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Post by Zazie on Feb 13, 2010 14:43:59 GMT -5
The ACC formula for producing a top 100 list was hopeless until the mid-1990's, and I just can't take it seriously as a way of ranking songs. I won't list the hundreds of poorly-ranked songs here -- but really they didn't do a good job on any of the songs that crossed the borders of two chart years, for one thing. And there were other problems.
I reject ACC's rankings as a way of determining which song was a bigger hit.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Feb 15, 2010 18:42:02 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Why Don't We Just Dance" Josh Turner Hot Shot Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 23 "Ain't Back Yet" Kenny Chesney Debut No. 57 "Kiss Me Now" Katie Armiger Debut No. 58 "A Woman Needs" Jessica Harp Debut No. 60 "Sunshine (Everybody Needs A Little)" Steve Azar
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 15, 2010 19:21:05 GMT -5
I was able to find Billboard's top hits for 1986. These are the top five: 1. Never Be You-Rosanne Cash-Columbia 2. Too Much On My Heart-the Statler Bros.-Mercury 3. I Don't Mind The Thorns If You're The Rose-Lee Greenwood-MCA 4. Have Mercy-the Judds-RCA 5. I'll Never Stop Loving You-Gary Morris-Warner Bros.
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 17, 2010 11:09:54 GMT -5
1. STILL DANCING: Josh Turner spends a second week at #1 with Why Don't We Just Dance. He has spent five weeks at #1 with his three chart toppers. They are: 1. Your Man-2006-1 2. Would You Go WIth Me-2006-2 3. Why Don't We Just Dance-2010-2 so far 2. DOING A GARTH BROOKS?: Sure, Kenny Chesney said last year he was taking a year off from touring, but that has NOT stopped him from issuing 'new' music. His Greatest Hits II will be reissued containing two new songs. Ain't Back Yet blasts its way to #23, making it Chesney's third highest debut to date. Don't Blink from 2007 started its chart life at #16. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (with the Wailers) in 2008 started at #22. A prior charting song from this year, This Is Our Moment peaked at #46. 3. SESAME STREET COUNTRY: Temporary Home by Carrie Underworm (I mean Underwood) is at #8 this week. Since Brooks & Dunn are retiring this year, we need Bert and Ernie to release their debut CD soon! 4. FAST MOVERS: George Strait made the second biggest move on the charts last week. This week he has the fastest rising single. I Gotta Get To You climbs 14 spaces to #29. Reba McEntire is no slouch either. She has the second fastest climbing song. She goes up 11 to #31 with I Keep On Loving You. 5. TOP TWOS INTACT: By moving to #2 (from #3), Brad Paisley continues to reach the top two for the 12th consecutive time with American Saturday Night. His last time peaking outside the top two was in 2005 when Alcohol peaked at #4. 6. #1S FROM YESTERDAY: These were the top hits from 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: Bless The Broken Road-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 2000: Cowboy Take Me Away-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 1995: My Kind Of Girl-Collin Raye-Epic 1990: On Second Thought-Eddie Rabbitt-Capitol 1985: Make My Life With You-the Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Kenny Rogers recently announced he would be starring in a TV show saluting his 50 years in the music business. These are his ten biggest hits. First number is the weeks at #1. Second number is the weeks in the top 40. 1. The Gambler-1978-3-11 2. Coward Of The County-1980-3-09 3. Islands In The Stream-with Dolly Parton-1983-2-15 4. Lucille-1977-2-14 5. She Believes In Me-1979-2-11 6. Every Time Two Fools Collide-with Dottie West-1978-2-11 7. I Don't Need You-1981-2-10 8. You Decorated My Life-1979-2-09 9. Buy Me A Rose-2000-1-28 10. Real Love-with Dolly Parton-1985-1-16 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: It happened in 1975. What happened in 1975? Well, give me a minute and I will tell you! One of the hottest acts on the pop charts that year was Elton John. His hit list from that year was: 1. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds-#1 2. Philadelphia Freedom-#1 3. Someone Saved My Life Tonight-#4 4. Island Girl-#1 In the middle of that amazing chart run, John did something NEVER done before. As a matter of fact, he did it TWICE! What did he do? He released two albums within six months of each other that DEBUTED at #1. They were Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rock Of The Westies. Pretty impressive, if you were to ask me! Fast forward twelve years and this time we are talking about the same thing that happened on the country album charts. After six years of making his debut, George Strait became the first country artist to debut a CD at #1: Ocean Front Property in 1987. It yielded the following hits: 1. Ocean Front Property-1987-#1 2. All My Ex's Live In Texas-1987-#1 3. Am I Blue-1987-#1 Another amazing chart run from another amazing artist. For good measure, the CD peaked at #117 on the top 200 chart. Strait recorded Ocean Front Property while charting hits from his previous CD, #7. Something unspeakable happened while he was charting the first #7 single, Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her (#1 in 1986). His daughter Jenifer was killed in a car accident. For awhile, he decided to retreat from the public eye, but ultimately decided to press on. Something good happened on the heels of the second #7 single, It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You (#1 in 1986). He won his second C.M.A. Male Vocalist of the Year Award and dedicated it to Jenifer. It has been said that Strait is the king of #1 hits, but he is also the king of #1 CDs. Those chart topping CDs are: 1. Right Or Wrong-1984 2. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind-1985 3. Something Special-1985 4. #7-1986 5. OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY-1987 6. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2-1987 7. If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'-1988 8. Beyond The Blue Neon-1989 9. Livin' It Up-1990 10. Pure Country-1993 11. Lead On-1994 12. Blue Clear Sky-1996 13. Carrying Your Love With Me-1997 14. One Step At A Time-1998 15. Latest Greatest Straitest Hits-2000 16. George Strait-2000 17. The Road Less Traveled-2001 18. Honkytonkville-2003 19. 50 Number Ones-2004 20. Somewhere Down In Texas-2005 21. It Just Comes Natural-2006 22. Troubadour-2008 23. Twang-2009 This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 14, 1987: LAST WEEK-THIS WEEK-TITLE-ARTIST-LABEL **. 01. OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY-GEORGE STRAIT-MCA 01. 02. What Am I Gonna Do About You-Reba McEntire-MCA 02. 03. The Touch-Alabama-RCA 03. 04. Storms Of Life-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 05. 05. Too Many Times-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 06. 06. Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.-Dwight Yoakam-Reprise 08. 07. Wine Colored Roses-George Jones-Epic 10. 08. Out Goin' Cattin'-Sawyer Brown-Capitol 09. 09. Guitar Town-Steve Earle-MCA 11. 10. Rockin' With The Rhythm-the Judds-RCA
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Post by drock89 on Feb 21, 2010 16:44:48 GMT -5
Also this week...
Country singer Josh Turner is the third-best bow on the chart, as his "Haywire" lights up at No. 5 with 85,000 copies. It's the artist's third straight top 10 album and follows up "Everything Is Fine," which debuted and peaked at No. 5 with 84,000 in 2007. On the Top Country Albums chart, Turner enters at No. 2 behind Lady A's "Need You Now."
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Feb 22, 2010 18:53:54 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Why Don't We Just Dance" Josh Turner Greatest Gainer No. 15 "Ain't Back Yet" Kenny Chesney Hot Shot Debut No. 49 "Crazy Town" Jason Aldean Debut No. 51 "The House That Built Me" Miranda Lambert Debut No. 52 "Lover, Lover" Jerrod Niemann Debut No. 53 "Ain't No Stopping Her Now" Ash Bowers Debut No. 54 "Chillin' " Blaine Larsen
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 23, 2010 11:04:14 GMT -5
1. HIS GREATEST DANCE: Josh Turner spends a third week at #1 with Why Don't We Just Dance. By spending 21 days at the top, he has scored his biggest hit this year after being on the charts for almost seven years. 2. FROM #1 AND #2 TO #49 AND #51: They finished at #1 and #2 with their last singles (The Truth and White Liar, respectively), but Jason Aldean grabs Hot Shot Debut honors at #49 with Crazy Town while Miranda Lambert strikes at #51 with The House That Built Me. 3. ARTIST-SONGWRITER: Blaine Larsen debuts at #54 with Chillin'. It is his eighth time on the charts. His biggest hit is How Do You Get That Lonely (#18 in 2005). As a songwriter, he is at #24 with I Gotta Get To You by George Strait. 4. TODAY IS YESTERDAY: After 34 weeks on the charts, Today by Gary Allan has been deleted from the charts. By peaking at #18, it became Allan's 16th major (top 20) hit. The oldest song on the charts now is Sarah Buxton's Outside My Window (at 34 weeks). 5. A 90S LOOK: These were the songs that topped the charts during the last week in February: 1990: No Matter How High-the Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 1991: Walk On Faith-Mike Reid-Columbia 1992: What She's Doing Now-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1993: What Part Of No-Lorrie Morgan-BNA 1994: I Swear-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 1995: Old Enough To Know Better-Wade Hayes-Columbia 1996: Wild Angels-Martina McBride-RCA 1997: Running Out Of Reasons To Run-Rick Trevino-Columbia 1998: What If I Said-Anita Cochran and Steve Wariner-Warner Bros. 1999: I Don't Want To Miss A Thing-Mark Chesnutt-Decca 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Let us salute the Man In Black, Johnny Cash (we miss you, Johnny!) for two reasons. First, he would have turned 78 this week. Second, his American VI CD dropped in stores this week. Number of weeks at #1 will be first, followed by number of weeks in the top 40. 1. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen-1958-10-23 2. Guess Things Happen That Way-1958-8-24 3. Ring Of Fire-1963-7-26 4. I Walk The Line-1956-6-43 5. Understand Your Man-1964-6-22 6. Don't Take Your Guns To Town-1959-6-20 7. Daddy Sang Bass-1969-6-19 8. There You Go-1957-5-28 9. A Boy Named Sue-1969-5-12 10. Folsom Prison Blues-1968-4-16 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: One of the most amazing chart reigns in country music ended 22 years ago this week when Merle Haggard collected his 38th (and final) #1 hit, Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star. He did so during his 25th year in the business. In 1963, Haggard signed with Tally Records and charted with his first major (top 20) hit Sing A Sad Song (#19 in 1964). His first top ten came in 1965 with My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers (#10). A competing version by Roy Drusky titled From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers hit #6. 1965 saw Haggard move from Tally to Capitol Records where he had his greatest creative and commercial success. His first single for the label reached the top 50 in late 1965 (I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can). He reeled off 35 consecutive top tens for Capitol Records. His second single Swinging Doors hit #5 in 1966. The Bottle Let Me Down also hit the top five in 1966. His first #1 came the following year in The Fugitive. He would hit #1 eight more times between 1967-1970 (his classic hits during this time include: Mama Tried-1968, Workin' Man Blues-1969, Okie From Muskogee-1969 and chart wise, his biggest hit, and The Fightin' Side Of Me-1970). The 1970 C.M.A. Award show should have been called 'The Haggard Show' as he won Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Album and Single of the Year for Okie From Muskogee. He would have other chart topping hits in: Carolyn-1972, If We Make It Through December-1973, Old Man From The Mountain-1974, Movin' On-1975, and Cherokee Maiden-1976 (his last #1 for Capitol Records). Between 1976-1981, he was with MCA Records where his first two singles peaked at #2: If We're Not Back In Love By Monday and Ramblin' Fever (both in 1977). The following year he scored his biggest #2 hit, It's Been A Great Afternoon. He scored his first #1 hit in four years in 1980: Bar Room Buddies with Clint Eastwood off the Bronco Billy soundtrack. His ONLY #1 for MCA came in 1981 with I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink. He managed to recharge his batteries during his Epic years (1981-1989) when he hit #1 with his first two singles (both classics) My Favorite Memory (1981) and Big City (1982). His classic duets with George Jones (Yesterday's Wine-1982) and Willie Nelson (Pancho And Lefty-1983) hit #1. His 1984 #1 hit, That's The Way Love Goes became his ONLY Grammy Award winning song. He would hit #1 four more times until 1985 (Natural High being the last for three years). Haggard would have two more top tens (I Had A Beautiful Time-1968-#5 and A Friend In California-1968-#9). 1987 became his first year NOT having a top ten hit since 1964. It was during the fall of 1987 when Haggard released his Chill Factor CD (where Twinkle, Twinke Lucky Star appeared) and the first single release hit the top three months later. Since Star's #1 ranking, he would have three more major (top 20) hits: 1. Chill Factor-1988-#9 2. 5:01 Blues-1989-#18 3. A Better Love Next Time-1989-#4 (his 71st and final top ten) During the 1990s, Haggard found himself on Curb Records. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994. Two years later, Capitol Records released a four CD boxed set Down Every Road detailing his time on the FIVE labels he was with. During the 2000s, Haggard returned to Capitol Records where two studio CDs, two greatest hits CDs, and ten classic Haggard albums were remastered and released. He has just signed with Vanguard Records. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 20, 1988: 1. TWINKLE, TWINKLE LUCKY STAR-MERLE HAGGARD-EPIC 2. I Won't Take Less Than Your Love-Tanya Tucker, Paul Davis, and Paul Overstreet-Capitol 3. Face To Face-Alabama-RCA 4. Too Gone Too Long-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 5. Oh What A Love-the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Warner Bros. 6. Do You Believe Me Now-Vern Gosdin-Columbia 7. That's My Job-Conway Twitty-MCA 8. I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl-Michael Martin Murphey-Warner Bros. 9. Tell Me True-Juice Newton-RCA 10. This Missin' You Heart Of Mine-Sawyer Brown-Capitol
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Post by leilamaurizia on Mar 2, 2010 0:42:15 GMT -5
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*** No. 1 *** "Why Don't We Just Dance" Josh Turner Greatest Gainer No. 11 "Ain't Back Yet" Kenny Chesney Hot Shot Debut No. 51 "Tell Your Sister I'm Single" Tyler Dickerson Debut No. 59 "Just Knowing You Love Me" Jimmy Wayne With Whitney Ducan Debut No. 60 "Blossom In The Dust" Mallary Hope
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 2, 2010 11:22:44 GMT -5
1. A MONTH LONG DANCE: Josh Turner continues to have the #1 hit in America with Why Don't We Just Dance. It is his fourth week at #1. Over the past 16 weeks, we have had five #1 hits. They are: 1. Need You Now-Lady Antebellum-5 2. Consider Me Gone-Reba McEntire-4 3. Southern Voice-Tim McGraw-1 4. The Truth-Jason Aldean-2 5. Why Don't We Just Dance-Josh Turner-4 We have not had this kind of slow turnover at the top since the time period between November, 2007 to March, 2008 with these hits: 1. So Small-Carrie Underwood-3 2. Our Song-Taylor Swift-6 3. Letter To Me-Brad Paisley-4 4. Cleaning This Gun Come On In Boy-Rodney Atkins-2 2. #2 AGAIN: After scoring ten consecutive chart topping hits, Brad Paisley has now scored two #2 hits: Welcome To The Future from last year and now American Saturday Night (#5 this week). The last artist to score two consecutive runner up hits was Kenny Chesney. Those 2004 hits were: I Go Back (his biggest #2 hit) and The Woman With You. In the meantime, he scored a #8 hit in Hey Good Lookin', but that was a Jimmy Buffett release. Chesney has the youngest song in the top 30 with Ain't Back Yet (#11 after three weeks). 3. ALDEAN AND LAMBERT: They were in the top two together with their last hits (The Truth and White Liar), but Jason Aldean has the fastest climbing single this week. Crazy Town vaults 13 spaces to #36. Miranda Lambert climbs 12 spots to #39 with The House That Built Me. 4. WORK AND PLAY: Gretchen Wilson is enjoying the biggest hit she has had over the past four years. Her first top 30 hit in that time is Work Hard, Play Harder (#30 this week). Her last time in that section of the chart was in 2006 when California Girls peaked at #25. 5. HALL OF FAME SALUTE: I want to take this time to salute the following artists (and producer) for making it to the Country Music Hall of Fame. They are: Jimmy Dean, Ferlin Husky, Billy Sherrill, and Don Williams. Congratulations! 6. A 90S LOOK, PART II: These were the top selling CDs during the first week in March during the 1990s: 1990: RVS III-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 1991: No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1992: Ropin' The Wind-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1993: Some Gave All-Billy Ray Cyrus-Mercury 1994: Kickin' It Up-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 1995: The Hits-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1996: The Woman In Me-Shania Twain-Mercury 1997: Unchained Melody: The Early Years-LeAnn Rimes-Curb 1998: Sevens-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1999: Wide Open Spaces-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: We ranked Johnny Cash's ten biggest hits last week. Let us keep it in the family and rank his daughter's biggest hits-Rosanne Cash. First, by weeks at #1 and second, by weeks in the top 40. 1. Never Be You-1986-1-16 2. I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me-1985-1-15 3. The Way We Make A Broken Heart-1987-1-15 4. Tennessee Flat Top Box-1988-1-15 5. If You Change Your Mind-1988-1-15 6. Runaway Train-1988-1-14 7. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party-1989-1-14 8. Seven Year Ache-1981-1-13 9. It's Such A Small World-with Rodney Crowell-1988-1-13 10. My Baby Thinks He's A Train-1981-1-11 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: When Randy Travis recorded his debut CD for Warner Bros. in 1985, he made a reference to 'Lefty'. His producer Kyle Lehning said, 'Lefty who?'. Travis gave Lehning a Lefty Frizzell album and Lehning knew what Travis was talking about. It was 46 years ago this week that Frizzell had the last of his six #1s in Saginaw, Michigan (a tropical locale, I hear!). Had Frizzell lived this month, he would have turned 82! Columbia Records signed Frizzell in 1950. His debut single became a double-sided hit. The a-side If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time was #1 in December of that year. The b-side I Love You A Thousand Ways was #1 in January of 1951. They were almost back-to-back chart toppers if Hank Williams did NOT come between them with Moanin' The Blues. Both sides of his next single were top ten hits in 1951: Look What Thoughts Will Do (#4)/Shine, Shave, Shower It's Saturday (#7). He topped the charts with his next hit I Want To Be With You Always. His biggest hit was next, staying at #1 for 12 weeks: Always Late With Your Kisses. Its b-side Mom And Dad's Waltz became his biggest #2 hit. He ended 1951 with another top ten hit in Travellin' Blues (#6). To say that 1951 was Frizzell's year would be an understatement. 1952 was another successful year for Frizzell, but not as spectacular as 1951. He started the year with his fifth #1 hit, Give Me More, More, More Of Your Of Your Kisses. It was backed with How Long Will It Take To Stop Loving You (#7). He then scored a #2 hit in Don't Stay Away Till Love Grows Cold. 1952 was ended on a #6 note, Forever And Always. He would score three more top ten hits. They were: 1. I'm An Old, Old Man Tryin' To Live While I Can-1953-#3 2. Honey, Baby, Hurry! Bring Your Sweet Self Back To Me-1953-#8 3. Run 'Em Off-1954-#8 Two top 20 hits followed: I Love You Mostly-1955-#11 and Cigarettes And Coffee Blues-1959-#13. His last top ten in the 1950s (and last for five years) was The Long Black Veil (#6 in 1959). He was out of the top 40 for four years (a shame considering what his track record was during his first nine years of being a recording artist). Two top 40 hits preceded his last #1 (Forbidden Lovers-1963-#23 and Don't Let Her See Me Cry-1963-#30). Saginaw, Michigan was released in December, 1963 and reached #1 in March,1964 (just in time for Frizzell's 36th birthday). The comeback did NOT last. He managed to score three more top 40 hits for Columbia Records with the biggest being She's Gone Gone Gone hitting #12 in 1965. He left Columbia Records in 1972 and signed with ABC in 1973. His last top 40 hits came in 1974 (I Never Go Around Mirrors-#25 and Lucky Arms-#21). He died of a stroke in 1975. He was 47 years old. He has left an imprint in country music. Frizzell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982. His followers include George Jones, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, and Keith Whitley. Nelson covered If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time (#1 in 1976) and I Love You A Thousand Ways (#9 in 1977). He even released a tribute album (To Lefty From Willie). Yoakam redid Always Late With Your Kisses (#9 in 1988). Whitley wanted to record and release I Never Go Around Mirrors, but RCA wanted something more commercial. He recorded I Wonder Do You Think Of Me (#1 in 1989). It was his first posthumous release. The Frizzell family tree can rival that of the Carter-Cash clan. His brother David had a series of country hits during the 1980s with I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home being his biggest hit (#1 in 1982). Their brother Allen was married to Shelly West during the 1970s and 1980s. Shelly's biggest hit was in 1983 with Jose Cuervo (#1). Shelly and David teamed up for a #1 duet in 1981: You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma. Shelly, of course is the daughter of the late, great Dottie West. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 7, 1964: 1. SAGINAW, MICHIGAN-LEFTY FRIZZELL-COLUMBIA 2. B.J. The D.J.-Stonewall Jackson-Columbia 3. Welcome To My World-Jim Reeves-RCA 4. Begging To You-Marty Robbins-Columbia 5. Five Little Fingers-Bill Anderson-Decca 6. Love's Gonna Live Here-Buck Owens-Capitol 7. Understand Your Man-Johnny Cash-Columbia 8. Molly-Eddy Arnold-RCA 9. Before I'm Over You-Loretta Lynn-Decca 10. Your Heart Turned Left And I Was On The Right-George Jones-United Artists
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 8, 2010 16:37:50 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "That's How Country Boys Roll" Billy Currington Greatest Gainer No. 5 "Temporary Home" Carrie Underwood Hot Shot No. 48 "Little White Church" Little Big Town Debut No. 54 "Jenny" The Harters Debut No. 57 "Way Out Here" Josh Thompson
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 9, 2010 11:39:55 GMT -5
1. BILLY ROLLS TO #1: Billy Currington collects his fourth #1 hit in That's How Country Boys Roll. This is the first time he has had two consecutive chart toppers as his previous single, People Are Crazy was #1 last year. It joins his other two songs that have reached the top: Must Be Doin' Something Right in 2005 and Good Directions in 2007. 2. I KNOW I'M LATE: When Reba McEntire's I Keep On Loving You broke top 40 on the 02-27-10 chart (at #31), she became the tenth leading artist with the most top 40 hits at 84. Here is an update on the top 10 with the most top 40s: 1. George Jones-145-1955-2005 2. Eddy Arnold-128-1945-1982 3. Johnny Cash-105-1955-1990 4. Waylon Jennings-92-1965-1991 5. Merle Haggard-92-1964-2006 6. George Strait-92-1981-2010 7. Dolly Parton-90-1967-2006 8. Conway Twitty-88-1966-1991 9. Webb Pierce-84-1952-1971 10. Reba McEntire-84-1978-2010 3. HE STILL HAS GAME: Johnny Cash's last (maybe) CD lands at #2 on the country albums chart and #3 on the top 200 albums chart after selling 54,000 copies in its first week. 4. THE EXCEPTION: In a relatively slow chart week, three singles move up pretty well. They are: 1. Every Dog Has Its Day-Toby Keith-up 9 to #38 2. The House That Built Me-Miranda Lambert-up 7 to #32 3. Crazy Town-Jason Aldean-up 6 to #30 5. YESTERDAY'S #1 HITS: These were the top songs from 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: Bless The Broken Road-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 2000: Smile-Lonestar-BNA 1995: You Can't Make A Heart Love Somebody-George Strait-MCA 1990: Chains-Patty Loveless-MCA 1985: My Only Love-the Statler Bros.-Mercury 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Congratulations to Don Williams for making it to the Country Music Hall of Fame! Here are his ten biggest hits. First, by weeks at #1, followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. I Believe In You-1980-2-12 2. Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good-1-14 3. Heartbeat In The Darkness-1986-1-13 4. That's The Thing About Love-1984-1-13 5. If Hollywood Don't Need You-1983-1-12 6. Love Is On A Roll-1983-1-12 7. Stay Young-1984-1-12 8. Love Me Over Again-1980-1-12 9. I Wouldn't Want To Live If You Didn't Love Me-1974-1-12 10. Some Broken Hearts Never Mend-1977-1-12 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: If we were to award the 'comeback of the 1990s', it would definitely go to John Anderson who had his fourth #1 hit 18 years ago this week with Straight Tequila Night (and his first in a little over eight years). Anderson represents the first wave of new traditional country singers of the 1980s along with Ricky Skaggs and George Strait. However, his career started in the 1970s when he signed with Warner Bros. in 1978. His first top 40 hit was in the same year with The Girl At The End Of The Bar (#40). His first major hits happened in 1980 with Your Lying Blue Eyes (#15) and She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs (#13). He landed his first top ten in 1981 with 1959 (#7). He reeled off four consecutive top ten hits. They were: 1. I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday-1981-#4 2. Chicken Truck-1981-#8 3. I Just Came Home To Count The Memories-1982-#7 4. Would You Catch A Falling Star-1982-#6 His career was kicked into higher gear with his next five hits. They were: 1. Wild And Blue-1982-#1 2. Swingin'-1983-#1-his ONLY gold selling single 3. Goin' Down Hill-1983-#5 4. Black Sheep-1983-#1 5. Let Somebody Else Drive-1984-#10 It was during this time he won C.M.A. Awards for Single of the Year (for Swingin') and the Horizon Award (after five years in the business!). He managed to have six major hits for Warner Bros. during the next two years. They were: 1. I Wish I Could Write You A Song-1984-#14 2. She Sure Got Away With My Heart-1984-#3 3. Eye Of A Hurricane-1985-#20 4. It's All Over Now-1985-#15 5. Down In Tennessee-1986-#12 6. Honky Tonk Crowd-1986-#10 Because Randy Travis was signed to Warner Bros. in 1985, that made Anderson the odd man out and he made a short term move to MCA Records between 1987-1989. A new decade meant a new label for Anderson (BNA). He was one of the first artists signed to the label. Shortly after, Lorrie Morgan transferred to the label from RCA. Straight Tequila Night was released in December, 1991 (during Anderson's 37th birthday) and reached #1 three months later. It was the first #1 for BNA Records. The Seminole Wind CD produced three other top ten hits. They were: 1. When It Comes To You-1992-#3 2. Seminole Wind-1992-#2 3. Let Go Of The Stone-1993-#7 His comeback lasted another two years with the following hits: 1. Money In The Bank-1993-#1 2. I Fell In The Water-1993-#13 3. I've Got It Made-1994-#3 4. I Wish I Could Have Been There-1994-#4 5. Bend It Until It Breaks-1995-#3 6. Mississippi Moon-1995-#15 If we were to divide the 1990s down the middle, Anderson would be the #1 male artist during the first half while Kenny Chesney dominated the second half as far as being on the BNA label. More recently, Anderson re-signed with Warner Bros. for a one CD deal and was made an honorary member of the MuzikMafia. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1992: 1. STRAIGHT TEQUILA NIGHT-JOHN ANDERSON-BNA 2. Dallas-Alan Jackson-Arista 3. Born Country-Alabama-RCA 4. Except For Monday-Lorrie Morgan-RCA 5. What She's Doing Now-Garth Brooks-Capitol 6. Is There Life Out There-Reba McEntire-MCA 7. Is It Cold In Here-Joe DIffie-Epic 8. Better Class Of Losers-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 9. She Is His Only Need-Wynonna Judd-MCA 10. Only The Wind-Billy Dean-Capitol
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 15, 2010 15:55:21 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Hillbilly Bone" Blake Shelton Featuring Trace Adkins Greatest Gainer No. 8 "American Honey" Lady Antebellum Hot Shot Debut No. 54 "Groovy Little Summer Song" James Otto
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1. #1 HILLBILLIES: Blake Shelton collects his sixth #1 hit while at the same time Trace Adkins gets his fourth with Hillbilly Bone. It is the first #1 duet since Down The Road with Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally from last year. It is the first #1 from the newly created 'SixPaks' from Warner Bros. Records. Getting back to the artists themselves, Hillbilly Bone follows the #1s from: Shelton: 1. Austin-2001-chart wise, his biggest hit 2. The Baby-2003 3. Some Beach-2004 4. Home-2008 5. She Wouldn't Be Gone-2009 6. Hillbilly Bone-with Adkins-2010 Adkins: 1. This Ain't No Thinkin' Thing-1997 2. Ladies Love Country Boys-2007 3. You're Gonna Miss This-2008-chart wise, his biggest hit 4. Hillbilly Bone-with Shelton-2010 Bone name checks Conway Twitty. Shelton covered Twitty's Goodbye Time in 2005 (#10). Bone marks the first #1 for Adkins since leaving the Capitol label this year. He is now on Show Dog-Universal. Can he land a major hit with them this year? His last top ten for Capitol was his last #1 for them (see above). His last major hit was All I Ask For Anymore (#14 in 2009). 2. A PERFECT TEN: Taylor Swift lands her tenth consecutive top ten with her tenth single release with Fearless (#10 this week). This is a list of her hits: 1. Tim McGraw-2007-#6 2. Teardrops On My Guitar-2007-#2 3. Our Song-2007-#1-chart wise, her biggest hit 4. Picture To Burn-2008-#3 5. Should've Said No-2008-#1 6. Love Story-2008-#1 7. White Horse-2009-#2 8. You Belong With Me-2009-#1 9. Fifteen-2009-#7 10. Fearless-2010-#10 so far She becomes the first artist on the Big Machine label to score ten top ten hits. 3. THREE TIMES TWO: Billboard 2010 is almost 33% in the history books now. However, three artists are enjoying their second major hits since December, 2009. They are: 1. Lady Antebellum-Need You Now-#1 and American Honey-#8 this week. 2. George Strait-Twang-#14 and I Gotta Get To You-#15 this week. 3. Tim McGraw-Southern Voice-#1 and Still-#20 this week. 4. THREE FOR THREE: Little Big Town has been signed to three record labels since 2001 (Monument, Equity, and Capitol). They have scored top hits for all three (Don't Waste My Time-2002-#33 on Monument and Boondocks-2006-#9 on Equity). Now they have scored their first on Capitol-Little White Church-#40 this week. Their biggest hit is Bring It On Home-2006-#4. 5. THE #1 CDS: These were the top selling CDs in 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: Feels Like Today-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 2000: Fly-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 1995: The Hits-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1990: RVS III-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 1985: FRIENDSHIP-RAY CHARLES-COLUMBIA (see below) 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: It was great to see Randy Travis win a Grammy Award this year with Carrie Underwood on I Told You So. But, does his version of I Told You So make the top ten? First number is the weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart-1990-4-22 2. Forever And Ever, Amen-1987-3-13 3. Look Heart, No Hands-1993-2-18 4. I Told You So-1988-2-12 5. Three Wooden Crosses-2003-1-25 6. If I Didn't Have You-1992-1-18 7. Whisper My Name-1994-1-17 8. Forever Together-1991-1-17 9. It's Just A Matter Of Time-1989-1-15 10. Too Gone Too Long-1988-1-15 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: One of the leading (and most influential) artists of the 20th century who had an affinity for country music finally got his due on the country charts (after amassing a ton of hits on the r&b, pop, and adult contemporary charts) 25 years ago this week. His name was Ray Charles and he became the SECOND artists to have #1s on all four charts. The song was Seven Spanish Angels and he duetted it with Willie Nelson (NO stranger to vocal collaborations himself!). Charles made his debut on the r&b charts in 1949 with Confession Blues (#2). He charted a few more hits on that chart until I Got A Woman in 1955 became the first of his 12 chart toppers. He was on the Atlantic label at this time and the first sign of his love for country music happened in 1959 when he covered the Hank Snow classic, I'm Movin' On (#11 r&b, #40 pop). Shortly after, he signed to the ABC-Paramount label and his hits started to get bigger. His third single for the new label was Georgia On My Mind (which Nelson would cover himself in 1978-#1). Charles' version not only hit #3 on the r&b chart, but became the first of three chart topping hits on the pop charts in 1960. He collected his first double #1 r&b and pop hit the following year with Hit The Road Jack. Then 1962 came and Charles had his biggest year on ALL three charts. He released Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music. He researched the country catalog extensively and decided to update the sounds of those songs he chose for the LP. Everyone around Charles thought he was crazy to release a bunch of country songs, but Charles had the last laugh. The album was the top seller for 14 weeks and spawned the following hits: 1. I Can't Stop Loving You-#1 r&b, #1 pop, and #1 adult contemporary-chart wise, his biggest pop and A.C. hit. I do not know what his biggest r&b hit is. 2. Born To Lose-#41 pop 3. You Don't Know Me-#5 r&b, #2 pop, and #1 A.C. 4. Careless Love-#60 pop Before 1962 was over, the album reached over a million in sales. The track listing for the album is as follows: 1. Bye Bye Love 2. You Don't Know Me 3. Half As Much 4. I Love You So Much It Hurts 5. Just A Little Lovin' Will Go A Long Way 6. Born To Lose 7. Worried Mind 8. It Makes No Difference Now 9. You Win Again 10. Careless Love 11. I Can't Stop Loving You 12. Hey, Good Lookin' Sensing a trend, he released a second volume the same year. It yielded the following hits: 1. You Are My Sunshine-#1 r&b, #7 pop 2. Your Cheatin' Heart-#23 r&b, #29 pop, and #7 A.C. 3. Take These Chains From My Heart-#7 r&b, #8 pop, and #3 A.C. The track listing for Volume 2 is: 1. You Are My Sunshine 2. No Letter Today 3. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You 4. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles 5. Midnight 6. Oh Lonesome Me 7. Take These Chains From My Heart 8. Your Cheatin' Heart 9. I'll Never Stand In Your Way 10. Making Believe 11. Teardrops In My Heart 12. Hang Your Heart In Shame He ended 1963 by covering the Johnny Cash hit Busted (#3 r&b, #4 pop). His next two chart toppers were on the A.C. chart in 1966. Both songs were written by Buck Owens (himself hot on the country charts at the time). They were Crying Time and Together Again (his last #1 A.C. hit). He did not place another single on the A.C. chart for 20 years. He would place a few more top 40 r&b and pop hits until the early 1970s. A new decade meant a new label for Charles (Columbia) and a new market to conquer (country). The years between 1982-1987 could be considered the 'Ray Charles Era' in country music. He released four albums during this time. They were: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Friendship (see above), and From The Pages Of My Mind. His first major hit on the country charts was Born To Love Me in 1983. His first top ten was with George Jones and Chet Atkins on We Didn't See A Thing (#6 in 1984). Another vocal collaboration became a major hit: Rock And Roll Shoes with B.J. Thomas (#14 in 1984). Seven Spanish Angels was released in December, 1984 (during the second anniversary of the death of Marty Robbins, who, had he lived long enough would have covered the song as well). The song topped the country charts three months later. The album from which it came, Friendship was the #1 album during the same week (see above). Finally, the man who loved country music for so long added a #1 country hit to his resume. Two more major hits followed: 1. It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind-with Mickey Gilley-#12 2. Two Old Cats Like Us-with Hank Williams, Jr.-#14 He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. His country contract for Columbia Records ended in 1987. It was the same year he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys. Three years later, he collected his last #1 on the r&b chart (I'll Be Good To You with Chaka Khan and Quincy Jones). A lot of the songs mentioned here and a ton more can be found in two boxed sets of Charles' music: Genius And Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection and The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986. He returned to country music in 2002 by doing a C.M.T. Crossroads show with Travis Tritt. Two years later, he died of liver cancer. Several months later, a CD was released-Genius Loves Company and was a duets CD. One of the participants was, you guessed it, Willie Nelson! It won eight Grammy Awards. A movie about Charles was released simply called Ray. It starred Jamie Foxx who won an Academy Award for portraying Charles. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 23, 1985: 1. SEVEN SPANISH ANGELS-RAY CHARLES AND WILLIE NELSON-COLUMBIA 2. Crazy-Kenny Rogers-RCA 3. What I Didn't Do-Steve Wariner-MCA 4. Walkin' A Broken Heart-Don Williams-MCA 5. Country Girls-John Schneider-MCA 6. Honor Bound-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 7. High Horse-the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Warner Bros. 8. The First Word In Memory Is Me-Janie Frickie-Columbia 9. I Need More Of You-the Bellamy Bros.-MCA 10. Rollin' Lonely-Johnny Lee-Warner Bros.
P.S.: Who was the FIRST artist to have #1 country, pop, r&b, and A.C. hits? Why, it's Elvis Presley!
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 22, 2010 17:24:08 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "A Little More Country Than That" Easton Corbin Greatest Gainer No. 6 "American Honey" Lady Antebellum Hot Shot Debut No. 51 "The World Is Ours Tonight" Gloriana Debut No. 59 "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You" Randy Montana
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 23, 2010 10:19:55 GMT -5
1. #1 COUNTRY: Easton Corbin has his first #1 hit with his debut single, A Little More Country Than That. He is the first artist since the Zac Brown Band to take their first single to #1. Zac Brown did it in 2008 with Chicken Fried. Corbin is the first artist on the Mercury label to take a debut single to #1 since Jamie O'Neal did it in 2001 with There Is No Arizona. 2. POOR TAYLOR SWIFT: After 70 weeks (almost a year and a half) on the album charts, Taylor Swift's Fearless CD is out of the top five for the FIRST time. It is at #7 this week. 3. WATER REALLY FLOWS: Brad Paisley has the fastest rising song this week with Water. It vaults ten to #38. It is the fourth single from his current CD American Saturday Night. 4. A SEASON EARLY: This is the first week of spring, but there are two 'summer' songs on the chart. They are: 1. Til Summer Comes Around-Keith Urban-#5 2. Groovy Little Summer Song-James Otto-#46 5. #1S ON THE ZEROS: These were the top hits in 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, and 1950: 2000: How Do You Like Me Now-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 1990: Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1980: Why Don't You Spend The Night-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 1970: The Fightin' Side Of Me-Merle Haggard-Capitol 1960: He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves-RCA 1950: Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy-Red Foley-Decca 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Dolly Parton has more #1 hits than any female artist. These are her ten biggest. First, by weeks at #1 and second, by weeks in the top 40. 1. Here You Come Again-1977-5-14 2. Heartbreaker-1978-3-12 3. Islands In The Stream-with Kenny Rogers-1983-2-15 4. You're The Only One-1979-2-10 5. It's All Wrong, But It's All Right-1978-2-10 6. When I Get Where I'm Going-with Brad Paisley-2006-1-25 7. Yellow Roses-1989-1-17 8. Rockin' Years-with Ricky Van Shelton-1991-1-17 9. Real Love-with Kenny Rogers-1985-1-16 10. Think About Love-1986-1-14 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Much has been said about Loretta Lynn. Much has been said about Conway Twitty. But, when they joined forces between 1971-1981, even more was said. Their first duet, After The Fire Is Gone was our #1 hit 39 years ago this week (and was their biggest duet ever). They first met in 1967, when Conway entered a recording studio where Lynn was laying down tracks. During a break in the action, their producer, Owen Bradley reminded Lynn of her desire to meet Twitty. Twitty quietly walked up to Lynn (who had NOT seen him) and surprised her. HE got quite a surprise when he found out that Lynn was a fan of his during his rock and roll era (1957-1964). She loved It's Only Make Believe and even had a Twitty poster. Twitty professed his admiration for Lynn. Lynn was no stranger to vocal collaborations herself. She racked up the following hits with Ernest Tubb: 1. Mr. And Mrs. Used To Be-1964-#11 2. Our Hearts Are Holding Hands-1965-#24 3. Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out-1969-#18 A year after title #3 became a hit, Lynn and Twitty were in the recording studio for the first time to record After The Fire Is Gone. Both artist's associates were worried that their egos would clash and their partnership would not work. During the 26 years of their professional relationship, they NEVER fought. Fire was released in January, 1971 and was #1 in March, 1971. A year later, it won a Grammy Award. Billboard 1971 (12-70 to 11-71) was very good to BOTH artists. Their hits were: Lynn: 1. Coal Miner's Daughter-1970-#1 2. After The Fire Is Gone-with Twitty-1971-#1 3. I Wanna Be Free-1971-#3 4. You're Lookin' At Country-1971-#5 5. Lead Me On-with Twitty-1971-#1 Twitty: 1. After The Fire Is Gone-with Lynn-1971-#1 2. How Much More Can She Stand-1971-#1 3. I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving-1971-#4 4. Lead Me On-with Lynn-1971-#1 They hit #1 with their next four singles. They were: 1. Lead Me On-1971 2. Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man-1973 (my favorite) 3. As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone-1974 4. Feelin's-1975 During this time they won the C.M.A. Vocal Duo of the Year between 1972-1975. They had seven more top tens until 1981. They were: 1. The Letter-1976-#3 2. I Can't Love You Enough-1977-#2 3. From Seven Till Ten-1978-#6 4. You Know Just What I'd Do-1980-#9 5. It's True Love-1980-#5 6. Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does To Me-1981-#7 7. I Still Believe In Waltzes-1981-#2 They were charting those duets when a lot of other recording artists were having major hits as duets. They were (you know the first names): 1. Wynette and Jones 2. Parton and Wagoner 3. Jennings and Nelson 4. Rogers and West 5. Brown and Cornelius They took a six year break from recording as Twitty was signed to Warner Bros. between 1981-1986. They reunited on record when they released Making Believe in 1988. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 27, 1971: 1. AFTER THE FIRE IS GONE-LORETTA LYNN AND CONWAY TWITTY-DECCA 2. I'd Rather Love You-Charley Pride-RCA 3. Soldier's Last Letter-Merle Haggard-Capitol 4. Help Me Make It Through The Night-Sammi Smith-Mega 5. Empty Arms-Sonny James-Capitol 6. Knock Three Times-Billy Crash Craddock-Cartwheel 7. Better Move It On Home-Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner-RCA 8. We Sure Can Love Each Other-Tammy Wynette-Epic 9. The Arms Of A Fool-Mel Tillis-MGM 10. Bridge Over Troubled Water-Buck Owens-Capitol
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 29, 2010 14:24:17 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Temporary Home" Carrie Underwood Greatest Gainer No. 9 "Gimmie That Girl" Joe Nichols Hot Shot Debut No. 42 "Get Off On The Pain" Gary Allan Debut No. 57 "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)" Bucky Covington
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 30, 2010 10:20:47 GMT -5
1. A TEMPORARY #1: Carrie Underwood collects her ninth #1 hit with Temporary Home. In the process, she becomes the first female artist to score multiple #1s from her first three CDs. They are: From Some Hearts: 1. Jesus, Take The Wheel-2006-chart wise, her biggest hit 2. Before He Cheats-2006 3. Wasted-2007 From Carnival Ride: 1. So Small-2007 2. All-American Girl-2008 3. Last Name-2008 4. Just A Dream-2008 From Play On: 1. Cowboy Casanova-2009 2. Temporary Home-2010 Because she has collected a #1 hit this year, she continues to have the longest streak of years by a female artist to have chart topping hits. 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of Underwood winning American Idol. She is the ONLY winner to top the charts every year since winning. If you were to throw in her #1 pop hit in 2005 (Inside Your Heaven), her streak is perfect! 2. TOP TWOS INTACT: While Underwood has eleven top ten hits (including two #2 hits-Don't Forget To Remember Me-2006 and I Told You So-with Randy Travis-2009), the Zac Brown Band maintains their perfect streak of top two hits. Highway 20 Ride gets stopped at #2 by Underwood. Zac Brown has two #1s: Chicken Fried from 2008 and Toes from 2009. They have one #2 hit: Whatever It Is from 2009. 3. THREE TIMES TWO: Chris Young nabs his second top ten hit in his career as The Man I Want To Be hits #10 this week. It follows his chart topper from last year, Gettin' You Home The Black Dress Song. Young becomes the third Nashville Star contestant to have two top tens. The others: 1. Buddy Jewell-Help Pour Out The Rain Lacey's Song-2003-#3 and Sweet Southern Comfort-2004-#3 2. Miranda Lambert-Gunpowder And Lead-2008-#7 and White Liar-2010-#2 Lambert could be the first Star contestant with three top tens as The House That Built Me is at #22 this week. 4. GIMMIE NICHOLS: Joe Nichols has not seen the top ten in three years. That changes as Gimmie That Girl is at #9 this week. His last top ten was I'll Wait For You in 2007-#7. He becomes the second artist on the Show Dog-Universal label to score a top ten following Toby Keith's Cryin' For Me Wayman's Song (#6 in 2010). 5. AN 80S LOOK: These were the #1 hits during the last week in March during the 1980s: 1980: I'd Love To Lay You Down-Conway Twitty-MCA 1981: Texas Women-Hank Williams, Jr.-Warner Bros. 1982: She Left Love All Over Me-Razzy Bailey-RCA 1983: When I'm Away From You-the Bellamy Bros.-Warner Bros. 1984: Let's Stop Talkin' About It-Janie Frickie-Columbia 1985: Crazy-Kenny Rogers-RCA 1986: Don't Underestimate My Love For You-Lee Greenwood-MCA 1987: Small Town Girl-Steve Wariner-MCA 1988: Love Will Find Its Way To You-Reba McEntire-MCA 1989: Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye-George Strait-MCA 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Lonestar has nine #1 hits and one #2 hit. These are their biggest hits. First, by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Amazed-1999-8-37 2. I'm Already There-2001-6-25 3. What About Now-2000-4-34 4. No News-1996-3-17 5. Mr. Mom-2004-2-26 6. Tell Her-2001-2-23 7. Come Cryin' To Me-1997-2-17 8. My Front Porch Looking In-2003-1-31 9. Smile-2000-1-24 10. Everything's Changed-1998-1-22 (#2) 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: You can certainly say that Hank Williams, Jr. was on top of the world in 1989 (at least in country music). After all, he was the two-time reigning A.C.M. and C.M.A. Entertainer of the Year (he would win it a third time in 1989 from the A.C.M.). His Greatest Hits III CD was our top selling CD 21 years ago this week (His best charting CD at eleven weeks at #1 out of a total of two years on the charts. However, his best selling CD remains his first greatest hits CD for Warner Bros. in 1982 with over five million sold). The CD gleaned hits from three other CDs (Five-O, Montana Cafe, and Born To Boogie-his ONLY C.M.A. Album of the Year). The track listing for the CD is as follows: 1. I'm For Love-1985-#1 2. This Ain't Dallas-1985-#4 3. Ain't Misbehavin'-1986-#1 4. Country State Of Mind-1986-#2 5. Mind Your Own Business-with Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, the Reverend Ike, and Willie Nelson-1986-#1 6. My Name Is Bocephus-Live Version 7. Born To Boogie-1987-#1 8. Young Country-1988-#2 9. Heaven Can't Be Found-1988-#4 10. Finders Are Keepers-1989-#6 11. There's A Tear In My Beer-with Hank Williams, Sr.-1989-#7 Since I'm For Love, ALL but two of his singles hit the top ten. I am discounting his duets with Ray Charles and Johnny Cash as those hits came from THEIR CDs. Titles 10 and 11 were new recordings on the greatest hits CD. The standout track is the duet he had with his father. While the Born To Boogie CD was churning out hits between 1987-1988, someone found an obscure recording of Hank Sr.'s in their attic and brought it to Hank Jr.'s attention. To say Bocephus loved the track would be an understatement. He decided to add his vocals to the record and released it as the first single. It certainly introduced a new generation to Hank Sr. (during the chart run of Beer, Clint Black and Garth Brooks issued their first singles). There's A Tear In My Beer hit #7 in 1989 and became Sr.'s first top ten in 34 years (his last being Please Don't Let Me Love You in 1955-#9). What was even more bizarre is that a video was made showing the two Hanks singing to each other (bizarre when you consider a 39 year old man singing with his 27 year old father!). It continued Jr.'s winning streak at the C.M.A.s as the father-son duo won Vocal Event and Video of the Year Awards. In 1990, it became the ONLY Grammy BOTH Hanks would win. It became the foundation for the Unforgettable CD by Natalie Cole in 1991. She ended up singing with her father, Nat King Cole (through modern technology). Jr.'s next CD, Lone Wolf hit #2 in 1990 and contained his last major hits, both in 1990: Ain't Nobody's Business-#15 and Good Friends, Good Whiskey, Good Lovin'-#10. He also rerecorded his party anthem, All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight for Monday Night Football. It ended up winning quite a few Sports Emmy Awards. He released a CD featuring his father and son (Hank III) in 1996 called Men With Broken Hearts. He rerecorded his biggest #2 hit, A Country Boy Can Survive with Chad Brock and George Jones and it became a top 40 hit for the second time in 2000 (#30). He FINALLY released a video for the song in 2007 during its 25th anniversary. More recently, he released a CD called 127 Rose Avenue. It yielded a chart hit called Red, White, and Pink Slip Blues (#43 in 2009). While he was charting with that song, his daughter Holly was charting for the second time. Shortly after Blues peaked, Jr. said the CD would be the last for Curb Records. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 1, 1989: 1. GREATEST HITS III-HANK WILLIAMS, JR.-WARNER BROS. 2. Southern Star-Alabama-RCA 3. Beyond The Blue Neon-George Strait-MCA 4. Loving Proof-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 5. Old 8 X 10-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. This Woman-K.T. Oslin-RCA 7. Reba-Reba McEntire-MCA 8. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room-Dwight Yoakam-Reprise 9. Greatest Hits-the Judds-RCA 10. Lyle Lovett And His Large Band-Lyle Lovett-MCA
P.S.: Happy Easter from all of us here at Country ChartBeat!
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Post by Zazie on Mar 31, 2010 7:50:36 GMT -5
P.S.: Happy Easter from all of us here at Country ChartBeat! You have a staff? Are you taking job applications? In the current economic climate, you will probably find a lot of Pulse members looking for employment -- perhaps a bit underqualified, but very enthusiastic. Happy Easter to you, and your hardworking contingent of chart experts, as well.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Apr 5, 2010 23:20:21 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Highlights
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Highway 20 Ride" Zac Brown Band Greatest Gainer No. 9 "The Man I Want To Be" Chris Young Hot Shot Debut No. 45 "All About Tonight" Blake Shelton Debut No. 51 "Farmer's Daughter" Rodney Atkins
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 6, 2010 10:12:54 GMT -5
I'M GLAD TO SEE WE ARE FINALLY BACK TO NORMAL! 1. RIDING TO #1: The Zac Brown Band collects their third #1 hit with Highway 20 Ride. It follows 2008's Chicken Fried and 2009's Toes as their other chart toppers. They become the second group to have three chart topping hits from their debut CD. The Dixie Chicks were first with their Wide Open Spaces CD. Their trio of chart toppers were: There's Your Trouble-1998, Wide Open Spaces-1998-chart wise, their biggest hit, and You Were Mine-1999. 2. THE REVOLVING DOOR CONTINUES: We have had five different #1s over the past five weeks. They are: 1. That's How Country Boys Roll-Billy Currington 2. Hillbilly Bone-Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins 3. A Little More Country Than That-Easton Corbin 4. Temporary Home-Carrie Underwood 5. Highway 20 Ride-Zac Brown Band We have not had this kind of turnover at #1 since 1993 with these hits: 1. Does He Love You-Reba McEntire and Linda Davis 2. She Used To Be Mine-Brooks & Dunn 3. Almost Goodbye-Mark Chesnutt 4. Reckless-Alabama 5. American Honky-Tonk Bar Association-Garth Brooks 6. My Second Home-Tracy Lawrence 3. WAY OUT: Josh Thompson has the fastest rising song this week. Way Out Here vaults 17 spots to #42. Water by Brad Paisley is second. It climbs eight to #25. 4. A SECOND SERVING: Blake Shelton has the Hot Shot Debut at #45 with All About Tonight. It will be from his second 'SixPak'. The first one yielded the chart topper Hillbilly Bone. 5. AN 80S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling CDs during the first week in April during the 1980s: 1980: Kenny-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 1981: 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs-Dolly Parton-RCA 1982: Bobbie Sue-the Oak Ridge Boys-MCA 1983: Pancho & Lefty-Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson-Epic 1984: Roll On-Alabama-RCA 1985: 40 Hour Week-Alabama-RCA 1986: Greatest Hits-Alabama-RCA 1987: Heartland-the Judds-RCA 1988: 80's Ladies-K.T. Oslin-RCA 1989: Greatest Hits III-Hank Williams, Jr.-Warner Bros. 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: We lost the First Lady of Country Music twelve years ago this week (we miss you, Tammy Wynette!). These are her ten biggest hits. First number is the weeks at #1, followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Stand By Your Man-1968-3-18 2. I Don't Wanna Play House-1967-3-18 3. D-I-V-O-R-C-E-1968-3-16 4. He Loves Me All The Way-1970-3-14 5. My Elusive Dreams-with David Houston-1967-2-16 6. The Ways To Love A Man-1969-2-15 7. Good Lovin' Makes It Right-1971-2-15 8. We're Gonna Hold On-with George Jones-1973-2-14 9. Singing My Song-1969-2-14 10. Run, Woman, Run-1970-2-13 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: To say we lost Keith Whitley way too soon would be an understatement. His death is STILL being felt today. Twenty-one years ago this week, his biggest hit I'm No Stranger To The Rain was our #1 song. Whitley's musical journey started in the early 1960s when he appeared on a TV show in Charleston, West Virginia. He formed the East Kentucky Mountain Boys with Ricky Skaggs during the late 1960s. They had a great love for bluegrass music, particularly the Stanley Brothers. They were hired by the Stanleys in 1970. One story has it that the Brothers were late for a show. They walked in and heard Whitley and Skaggs singing the Stanleys and said Keith and Ricky were singing them BETTER than they did! After recording several albums together, they (Whitley and Skaggs) decided to go their separate ways during the late 1970s. In 1978, Keith joined the progressive bluegrass band J.D. Crowe and the New South. A live album was recorded on Rounder Records. Three years later, Whitley saw Skaggs' star rise when Don't Get Above Your Raising (#16) and You May See Me Walkin' (#9) became his first major hits. In 1982, Whitley moved to Nashville in hopes of landing a recording contract. That happened in 1983 with RCA Records. Other acts signed to the label at this time were the Judds, Vince Gill, and Restless Heart. The Judds and Restless Heart saw success right away. Vince Gill had to wait awhile, but Whitley did NOT see success with his debut CD, A Hard Act To Follow in 1984. It yielded two top 80 hits. 1985 was a pivotal year for Whitley. First, he saw Skaggs win the C.M.A. Entertainer of the Year and he worked on his second CD (L.A. To Miami). Its second single release, Miami, My Amy became his first major hit (#14 in 1986). He followed up with three top tens: 1. Ten Feet Away-1986-#9 2. Homecoming '63-1987-#9 3. Hard Livin'-1987-#10 Whitley said Miami, My Amy 'literally saved my life' and gave him much needed confidence to continue. He was set to release his third CD during the last quarter of 1987, but shelved it for two reasons: to find stronger material and a new producer. RCA agreed and this time Garth Fundis was brought in to produce the CD and find the right songs. Both were accomplished in spades. The Don't Close Your Eyes Era (1988-1989) started with a top 20 hit in 1988: Some Old Side Road (#16). Then the CD produced three chart topping hits: 1. Don't Close Your Eyes-1988 2. When You Say Nothing At All-1988 3. I'm No Stranger To The Rain-1989 Finally, what Nashville knew all along (and even more important, Whitley himself) is that he was on the verge of something big. Rain hit #1 in April. On May 9, his brother-in-law found him dead in his home from alcohol poisoning. Nashville (and the rest of the country music world) was shocked and went into mourning. He was 33 years old (believe it or not he would have turned 55 this July!). The Don't Close Your Eyes CD was cerified gold in June. Whitley had recorded songs for his next CD. It was approved for release by his wife (now widow) Lorrie Morgan. The CD was I Wonder Do You Think Of Me and yielded the following hits: 1. I Wonder Do You Think Of Me-1989-#1 2. It Ain't Nothin'-1990-#1 3. I'm Over You-1990-#3 During the chart run of title #1, Rain won the C.M.A. Award for Single of the Year. A greatest hits CD was released in 1990. A new recording, 'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose (with Morgan) hit #13 that year. It won the C.M.A. Vocal Event of the Year. Whitley was not done having major hits. He had two more: 1. Brotherly Love-with Earl Thomas Conley-1991-#2 2. Somebody's Doin' Me Right-1992-#15 You can say 1994 was Whitley's year. A tribute CD was released (Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album) and a single was released that became Alison Krauss' first solo top ten: When You Say Nothing At All (#3 in 1995). It won the C.M.A. Single of the Year in 1995. The CD went gold that year. Whitley's career has been surveyed on three other CDs (The Essential Keith Whitley, Super Hits, and 16 Biggest Hits). He will be inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. Yhis is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 8, 1989: 1. I'M NO STRANGER TO THE RAIN-KEITH WHITLEY-RCA 2. Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye-George Strait-MCA 3. Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time-Vern Gosdin-Columbia 4. The Church On Cumberland Road-Shenandoah-Columbia 5. Old Coyote Town-Don Williams-Capitol 6. Tell It Like It Is-Billy Joe Royal-Atlantic 7. There's A Tear In My Beer-Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams, Sr.-Warner Bros. 8. Hey Bobby-K.T. Oslin-RCA 9. Fair Shake-Foster and Lloyd-RCA 10. You Got It-Roy Orbison-Virgin
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Apr 12, 2010 17:56:02 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "American Honey" Lady Antebellum Greatest Gainer No. 15 "The House That Built Me" Miranda Lambert Hot Shot Debut No. 57 "Tell Me" Jake Owen Debut No. 59 "All Over Me" Josh Turner Debut No. 60 "Rollin' Through The Sunshine" Trailer Choir
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1. THEY'RE #1 AMERICANS: Lady Antebellum collects their third #1 hit with American Honey. It joins I Run To You and Need You Now (both from 2009) as their other chart topping hits. Lady A becomes the first act to have two #1 hits in Billboard 2010 (since December, 2009). That's when Need You Now was #1. 2. JUST TEN AWAY: George Strait collects his 82nd top ten hit with I Gotta Get To You (#9). He needs ten more to match Eddy Arnold's all time mark of 92. There is a great article about Strait's achievement on Billboard.com. 3. SOME CD NEWS: Let us get caught up on some country albums chart news: A. Lady Antebellum's self-titled debut CD has spent 104 weeks (2 years) on the charts. It is certified at the platinum level. B. The Taylor Swift Era is over. Swift's self-titled debut CD departed the charts at #19 on the 03-20-10 chart. It spent 173 weeks (three and a third years) on the charts. It is certified at six times platinum. 4. REALITY COUNTRY: Steel Magnolia collected their first top ten last week with Keep On Lovin' You (still at #10 this week). They become the first winners of Can You Duet to have a top ten hit. Can You Duet is the third reality show to boast a successful act. The others: 1. Nashville Star-first winner with a top ten hit-Buddy Jewell-Help Pour Out The Rain Lacey's Song-2003-#3 First winner with a #1 hit-Chris Young-Gettin' You Home The Black Dress Song-2009 2. American Idol-first contestant with a top ten hit-Josh Gracin-I Want To Live-2004-#4 First contestant with a #1 hit-Gracin-Nothin' To Lose-2005 First winner with a #1 hit-Carrie Underwood-Jesus, Take The Wheel-2006 5. FAST MOVERS: Bucky Covington has the fastest rising song this week with A Father's Love The Only Way He Knew How. It vaults eleven to #47. Rodney Atkins is second. He goes up nine to #42 with Farmer's Daughter. 6. A.C.M. WISHES: Congratulations to all the nominees and winners of this Sunday's A.C.M. Awards! 7. YESTERDAY'S #1S: These were the top hits in 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: That's What I Love About Sunday-Craig Morgan-Broken Bow 2000: How Do You Like Me Now-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 1995: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter-Reba McEntire-MCA 1990: Five Minutes-Lorrie Morgan-RCA 1985: Honor Bound-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 8. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Merle Haggard celebrated his 73rd birthday last week (Happy Birthday, Merle!). These are his ten biggest hits. First number is the weeks at #1, followed by how many weeks in the top 40. 1. Okie From Muskogee-1969-4-15 2. Mama Tried-1968-4-15 3. If We Make It Through December-1973-4-14 4. Carolyn-1972-3-15 5. The Fightin' Side Of Me-1970-3-14 6. Sing Me Back Home-1968-2-17 7. Everybody's Had The Blues-1973-2-15 8. The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde-1968-2-14 9. Grandma Harp-1972-2-14 10. Daddy Frank The Guitar Man-1971-2-13 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: 'All good things must end' is a line from Ronnie Milsap's #1 hit from 1982, I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World. Five years later, his labelmates Alabama ended their streak of 21 #1s in a row 23 years ago this week with You've Got The Touch. 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Alabama signing with RCA Records. However, they rose to national prominence in 1979 with their first top 40 hit I Wanna' Come Over (#33). That was on the MDJ label. Their first major hit was My Home's In Alabama (#17 in 1980). During the chart run of Alabama, they secured a spot on the New Faces show at the Country Music Seminar in Nashville. They were signed to RCA on the spot. They quickly recorded their debut album for RCA (even adding their MDJ hits to the LP). They titled the album My Home's In Alabama. Their first RCA release, Tennessee River (which they wrote during the late 1970s and sang a ton of times at the Bowery in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) was released in May. It was the first of their 32 chart toppers in August. After scoring major hits about Southern life, they released a love song in Why Lady Why (#1 in December). Their #1s streak continued through 1987. This is the complete list: 1. Tennessee River-1980 2. Why Lady Why-1980 3. Old Flame-1981 4. Feels So Right-1981 5. Love In The First Degree-1981 6. Mountain Music-1982 7. Take Me Down-1982 8. Close Enough To Perfect-1982 9. Dixieland Delight-1983 10. The Closer You Get-1983 11. Lady Down On Love-1983 12. Roll On Eighteen Wheeler-1984 13. When We Make Love-1984 14. If You're Gonna Play In Texas You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band-1984 15. There's A Fire In The Night-1985 16. There's No Way-1985 17. Forty Hour Week For A Livin'-1985 18. Can't Keep A Good Man Down-1985 19. She And I-1986 20. Touch Me When We're Dancing-1986 21. You've Got The Touch-1987 I am discounting two top 40 hits they had during this time. Christmas In Dixie peaked at #35 in 1983. Since that was a holiday single, that would not count against them. Deep River Woman with Lionel Richie peaked at #10 in 1987. That single came from the Richie CD Dancing On The Ceiling. While The Touch CD was churning out hits in 1986-1987 (titles 20 and 21-see above), Randy Owen was concerned that they were becoming 'too polished'. They released a CD in 1987 called Just Us. Owen purposely chose Tar Top as the first single. The very personal song hit #7, breaking country music's longest #1s streak. However, Alabama lived another day and had eleven more #1s. They were: 1. Face To Face-1988 2. Fallin' Again-1988 3. Song Of The South-1989 4. If I Had You-1989 5. High Cotton-1989 6. Southern Star-1990 7. Jukebox In My Mind-1990-chart wise, their biggest hit 8. Forever's As Far As I'll Go-1991 9. Down Home-1991 10. I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know Why-1992 11. Reckless-1993 During the chart run of title #4, Alabama became the third recipient of the Artist of the Decade by the A.C.M.. They continued to have major hits until 2001 when When It All Goes South hit #15. The following year they announced their retirement from the business. In 2005, they were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 11, 1987: 1. YOU'VE GOT THE TOUCH-ALABAMA-RCA 2. Kids Of The Baby Boom-the Bellamy Brothers-MCA 3. Rose In Paradise-Waylon Jennings-MCA 4. The Bed You Made For Me-Highway 101-Warner Bros. 5. Don't Go To Strangers-T. Graham Brown-Capitol 6. Let The Music Lift You Up-Reba McEntire-MCA 7. Ocean Front Property-George Strait-MCA 8. The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder-Michael Johnson-RCA 9. A Face In The Crowd-Michael Martin Murphey and Holly Dunn-Warner Bros. 10. Don't Be Cruel-the Judds-RCA
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Apr 16, 2010 10:18:32 GMT -5
I didnt want to start a new thread , but I cant find crap with the search engine on Pulse. Didnt we have a thread at one time for misc. chart peaks? In any case ,I was looking up Bobbie Gentry on the Billboard site and noticed that Ode To Billie Jo was showing a country peak of # 17. Is that correct? I knew it was a crossover hit but wasnt aware it was a bigger pop hit then country.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 16, 2010 13:07:51 GMT -5
^Whitburn says yes, it was only #17 country.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Apr 19, 2010 14:35:13 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "American Honey" Lady Antebellum Greatest Gainer No. 3 "Gimmie That Girl" Joe Nichols Hot Shot Debut No. 43 "Undo It" Carrie Underwood Debut No. 52 "Pound Sign (No. ?*!)" Kevin Fowler Debut No. 54 "Free" Zac Brown Band Debut No. 56 "'Til A Woman Comes Along" Chris Janson Debut No. 57 "Hard Hat And A Hammer" Alan Jackson Debut No. 58 "Roll With It" Easton Corbin Debut No. 59 "Up On The Ridge" Dierks Bentley
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Post by musicbuff78 on Apr 19, 2010 15:22:14 GMT -5
Weird because from what I posted from the Miranda info from Billboard, they said she had Greatest Gainer honors. Not that it really matters, just thought it was interesting to point out.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2010 15:31:45 GMT -5
Weird because from what I posted from the Miranda info from Billboard, they said she had Greatest Gainer honors. Not that it really matters, just thought it was interesting to point out. Miranda had biggest gain last week, but I think Joe was on top this week. Rowdawg's chart had Joe as the highest gainer.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 20, 2010 10:03:14 GMT -5
1. THE HONEY STILL FLOWS: Lady Antebellum spends their second week at #1 with American Honey. They have now spent eight weeks at #1 with their three chart toppers: 1. I Run To You-2009-1 2. Need You Now-2009-5 3. American Honey-2010-2 so far 2. A.C.M. CHART: These are where this year's winners place on this week's chart: 1. American Honey-Lady Antebellum-Vocal Group, Single Record of the Year, and Song of the Year 6. Til Summer Comes Around-Keith Urban-International Artist 13. The House That Built Me-Miranda Lambert-Female Vocalist, Album, and Video of the Year 17. I Keep On Loving You-Reba McEntire-A.C.M. Hostess 19. Water-Brad Paisley-Male Vocalist 20. Rain Is A Good Thing-Luke Bryan-New Artist 36. All About Tonight-Blake Shelton-Vocal Event 38. Blue Sky-Emily West and Keith Urban-International Artist 43. Undo It-Carrie Underwood-Entertainer of the Year 3. NO PROBLEMS HERE: Despite the fact that Disney is shutting down Lyric Street Records, that has not stopped Rascal Flatts. Their Unstoppable becomes their 23rd top ten at #10 this week. 4. ONE WORDED TITLES: There are ten one worded titles on the charts this week. They are: 9. Backwoods-Justin Moore 10. Unstoppable-Rascal Flatts 11. Fearless-Taylor Swift 16. Still-Tim McGraw 19. Water-Brad Paisley 31. Smile-Uncle Kracker 49. Chillin'-Blaine Larsen 53. Guinevere-Eli Young Band 54. Free-Zac Brown Band 55. Jenny-the Harters 5. COINCIDENCE?: Water by Brad Paisley (#19) is right next to Rain Is A Good Thing by Luke Bryan (#20). 6. THE TOP SELLERS: These were the top selling CDs in 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, and 1985: 2005: The Right To Bare Arms-Larry the Cable Guy-Warner Bros. 2000: Fly-the Dixie Chicks-Monument 1995: John Michael Montgomery-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 1990: RVS III-Ricky Van Shelton-Columbia 1985: 40 Hour Week-Alabama-RCA 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Loretta Lynn celebraterd her 75th birthday last week (Happy Birthday, Loretta!). These are her ten biggest hits. First number is the weeks at #1, followed by how many weeks in the top 40. 1. After The Fire Is Gone-with Conway Twitty-1971-2-14 2. One's On The Way-1972-2-14 3. Love Is The Foundation-1973-2-13 4. Somebody Somewhere Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight-1976-2-12 5. Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed-1978-2-11 6. Lead Me On-with Conway Twitty-1971-1-15 7. Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind-1967-1-15 8. Fist City-1968-1-15 9. Woman Of The World Leave My World Alone-1969-1-15 10. Coal Miner's Daughter-1970-1-14 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Let us hear it for country music's female artists! Female artists have ALWAYS played a major role in country music. Even the first number hit in country music history featured a female group (Pistol Packin' Mama by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1944). Let us list a few more female firsts: 1. First female to top the charts-Margaret Whiting-Slipping Around with Jimmy Wakely in 1949 2. First solo female to top the charts-Kitty Wells-It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels in 1952 3. First A.C.M. Female Vocalist of the Year-Bonnie Owens in 1965 4. First C.M.A. Female Vocalist of the Year-Loretta Lynn in 1967 5. First female Entertainer of the Year-A.C.M.-Lynn in 1975 6. First female Entertainer of the Year-C.M.A.-Lynn in 1972 7. First female inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame-Patsy Cline in 1973 I find it ironic that Lynn's sister, Crystal Gayle headed an all female top five 30 years ago this week with It's Like We Never Said Goodbye. It was the first time females occupied the top five (with George Jones thrown in for good measure). The songs and artists were: 1. It's Like We Never Said Goodbye-Crystal Gayle 2. A Lesson In Leavin'-Dottie West 3. Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again-Debby Boone 4. Beneath Still Waters-Emmylou Harris 5. Two Story House-Tammy Wynette and George Jones Titles 1-4 ended up being #1 hits. Wynette and Jones had to settle for a #2 placing. Goodbye was Gayle's first #1 hit for Columbia Records after a successful five year stretch of hits for United Artists (1974-1979). She would remain on Columbia until 1982. She then had a six year run of hits on Warner Bros. between 1982-1988. West would continue having hits until 1984. Boone would have hits until 1981. Harris would continue until 1989. Wynette's last top 40 hit was in 1988. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 19, 1980: 1. IT'S LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE-CRYSTAL GAYLE-COLUMBIA 2. A LESSON IN LEAVIN'-DOTTIE WEST-UNITED ARTISTS 3. ARE YOU ON THE ROAD TO LOVIN' ME AGAIN-DEBBY BOONE-WARNER BROS. 4. BENEATH STILL WATERS-EMMYLOU HARRIS-WARNER BROS. 5. TWO STORY HOUSE-TAMMY WYNETTE AND GEORGE JONES-EPIC 6. Honky Tonk Blues-Charley Pride-RCA 7. Sugar Daddy-the Bellamy Bros.-Warner Bros. 8. Gone Too Far-Eddie Rabbitt-Elektra 9. Women I've Never had-Hank Williams, Jr.-Elektra 10. The Cowgirl And The Dandy-Brenda Lee-MCA
While we're at it, let us award the following: 1. Greatest female solo artist: Your choice 2. Greatest female duo: The Judds 3. Greatest female trio: The Dixie Chicks 4. Greatest female quartet: The Forester Sisters 5. Greatest female quintet: Wild Rose
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Post by josephmorgan on Apr 20, 2010 14:54:05 GMT -5
fanofctrymusic, can you please put up the link to this week's Billboard Country Update issue? I would very much appreciate it!
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 20, 2010 17:27:03 GMT -5
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