Fall. It is coming from the CD that drops in stores today called Hemingway's Whiskey. His 37th top ten hit sets two chart achievements. They are: 1. It extends his consecutive year streak of having a #1 hit to ten. The years and songs are: 2001-Don't Happen Twice 2002-The Good Stuff-chart wise, his biggest hit 2003-There Goes My Life 2004-When The Sun Goes Down-with Uncle Kracker 2005-Anything But Mine 2006-Living In Fast Forward Summertime 2007-Beer In Mexico Never Wanted Nothing More Don't Blink 2008-Better As A Memory Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven-with the Wailers 2009-Down The Road-with Mac McAnally Out Last Night 2010-The Boys Of Fall That is currently the longest streak of an artist having a #1 hit. 2. His eighteen chart toppers have spent 60 weeks at #1. Other artists to spend at least 60 weeks at #1 are: 1. Eddy Arnold-145 2. Webb Pierce-111 3. George Strait-84 4. Hank Williams, Sr.-82 5. Buck Owens-82 6. Johnny Cash-69 7. Sonny James-66 8. Tim McGraw-64 9. Marty Robbins-63 10. Kenny Chesney-60 2. THE END OF THE CURB ERA?: Tim McGraw grabs the Hot Shot Debut honors this week as Felt Good On My Lips lands at #33. It is coming from yes, another greatest hits CD called #1 Hits. The question is, will that CD be the last for Curb Records? Stay tuned! 3. UP WITH KEITH: Keith Urban has the fastest climbing song as Put You In A Song vaults six spots to #23. 4. J.J.'S FIRST #1: Jamey Johnson has collected #1 hits as a songwriter (Give It Away and Ladies Love Country Boys). Now, he collects his first as an artist as his latest CD, The Guitar Song becomes his first chart topping disc. It sold 63,000 copies last week. Because it is a two CD set, the RIAA will consider its sales to be 126,000. 5. A 90S LOOK: These were the #1 hits during the last wek in September during the 1990s: 1990: Jukebox In My Mind-Alabama-RCA 1991: Where Are You Now-Clint Black-RCA 1992: In This Life-Collin Raye-Epic 1993: Ain't Going Down Til The Sun Comes Up-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1994: Third Rock From The Sun-Joe Diffie-Epic 1995: I Like It, I Love It-Tim McGraw-Curb 1996: So Much For Pretending-Bryan White-Asylum 1997: How Your Love Makes Me Feel-Diamond Rio-Arista 1998: Where The Green Grass Grows-Tim McGraw-Curb 1999: Something Like That-Tim McGraw-Curb 6. THEIR 20 BIGGEST-COUPLES EDITION: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will celebrate their 14th anniversary next week. We will rank each of their ten biggest hits. First number-weeks at #1, second number-weeks in the top 40. F.H.: 1. Breathe-1999-6-27 2. It's Your Love-with Tim McGraw-1997-6-20 3. The Way You Love Me-2000-4-31 4. Wild One-1994-4-17 5. This Kiss-1998-3-24 6. It Matters To Me-1996-3-18 7. Mississippi Girl-2005-2-20 8. Piece Of My Heart-1994-1-18 9. Let Me Let Go-1998-1-18 10. Take Me As I Am-1994-2-17 (#2) T.M.: 1. Live Like You Were Dying-2004-7-21 2. Just To See You Smile-1998-6-25 3. It's Your Love-with Faith Hill-1997-6-20 4. Something Like That-1999-5-34 5. My Next Thirty Years-2000-5-28 6. Please Remember Me-1999-5-23 7. I Like It, I Love It-1995-5-19 8. Where The Green Grass Grows-1998-4-27 9. My Best Friend-2000-2-31 10. Real Good Man-2003-2-24 7. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2000 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. How Do You Like Me Now-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 2. I Hope You Dance-Lee Ann Womack-MCA 3. What About Now-Lonestar-BNA 4. Cowboy Take Me Away-Dixie Chicks-Monument 5. My Best Friend-Tim McGraw-Curb 6. Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 7. The Way You Love Me-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 8. Yes!-Chad Brock-Warner Bros. 9. The Best Day-George Strait-MCA 10. That's The Way-Jo Dee Messina-Curb 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: The last time I saluted our featured artist (in December, 2009), Ronnie Milsap had just released his first greatest hits album in 1980 and celebrated a #1 hit in Smoky Mountain Rain. That helped him win the Billboard award for country singles artist of the year. Lightning has struck twice and I am saluting Milsap again, this time with his second greatest hits CD and a new recording in Lost In The Fifties Tonight In The Still Of The Night (our #1 hit 25 years ago this week). RCA Records decided that after five years since his last survey of hits, it was time to review the greatest hits of Milsap's career between 1981-1985. The track listing for volume two is: 1. She Keeps The Home Fires Burning-1985-#1 2. There's No Gettin' Over Me-1981-#1 3. I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World-1982-#1 4. It's Already Taken 5. Stranger In My House-1983-#5 6. Lost In The Fifties Tonight In The Still Of The Night-1985-#1 7. Any Day Now-1982-#1 8. Am I Losing You-1981-#1 9. Inside-1983-#1 10. Don't You Know How Much I Love You-1983-#1 Titles 1, 4, and 6 were the new recordings for the CD. She Keeps was Milsap's 26th #1 hit in June, 1985. Lost In The Fifties was released in July and made its way to #1 in September. It stayed at #1 for two weeks (the ONLY single to be at #1 for longer than a week in 1985). The Judds' Have Mercy was a two week #1 due to the holiday freeze on the charts. BOTH Billboard and the American Country Countdown named Lost In The Fifties the biggest hit of the year. By peaking at #8 on the A.C. chart, it became the last of Milsap's crossover hits. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 became Milsap's best charted CD (11 weeks at #1). It is cerified at the platinum level. Sensing a theme for the next CD, Milsap and RCA decided to keep it 50s flavored (which revived the 1950s on the country chart between 1985-1989). Lost In The Fifties Tonight was released in 1986. They repeated Lost In The Fifties, the song for the CD. It yielded three more chart toppers: 1. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby-1986 2. In Love-1986 3. How Do I Turn You On-1987 The CD won a C.M.A. Award for Album of the Year. The number two figures prominently so far: 1. Lost In The Fifties appeared on two consecutive CDs (the greatest hits and became the title track of the next CD). 2. The single was #1 for two weeks. And now: 3. It won Grammy Awards in two consecutive years. In 1986, the song won for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male while the entire album won the same award in 1987. Talk about winning the same award for the same music! This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 28, 1985: 1. LOST IN THE FIFTIES TONIGHT IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT-RONNIE MILSAP-RCA 2. Drinkin' And Dreamin'-Waylon Jennings-RCA 3. Between Blue Eyes And Jeans-Conway Twitty-Warner Bros. 4. Meet Me In Montana-Marie Osmond and Dan Seals-Capitol 5. With Just One Look In Your Eyes-Charly McClain and Wayne Massey-Epic 6. You Make Me Want To Make You Mine-Juice Newton-RCA 7. Touch A Hand, Make A Friend-Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 8. She's Comin' Back To Say Goodbye-Eddie Rabbitt-Warner Bros. 9. Love Talks-Ronnie McDowell-Epic 10. If It Weren't For Him-Vince Gill-RCA
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Post by onebuffalo on Oct 5, 2010 10:39:11 GMT -5
1. CHESNEY'S FALL: For the second week, Kenny Chesney has the #1 hit in the country with The Boys Of Fall. It is his 61st week at #1. The songs and weeks at #1 are: 1. She's Got It All-1997-3 2. How Forever Feels-1999-6 3. You Had Me From Hello-1999-1 4. Don't Happen Twice-2001-1 5. The Good Stuff-2002-7-chart wise, his biggest hit 6. There Goes My Life-2003-7 7. When The Sun Goes Down-with Uncle Kracker-2004-5 8. Anything But Mine-2005-2 9. Living In Fast Forward-2006-3 10. Summertime-2006-5 11. Beer In Mexico-2007-3 12. Never Wanted Nothing More-2007-5 13. Don't Blink-2007-4 14. Better As A Memory-2008-2 15. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven-with the Wailers-2008-2 16. Down The Road-with Mac McAnally-2009-1 17. Out Last Night-2009-2 18. The Boys Of Fall-2010-2 so far 2. HIS 51ST, THEIR SIXTH: As She's Walking Away, the duet between the Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson is at #9 this week. In the meantime, it sets a few chart achievements. They are: 1. The Zac Brown Band is a perfect six for six in the top tens department. Their other five single releases have hit the top ten. They are: a. Chicken Fried-2008-#1 b. Whatever It Is-2009-#2 c. Toes-2009-#1 d. Highway 20 Ride-2010-#1 e. Free-2010-#1 2. Jackson collects his 51st top ten hit, putting him in the same company as Jim Reeves, Loretta Lynn, and Alabama. 3. This is Jackson's second top ten hit on a label other than Arista Records. His first was on the Mailboat label when he joined Jimmy Buffett (and others) on Hey Good Lookin' (#8 in 2004). This song, Walking Away is on the Atlantic label. 4. Jackson is the last artist from the vaunted Class of 1989 to land a top ten hit in three consecutive decades. The others: a. Clint Black-1980s, 1990s, and 2000s b. Travis Tritt-1980s, 1990s, and 2000s c. Garth Brooks-1980s, 1990s, and 2000s d. Alan Jackson-1990s, 2000s, and 2010s 3. FAST MOVERS: We have two songs taking impressive moves on the chart this week. They are: 1. Hello World by Lady Antebellum. They move up 14 to #39. 2. A Little Bit Stronger by Sara Evans. She moves up 12 to #48. 4. TOBY, MEET YOURSELF: Toby Keith literally finds himself besides himself. He takes the #29 position with Bullets In The Gun and is at #30 with Trailerhood. 5. SOME CD NEWS: There are three items of interest on the country albums chart this week: 1. ZAC'S AT #1: The Zac Brown Band debuts at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts after selling 153,000 copies of You Get What You Give. Their debut CD, The Foundation was a #2 country CD and a #9 top 200 CD. 2. CURRINGTON MUST LOVE #2: Billy Currington debuts at #2 on the country albums chart this week after selling 45,000 copies of Enjoy Yourself. This is his third time at the runner-up position on the chart. It follows 2005's Doin' Somethin' Right and 2008's Little Bit Of Everything. 3. POOR SWIFT: After 97 weeks on the chart, Taylor Swift's Fearless CD is out of the top ten for the FIRST time. It is at #11 with over six million sold. I am breaking out my violin case right now. 6. A 90S LOOK PART II: These were the #1 CDs during the first week in October during the 1990s: 1990: Killin' Time-Clint Black-RCA 1991: Ropin' The Wind-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1992: The Chase-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1993: In Pieces-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1994: Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 1995: All I Want-Tim McGraw-Curb 1996: Blue-LeAnn Rimes-Curb 1997: You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs-LeAnn Rimes-Curb 1998: Come On Over-Shania Twain-Mercury 1999: Fly-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Tanya Tucker is celebrating her 52nd birthday this week. She has been a country superstar for the past 38 years. That is 73% of her life! These are her ten biggest hits. Weeks at #1 will be first, followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Strong Enough To Bend-1988-1-15 2. I Won't Take Less Than Your Love-with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet-1988-1-15 3. Just Another Love-1986-1-14 4. If It Don't Come Easy-1988-1-14 5. What's Your Mama's Name-1973-1-14 6. Would You Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone-1974-1-13 7. Lizzie And The Rainman-1975-1-12 8. Blood Red And Goin' Down-1973-1-12 9. Here's Some Love-1976-1-12 10. San Antonio Stroll-1975-1-11 8. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2001 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. Ain't Nothing 'Bout You-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 2. My Next Thirty Years-Tim McGraw-Curb 3. You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 4. I'm Already There-Lonestar-BNA 5. Only In America-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 6. Don't Happen Twice-Kenny Chesney-BNA 7. One More Day-Diamond Rio-Arista 8. Who I Am-Jessica Andrews-Dreamworks 9. What I Really Meant To Say-Cyndi Thomson-Capitol 10. It's A Great Day To Be Alive-Travis Tritt-Columbia 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Let us do an exercise together, shall we? How long can you think about country music during the 1990s WITHOUT Garth Brooks? I thought so! His decade of dominance began twenty years ago this week with his biggest hit, Friends In Low Places. Brooks signed to Capitol Records in 1988. The same year saw Clint Black signed to RCA Records. During their first year and a half on the charts, it was ALL Black. He scored five top five hits with his Killin' Time CD. They are: 1. A Better Man-1989-#1 2. Killin' Time-1989-#1 3. Nobody's Home-1990-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit and the biggest hit of 1990 4. Walkin' Away-1990-#1 5. Nothing's News-1990-#3 He won the C.M.A. Horizon Award in 1989 and in 1990, won the C.M.A. Male Vocalist of the Year. His debut CD sold a million copies within a year of its release (now certified at the triple platinum mark). Getting back to Brooks, he scored a quartet of top tens from his self-titled debut CD. They are: 1. Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old-1989-#8 2. If Tomorrow Never Comes-1989-#1 3. Not Counting You-1990-#2 4. The Dance-1990-#1 Brooks did not win any awards during this time period. At the one year mark, his debut CD sold 250,000 copies (now certified at the diamond mark). During the first seven months of 1990, Brooks went to work on CD #2. He was in the middle of the listening stage when he was presented with Friends In Low Places and fell in love with it instantly. He was assured that he could record the song. Then, a near disaster took place. During the same time Brooks was recording his second CD, Texan Mark Chesnutt was readying his first MCA disc, Too Cold At Home. It was reported to Brooks that Chesnutt had already recorded Friends and wanted to make it his first single. That scared the daylights out of Brooks. He pleaded with songwriters DeWayne Blackwell and Earl Lee to record Friends and make it the lead single off of the No Fences CD. They agreed and Brooks also recorded Mr. Blue, another Blackwell song which was a #1 pop hit for The Fleetwoods in 1959. The Dance was released in April, 1990. It was #1 in July. Brooks and Capitol rush released Friends in August. Friends debuted at #65 on the 08-18-90 chart (The Dance was at #13 that week, three weeks removed from its #1 position). Next To You, Next To Me by Shenandoah was #1 that week. Instead of releasing Friends as a single, Chesnutt and MCA released the title track as their first single. That song entered the charts at #60 for the 08-04-90 chart (Good Times by Dan Seals was #1 that week). BOTH Brooks and Chesnutt raced up the charts with their singles. Brooks roped in his third #1 hit while Chesnutt had to settle for a #3 placing. The chart run for F.I.L.P. is (from 08-90 to 12-90): 65-23-14-11-03-03-02-01-01-01-01-03-06-14-15-17-21-31-29-29 While Friends was at #1, Capitol rush released Unanswered Prayers (which enabled Reba McEntire to get to #1 with You Lie). That song topped the charts in January, 1991. During the chart run of Friends, Brooks picked up his first C.M.A. Awards, the Horizon Award and Video for The Dance. Brooks cleaned house at the following A.C.M.s by winning: 1. Entertainer of the Year 2. Male Vocalist of the Year 3. Single for Friends In Low Places 4. Album for No Fences 5. Song for The Dance (Tony Arata tune) 6. Video for The Dance The No Fences CD was the #1 selling country CD for 41 weeks and climbed as high as #3 on the top 200 chart (had Soundscan started a year earlier, No Fences would have been a #1 CD on the top 200 as well). Two more chart toppers were released in 1991: Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House and The Thunder Rools. At the 1991 C.M.A.'s, Brooks picked up the following awards: 1. Entertainer of the Year 2. Single for Friends In Low Places 3. Album for No Fences 4. Video for The Thunder Rolls Brooks made history with his next CD, Ropin' The Wind. It debuted at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. This is the list of those Brooks CDs with double #1 debuts: 1. The Chase-1992 2. In Pieces-1993 3. The Hits-1994 4. Sevens-1997 5. The Limited Series-1998 6. Double Live-1998 7. Scarecrow-2001 In 1999, Brooks was named the A.C.M. Artist of the Decade. In 2000, Capitol Records celebrated sales of over 100 million. That year saw a resurgence of the No Fences CD. The fifth single, Wild Horses was released in November and peaked at #7 in February, 2001. That was done because Shania Twain's Come On Over CD was poised to become the best selling country CD of all time (Twain sold 23 million copies to Brooks' 18 million). This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 6, 1990: 1. FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES-GARTH BROOKS-CAPITOL 2. Holdin' A Good Hand-Lee Greenwood-Capitol 3. I Fell In Love-Carlene Carter-Reprise 4. Jukebox In My Mind-Alabama-RCA 5. Too Cold At Home-Mark Chesnutt-MCA 6. Drinking Champagne-George Strait-MCA 7. You Lie-Reba McEntire-MCA 8. Precious Thing-Steve Wariner-MCA 9. I Meant Every Word He Said-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 10. Born To Be Blue-the Judds-RCA
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Oct 11, 2010 13:02:27 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "All Over Me" Josh Turner Greatest Gainer No. 21 "Felt Good On My Lips" Tim McGraw Hot Shot Debut No. 50 "Keep In Mind" LoCash Cowboys Debut No. 53 "Good Hands" Troy Olsen Debut No. 59 "A Man Like Me" Randy Houser Debut No. 60 "Speak Now" Taylor Swift
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Post by phil1996 on Oct 11, 2010 16:56:07 GMT -5
Is there any chance of the BCU coming out a but earlier today, since we got the chartbeat much earlier?
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Post by onebuffalo on Oct 12, 2010 13:34:23 GMT -5
1. ALL OVER TURNER: Josh Turner collects his fourth #1 hit in All Over Me. This is his second consecutive #1 as his previous single, Why Don't We Just Dance ruled for four weeks earlier this year. This is his second time collecting consecutive #1s. In 2006, he landed his first #1 with Your Man followed by his second, Would You Go With Me. 2. NEW LABEL, NEW HIT: Rascal Flatts collect their first top ten on the Big Machine label as Why Wait hits #10 this week. Their previous 23 top tens were on Lyric Street Records. 3. THREE LABELS, THREE HITS: Trace Adkins also has a major hit on his hands as well. He is at #20 with This Ain't No Love Song. He has landed his third major hit in the past year with three labels. They are: 1. All I Ask For Anymore-2009-#14 on Capitol 2. Hillbilly Bone-with Blake Shelton-2010-#1 on Warner Bros. 3. This Ain't No Love Song-2010-#20 so far on Show Dog-Universal 4. HELLO LADY A: For the second week in a row, Lady Antebellum has the fastest climbing song of the week as Hello World vaults eight to #31. 5. THE #1S ON THE 0S: These were the top hits in 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, and 1950: 2000: Kiss This-Aaron Tippin-Lyric Street 1990: Friends In Low Places-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1980: Loving Up A Storm-Razzy Bailey-RCA 1970: Sunday Morning Coming Down-Johnny Cash-Columbia 1960: Alabam-Cowboy Copas-Starday 1950: I'm Moving On-Hank Snow-RCA 6. THEIR 16 BIGGEST-DUETS EDITION: Barbara Mandrell and Lee Greenwood had two major duets: To Me (#3 in 1984) and It Should Have Been Love By Now (#19 in 1985). These are their biggest hits. Number of weeks at #1 will be first, followed by number of weeks in the top 40. B.M.: 1. Sleeping Single In A Double Bed-1978-3-11 2. One Of A Kind Pair Of Fools-1983-1-14 3. 'Til You're Gone-1982-1-14 4. If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right-1979-1-11 5. Years-1980-1-10 6. I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool-with George Jones-1981-1-08 7. Only A Lonely Heart Knows-1981-1-13 (#2) 8. Wish You Were Here-1981-1-10 (#2) L.G.: 1. Mornin' Ride-1987-1-15 2. Dixie Road-1985-1-14 3. Hearts Aren't Made To Break They're Made To Love-1986-1-14 4. Somebody's Gonna Love You-1983-1-13 5. I Don't Mind The Thorns If You're The Rose-1985-1-12 6. Don't Underestimate My Love For You-1986-1-12 7. Going, Going, Gone-1984-1-12 8. Holdin' A Good Hand-1990-1-17 (#2) 7. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2002 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. The Good Stuff-Kenny Chesney-BNA 2. Good Morning Beautiful-Steve Holy-Curb 3. Somebody Like You-Keith Urban-Capitol 4. Drive For Daddy Gene-Alan Jackson-Arista 5. Living And Living Well-George Strait-MCA 6. My List-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 7. Blessed-Martina McBride-RCA 8. Beautiful Mess-Diamond Rio-Arista 9. I Miss My Friend-Darryl Worley-Dreamworks 10. Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning-Alan Jackson-Arista 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: At the beginning of 2002, Garth Brooks had the year's first #1 CD in Scarecrow. Ten months later, Elvis Presley had a #1 country CD as well. It was called ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits and it was our top selling CD eight years ago this week. In 2000, Capitol Records released a chart topping hits CD on The Beatles (second to Presley as far as overall chart performance in pop history) called 1. That CD gathered their chart topping hits from a variety of charts in the U.S. and the U.K.. A lot of Presley fans were wondering if the King of Rock and Roll was going to get the same treatment. Well, they only had to wait two years. RCA Records did what Capitol did. They gathered all (or almost all) of Presley's number one hits from various charts in the U.S. and the U.K. to come up with the 30 songs chosen for the CD. Those songs were: 1. Heartbreak Hotel-1956 2. Don't Be Cruel-1956 3. Hound Dog-1956 4. Love Me Tender-1956 5. Too Much-1957 6. All Shook Up-1957 7. Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear-1957 8. Jailhouse Rock-1957 9. Don't-1958 10. Hard Headed Woman-1958 11. One Night-1958 12. Now And Then There's A Fool Such As I-1959 13. A Big Hunk o'Love-1959 14. Stuck On You-1960 15. It's Now Or Never-1960 16. Are You Lonesome Tonight-1960 17. Wooden Heart-1961 18. Surrender-1961 19. Marie's The Name His Latest Flame-1961 20. Can't Help Falling In Love-1962 21. Good Luck Charm-1962 22. She's Not You-1962 23. Return To Sender-1962 24. You're The Devil In Disguise-1963 25. Crying In The Chapel-1965 26. In The Ghetto-1969 27. Suspicious Minds-1969 28. The Wonder Of You-1970 29. Burning Love-1972 30. Way Down-1977 31. A Little Less Conversation-2002 When the CD was released, it became the FIRST Presley CD to debut at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. It was his first #1 country album since Elvis In Concert in 1977. The CD itself plays for 80 minutes. The CD is certified at the quintuple platinum mark. Three months from now, had he lived, Presley would be blowing out 76 candles on his birthday cake. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 12, 2002: 1. ELV1S: 30 #1 HITS-ELVIS PRESLEY-RCA 2. Home-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 3. Unleashed-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 4. Strong Enough-Travis Tritt-Columbia 5. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems-Kenny Chesney-BNA 6. O Brother, Where Art Thou?-Soundtrack-Mercury 7. Jerusalem-Steve Earle-E-Squared/Artemis 8. Drive-Alan Jackson-Arista 9. Greatest Hits-Martina McBride-RCA 10. This Side-Nickel Creek-Sugar Hill
I am uploading a video of his last #1 country hit, Guitar Man, a song written by Jerry Reed. May both men rest in peace!
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Oct 18, 2010 16:22:04 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Roll With It" Easton Corbin Greatest Gainer No. 6 "As She's Walking Away" Zac Brown Band Featuring Alan Jackson
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Post by onebuffalo on Oct 19, 2010 16:37:50 GMT -5
1. CORBIN'S ON A ROLL: Easton Corbin is two for two as Roll With It becomes his second chart topping hit. His first was A Little More Country Than That. He becomes the first artist on the Mercury label since Jamie O'Neal to take their first two singles to #1. She did it in 2001 with There Is No Arizona and When I Think About Angels. 2. FAMILY HARMONY: The Band Perry collects their first top ten hit in If I Die Young (#10 this week). They consist of a trio of siblings: Kimberly, Neil, and Reid. The last all-sibling group with a top ten hit was the Forester Sisters (Men-#8 in 1991). 3. NOT SO REALLY FAST MOVERS: There are two singles this week taking four point jumps. They are: 1. Still A Little Chicken Left On That Bone-Craig Morgan-#51 to #47 2. A Man Like Me-Randy Houser-#59 to #55 4. DON'T MOVE: In a pretty stagnant week, ten songs stay at the same position as last week (and they are all together): #19 Only Prettier-Miranda Lambert #20 This Ain't No Love Song-Trace Adkins #21 Felt Good On My Lips-Tim McGraw #22 Someone Else Calling You Baby-Luke Bryan #23 Voices-Chris Young #24 Smoke A Little Smoke-Eric Church #25 Bullets In The Gun-Toby Keith #26 Just By Being You Halo And Wings-Steel Magnolia #27 The Shape I'm In-Joe Nichols #28 From A Table Away-Sunny Sweeney There are other songs staying in place, but not as a big logjam as this. 5. THE BOSS IS #1: For over the past five years, Toby Keith has been running his own label. For over the past year, his Show Dog label has merged with Universal South. He now has his fifth #1 CD in Bullets In The Gun after 71,000 were sold last week. His other chart topping CDs as owner are: 1. Big Dog Daddy-2007 2. 35 Biggest Hits-2008 3. That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy-2008 4. American Ride-2009 5. Bullets In The Gun-2010 6. THE #1 ALBUMS ON THE 0S: These were the top albums in 2000, 1990, 1980, and 1970: 2000: Greatest Hits-Kenny Chesney-BNA 1990: No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1980: Honeysuckle Rose-Soundtrack-Columbia 1970: The Fightin' Side Of Me-Merle Haggard-Capitol 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Webb Pierce enjoyed the #1 position a lot, didn't he? After all, he spent 111 weeks at #1 (a little over two years) with his 13 chart toppers. But, which ten were the biggest? Weeks at #1 will be first while weeks in the top 40 will be second. 1. In The Jailhouse Now-1955-21-37 2. Slowly-1954-17-36 3. Love, Love, Love-1955-13-32 4. I Don't Care-1955-12-32 5. There Stands The Glass-1953-12-27 6. More And More-1954-10-29 7. It's Been So Long-1953-8-22 8. Wondering-1952-4-27 9. Why Baby Why-with Red Sovine-1956-4-25 10. Back Street Affair-1952-4-23 8. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2003 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett-Arista 2. Nineteen Somethin'-Mark Wills-Mercury 3. Beer For My Horses-Toby Keith and Willie Nelson-Dreamworks 4. My Front Porch Looking In-Lonestar-BNA 5. Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me-Keith Urban-Capitol 6. She'll Leave You With A Smile-George Strait-MCA 7. What Was I Thinkin'-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 8. I Believe-Diamond Rio-Arista 9. Red Dirt Road-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 10. Who's Your Daddy-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Guns N'Roses, Bruce Springsteen, and Randy Travis. What do those artists have in common? They ALL released a pair of CDs on the same day. Guns did it in 1991 with Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. Springsteen released Human Touch and Lucky Town together in 1992. However, when Travis did it later on in 1992, it was a pair of greatest hits CDs. A new recording, If I Didn't Have You was our top hit 18 years ago this week. Travis signed to Warner Bros. in 1985. By the time Warners surveyed Travis' career in 1992, he had racked up 21 major hits, 19 top tens, and 12 #1 hits. The track listing for BOTH CDs are: Vol. 1: 1. If I Didn't Have You-1992-#1 2. 1982-1986-#6 3. Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart-1990-#1 4. On The Other Hand-1986-#1 5. Honky Tonk Moon-1988-#1 6. An Old Pair Of Shoes-1993-#21 7. I Told You So-1988-#1 8. Too Gone Too Long-1988-#1 9. Heroes And Friends-1991-#3 10. Deeper Than The Holler-1989-#1 11. Reasons I Cheat Vol. 2: 1. Look Heart, No Hands-1993-#1 2. Forever And Ever, Amen-1987-#1 3. No Place Like Home-1987-#2 4. Is It Still Over-1989-#1 5. He Walked On Water-1990-#2 6. Take Another Swing At Me 7. Promises-1989-#17 8. Diggin' Up Bones-1986-#1 9. I Won't Need You Anymore Always And Forever-1987-#1 10. It's Just A Matter Of Time-1989-#1 11. I'd Do It All Again With You Not only If I Didn't Have You became a chart topper in 1992, but Look Heart, No Hands did the same in 1993. Both CDs were certified platinum in 1993. However, 1993 saw a downturn in chart fortunes for Travis. He released a CD that year called Wind In The Wire. Its biggest hit was Cowboy Boogie (#46). He rebounded with the next CD, This Is Me in 1994. It produced four top tens. They are: 1. Before You Kill Us All-1994-#2 2. Whisper My Name-1994-#1 3. This Is Me-1994-#5 4. The Box-1995-#7 When title #2 topped the charts, it marked the ninth consecutive year Travis would have a #1 hit. He would have to wait another nine years for his next, Three Wooden Crosses. That comeback was brief even though Travis won several awards for the song in 2003 and 2004. Five years later, he received new attention from Carrie Underwood when she remade I Told You So for her Carnival Ride CD. When it was first released, it was a solo single. When Travis and Underwood sang it together on American Idol, Arista rereleased the song as a duet. it peaked at #2 on the country chart (Underwood's ninth top ten and Travis' 30th) and #9 on the Hot 100 (Underwood's third top ten and Travis' first). During the chart run of I Told You So, Underwood won her first A.C.M. Entertainer of the Year Award. It won a Grammy Award this year for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. Since the 1992 release of the greatest hits CDs, there have been other surveys of Travis' career. Most notably: 1. Trail Of Memories: The Randy Travis Anthology-2002 2. The Very Best Of Randy Travis-2004 3. I Told You So: The Ultimate Hits Of Randy Travis-2009 More recently, it was announced that Travis will release a special duets CD to celebrate his 25 years in the business in 2011. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 17, 1992: 1. IF I DIDN'T HAVE YOU-RANDY TRAVIS-WARNER BROS. 2. No One Else On Earth-Wynonna Judd-MCA 3. In This Life-Collin Raye-Epic 4. Jesus And Mama-Confederate Railroad-Atlantic 5. Going Out Of My Mind-McBride And The Ride-MCA 6. Seminole Wind-John Anderson-BNA 7. Wrong Side Of Memphis-Trisha Yearwood-MCA 8. The Greatest Man I Never Knew-Reba McEntire-MCA 9. Cafe On The Corner-Sawyer Brown-Curb 10. Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man-Travis Tritt-Warner Bros.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 16:39:03 GMT -5
October 25 Chart Highlights:
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*** No. 1 *** "Come Back Song" Darius Rucker Hot Shot Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 35 "Somewhere With You" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 54 "The House Rules" Christian Kane Debut No. 59 "Beautiful Every Time" Lee Brice
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Post by Zazie on Oct 25, 2010 17:39:21 GMT -5
October 25 Chart Highlights:Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Come Back Song" Darius Rucker Hot Shot Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 35 "Somewhere With You" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 54 "The House Rules" Christian Kane Debut No. 59 "Beautiful Every Time" Lee Brice How did you find this? I can't find it on the BB website; the Chart Beat column isn't showing it. What is your mystical secret?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 18:45:48 GMT -5
October 25 Chart Highlights:Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Come Back Song" Darius Rucker Hot Shot Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 35 "Somewhere With You" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 54 "The House Rules" Christian Kane Debut No. 59 "Beautiful Every Time" Lee Brice How did you find this? I can't find it on the BB website; the Chart Beat column isn't showing it. What is your mystical secret? Not sure! I just went to Billboard's Chart Beat at about 4:30 and it was there. Just checked again now and I can still get to it. Maybe it's your computer? If you can't get there still, I suppose you could try the direct link: www.billboard.com/charts/country-songs#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-alternative-country-songs-1004124105.storyIf that doesn't work, then I don't know! Maybe I have some mystical powers that I don't know about!
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Post by joey2002 on Oct 25, 2010 20:07:24 GMT -5
she's got secret powers! ;) The direct link worked for me...
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Post by onebuffalo on Oct 26, 2010 16:24:37 GMT -5
1. COME BACK RUCKER: Darius Rucker collects his fourth #1 hit in Come Back Song. It follows: 1. Don't Think I Don't Think About It-2008 2. It Won't Be Like This For Long-2009 3. Alright-2009 4. Come Back Song-2010 In the meantime, Rucker becomes the seventh artist this year to land chart topper #4. The others: 1. Jason Aldean-The Truth 2. Billy Currington-That's How Country Boys Roll 3. Trace Adkins-Hillbilly Bone with Blake Shelton 4. Zac Brown Band-Free 5. Lady Antebellum-Our Kind Of Love 6. Josh Turner-All Over Me 7. Darius Rucker-Come Back Song 2. ANOTHER 56 WEEKER?: Lee Brice makes his debut at #59 with Beautiful Every Time. His previous single, Love Like Crazy spent 56 weeks on the chart. If Beautiful does the same, its last week on will be in December, 2011. 3. ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SONG: Jaron And The Long Road To Love have the the fastest climbing song of the week as That's Beautiful To Me takes a nine point jump to #48. 4. ANOTHER #11 HIT?: George Strait moves up one to #11 with The Breath You Take. However, he has now lost his bullet and may not make the top ten. If Breath does peak at that position, it will join Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa (2003) and The Seashores Of Old Mexico (2006) as those singles that would have added to his top tens total (could have been 85, but it is 82). 5. AN 80S LOOK: These were the chart topping singles during the last week of October during the 1980s: 1980: Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard Good Ol' Boys-Waylon Jennings-RCA 1981: Never Been So Loved In All My Life-Charley Pride-RCA 1982: Close Enough To Perfect-Alabama-RCA 1983: Islands In The Stream-Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton-RCA 1984: City Of New Orleans-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1985: Some Fools Never Learn-Steve Wariner-MCA 1986: It'll Be Me-Exile-Epic 1987: Right From The Start-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 1988: Gonna Take A Lot Of River-the Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 1989: High Cotton-Alabama-RCA 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Just in time for Halloween: John Conlee is the ONLY licensed mortician to top the Billboard country chart. These are his ten biggest hits. Weeks at #1 or #2 will be first, then weeks in the top 40. 1. In My Eyes-1984-1-15 2. Got My Heart Set On You-1986-1-14 3. Common Man-1983-1-13 4. I'm Only In It For The Love-1983-1-12 5. As Long As I'm Rockin' With You-1984-1-12 6. Lady Lay Down-1979-1-12 7. Backside Of Thirty-1979-1-11 8. Years After You-1985-2-14 (#2) 9. Before My Time-1979-2-12 (#2) 10. Friday Night Blues-1980-2-11 (#2) 7. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2004 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. Live Like You Were Dying-Tim McGraw-Curb 2. I Love This Bar-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 3. Remember When-Alan Jackson-Arista 4. There Goes My Life-Kenny Chesney-BNA 5. Suds In The Bucket-Sara Evans-RCA 6. When The Sun Goes Down-Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker-BNA 7. You'll Think Of Me-Keith Urban-Capitol 8. American Soldier-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 9. Watch The Wind Blow By-Tim McGraw-Curb 10. Redneck Woman-Gretchen Wilson-Epic 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: 2000, 2006, 2008, and now 2010. What do those years have in common? Well, if it is Tim McGraw we are talking about, those years represent the times Curb Records released greatest hits CDs on McGraw. The third volume of hits was our best selling CD just two years ago this week. You can certainly say McGraw was on a roll in 1999. He released a CD called A Place In The Sun. It debuted at #1 on both country and top 200 charts (three times platinum). Its hits were: 1. Please Remember Me-1999-#1 2. Something Like That-1999-#1 3. My Best Friend-2000-#1 4. Some Things Never Change-2000-#7 5. My Next Thirty Years-2000-#1 During 2000, McGraw was preparing another studio CD called Set This Circus Down. However, while he was charting with title #5, Curb made an announcement that they wanted to release his first greatest hits CD during the last quarter of the year. This infuriated McGraw, but he reluctantly went along with their plans. McGraw would have to wait until the following spring to release Circus. Another triple platinum success and its hits were: 1. Grown Men Don't Cry-2001-#1 2. Angry All The Time-2001-#1 3. The Cowboy In Me-2002-#1 4. Unbroken-2002-#1 Two more studio CDs were released: Tim McGraw And The Dancehall Doctors in 2002 and Live Like You Were Dying in 2004. Dying's last hit was My Old Friend (#6 in 2006) and McGraw wanted to release Let It Go. Just like six years earlier, Curb Records stepped in at the last minute and released Tim McGraw Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2. This made McGraw angry again. However, Let It Go DID see the light of day in 2007 (and Curb just about released every song off the CD). Seven major hits followed: 1. Last Dollar Fly Away-2007-#1 2. I Need You-with Faith Hill-2007-#8 3. If You're Reading This-2007-#3 4. Suspicions-2008-#12 5. Kristofferson-2008-#16 6. Let It Go-2008-#2 7. Nothin' To Die For-2009-#5 During the chart run of title #4, Curb repackaged the first two greatest hits CDs and retitled the set Greatest Hits: Limited Edition. While title #6 was on the charts, Greatest Hits 3 was released. The track listing for the CD is: 1. Back When-2004-#1 2. Last Dollar Fly Away-2007-#1 3. If You're Reading This-2007-#3 4. Do You Want Fries With That-2005-#5 5. Unbroken-2002-#1 6. Angry All The Time-2001-#1 7. Suspicions-2008-#12 8. Find Out Who Your Friends Are-with Tracy Lawrence-2007-#1 9. Let It Go-2008-#2 10. Real Good Man-2003-#1 11. Nine Lives-with Def Leppard-2008 When the CD was released, McGraw issued the following statement: "I am saddened and disappointed that my label chose to put out another hits album instead of new music. I've only had one studio album since my last hits package. It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me. I had no involvement in the creation or presentation of this record. Sure, I love the songs, and I don't want to take anything away from all the creative people who were a part of making those records. But the whole concept is an embarrassment to me as an artist. In the spirit of an election year, I would simply say to my fans, 'I'm Tim McGraw, and I don't approve their message'." McGraw's next release, Southern Voice was released a year ago. Three major hits were released and three major events happened with each release: 1. It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You-2009-#13-Billboard declares McGraw's Something Like That to be country music's most played song during the 2000s. 2. Southern Voice-2010-#1-Billboard declares McGraw as the most played artist in ANY genre of music during the 2000s (almost eight million spins of his records). 3. Still-2010-#16-Curb Records announces a chart topping hits CD for release during the last quarter of this year. The big question surrounding McGraw is this: Will Number One Hits be the last CD he will release for Curb, or will we be treated to a fifth survey of his hits in 2012? Only time will tell! This is what the chart looked like back then (or when):
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 25, 2008: 1. GREATEST HITS 3-TIM MCGRAW-CURB 2. Love On The Inside-Sugarland-Mercury 3. Learn To Live-Darius Rucker-Capitol 4. Kellie Pickler-Kellie Pickler-BNA 5. Taylor Swift-Taylor Swift-Big Machine 6. NOW That's What I Call Country-Various Artists-UMG 7. Goin' All Out-Dan Evans-Executive 8. Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood-Arista 9. Joy To The World-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 10. That Lonesome Song-Jamey Johnson-Mercury
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2010 13:59:07 GMT -5
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*** No. 1 *** "Come Back Song" Darius Rucker Greatest Gainer No. 23 "Somewhere With You" Kenny Chesney Hot Shot Debut No. 55 "Mean" Taylor Swift Debut No. 56 "I Wouldn't Be A Man" Josh Turner
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 2, 2010 14:14:10 GMT -5
1. DARIUS' SONG: Darius Rucker extends his rule on the country chart for another week as Come Back Song remains at #1. He has now spent eight weeks at #1 with his four chart toppers. The songs and weeks at #1 are: 1. Don't Think I Don't Think About It-2008-2 2. It Won't Be Like This For Long-2009-3-chart wise, his biggest hit 3. Alright-2009-1 4. Come Back Song-2010-2 so far 2. HER 60TH: Reba McEntire celebrates a milestone this week as Turn On The Radio (at #10 this week) becomes her 60th top ten hit. That is a first for female artists. Her first was back in 1980 with You Lift Me Up To Heaven (#8). Since her hit list is way too long, let us list her every tenth top ten hit: 10th: Have I Got A Deal For You-1985-#6 20th: Sunday Kind Of Love-1988-#5 30th: Fallin' Out Of Love-1991-#2 40th: Till You Love Me-1995-#2 50th: One Honest Heart-1999-#7 60th: Turn On The Radio-2010-#10 so far The top five female artists to score the most top tens looks like this: 1. Reba McEntire-60-1980-2010 2. Dolly Parton-55-1968-2006 3. Loretta Lynn-51-1962-1982 4. Tanya Tucker-40-1972-1997 5. Tammy Wynette-39-1967-1985 3. DON WILLIAMS IS BACK, SORT OF: Don Williams could not make the formal ceremony inducting him into the Country Music Hall of Fame for health reasons, but one of his hits is making a comeback on the charts. Josh Turner debuts at #56 this week with I Wouldn't Be A Man (#9 for Williams in 1988). It is the third time the song is charting as Billy Dean's version peaked at #45 in early 1997. 4. CHESNEY'S GOING SOMEWHERE FAST: Kenny Chesney has the fastest climbing single this week as Somewhere With You takes a 12 notch jump to #23. 5. AN 80S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling albums during the first week of November during the 1980s: 1980: Honeysuckle Rose-Soundtrack-Columbia 1981: Feels So Right-Alabama-RCA 1982: Always On My Mind-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1983: Eyes That See In The Dark-Kenny Rogers-RCA 1984: City Of New Orleans-Willie Nelson-Columbia 1985: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 1986: Guitar Town-Steve Earle-MCA 1987: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2-George Strait-MCA 1988: Loving Proof-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 1989: No Holdin' Back-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: From Conlee to Conley. Earl Thomas, that is. These are his his ten biggest hits. Number of weeks at #1 are first and then number of weeks in the top 40 are second. 1. Nobody Falls Like A Fool-1985-1-15 2. Love Out Loud-1989-1-15 3. We Believe In Happy Endings-with Emmylou Harris-1988-1-15 4. Fire & Smoke-1981-1-14 5. Once In A Blue Moon-1986-1-14 6. What I'd Say-1989-1-14 7. Holding Her And Loving You-1983-1-14 8. Chance Of Lovin' You-1984-1-14 9. Right From The Start-1987-1-14 10. Angel In Disguise-1984-1-13 7. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2005 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. That's What I Love About Sunday-Craig Morgan-Broken Bow 2. As Good As I Once Was-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 3. Bless The Broken Road-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 4. Something More-Sugarland-Mercury 5. Fast Cars And Freedom-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 6. Nothin' To Lose-Josh Gracin-Lyric Street 7. Baby Girl-Sugarland-Mercury 8. Making Memories Of Us-Keith Urban-Capitol 9. Mississippi Girl-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 10. Gone-Montgomery Gentry-Columbia 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Reba McEntire had her greatest success with MCA Records between 1983-2008. Ten years into her MCA tenure, she enjoyed a #1 hit (with Linda Davis) on Does He Love You 17 years ago this week. The CD where that song came from was her second set of greatest hits for MCA (and third to date). By the time MCA released Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, McEntire racked up 31 major hits, 29 top tens, and 15 #1s for the label. Her star was on the rise in 1984 when she won her first C.M.A. Award for Female Vocalist (an award she would win three more times). She also hit the top ten on a regular basis (between 1985's How Blue-#1 to 1992's Is There Life Out There-#1-a grand total of 24 consecutive top tens. Then she released the Whoever's In New England CD (her first platinum disc) in 1986 and she scored her first classics (both #1): the title track and Little Rock. During the chart run of Rock, she became the fourth female to win the C.M.A. Entertainer of the Year (Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Barbara Mandrell before McEntire). She became country music's top female artist between the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. Her personal life was picking up as well. She married for the second time in 1989 to her manager, Narvel Blackstock. They became parents in 1990 (my God, Shelby turned 20 this year!). She continued to be a top draw on the concert trail. In 1990, she released the Rumor Has It CD. Four top tens followed: 1. You Lie-1990-#1 2. Rumor Has It-1991-#3 3. Fancy-1991-#8 4. Fallin' Out Of Love-1991-#2 Just as title #3 entered the top 40, she lost her tour manager and seven members of her band in a plane crash in March, 1991. She laid low for awhile, but dedicated her next CD to her band. It was called For My Broken Heart. The hits: 1. For My Broken Heart-1991-#1 2. Is There Life Out There-1992-#1 3. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia-1992-#12 4. The Greatest Man I Never Knew-1992-#3 She continued her winning ways with the It's Your Call CD: 1. Take It Back-1993-#5 2. The Heart Won't Lie-with Vince Gill-1993-#1 3. It's Your Call-1993-#5 Then MCA released her second survey of hits (the first one was in 1987). The track listing is: 1. Does He Love You-with Linda Davis-1993-#1 2. You Lie-1990-#1 3. Fancy-1991-#8 4. For My Broken Heart-1991-#1 5. Love Will Find Its Way To You-1988-#1 6. They Asked About You-1994-#7 7. Is There Life Out There-1992-#1 8. Rumor Has It-1991-#3 9. Walk On-1990-#2 10. The Greatest Man I Never Knew-1992-#3 Title #1 was released in August, 1993 and made its way to #1 in November (becoming McEntire's 19th chart topper and Davis' ONLY top ten). It became the ONLY female duet to hit #1. McEntire also became the first artist since Kenny Rogers ten years earlier to have two #1 duets with different artists in the same year: Rogers-We've Got Tonight with Sheena Easton and Islands In The Stream with Dolly Parton in 1983 McEntire-The Heart Won't Lie with Vince Gill and Does He Love You with Linda Davis in 1993 The song received a boost when McEntire and Davis sang it live at the C.M.A. Awards. What was more significant was the red dress that was worn by McEntire. It was very shear and the sequins that were on it barely covered what should have been covered. McEntire received a ton of press for it. During the chart run of title #6, McEntire and Davis won the Grammy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration while at the 1994 C.M.A.s, they won for Vocal Event of the Year. 1994 saw McEntire win the Entertainer of the Year Award from the A.C.M.. Ten years after the original, McEntire found a new duet partner for the song: Kelly Clarkson. They performed the song a ton of times for a worldwide tour called Two Worlds Two Voices Tour. McEntire reciprocated by redoing the Clarkson hit Because Of You (#2 in 2007). This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6, 1993: 1. DOES HE LOVE YOU-REBA MCENTIRE AND LINDA DAVIS-MCA 2. Easy Come, Easy Go-George Strait-MCA 3. She Used To Be Mine-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 4. Almost Goodbye-Mark Chesnutt-MCA 5. Just Like The Weather-Suzy Bogguss-Capitol 6. Reckless-Alabama-RCA 7. That Was A River-Collin Raye-Epic 8. No Time To Kill-Clint Black-RCA 9. Mercury Blues-Alan Jackson-Arista 10. Half Enough-Lorrie Morgan-BNA
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Post by phil1996 on Nov 8, 2010 17:56:16 GMT -5
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*** No. 1 *** "As She's Walking Away" Zac Brown Band Featuring Alan Jackson Greatest Gainer No. 20 "Somewhere With You" Kenny Chesney Hot Shot Debut No. 54 "Kiss Goodbye" Little Big Town Debut No. 57 "Back To December" Taylor Swift Debut No. 59 "Don't You Wanna Stay"Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 9, 2010 11:15:02 GMT -5
1. 1.04 MILLION FANS CAN'T BE WRONG: We do have to start with the big news from the past week. Taylor Swift's third CD, Speak Now had opening sales of over a million last week. Her last CD, Fearless started with 592K in sales. That is a 176% jump in sales. She does finish second to the Double Live CD by Garth Brooks from 1998 (she needed to sell another 40,000 to tie him). 2. WALKING AWAY TO #1: Two Georgia-based acts are making history this week. They are the Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson. The song is As She's Walking Away. For the Z.B.B.: 1. It becomes their fifth chart topping hit. They become the 113th artist in history to have that many. They are: 1. Chicken Fried-2008 2. Toes-2009 3. Highway 20 Ride-2010 4. Free-2010 5. As She's Walking Away-with Alan Jackson-2010 2. They are batting 83% with their singles becoming #1 hits. Only Whatever It Is (#2 in 2009) missed the top. 3. They become the first act in 2010 to score three #1 hits. Only Keith Urban had three #1 hits in 2009 (Start A Band with Brad Paisley, Sweet Thing, and Only You Can Love Me This Way). For A.J.: 1. It becomes his 26th #1 hit, pushing him past Dolly Parton for the most #1 hits for eighth place. The last time we had movement in the top ten is when Reba McEntire collected her 24th #1 with Consider Me Gone (2010) to land her at #10. 2. It becomes the first chart topper for Jackson on the Atlantic label. His first 25 are on Arista Records. 3. It gives Jackson a 59th week at #1, pushing him past Jim Reeves who spent 58 weeks at #1. Jackson is currently in 11th place with the most time at #1. 4. Jackson becomes the second artist from the Class of 1989 to have #1s in three consecutive decades (1990s, 2000s, and 2010s). Garth Brooks had #1s in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. For both: 1. 2010 marks the third consecutive year that they have had #1 hits. I have already detailed Zac Brown's #1s. For Jackson: 1. Small Town Southern Man-2008 2. Good Time-2008 3. Country Boy-2009 4. As She's Walking Away-with the Zac Brown Band-2010 3. TURNER'S MOVE: Josh Turner has the fastest climbing song of the week. He goes up six to #50 with I Wouldn't Be A Man. 4. THE ORIGINAL IS BACK: Kelly Clarkson, the first American Idol winner is on the country charts for the third time as she debuts with Jason Aldean at #59 with Don't You Wanna Stay. Her first time was back in 2002 with A Moment Like This. Her second time was in 2007 when she scored her biggest hit, Because Of You (#2 with Reba McEntire). Aldean is at #10 with My Kinda Party. 5. C.M.A. WISHES: I want to say good luck to all of the nominees at this year's C.M.A. Awards and congratulations to all of the winners. 6. REMEMBER OUR VETERANS: Need I say more? 7. THE #1S FROM YESTERDAY: These were the chart topping hits from 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: Better Life-Keith Urban-Capitol 2000: The Little Girl-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 1995: Check Yes Or No-George Strait-MCA 1990: Home-Joe Diffie-Epic 1985: Hang On To Your Heart-Exile-Epic 8. THEIR ELEVEN BIGGEST-BROTHERS AND SISTERS EDITION: The Gatlin Brothers and the Forester Sisters had major hits between them from the 1970s to the 1990s. These are their biggest hits. Weeks at #1 or #2 are first while weeks in the top 40 are second. G.B.: 1. Houston Means I'm One Day Closer To You-1983-2-15 2. All The Gold In California-1979-2-10 3. I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love-1978-1-11 4. Night Time Magic-1978-2-10 (#2) 5. She Used To Be Somebody's Baby-1986-1-14 (#2) F.S.: 1. Mama's Never Seen Those Eyes-1986-1-15 2. Too Much Is Not Enough-with the Bellamy Bros.-1986-1-15 3. I Fell In Love Again Last Night-1985-1-14 4. You Again-1987-1-14 5. Just In Case-1986-1-13 6. Lonely Alone-1986-2-15 (#2) 9. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2006 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. If You're Going Through Hell Before The Devil Even Knows-Rodney Atkins-Curb 2. The World-Brad Paisley-Arista 3. Summertime-Kenny Chesney-BNA 4. What Hurts The Most-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 5. Jesus, Take The Wheel-Carrie Underwood-Arista 6. Would You Go With Me-Josh Turner-MCA 7. Tonight I Wanna Cry-Keith Urban-Capitol 8. Leave The Pieces-The Wreckers-maverick 9. Who Says You Can't Go Home-Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles-Island 10. Why-Jason Aldean-Broken Bow 10. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: The question of the day is: Were they too country for pop or too pop for country? When you are talking about Restless Heart, that would be a toss up. However, what is NOT in dispute is that this week marks the 24th anniversary of their first #1, That Rock Won't Roll. You can say R.H. was a 'manufactured band'. That is, they were put together by Tim DuBois (their producer). The group consists of: 1. Larry Stewart (lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards) 2. Dave Innis (guitar and keyboards) 3. Greg Jennings (gutiar) 4. Paul Gregg (bass) 5. John Dittrich (drums) They were signed to RCA Records in 1984 and issued their self-titled debut CD in 1985 (believe it or not, all songs on that CD were rejected by Alabama). It was a success with these hits: 1. Let The Heartache Ride-1985-#23 2. I Want Everyone To Cry-1985-#10 3. Back To The Heartbreak Kid-1986-#7 4. Til I Loved You-1986-#10 During 1986, they went to work on the Wheels CD (the title track was first recorded by the Bellamy Bros. for their 1985 CD Howard & David). Four chart toppers followed: 1. That Rock Won't Roll-1986 2. I'll Still Be Loving You-1987-#33 pop and #3 A.C. 3. Why Does It Have To Be Wrong Or Right-1987-#11 A.C. 4. Wheels-1988 During the chart run of title #4, Wheels became their first gold record. Their 1988 CD, Big Dreams In A Small Town continued their winning ways in 1988 and 1989: 1. The Bluest Eyes In Texas-1988-#1 2. A Tender Lie-1988-#1 3. Big Dreams In A Small Town-1989-#3 4. Say What's In Your Heart-1989-#4 During the chart run of title #3, they won the Vocal Group of the Year from the A.C.M.. Thanks to the New Traditionalist Movement and the Class of 1989, Restless Heart started to fall out of favor in 1990, the year they released their Fast Movin' Train CD. Its hits: 1. Fast Movin' Train-1990-#4 2. Dancy's Dream-1990-#5 3. When Somebody Loves You-1990-#21 4. Long Lost Friend-1991-#16 Then they released their first greatest hits CD (The Best Of Restless Heart) and a major hit came their way in You Can Depend On Me (#3 in 1992). That year saw the group shrink to a quartet when lead singer Stewart went solo and scored a major hit the following year in Alright Already (#5 in 1993). Getting back to R.H., they released the Big Iron Horses CD, which yielded the following hits: 1. When She Cries-1992-#9 country, #11 pop, and #2 A.C. 2. Mending Fences-1993-#13 country 3. We Got The Love-1993-#11 country In the middle of the Horses era, two major events happened: 1. Innis left the group, shrinking it to a trio. 2. They scored their ONLY #1 A.C. hit, Tell Me What You Dream with Warren Hill (ironically, that did NOT chart country). They disbanded the following year after ten years together. 1996 was the year Dittrich formed The Buffalo Club that scored only one major hit (If She Don't Love You-#9 in 1997). 1998 saw four of them coming back (minus Innis) for a greatest hits CD. A new recording, No End To This Road became their first top 40 hit in five years (#33). They went their separate ways again for another four year time period. They ALL got back together in 2002. Two years later, they signed to Koch Records where they scored a top 40 hit in Feel My Way To You (#29 in 2004). The following year, Koch closed shop leaving R.H. without a label. More recently, R.H. released a live CD through their website called 25 And Live celebrating their silver anniversary in the business. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 15, 1986: 1. THAT ROCK WON'T ROLL-RESTLESS HEART-RCA 2. You're Still New To Me-Marie Osmond and Paul Davis-Capitol 3. She Used To Be Somebody's Baby-the Gatlin Bros.-Columbia 4. Touch Me When We're Dancing-Alabama-RCA 5. At The Sound Of The Tone-John Schneider-MCA 6. It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You-George Strait-MCA 7. No One Mends A Broken Heart Like You-Barbara Mandrell-MCA 8. Hell And High Water-T. Graham Brown-Capitol 9. Too Much Is Not Enough-Bellamy Bros. and Forester Sisters-MCA 10. Honky Tonk Crowd-John Anderson-Warner Bros.
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Post by drock89 on Nov 10, 2010 16:41:51 GMT -5
Updated! We haven't had a solo female at #1 on the radio chart in a while....
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 16, 2010 13:58:50 GMT -5
1. JACKSON/BROWN: For the second week in a row, the Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson have the #1 hit in country music with As She's Walking Away. With it being #1, Jackson is now spending his 60th week at #1. He is the eleventh artist to spend at least that much time at #1. The others: 1. Eddy Arnold-145 2. Webb Pierce-111 3. George Strait-84 4. Hank Williams, Sr.-82 5. Buck Owens-82 6. Johnny Cash-69 7. Sonny James-66 8. Tim McGraw-64 9. Marty Robbins-63 10. Kenny Chesney-61 11. Alan Jackson-60 2. C.M.A. CHART: These are where last week's winners place on next week's chart: 1. As She's Walking Away-Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson-New Artist (for Jackson, of course!) 2. Anything Like Me-Brad Paisley-Entertainer of the Year and C.M.A. Host 3. Stuck Like Glue-Sugarland-Vocal Duo 11. Mama's Song-Carrie Underwood-C.M.A. Hostess 15. Only Prettier-Miranda Lambert-Female Vocalist, Album, Song, and Video 17. This Ain't No Love Song-Trace Adkins-Vocal Event 22. Hello World-Lady Antebellum-Vocal Group and Single 25. Who Are You When I'm Not Looking-Blake Shelton-Male Vocalist and Vocal Event 3. REBA'S BOY: While Alan Jackson is enjoying his 60th week at #1, Reba McEntire's 60th top ten, Turn On The Radio is at #8 for the week. However, she doubles her chart presence by debuting at #60 with If I Were A Boy. It is a remake of the Beyonce hit that was a 2008 #3 pop and #16 r&b hit. McEntire must have an affinity for female r&b singers. On My Own, the Patti LaBelle hit (with Michael McDonald) was a double #1 on pop and r&b listings in 1986. McEntire turned it into a #20 hit in 1995. 4. FINALLY, #83: George Strait lands the 83rd top ten in his career with The Breath You Take (at #10 this week). It was stuck at #11 for the past three weeks. It has been on the chart for the last 22 weeks, making it his slowest climb into the top ten. River Of Love (from 2009) took 22 weeks to get to #1 (his slowest climb to #1). 5. A SWIFT DECEMBER: Taylor Swift has the fastest climbing song of the week as Back To December takes an 18 notch jump to #39. 6. THE TOP SELLERS: These were the top selling CDs in 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: Timeless-Martina McBride-RCA 2000: Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 1995: The Greatest Hits Collection-Alan Jackson-Arista 1990: No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1985: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: After 18 years at RCA Records, Martina McBride has signed with Republic Nashville. These are her ten biggest hits. First number-weeks at #1 or #2, second number-weeks in the top 40. 1. I Love You-1999-5-32 2. Blessed-2002-2-30 3. A Broken Wing-1998-1-22 4. Wrong Again-1999-1-22 5. Wild Angels-1996-1-16 6. Happy Girl-1998-2-18 (#2) 7. Whatever You Say-1999-1-24 (#2) 8. My Baby Loves Me-1993-1-11 (#2) 9. Where Would You Be-2002 (#3) 10. Love's The Only House-2000 (#3) 8. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2007 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. Watching You-Rodney Atkins-Curb 2. Good Directions-Billy Currington-Mercury 3. Never Wanted Nothing More-Kenny Chesney-BNA 4. These Are My People-Rodney Atkins-Curb 5. Take Me There-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 6. Lost In This Moment-Big & Rich-Warner Bros. 7. Wasted-Carrie Underwood-Arista 8. If You're Reading This-Tim McGraw-Curb 9. Free And Easy Down The Road I Go-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 10. Settlin'-Sugarland-Mercury 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: This part of the Country ChartBeat is taking a week off. Will be back next week!
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Post by drock89 on Nov 18, 2010 16:10:16 GMT -5
That's a wrap for 2010!!
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Post by HeyHeyHey on Nov 18, 2010 16:14:33 GMT -5
That's a wrap for 2010!! So the Billbord chart year is over?
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Post by dcowboy77 on Nov 18, 2010 17:33:11 GMT -5
That's a wrap for 2010!! So the Billbord chart year is over? Yep the new year starts with the 1st chart of december so 12/4/10 is the 1st chart of 2011.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Nov 22, 2010 17:04:32 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Anything Like Me" Brad Paisley Greatest Gainer No. 26 "Back To December" Taylor Swift Hot Shot Debut No. 47 "Little Miss" Sugarland Debut No. 52 "This Is Country Music" Brad Paisley Debut No. 55 "Coal Miner's Daughter" Loretta Lynn, Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert Debut No. 60 "Best Song Ever" Katie Armiger
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Post by Jonsolo on Nov 22, 2010 19:11:59 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Anything Like Me" Brad Paisley Greatest Gainer No. 26 "Back To December" Taylor Swift Hot Shot Debut No. 47 "Little Miss" Sugarland Debut No. 52 "This Is Country Music" Brad Paisley Debut No. 55 "Coal Miner's Daughter" Loretta Lynn, Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert Debut No. 60 "Best Song Ever" Katie Armiger Thanks, but I think technically this and the next 12 months' worth of Highlights are to be posted on the new "Billboard Top Country Album/Single #1s - 2011", that ShaniaGotchaGood started, and is further down on the first page. We're now into the 2011 Billboard chart year, and just like Rowdawg posted the Highlights for the 12/5/09 chart on the first page of this thread, the 12/4/10 Highlights should go on 2011.
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