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Post by Typo on Dec 16, 2009 15:09:34 GMT -5
What's incredible to me is that, after having Some Hearts and Carnival Ride be multi-week #1 albums, it looks as if Play On will only get 2 weeks on the top. Now, she may squeak in after Christmas, but Taylor is just dominating the albums chart. Wow. I thought Carnival Ride only got one week at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart thanks to the categorization of The Eagles album Long Road Out of Eden that came out the week after CR was released. "Carnival Ride" only got 1 week.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Dec 21, 2009 18:24:48 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Consider Me Gone" Reba Greatest Gainer No. 21 "Temporary Home" Carrie Underwood Hot Shot Debut No. 47 "American Honey" Lady Antebellum Debut No. 50 "Fearless" Taylor Swift Debut No. 54 "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" Gretchen Wilson
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 23, 2009 12:03:09 GMT -5
1. HAPPY 27TH ANNIVERSARY REBA: It has been about five and a half years since ANYONE could say the following, but: Reba McEntire has the #1 song in America with Consider Me Gone. The last time she had a #1 hit was in the summer of 2004 when she interrupted Tim McGraw's reign of Live Like You Were Dying (the year's biggest hit) with Somebody off her Room To Breathe CD. That ended a six year drought of #1s when If You See Him/If You See Her with Brooks & Dunn hit #1 in 1998. About the title of the article, McEntire lands her 24th #1 exactly 27 years after her first, Can't Even Get The Blues in 1983. That is in the top five of those with the greatest span of #1 hits: 1. 35 years-Dolly Parton-Joshua in 1971 to When I Get Where I'm Going with Brad Paisley in 2006. 2. 29 years-Johnny Cash-I Walk The Line in 1956 to Highwayman with Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson in 1985. 3. 27 years, 9 months-Willie Nelson-Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain in 1975 to Beer For My Horses with Toby Keith in 2003. 4. 27 years-Reba McEntire-Can't Even Get The Blues in 1983 to Consider Me Gone in 2010. 5. 26 years, 7 months-George Strait-Fool Hearted Memory in 1982 to River Of Love in 2009. McEntire becomes the third chart topping artist on the Valory label (her home since 2008). She follows: 1. Jimmy Wayne-Do You Believe Me Now-2008 2. Justin Moore-Small Town U.S.A.-2009 3. Reba McEntire-Consider Me Gone-2010 McEntire also scores a #1 hit for her third record label. Her breakdown: 1. Mercury-2-1983 2. MCA-20-1985-2004 3. Valory-1-2010 McEntire becomes the fourth artist to score #1 hits in four consecutive decades. The others: 1. George Jones-1950s-1 #1 hit, 1960s-3, 1970s-5, and 1980s-4 2. Johnny Cash-1950s-5 #1 hits, 1960s-5, 1970s-3, and 1980s-1 3. Dolly Parton-1970s-11 #1 hits, 1980s-12, 1990s-1, and 2000s-1 4. Reba McEntire-1980s-14 #1 hits, 1990s-8, 2000s-1, and 2010s-1 (more we hope!) This is the first time in about four and a half years that a solo female #1 was NOT scored by either Carrie Underwood or Taylor Swift. Sara Evans topped the charts in 2005 with A Real Fine Place To Start. 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of McEntire signing with Mercury Records. All of this success for McEntire: PRICELESS! It is well deserved! 2. A CAPITOL GATHERING: Capitol Records has three artists at the #2-#4 positions: #2-Lady Antebellum-Need You Now #3-Luke Bryan-Do I #4-Dierks Bentley-I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes 3. THE THIRD WEEK OF CHRISTMAS: Gretchen Wilson has the sole new Christmas song debuting this week with I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas at #54. She is also at #49 with Work Hard, Play Harder. 4. THE TOP SELLERS: These were the top selling CDs in 2004, 1999, 1994, 1989, and 1984: 2004: Greatest Hits-Shania Twain-Mercury 1999: Come On Over-Shania Twain-Mercury 1994: The Hits-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1989: No Holdin' Back-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1984: Kentucky Hearts-Exile-Epic 5. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: I finally get to salute the artist who turned me on to country music: Marty Robbins. My first memories of listening to country music was listening to an eight track of his greatest hits (how many songs were on that anyway?). You have to admit he had a set of pipes and could sing ANYTHING! His masterpiece performance, El Paso was our #1 hit 50 years ago this week. In 1952, Robbins signed with Columbia Records and though his first two single releases did not chart, his third I'll Go On Alone did hit #1 in January, 1953. His second #1 hit, Singing The Blues became his biggest hit in 1956, staying at the top of the charts for thirteen weeks and even crossing over to #17 on the pop charts. This was during his crossover era from 1956-1962. A competing version by Guy Mitchell was #1 on the pop charts for nine weeks. Undeterred and wanting a pop hit all to himself, Robbins collected his third #1 hit in 1957 with the perfect prom song: A White Sport Coat And A Pink Carnation. This time he went to #2 on the pop charts. He managed two more chart topping hits, both in 1958: The Story Of My Life and Just Married. Then his singing cowboy era started in 1959 with The Hanging Tree (#15). Sensing a trend, he decided to write a tragic love story (the ultimate oxymoron if you were to ask me) about two men competing 'in love of a Mexican girl', Faleena and El Paso was born. It starts with one man killing the other for her love and escaping certain consequences. Then the killer misses her so much he returns to her, even if it means certain death. He did manage 'one little kiss' and told 'Faleena goodbye'. Robbins' backup singers were Tompall and the Glaser Brothers. This time, he enjoyed a double #1 hit on both country and pop charts. It was #1 on the country charts for seven weeks between December, 1959 to January, 1960. It was the first #1 pop hit in 1960 for two weeks. It became the longest song to date topping both charts at 4 minutes, 40 seconds. The second single from the Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs album, Big Iron Made #5 in 1960. In the meantime, El Paso won the first Grammy Award for Best Country and Western Performance. His next #1 hit, Don't Worry became his second biggest hit being #1 for ten weeks in 1961 and claiming the #3 position on the pop charts. He would hit #1 six more times during the 1960s. Those hits were: 1. Devil Woman-1962 2. Ruby Ann-1963 3. Begging To You-1964 4. Ribbon Of Darkness-1965 5. Tonight Carmen-1967 6. I Walk Alone-1968 Then in 1969, he suffered the first of three heart attacks. It showed that 75% of his arteries were almost completely blocked. In 1970, he underwent open heart surgery and two months later, performed on the Grand Ole Opry (where he was a member since 1953). Two months later, he collected his 14th #1 hit, the Grammy Award winning My Woman, My Woman, My Wife. While he was charting with that song, he became the first recipient of the A.C.M. Artist of the Decade. He made a short term move to MCA Records where Walking Piece Of Heaven became his biggest hit there (#6 in 1973). In the meantime, he was the last performer at the original Opry in 1974 and was the first at the new Opry. He returned to Columbia Records during the bicentennial year where his 'comeback single', the sequel to El Paso, El Paso City was his 15th #1 hit. His last #1, Among My Souvenirs was a song he did not like at first (by the way, Connie Francis was in the pop top ten with her version at the same time El Paso was in that section of the chart). It was #1 in 1976. Several pivotal events happened to Robbins during the 1980s. In 1981, he suffered his second heart attack and landed his first top ten hit in four years with Some Memories Just Won't Die (#10 in 1982). In October, 1982 Robbins was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In December, 1982 he suffered his third heart attack and died a week later. A Clint Eastwood film called Honkytonk Man was released with Robbins singing the title track (#10 in 1983). You can certainly say that country music (and music in general) lost a TRUE original. When you listen to his ENTIRE catalog, you realize that NO ONE can touch his diversity of songs. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 21, 1959: 1. EL PASO-MARTY ROBBINS-COLUMBIA 2. The Same Old Me-Ray Price-Columbia 3. There's A Big Wheel-Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper-Hickory 4. Country Girl-Faron Young-Capitol 5. Under Your Spell Again-Ray Price-Columbia 6. The Last Ride-Hank Snow-RCA 7. Amigo's Guitar-Kitty Wells-Decca 8. Under Your Spell Again-Buck Owens-Capitol 9. He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves-RCA 10. Scarlet Ribbons For Her Hair-The Browns-RCA
Merry Christmas from all of us at Country ChartBeat!
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Dec 23, 2009 18:23:15 GMT -5
Your total of #1 hits seem to be off in your calculations. first of all, when the Reba#1's album came out in 2005 there was a dispute over the # of songs on it since they included #1's off other charts besides than BILLBOARD and it was said the total of BILLBOARD #1's were only 22 rather than the 33 #1's on it (excluding the two unreleased songs on it) So with CONSIDER ME GONE it would make it only 23 BILLBOARD #1's. second, despite using the number above your own results conflict with the 24 you posted. you posted:. About the title of the article, McEntire lands her 24th #1 exactly 27 years after her first, Can't Even Get The Blues in 1983. McEntire also scores a #1 hit for her third record label. Her breakdown:1. Mercury-2-1983 2. MCA-20-1985-2004 3. Valory-1-2010 = 23 including the new oneMcEntire becomes the fourth artist to score #1 hits in four consecutive decades. The others:1. George Jones-1950s-1 #1 hit, 1960s-3, 1970s-5, and 1980s-4 2. Johnny Cash-1950s-5 #1 hits, 1960s-5, 1970s-3, and 1980s-1 3. Dolly Parton-1970s-11 #1 hits, 1980s-12, 1990s-1, and 2000s-1 4. Reba McEntire-1980s-14 #1 hits, 1990s-8, 2000s-1, and 2010s-1 (more we hope!) = 24 including the new oneThere are a total 35 songs on the Reba #1's album 33 #1's +2 New songs. 22 of which were BILLBOARD. SO MY QUESTION: is it 23 or 24?
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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2009 18:31:09 GMT -5
It all depends on whether or not you count "Mind Your Own Business". Whitburn did, then he didn't. It'll be interesting to see what Billboard's Chart Beat has to say. Personally, I would go by that.
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Dec 23, 2009 18:44:39 GMT -5
It all depends on whether or not you count "Mind Your Own Business". Whitburn did, then he didn't. It'll be interesting to see what Billboard's Chart Beat has to say. Personally, I would go by that. Well apparently, Valory isn't counting "Mind YourOwn Business" according to their press release on the Valory site. but of course they gonna include the 33 rather than the 22 in addition to CONSIDER ME GONE. Also take note they quote 26 years rather than the 27 weird! From Valory Site: Reba's "Consider Me Gone" Goes #1 December 22, 2009 Country radio delivered an early Christmas present to Reba yesterday as the superstar’s single, “Consider Me Gone,” soared to the #1 position on both the Billboard Country Songs Chart and the USA Today/ Country Aircheck Chart (powered by Mediabase). Reba’ second single off her current album, KEEP ON LOVING YOU, marks her 34th #1 career hit , expanding her span of #1 hits to 26 years. Reba’s very first #1 single, “Can’t Even Get the Blues” rose to the top of the charts in January 1983. “My Valory Music Company family gave me the best Christmas gift ever - a number one record! Our team’s hard work and enthusiasm continue to amaze me,” said Reba. “ ‘Consider Me Gone’ is a great song, and I’m just proud to be a part of it. 2009 has been great. 34 #1’s are great. And, I feel like we are just getting started!” An exclusive behind-the-scenes look of the making of Reba’s “Consider Me Gone” music video can be seen now on the Great American Country Channel. The special, GAC: ON THE SET, which premiered on Sunday, airs again on December 22 at 6:30 pm ET/ 5:30 pm CT. Reba also performs on the CBS network special, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, on Wednesday, December 23rd at 8 pm ET/ 7 pm CT. “Consider Me Gone” marks the third #1 single from two-year old label The Valory Music Co. and it’s second #1 in less than three months.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 26, 2009 15:45:07 GMT -5
I see I got a lot of response to Reba McEntire's latest chart feat. First, let us break down her #1 hits (according to Billboard): 1. Can't Even Get The Blues-1983 2. You're The First Time I've Thought About Leaving-1983 3. How Blue-1985 4. Somebody Should Leave-1985 5. Whoever's In New England-1986 6. Little Rock-1986 7. Mind Your Own Business-with Hank Williams, Jr., Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the Reverend Ike-1986 8. What Am I Gonna Do About You-1987 9. One Promise Too Late-1987 10. The Last One To Know-1987 11. Love Will Find Its Way To You-1988 12. I Know How He Feels-1988 13. New Fool At An Old Game-1989 14. Cathy's Clown-1989 15. You Lie-1990 16. For My Broken Heart-1991 17. Is There Life Out There-1992 18. The Heart Won't Lie-with Vince Gill-1993 19. Does He Love You-with Linda Davis-1993 20. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter-1995 21. How Was I To Know-1997 22. If You See Him/If You See Her-with Brooks & Dunn-1998-chart wise, her biggest hit 23. Somebody-2004 24. Consider Me Gone-2010 Titles 1 and 2 are on Mercury Records. Titles 3-6 and 8-23 are on MCA Records. Title 7 is on Warner Bros. Records. Title 24 is on Valory Records. Now, to dissect the information in the order it was 'disputed': 1. I actually have the #1s CD that came out in 2005. On disc two, MCA put the Lee Greenwood remake, Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands on it. It went to #9 in 1996. NOT a #1 in ANYBODY'S estimation. When MCA released 50 Number Ones by George Strait a year earlier, they put on disc two, Lead On, a #7 single in 1995. 2. She DOES have a span of 27 years of #1 hits. Can't Even Get The Blues topped the chart for the week ending January 8, 1983. Consider Me Gone tops the chart for the week ending January 2, 2010. I DO NOT expect ANYONE to have a dispute being only SIX days short! 3. Just by looking at the label credits for those chart topping hits, you can easily deduct what I was trying to say about her scoring a #1 hit for HER third record label. Title #7 comes from the H.W.J. CD Montana Cafe on Warner Bros. Records (a label she was NOT signed to). 4. No matter what the number of #1 hits she has, she IS the fourth artist with #1 hits in four consecutive decades. 5. Finally, to answer the question, the number of chart topping hits in McEntire's career would be 24, putting her one back of Dolly Parton for the most #1s by a female artist. Quite a few people have posted here that Joel Whitburn's latest country compilation leaves Strait OFF of the hit Hey Good Lookin' (#8 in 2004) with Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, and Toby Keith. Currently, Strait has 81 top ten hits with the vocal collaboration. Without it, he has 80. He is getting pretty close to Eddy Arnold's all time mark of 92 top ten hits. When the glorious occasion happens when Strait ties (and passes Arnold-hopefully in about the next five years), would you include that collaboration, or make Strait wait until his next single release to either tie or break THAT record?
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Post by Zazie on Dec 26, 2009 16:17:16 GMT -5
^ I would go with whatever the record label gave as the credits. I know Whitburn wanted to make changes in some genres because of rampant "featured artists," but I don't think that's such a big problem in country music and I think his tinkering might be a bit much.
I'm not sure the labels are especially consistent. And sometimes they change their credits in midstream. But at least you can have an objective rule that way.
Otherwise, you have to decide based on some subjective idea of how much a given artist participated. If it were up to me and my opinions, I'd give Reba credit for Business but I wouldn't give any of the guests on the Buffett song credit for their small number of syllables. But I think an objective rule, even a not-so-good rule, is better than a subjective decision-making process.
You meant "deduce," not "deduct," right? I got a little confused in your third point.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Dec 28, 2009 20:42:04 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Consider Me Gone" Reba Greatest Gainer No. 32 "Candy Cane Christmas" Darius Rucker Hot Shot Debut No. 55 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Willie Nelson Featuring Norah Jones Debut No. 56 "Unstoppable" Rascal Flatts Debut No. 60 "Gold And Green" Sugarland
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 30, 2009 11:55:02 GMT -5
6. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: September 11, 2001. The question is: Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning? I will bet ANY amount of money that after eight years, you can tell me what you did EVERY minute of that day (I know I can). I NEVER thought I would ever live to see the day where a quartet of airplanes would destroy the tallest buildings in New York City, damage the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crash into a field in Pennsylvania. EVERY American was moved (including Alan Jackson). The story goes that a month after the attacks, he woke up in the middle of the night and decided to write what he felt at the time. To say it was a masterpiece would be the ultimate understatement. It was what the country needed to hear at the time. He debuted the song at the C.M.A. Awards and received a much deserved standing ovation. Arista Records decided to rush release the single and the upcoming CD Drive. Country radio (and EVEN some pop stations) started playing the live version the next day. Because of strong initial airplay, the single debuted at #25 on the 11-24-01 chart (Toby Keith, who had the #1 hit during 9-11 with I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight, had just nabbed another #1 that week with I Wanna Talk About Me). It took five weeks to hit #1 and stayed there for five weeks becoming Jackson's biggest hit to date. The Drive CD was released in January, 2002 where it debuted at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. It yielded three other top ten hits: 1. Drive For Daddy Gene-#1 in 2002 2. Work In Progress-#3 in 2002 3. That'd Be Alright-#2 in 2003 Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning also appeared on the next release, Greatest Hits Volume II in 2003. Jackson also shared chart space with two new patriotic songs: David Ball's Riding With Private Malone and Aaron Tippin's Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly. Even Lee Greenwood made a second trip into the top 20 with God Bless The U.S.A.. Over the next several years, other country stars released patriotic songs that fit the mood at the time: Keith's Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue The Angry American and American Soldier. Darryl Worley offered Have You Forgotten?. Other country stars went the inspirational route: Randy Travis' Three Wooden Crosses and Diamond Rio's I Believe. What should NEVER be forgotten is the following: 1. 3000 people lost their lives. 2. A New York skyline forever changed. 3. A Pennsylvania field scarred forever due to the selfless acts of passengers to avert more deaths and destruction. 4. A rebuilt Pentagon, showing the resolve of this great nation. 5. A new awareness that our enemies will do ANYTHING to destroy us. The date September 11, 2001 is right up there with another date that will live in infamy, December 7, 1941. 'Faith, hope, and love are a few things He gave us and the greatest is love'. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 29, 2001: 1. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED TURNING-ALAN JACKSON-ARISTA 2. I Wanna Talk About Me-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 3. Run-George Strait-MCA 4. Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly-Aaron Tippin-Lyric Street 5. Good Morning Beautiful-Steve Holy-Curb 6. I'm Tryin'-Trace Adkins-Capitol 7. Riding With Private Malone-David Ball-Dualtone 8. Wrapped Up In You-Garth Brooks-Capitol 9. Wrapped Around-Brad Paisley-Arista 10. Bring On The Rain-Jo Dee Messina-Curb
I am repeating this for what today is all about.
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Post by drock89 on Jan 4, 2010 16:32:39 GMT -5
Predictions for the next four weeks:
January 23, 2010: Reba January 30, 2010: Dierks February 6, 2010: Tim February 13, 2010: Miranda
Feel free to post yours.
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Post by phil1996 on Jan 4, 2010 16:41:40 GMT -5
1-23---Reba 1-30---Dierks 2-6-----Tim 2-13---Tim
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Post by countryfan2002 on Jan 4, 2010 16:51:09 GMT -5
Predictions for the next four weeks: January 23, 2010: Reba January 30, 2010: Dierks February 6, 2010: Tim February 13, 2010: Miranda Feel free to post yours. Mine are the same as yours. Strange to see Reba and Tim back at #1, followed by Miranda.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 4, 2010 16:53:10 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Consider Me Gone" Reba Greatest Gainer No. 8 "History In The Making" Darius Rucker Hot Shot Debut No. 54 "Jackson Hole" James Wesley Debut No. 57 "I Gotta Get To You" George Strait Debut No. 58 "Ala-Freakin-Bama" Trace Adkins Debut No. 60 "One More Drinkin' Song" Jerrod Niemann
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Post by countryfan2002 on Jan 4, 2010 16:54:36 GMT -5
at #58
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Post by joey2002 on Jan 4, 2010 16:59:13 GMT -5
Predictions for the next four weeks: January 23, 2010: Reba January 30, 2010: Dierks February 6, 2010: Tim February 13, 2010: Miranda Feel free to post yours. January 23: Dierks January 30: Tim February 6: Tim February 13: Miranda
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Post by Marv on Jan 4, 2010 20:30:38 GMT -5
I agree with joey2002.
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 5, 2010 2:13:22 GMT -5
at #58 The song's off to a miserable start, if it's any consolation. In a post Christmas week that it should've taken advantage of and easily been the top debut, it gained a measly 17 spins and .039 aud. That's less than both James Wesley and Jerrod Niemann. Maybe lightbulbs will start going off for the folks at Capitol and they'll yank it before it can do any damage.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 5, 2010 10:57:39 GMT -5
1. HAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY CHART: This is the 66th anniversary of the country chart being published in 1944. From Pistol Packin' Mama by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters to Consider Me Gone by Reba McEntire, you can say that the best artists and songs spent time in the best place on Earth-the Billboard Country Chart! 2. REBA, REBA, REBA: Speaking of Consider Me Gone by Reba McEntire, it is now #1 for the third week, becoming her biggest hit to date. Here are the ten biggest hits of her career. First, by number of weeks at #1, followed by number of weeks in the top 40: 1. Consider Me Gone-2010-3-? 2. If You See Him/If You See Her-with Brooks & Dunn-1998-2-20 3. Is There Life Out There-1992-2-19 4. For My Broken Heart-1991-2-19 5. The Heart Won't Lie-with Vince Gill-1993-2-16 6. Mind Your Own Business-with Hank Williams, Jr., Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the Reverend Ike-1986-2-14 7. Somebody-2004-1-30 8. You Lie-1990-1-19 9. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter-1995-1-17 10. How Was I To Know-1997-1-17 I would like to wish McEntire a very happy 55th birthday this upcoming March! 3. NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Carrie Underwood is at #17 with Temporary Home while Jason Michael Carroll is at #18 with Hurry Home. 4. THE BIGGEST LOSER: All but one song on this week's chart see audience gains. Smile by Uncle Kracker is the ONLY song to see a decrease in audience and is at #53. 5. NO CHRISTMAS THIS WEEK: As expected, there are NO Christmas songs on this week's chart. We will see them again in eleven months! 6. THE #1S ON THE ZEROS: These were the top hits in 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, and 1950: 2000: Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 1990: Who's Lonely Now-Highway 101-Warner Bros. 1980: Coward Of The County-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 1970: Baby, Baby I Know You're A Lady-David Houston-Epic 1960: El Paso-Marty Robbins-Columbia 1950: Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer-Gene Autry-Columbia 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: The question of the day is: Is country music really AMERICAN music? After all, Hank Snow, a Canadian has the #1 hit of ALL time with I'm Moving On (#1 for 21 weeks in 1950). Another Canadian, Shania Twain has the best selling country CD of ALL time with Come On Over (over 23 million sold). It was our #1 CD ten years ago this week. Twain signed with Mercury Records in 1992 with Toby Keith and Jon Brannen (you MUST remember J.B.!). They were packaged as 'Mercury's triple play'. While Brannen NEVER achieved the heights that Twain enjoyed, Twain did NOT achieve the 'right out of the box' success Keith had. Keith's debut CD (self-titled) went platinum and yielded the following hits: 1. Should've Been A Cowboy-1993-#1 and the decade's most played song 2. He Ain't Worth Missing-1993-#5 3. A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action-1994-#2 4. Wish I Didn't Know Now-1994-#2 On the Twain side, her self-titled debut CD yielded two #55 hits in 1993: What Made You Say That and Dance With The One That Brought You. It went gold after she hit it big with the next release, The Woman In Me. While her debut CD was spinning off those two singles, she met Robert John 'Mutt' Lange and married him just before year's end. He is known for producing such acts as Def Leppard, Foreigner, Bryan Adams, and Billy Ocean. In 1994, they decided to work on her next CD. ALL twelve songs were written by BOTH Twain and Lange. The Woman In Me yielded the following hits: 1. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under-1995-#11 2. Any Man Of Mine-1995-#1 3. The Woman In Me Needs The Man In You-1995-#14 4. If You're Not In It For Love I'm Outta Here-1996-#1 5. You Win My Love-1996-#1 6. No One Needs To Know-1996-#1 7. Home Ain't Where His Heart Is Anymore-1996-#28 The Woman In Me went on to sell over 12 million copies and stayed at #1 on the country album chart for 29 weeks between 1995-1996. It reached #5 on the top 200 chart. How do you follow such a monster CD? By releasing the MOST successful CD ever and that is what Twain did during the fall of 1997. The Come On Over Era (1997-2000) started and Twain rewrote ALL sorts of records. It should have been called her greatest hits CD because so many hits came off that CD. They were: 1. Love Gets Me Every Time-1997-#1-chart wise, her biggest hit 2. Don't Be Stupid You Know I Love You-1998-#6 3. You're Still The One-1998-#1 4. From This Moment On-with Bryan White-1998-#6 5. Honey, I'm Home-1998-#1 6. That Don't Impress Me Much-1999-#8 7. Man! I Feel Like A Woman!-1999-#4 8. You've Got A Way-1999-#13 9. Come On Over-1999-#6 10. Rock This Country!-2000-#30 11. I'm Holding On To Love To Save My Life-2000-#17 The Come On Over CD spent 50 weeks at #1 on the country album chart (a record) out of a total of three years on the charts. It remains the ONLY CD to spend time at #1 in four consecutive years. The breakdown: 1997-3 weeks 1998-19 weeks 1999-26 weeks 2000-2 weeks The best selling country CD of all time peaked at #2 on the top 200 chart. During this time Twain received the C.M.A. Entertainer of the Year Award in 1999 and A.C.M. Entertainer of the Year in 2000. Since Come On Over, Twain has released two more CDs: Up! in 2002 and Greatest Hits in 2004. Come On Over was recently ranked as the #31 CD for the decade. Not bad for a twelve year old release! Now, the question is: Who has the second best charted country album of all time? It is Randy Travis' Always & Forever CD. It spent 43 weeks at #1 between 1987-1988 out of a total of four years on the charts. Garth Brooks still has the second best selling CD of all time with No Fences. It is certified at 17 times platinum. This is what the chart looked like back then (remember, this is Twain's LAST week at #1):
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 8, 2000: 1. COME ON OVER-SHANIA TWAIN-MERCURY 2. Fly-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 3. Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 4. The Magic Of Christmas-Garth Brooks-Capitol 5. A Place In The Sun-Tim McGraw-Curb 6. Le Ann Rimes-Le Ann Rimes-Curb 7. Under The Influence-Alan Jackson-Arista 8. Wide Open Spaces-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 9. So Good Together-Reba McENtire-MCA 10. Lonely Grill-Lonestar-BNA
P.S.: The BIG question is: When will Twain release her next CD?
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 11, 2010 16:47:29 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Consider Me Gone" Reba Greatest Gainer No. 6 "The Truth" Jason Aldean Hot Shot Debut No. 50 "This Is Our Moment" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 59 "Cold Beer" Colt Ford Featuring Jamey Johnson Debut No. 60 "Rain Is A Good Thing" Luke Bryan
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 12, 2010 11:03:58 GMT -5
1. HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY ALBUM CHART!: This is the 46th anniversary of the country album chart being published in 1964. From Ring Of Fire The Best Of Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash to Fearless by Taylor Swift, you can say that the best artists and albums spent time in the best place on Earth-the Billboard Country Album Chart! 2. STILL #1: Reba McEntire continues to have the ONLY #1 hit of 2010 as Consider Me Gone holds the top spot for the fourth week. It succeeded the five week #1 Need You Now by Lady Antebellum. The last time two consecutive #1s reigned for nine weeks is when Taylor Swift was #1 for six weeks with Our Song in 2007 and was replaced by the four week #1 Letter To Me by Brad Paisley in 2008. 3. WHAT'S THE HURRY?: After 45 weeks (87% of a year), David Nail's Red Light has been deleted from the charts. To think: We were JUST getting to know you! It debuted at #58 in March, 2009. 4. NAME IT AFTER ME: Jaron And The Long Road To Love are at #57 with Pray For You. It is on the Jaronwood label. They become the fourth artist to chart on their namesake label. They follow: the Bellamy Brothers, Dolly Parton, and Lonestar. 5. THE TOP SELLERS ON THE ZEROS: These were the top selling CDs in 2000, 1990, 1980, and 1970: 2000: Fly-the Dixie Chicks 1990: No Holdin' Back-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1980: Kenny-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 1970: The Best Of Charley Pride-Charley Pride-RCA 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: A new feature in my weekly Country ChartBeat will be to rank the ten biggest hits by a certain artist. You can say I started it last week with Reba McEntire. I will go back to the chart's beginnings and rank Al Dexter's ten biggest hits. He had the most #1 hits from 1944-1948. First, by number of weeks at #1, followed by weeks in the top 40. He had seven #1 hits and three #2 hits, so the space between titles are separating the #1s from the #2s. 1. Guitar Polka-1946-16-29 2. So Long Pal-1944-13-30 3. I'm Losing My Mind Over You-1945-7-21 4. Wine, Women, And Song-1946-5-13 5. Pistol Packin' Mama-1944-3-10 6. Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry-1944-2-30 7. Rosalita-1944-1-25
8. Triflin' Gal-1945-5-11 9. I'll Wait For You Dear-1945-1-10 10. Honey Do You Think It's Wrong-1946-1-08 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: You can certainly say that 2006 was George Strait's year. After all, he started the year by collecting his 40th #1 hit, She Let Herself Go, our #1 hit from four years ago this week. The CD where that hit came from, Somewhere Down In Texas opened at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. Its first single release was the religious themed You'll Be There, a single I thought would hit #1 considering its fast start at country radio. It peaked at #4 during the spring of 2005. Because of unsolicited airplay, Texas made #35 during the summer of 2005. It became Strait's 79th top 40 hit. Finally, the second single release, She Let Herself Go was released in the fall of 2005 and became his record tying (with Conway Twitty) 40th chart topping hit during the winter of 2006. The third release, The Seashores Of Old Mexico became Strait's second #11 hit (following Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa in 2003). It became time for Strait to release another CD and this time history was made when Give It Away became the 41st chart topper of his career. Shortly after that song topped the charts, Strait was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame (well deserved I thought). Since 2006, Strait has collected the following chart topping hits: 1. It Just Comes Natural-2007 2. I Saw God Today-2008 3. River Of Love-2009 The follow up to River Of Love set a new standard for Strait. It became his first self-written hit (along with his son 'Bubba' and Dean Dillon). Living For The Night peaked at #2 during the fall of 2009. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 14, 2006: 1. SHE LET HERSELF GO-GEORGE STRAIT-MCA 2. Jesus, Take The Wheel-Carrie Underwood-Arista 3. Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right-Billy Currington-Mercury 4. Good Ride Cowboy-Garth Brooks-Pearl/WalMart 5. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk-Trace Adkins-Capitol 6. Come A Little Closer-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 7. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off-Joe Nichols-Universal South 8. When I Get Where I'm Going-Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton-Arista 9. Boondocks-Little Big Town-Equity 10. Who You'd Be Today-Kenny Chesney-BNA
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Post by Zazie on Jan 12, 2010 13:59:50 GMT -5
^ I'm relieved to know that you consider George Strait's induction into the Hall of Fame well-deserved. Most artists with 40+ #1 songs would be pretty borderline as candidates, I suppose, so I wouldn't know which way to go -- but if you think he's deserving, then I do too.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 18, 2010 16:13:52 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Southern Voice" Tim McGraw Greatest Gainer No. 20 "Fearless" Taylor Swift Hot Shot Debut No. 52 "This Ain't Nothin' " Craig Morgan Debut No. 58 "Stay Here Forever" Jewel Debut No. 60 "Mr. Goodtime" Colt Ford
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 20, 2010 10:55:37 GMT -5
1. A #1 VOICE: Tim McGraw collects his 22nd #1 hit with Southern Voice, the title track of his current CD. This comes nearly three years after Last Dollar Fly Away hit the top in 2007. It also comes 13 months after the title track of his last CD, Let It Go became a #2 hit. For a song that name checks Martin Luther King, the timing is impeccable! You can say McGraw is on a roll lately. After all, he scored a: 1. #1 CD in Southern Voice in November. 2. #1 movie in The Blind Side in December. 3. #1 hit in Southern Voice in January. 2. TRUTH TRUMPS LIAR: This is the first week Jason Aldean's The Truth (at #3) is higher than Miranda Lambert's White Liar (at #4). 3. OUCH!: When you leave a label, your single goes south in a hurry. Trace Adkins, Show Dog-Universal's newest artist sees his last Capitol single Ala-Freakin-Bama fall ten to #59. His duet with Blake Shelton, Hillbilly Bone is at #16 this week. 4. THE #1S ON THE FIVES: These were the top hits from 2005, 1995, 1985, 1975, 1965, 1955, and 1945: 2005: Awful, Beautiful Life-Darryl Worley-Dreamworks 1995: Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 1985: How Blue-Reba McEntire-MCA 1975: Kentucky Gambler-Merle Haggard-Capitol 1965: You're The Only World I Know-Sonny James-Capitol 1955: Loose Talk-Carl Smith-Columbia-we miss you, Carl! 1945: I'm Wastin' My Tears On You-Tex Ritter-Capitol 5. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: We ranked the artist with the most #1 hits from 1944-1948 last week, Al Dexter. Now, let us rank the next artist with the most #1s from 1948-1980: Eddy Arnold. First, by weeks at #1 and second, by weeks in the top 40. 1. I'll Hold You In My Heart Till I Can Hold You In My Arms-1947-21-46 2. Bouquet Of Roses-1948-19-54 3. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle-1949-12-31 4. I Wanna Play House With You-1951-11-24 5. There's Been A Change In Me-1951-11-23 6. Anytime-1948-9-39 7. Just A Little Lovin' Will Go A Long, Long Way-1948-8-32 8. I Want To Go With You-1966-6-17 9. It's A Sin-1947-5-38 10. I'm Throwing Rice At The Girl That I Love-1949-4-22 6. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: This is an easy one to write. First, the headline would read: THE B.D.S. ERA TURNS TWENTY Second, I am quoting from The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn. NEW CHART METHODOLOGY For decades, the country charts were compiled from playlists reported by radio stations. On January 20, 1990, with the aid of a new technology, Billboard initiated an even more accurate method of gathering data. On that date, Billboard began compiling their country singles chart entirely from play totals gathered by Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). BDS is a subsidiary of Billboard that electronically monitors actual radio airplay. They have installed monitors throughout the country that track the airplay of songs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These monitors can identify each song played by an encoded audio 'fingerprint'. Because of this electronic monitoring system, Billboard now includes album tracks on the renamed Hot Country Songs. In this book, all charted album tracks are identified by the words 'LP Cut' next to their label name in the 'Label & Number' column (ex.: Capitol). The album track is from is noted in title trivia. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 20, 1990: 1. Nobody's Home-Clint Black-RCA 2. My Arms Stay Open All Night-Tanya Tucker-Capitol 3. Statue Of A Fool-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 4. Southern Star-Alabama-RCA 5. It Ain't Nothin'-Keith Whitley-RCA 6. It's You Again-Skip Ewing-MCA 7. When I Could Come Home To You-Steve Wariner-MCA 8. Many A Long And Lonesome Highway-Rodney Crowell-Columbia 9. That Just About Does It-Vern Gosdin-Columbia 10. Start All Over Again-Desert Rose Band-MCA
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Post by Marv on Jan 21, 2010 0:34:40 GMT -5
I heard an astonishing song by Ms. McEntire for the very first time while listening to 'After Midnite' on WGAR/Cleveland moments ago, and part of the lyrics goes 'Have you ever cheated on him/Only in my mind.
That's a wonderful song, and I was wondering what the title was, as well as its chart peak, including the month & year?
Thanks!
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Post by joey2002 on Jan 21, 2010 0:49:14 GMT -5
I heard an astonishing song by Ms. McEntire for the very first time while listening to 'After Midnite' on WGAR/Cleveland moments ago, and part of the lyrics goes 'Have you ever cheated on him/Only in my mind. That's a wonderful song, and I was wondering what the title was, as well as its chart peak, including the month & year? Thanks! The song title is "Only In My Mind". It was released in September of 1985 -- and I believe it peaked at #5 on Billboard towards the end of 1985.
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Post by musicrocks on Jan 21, 2010 1:05:11 GMT -5
1. A #1 VOICE: Tim McGraw collects his 22nd #1 hit with Southern Voice, the title track of his current CD. This comes nearly three years after Last Dollar Fly Away hit the top in 2007. It also comes 13 months after the title track of his last CD, Let It Go became a #2 hit. For a song that name checks Martin Luther King, the timing is impeccable! You can say McGraw is on a roll lately. After all, he scored a: 1. #1 CD in Southern Voice in November. 2. #1 movie in The Blind Side in December. 3. #1 hit in Southern Voice in January. You're wrong, it's his 23rd #1. Here's the proof: www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/chart-beat-wednesday-tim-mcgraw-michael-1004060422.storyRAISING HIS 'VOICE': Tim McGraw takes over the top spot on Country Songs (to be refreshed, along with all Billboard charts, tomorrow on billboard.com), as "Southern Voice" rises 3-1. The song is McGraw's first leader on the list since "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" reigned on the chart dated April 14, 2007. The title cut to McGraw's 10th studio album marks the singer's 23rd visit to the summit of Country Songs. In the span since his first topper, "Don't Take the Girl," on May 28, 1994, no artist has notched more No. 1s. George Strait ranks second in that stretch with 19 No. 1s. McGraw's latest coronation adds a new chapter to the success of his "Southern Voice" album. In November, McGraw established a first in the 53-year history of the Billboard 200 when the set debuted at No. 2, granting the singer a top 10 ranking with each of his 13 Billboard 200 chart entries. Previously, no artists had sent their first 13 charted titles into the Billboard 200's top 10 since the list's launch as a weekly survey on March 24, 1956.
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Post by WamuFive on Jan 21, 2010 11:11:11 GMT -5
The discrepancy is due to Billboard's inclusion of "Bring On The Rain", a Jo Dee Messina song in which McGraw received credits for his background vocals, in Tim's #1 total. I believe countryhistorian is choosing not to count this as a #1 for Tim since it was not a true duet.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 21, 2010 12:23:26 GMT -5
For Marv and joey2002: Only In My Mind was the first and ONLY hit by Reba McEntire to be written by her. You are correct to say that it peaked at #5 toward the end of 1985. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 28, 1985: 1. Have Mercy-the Judds-RCA 2. Morning Desire-Kenny Rogers-RCA 3. Bop-Dan Seals-EMI America 4. Never Be You-Rosanne Cash-Columbia 5. ONLY IN MY MIND-REBA MCENTIRE-MCA 6. Home Again In My Heart-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Warner Bros. 7. Somebody Else's Fire-Janie Frickie-Columbia 8. Memories To Burn-Gene Watson-Epic 9. Just In Case-the Forester Sisters-Warner Bros. 10. A World Without Love-Eddie Rabbitt-RCA
For everyone else: I WILL stand by my words and say that Bring On The Rain is NOT really a duet between Jo Dee Messina and Tim McGraw. I have covered that in my #1 Artists thread this week. For those of you who want to count it, that is fine. After all, look at the last #1 hit by Conway Twitty, Desperado Love in 1986. How many of you are willing to count that as a duet between Mr. T. and Vince Gill? Same thing! Thank you!
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 25, 2010 17:17:29 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "The Truth" Jason Aldean Greatest Gainer No. 18 "Fearless" Taylor Swift Hot Shot Debut No. 51 "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong" Martina McBride Debut No. 52 "Today Was A Fairytale" Taylor Swift Debut No. 57 "I Keep On Lovin' You" Reba Debut No. 59 "Best Of Both Worlds" Darryl Worley Debut No. 60 "Free" Jack Ingram
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