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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 1, 2011 14:14:32 GMT -5
1. MORE B.S.: Blake Shelton continues to top the country chart with God Gave Me You. His reign has now been extended from 14 days to 21. 2. HE'LL MAKE IT: George Strait has the fastest climbing song of the week as Love's Gonna Make It Alright zooms fifteen to #45. That's 25% of the chart! 3. THEIR SECOND: Stoney Creek Records has doubled their number of top tens to two. Thompson Square collects their second in I Got You (at #10). Their first was the chart topping Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not. 4. HE'S ALSO ON THE BOTTOM: While Blake Shelton is at #1 for the week, he is also at #60 with his version of Footloose. 5. A 00S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling CDs during the first week of November during the 2000s: 2000: Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 2001: Greatest Hits Volume III: I'm A Survivor-Reba McEntire-MCA 2002: Cry-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 2003: Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff-Alan Jackson-Arista 2004: 50 Number Ones-George Strait-MCA 2005: Timeless-Martina McBride-RCA 2006: Long Trip Alone-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 2007: Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood-Arista 2008: Lucky Old Sun-Kenny Chesney-BNA 2009: Southern Voice-Tim McGraw-Curb 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: To say Ernest Tubb had a long and distinguished career in country music would be an understatement. These are his ten biggest hits. Weeks at #1 or #2 are first followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Soldier's Last Letter-1944-4-29 2. It's Been So Long Darling-1945-4-13 3. Goodnight Irene-with Red Foley-1950-3-15 4. Rainbow At Midnight-1947-2-20 5. Slipping Around-1949-1-20 6. Blue Christmas-1949-1-06 7. Filipino Baby-1946-4-12 (#2) 8. Try Me One More Time-1944-3-17 (#2) 9. Tennessee Border No. 2-with Red Foley-1950-2-10 (#2) 10. I Love You Because-1950-1-20 (#2) 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: For the past 20 years or so, when new artists make waves in country music, they are asked who are their influences/favorite artists. They will usually give you a list of country artists, but will mix in non-country artists for good measure. Look at Garth Brooks. His favorites run from George Strait to KISS. When artists give you their non-country favorites, a lot of them will cite the Eagles as an influence. It is then appropriate that a bunch of country artists came together in 1993 to salute the Eagles in a tribute CD called Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles, our top selling CD 18 years ago this week. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 1. Take It Easy-Travis Tritt 2. Peaceful Easy Feeling-Little Texas 3. Desperado-Clint Black 4. Heartache Tonight-John Anderson 5. Tequila Sunrise-Alan Jackson 6. Take It To The Limit-Suzy Bogguss 7. I Can't Tell You Why-Vince Gill 8. Lyin' Eyes-Diamond Rio 9. New Kid In Town-Trisha Yearwood 10. Saturday Night-Billy Dean 11. Already Gone-Tanya Tucker 12. Best Of My Love-Brooks & Dunn 13. The Sad Cafe-Lorrie Morgan The country artists who participated in the CD remained faithful to the original versions by the Eagles. Of course, the Eagles DO have a country history themselves. They collected a top ten hit in 1975 with Lyin' Eyes (#8). Then 1983 was a great year for Eagles remakes as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings hit #8 with Take It To The Limit and Heartache Tonight was a #6 hit for Conway Twitty. Getting back to 1993, everyone agreed that Tritt's version of Take It Easy would be the first single and the 'most marketable' song from the CD. Tritt agreed to do a video for the song, but he wanted the Eagles to reunite. So, Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmidt, and Joe Walsh found that they wanted to work together (the first time in thirteen years). So they were the stars for the video. The single by Tritt hit #21, the biggest hit from the CD. Little Texas, Black, Jackson, Gill, and Tucker also made chart appearances with their Eagles offerings (none made the top 40 like Tritt). The CD was #1 for thirteen weeks between late 1993 to early 1994 while hitting #3 on the top 200 chart. It has been certified at the triple platinum level. The CD was named Album of the Year by the C.M.A. in 1994. The success of the CD led the Eagles to tour in 1994 and release a CD called Hell Freezes Over. The tour was a success, grossing $175 million. The CD yielded a #1 adult contemporary hit in Love Will Keep Us Alive. The CD hit #1 on the top 200 chart. In 2003, a two disc greatest hits CD was released called The Very Best Of The Eagles. Their 9/11 song, Hole In The World was a #5 A.C. hit. In 2007, they released a CD called Long Road Out Of Eden. It became their first CD to debut at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. It yielded two top 40 country hits: How Long (#23 in 2007) and Busy Being Fabulous (#28 in 2008). How Long won the Eagles a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. The CD has been certified at the seven times platinum level. Right now, there are no plans for a future Eagles CD, but who knows, one might be released when 'hell freezes over'. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6, 1993: 1. COMMON THREAD: THE SONGS OF THE EAGLES-GIANT 2. In Pieces-Garth Brooks-Capitol 3. Greatest Hits Volume Two-Reba McEntire-MCA 4. Easy Come, Easy Go-George Strait-MCA 5. A Lot About Livin' And A Little 'Bout Love-Alan Jackson-Arista 6. I Still Believe In You-Vince Gill-MCA 7. Tell Me Why-Wynonna Judd-MCA 8. Almost Goodbye-Mark Chesnutt-MCA 9. Confederate Railroad-Confederate Railroad-Atlantic 10. Hard Workin' Man-Brooks & Dunn-Arista
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Nov 7, 2011 18:29:13 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Crazy Girl" Eli Young Band Greatest Gainer No. 16 "Reality" Kenny Chesney Hot Shot Debut No. 56 "A-OK" Neal McCoy Debut No. 57 "He's Mine" Rodney Atkins Debut No. 58 "Million Dollar View" Trace Adkins
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 8, 2011 11:15:23 GMT -5
1. A CRAZY #1: Well, after four years, two labels, and five single releases, the Eli Young Band celebrates its first #1 in Crazy Girl. At 38 weeks, it is the second single slowest climb to #1. Tracy Lawrence owns the mark at 41 weeks in 2007 with Find Out Who Your Friends Are. Voices, by Chris Young needed two chart appearances to hit #1 in its 51st week this year. 2. AN EASY TOP TEN: Easy by Rascal Flatts and Natasha Bedingfield lands at #10 this week. This is the third chart that Bedingfield has a top ten. She has two top five pop hits: Unwritten (#5 in 2006) and Pocketful Of Sunshine (#5 in 2008). Unwritten was a #1 adult contemporary hit as well. Bedingfield becomes the first foreign born female artist to score a top ten since Shania Twain did it in 2004 with her duet with Billy Currington on Party For Two (#7). 3. GEORGE'S 95TH: Making a six spot jump to #39 is George Strait with Love's Gonna Make It Alright. In the meantime, it becomes his 95th top 40 hit. 4. TRAILERS MOVE FAST: Underdog by the Lost Trailers is the fastest climbing song of the week as it moves ten to #46. 5. ATKINS AND ADKINS: Debuting at #57 and #58 respectively are Rodney Atkins with He's Mine and Trace Adkins with Million Dollar View. 6. GO THANK A VETERAN THIS WEEK: Need I say more? 7. #1 HITS: These were the chart topping songs in 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, and 1986: 2006: Before He Cheats-Carrie Underwood-Arista 2001: Angry All The Time-Tim McGraw-Curb 1996: Lonely Too Long-Patty Loveless-Epic 1991: Shameless-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1986: That Rock Won't Roll-Restless Heart-RCA 8. THEIR 13 BIGGEST-SHENANDOAH AND SHANIA TWAIN EDITION: Two diverse acts that we are talking about here. These are their biggest hits. First number is the weeks at #1 while the second is the number of top 40 weeks. S.: 1. Next To You, Next To Me-1990-3-18 2. The Church On Cumberland Road-1989-2-13 3. Two Dozen Roses-1989-1-24 4. If Bubba Can Dance I Can Too-1994-1-17 5. Sunday In The South-1989-1-14 6. Rock My Baby-1992-1-17 (#2) S.T.: 1. Love Gets Me Every Time-1997-5-20 2. You Win My Love-1996-2-18 3. If You're Not In It For Love I'm Outta Here-1996-2-18 4. Any Man Of Mine-1995-2-17 5. Honey, I'm Home-1998-1-22 6. You're Still The One-1998-1-19 7. No One Needs To Know-1996-1-18 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Number one hits have come from either studio albums or greatest hits CDs (or is it studio CDs or greatest hits albums?). Anyway, our #1 song from sixteen years ago this week came from a box set and from an artist that has managed to make a lot of history in country music. The song is Check Yes Or No, the box set is Strait Out Of The Box, and of course, the artist is George Strait. Highlights from the 4 CD, 72 song boxed set include: 1. The first three songs-I Just Can't Go On Dying Like This, That Don't Change The Way I Feel About You, and I Don't Want To Talk It Over Anymore-all released on D Records during the 1970s and all written by Strait himself (do not tell anyone this, but George is writing again!) 2. 44 top ten hits 3. 28 #1 hits 4. His first top ten, Unwound (#6 in 1981) 5. His first #1, Fool Hearted Memory (1982) 6. Another song written by Strait-I Can't See Texas From Here 7. His version of Heartbroke (#1 for Ricky Skaggs in 1982) 8. His version of What Would Your Memories Do (#10 for Vern Gosdin in 1984) 9. His longest streak of #1 hits (from Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her-1986 to Ace in The Hole-1989) 10. A duet with Hank Thompson-Six Pack To Go 11. Chart wise, his biggest hit-Love Without End, Amen-1990 (5 weeks at #1) 12. His first relative 'failure'-Lovesick Blues (#24 in 1992) 13. Three songs from his best selling single title, Pure Country (at six times platinum): I Cross My Heart, Heartland, and When Did You Stop Loving Me 14. Plus, other songs from the CD: Overnight Male, The King Of Broken Hearts, and Where The Sidewalk Ends (a song that if released, would be a top ten for Strait) 15. A duet with Asleep At The Wheel-Big Ball's In Cowtown 16. A duet with Frank Sinatra-Fly Me To The Moon 17. Two new songs: Check Yes Or No (#1 in 1995) and I Know She Still Loves Me (#5 in 1996) All the songs that are in the boxed set came from Strait's first fifteen studio CDs from Strait Country in 1981 to Lead On in 1994 (except for the duets and the new songs). Check Yes Or No was released in September and became Strait's 28th #1 in November. A year later, the song won Strait his very first C.M.A. Award for Single of the Year (he also won for I Saw God Today in 2008). The box set is certified at the eight times platinum level (since there are four CDs, that means two million sets were sold). The box set is country music's biggest selling box set in history and is second to Bruce Springsteen's Live 1975-1985. The box set features a booklet that has George commenting on all the songs and a discography compiled by Dee Henry Jenkins (Conway Twitty's widow). By the way, there are two #1s from box sets in country music. The other one is by Garth Brooks: More Than A Memory (2007). That song came from the 2CD/DVD The Ultimate Hits. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 11, 1995: 1. CHECK YES OR NO-GEORGE STRAIT-MCA 2. Dust On The Bottle-David Lee Murphy-MCA 3. No Man's Land-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 4. I Let Her Lie-Daryle Singletary-Giant 5. Safe In The Arms Of Love-Martina McBride-RCA 6. Who Needs You Baby-Clay Walker-Giant 7. She's Every Woman-Garth Brooks-Capitol 8. All I Need To Know-Kenny Chesney-BNA 9. Whiskey Under The Bridge-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 10. Tall, Tall Trees-Alan Jackson-Arista
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Post by someguy on Nov 14, 2011 19:03:57 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Sparks Fly" Taylor Swift Greatest Gainer/Hot Shot Debut No. 35 "Come Home" Faith Hill Debut No. 60 "Run" Sugarland Featuring Matt Nathanson
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 15, 2011 11:26:41 GMT -5
1. SWIFT SPARKS #1: Finally, after four single releases from a CD that sold a million copies in its first week, Taylor Swift has a #1 hit from Speak Now. It is Sparks Fly and it becomes her fifth chart topping hit in her career following: 1. Our Song-2007-chart wise, her biggest hit 2. Should've Said No-2008 3. Love Story-2008 4. You Belong With Me-2009 5. Sparks Fly-2011 However, Swift has done well with her other Speak Now singles: 1. Mine-2010-#2 2. Back To December-2011-#3 3. Mean-2011-#2 Swift now becomes the 118th artist in history with at least five chart topping hits. 2. C.M.A. CHART: This year's winners on this week's chart: 1. Sparks Fly-Taylor Swift-Entertainer of the Year 2. God Gave Me You-Blake Shelton-Male Vocalist 5. We Owned The Night-Lady Antebellum-Vocal Group of the Year 6. Tattoos On This Town-Jason Aldean-Album and Musical Event of the Year 7. Baggage Claim-Miranda Lambert-Female Vocalist 13. All Your Life-the Band Perry-Single, Song, and New Artist of the Year 16. Reality-Kenny Chesney-Musical Video of the Year 21. Camouflage-Brad Paisley-C.M.A. Host 53. Footloose-Blake Shelton-Male Vocalist 60. Run-Sugarland and Matt Nathanson-Vocal Duo of the Year 3. GOTTA HAVE FAITH: Look who's back-Faith Hill! The last time she was on the chart with one of her singles was back in 2007 with Red Umbrella (#28) off her last CD called The Hits. Her last top ten was in 2007, too called I Need You (#8 with Tim McGraw off his Let It Go CD). Well, she comes back this week with a lead single off of an upcoming CD. She grabs the Hot Shot Debut at #35 with Come Home. 4. HE'S MINE AND FAST: Rodney Atkins takes an eleven point jump to #46 with He's Mine-this week's fastest climbing song. 5. FOUR FOR FOUR: Miranda Lambert has charted four CDs so far. So far, ALL of them have debuted at #1, including her latest, Four The Record. Here is the list: 1. Kerosene-2005 2. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend-2007 3. Revolution-2009 4. Four The Record-2011 6. #1 CDS: These were the top selling CDs in 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, and 1986: 2006: Small Town Girl-Kellie Pickler-BNA 2001: O Brother, Where Art Thou-Soundtrack-Mercury 1996: Everything I Love-Alan Jackson-Arista 1991: Ropin' The Wind-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1986: The Touch-Alabama-RCA 7. THEIR 17 BIGGEST-FARON YOUNG AND JACK GREENE EDITION: Both of these artists had a ton of hits together during the 1960s and 1970s with Young being a hit machine during the 1950s. These are their biggest hits. Weeks at #1 or #2 are first while weeks in the top 40 are second. F.Y.: 1. Alone With You-1958-13-29 2. Hello Walls-1961-9-23 3. Country Girl-1959-4-32 4. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young-1955-3-22 5. It's Four In The Morning-1972-2-16 6. All Right-1955-4-28 (#2) 7. If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'-1955-3-27 (#2) 8. Wine Me Up-1969-2-14 (#2) 9. Sweet Dreams-1956-1-33 (#2) 10. Goin' Steady-1953-1-18 (#2) J.G.: 1. There Goes My Everything-1966-7-21 2. All The Time-1967-5-17 3. Statue Of A Fool-1969-2-15 4. Until My Dreams Come True-1969-2-13 5. You Are My Treasure-1968-1-12 6. What Locks The Door-1967-4-17 (#2) 7. Wish I Didn't Have To Miss You-with Jeannie Seely-1970-2-13 (#2) 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: No one from the Class of 1989 is on their original label. In chronological order of their chart debuts, here is a list of those artists, labels, and years on those labels: 1. Clint Black-RCA-1988-2002 2. Garth Brooks-Capitol-1988-2004 3. Travis Tritt-Warner Bros.-1989-2000 4. Alan Jackson-Arista-1989-2011 It was Tritt who managed a #1 on the second label he was on, Columbia (2000-2005) and as a matter of fact, he was the first artist from the Class of 1989 to do so. He did so eleven years ago this week with Best Of Intentions. Here is a list of those major hits he had on the Warner label: 1. Country Club-1989-#9 2. Help Me Hold On-1990-#1 3. I'm Gonna Be Somebody-1990-#2 4. Drift Off To Dream-1991-#3 5. Here's A Quarter Call Someone Who Cares-1991-#2 6. Anymore-1991-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 7. The Whiskey Ain't Workin-with Marty Stuart-1992-#2 8. Nothing Short Of Dying-1992-#4 9. Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man-1992-#5 10. Can I Trust You With My Heart-1993-#1 11. T-R-O-U-B-L-E-1993-#13 12. Looking Out For Number One-1993-#11 13. Foolish Pride-1994-#1 14. Between An Old Memory And Me-1995-#11 15. Tell Me I Was Dreaming-1995-#2 16. Sometimes She Forgets-1995-#7 17. More Than You'll Ever Know-1996-#3 18. Where Corn Don't Grow-1997-#6 19. Helping Me Get Over You-with Lari White-1997-#18 During his run of hits on Warner, Tritt racked up another top ten duet with Stuart on This One's Gonna Hurt You For A Long, Long Time (#7 in 1992 off the Stuart CD, This One's Gonna Hurt You on MCA Records). A year after title #19 peaked, Tritt released his last CD on Warner called No More Looking Over My Shoulder. It was his worst performing CD in terms of hits. If I Lost You hit #29 in 1998 while the title track hit #38 in 1999. Start The Car was his final Warner single, hitting #52. Shortly after that CD ran its course, Tritt was dropped by the Warner label. It should be noted that the label dropped their other Travis-Randy Travis in 1997 (he signed to the Dreamworks label later that year). Columbia decided to sign Tritt in 2000. His first CD for them was called Down The Road I Go. Its first single, Best Of Intentions was released in July and became Tritt's fifth (and final) chart topper in November. He collected three more top tens from the CD (becoming his third CD to contain a quartet of top tens after Country Club and It's All About To Change): 1. It's A Great Day To Be Alive-2001-#2-his biggest #2 hit 2. Love Of A Woman-2001-#2 3. Modern Day Bonnie And Clyde-2002-#8 He released two more CDs for Columbia and reached the top 40 five more times with these hits: 1. Strong Enough To Be Your Man-2002-#13 2. Country Ain't Country-2003-#26 3. The Girl's Gone Wild-2004-#28 4. What Say You-with John Mellencamp-2004-#21 5. I See Me-2005-#32 After Columbia, Tritt signed to Category 5 Records in 2006. He released a CD for them called The Storm which was produced by Randy Jackson. It contained his last top 40 hit-You Never Take Me Dancing (#27 in 2007). Shortly after that song peaked, the label shut down due to questionable financial tactics to keep the label afloat. Tritt decided to sue the label for $10 million (I have not heard anything about the lawsuit since). Since 2007, Tritt has been label-less after 18 years in the business. How does Tritt compare to his other 1989 contemporaries? After his RCA days, Black started his own label called Equity Records. He only has one major hit on the label called Spend My Time (#16 in 2004). The label closed in 2008 and Black is 'homeless' as far as labels are concerned. After his Capitol years, Brooks started Pearl Records and landed a deal with WalMart to distribute his second boxed set called The Limited Series. The set contained a top ten called Good Ride Cowboy (#3 in 2005). It was a tribute song to Chris LeDoux, who died earlier that year. His last musical statement made history when he released The Ultimate Hits in 2007. A new song from the set, More Than A Memory debuted at #1. It was released on the Pearl/Big Machine label. Brooks said he will resume a full touring/recording schedule when his youngest daughter graduates from high school. He is currently a Las Vegas act. Jackson ended his Arista era on a #1s CD note. He signed to the EMI label this year and is currently on the charts with Long Way To Go (#24 this week). This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 18, 2000: 1. BEST OF INTENTIONS-TRAVIS TRITT-COLUMBIA 2. The Little Girl-John Michael Montgomery-Atlantic 3. Just Another Day In Paradise-Phil Vassar-Arista 4. We Danced-Brad Paisley-Arista 5. Go On-George Strait-MCA 6. Feels Like Love-Vince Gill-MCA 7. Without You-Dixie Chicks-Monument 8. My Next Thirty Years-Tim McGraw-Curb 9. I Lost It-Kenny Chesney-BNA 10. Born To Fly-Sara Evans-RCA
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Nov 15, 2011 13:28:47 GMT -5
^ one small mistake Faith Hill charted twice since "Red Umbrella" she had "A Baby Changes Everything" and "Give Into Me".
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 15, 2011 13:36:09 GMT -5
^ one small mistake Faith Hill charted twice since "Red Umbrella" she had "A Baby Changes Everything" and "Give Into Me". O.K., I see where you are coming from with A Baby Changes Everything (#36). However, that came from a Christmas CD, which I supposed is open to debate as it was not a regular Faith Hill release. If you want to count it (especially when tabulating an artists top 40 hits, that is fine). Give Into Me was off the Country Strong CD and would not be counted again as a Hill release. I did state that Red Umbrella was her last release from one of her CDs (which is true).
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 22, 2011 11:18:30 GMT -5
1. #1 COUNTRY: Brantley Gilbert scores his first chart topping hit in Country Must Be Country Wide. This is his first single to chart (out of three releases). In the meantime, he becomes the third artist on the Valory label to have a chart topping hit following Justin Moore (Small Town USA) and Reba McEntire (Consider Me Gone). 2. ANOTHER TOP TWO: At #2 for the week is Jason Aldean's Tattoos On This Town. Ever since She's Country hit #1 in 2009, he has managed to hit the top two with these hits: 1. She's Country-2009-#1 2. Big Green Tractor-2009-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 3. The Truth-2010-#1 4. Crazy Town-2010-#2 5. My Kinda Party-2011-#2 6. Don't You Wanna Stay-with Kelly Clarkson-2011-#1 7. Dirt Road Anthem-2011-#1 8. Tattoos On This Town-2011-#2 so far 3. A TIE: We have two songs taking six spot jumps for the fastest climbing songs of the week. They are: 1. You Gonna Fly-Keith Urban-#29 to #23 2. Million Dollar View-Trace Adkins-#52 to #46 4. AN RCA DEBUT: Love And Theft have the Hot Shot Debut of the week with Angel Eyes at #57. This is their RCA label debut. They were last on the charts with Lyric Street Records where they scored their only top ten, Runaway (#10 in 2009). 5. A.M.A. WINNERS: Congratulations to Taylor Swift for winning Country Album for Speak Now and Favorite Female Country Artist. Blake Shelton won Favorite Male Artist and Lady Antebellum won Favorite Country Band, Duo, Or Group. 6. #1 HITS: These were the chart topping songs in 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, and 1986: 2006: Before He Cheats-Carrie Underwood-Arista 2001: I Wanna Talk About Me-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 1996: Strawberry Wine-Deana Carter-Capitol 1991: Shameless-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1986: You're Still New To Me-Marie Osmond and Paul Davis-Capitol 7. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: Eddy Arnold is the #1 Billboard country artist of all time according to his chart performance. I have already ranked his #1 hits, so it is time to rank his #2 hits. Weeks at #2 are first followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. The Lovebug Itch-1950-8-16 2. Just Call Me Lonesome-1955-7-31 3. What A Fool I Was-1948-5-21 4. I've Been Thinking-1955-4-25 5. That's How Much I Love You-1946-4-17 6. The Echo Of Your Footsteps-1949-3-19 7. Cuddle Buggin' Baby-1950-2-17 8. To My Sorrow-1947-15 9. Here Comes Heaven-1968-2-14 10. Then I Turned And Walked Slowly Away-1949-1-17 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Randy Travis started his career at Warner Bros. with five #1 CDs. The fifth CD, Heroes & Friends was our top selling country CD 21 years ago this week. Here is a list of those first four CDs and their hits: 1. Storms Of Life-1986-#1 for 8 weeks-3X platinum a. 1982-1986-#6 b. On The Other Hand-1986-#1 c. Diggin' Up Bones-1986-#1 d. No Place Like Home-1987-#2 2. Always & Forever-1987-#1 for 43 weeks-5X platinum a. Forever And Ever, Amen-1987-#1 b. I Won't Need You Anymore Always & Forever-1987-#1 c. Too Gone Too Long-1988-#1 d. I Told You So-1988-#1 3. Old 8X10-1988-#1 for 16 weeks-2X platinum a. Honky Tonk Moon-1988-#1 b. Deeper Than The Holler-1989-#1 c. Is It Still Over-1989-#1 d. Promises-1989-#17 4. No Holdin' Back-1989-#1 for 12 weeks-2X platinum a. It's Just A Matter Of Time-1989-#1 b. Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart-1990-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit c. He Walked On Water-1990-#2 While Travis was on the charts with No Holdin' Back, he decided to record a CD with his 'heroes and friends'. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 1. Heroes And Friends 2. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind-Dolly Parton 3. Birth Of The Blues-Willie Nelson 4. All Night Long-Merle Haggard 5. The Human Race-Vern Gosdin 6. Shopping For Dresses-Loretta Lynn 7. Waiting On The Light To Change-B.B. King 8. A Few Ole Country Boys-George Jones 9. Walk Our Own Road-Kris Kristofferson 10. We're Strangers Again-Tammy Wynette 11. Smokin' The Hive-Clint Eastwood 12. Come See About Me-Conway Twitty 13. Happy Trails-Roy Rogers 14. Heroes And Friends-Reprise The CD was released in September and made its way to #1 in November. It was on the charts for 69 weeks (almost a year and a half). Two hit singles were released: A Few Ole Country Boys with Jones (#8 in 1990, becoming Jones' 79th and final top ten and giving him top tens in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s) and the title track (#3 in 1991). Travis' duet with Wynette also made a chart appearance as well (#49). The CD has been certified at the platinum level. In December, 1990 Billboard proclaimed Travis as the #1 country artist of the year when combining both singles and albums chart activity. However, Travis' chart domination began to wane with his next CD, High Lonesome (of course, Garth Brooks was dominating the country scene with his No Fences and Ropin' The Wind CDs). The CD reached #3 and became a platinum success with these hits: 1. Point Of Light-1991-#3 2. Forever Together-1991-#1 3. Better Class Of Losers-1992-#2-his biggest #2 hit 4. I'd Surrender All-1992-#20 Twenty years later, Travis released his second duets CD called Anniversary Celebration (to celebrate his 25th anniversary as a recording artist). Its track listing is: 1. Everything And All-Brad Paisley 2. A Few Ole Country Boys-Jamey Johnson 3. Forever And Ever, Amen-Zac Brown Band 4. He Walked On Water-Kenny Chesney 5. T.I.M.E.-Josh Turner 6. Love Looks Good On You-Kristen Chenoweth 7. Better Class Of Losers/She's Got The Rhythm And I Got The Blues medley-Alan Jackson 8. More Life-Don Henley 9. Can't Hurt A Man-Tim McGraw 10. Promises-Shelby Lynne 11. Is It Still Over-Carrie Underwood 12. Road To Surrender-Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson 13. Diggin' Up Bones-John Anderson 14. Someone You Never Knew-Eamonn McCrystal 15. Too Much-James Otto 16. Didn't We Shine-George Jones, Lorrie Morgan, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Joe Stampley, and Gene Watson 17. Everything And All This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 24, 1990: 1. HEROES AND FRIENDS-RANDY TRAVIS-WARNER BROS. 2. No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 3. Rumor Has It-Reba McEntire-MCA 4. Killin' Time-Clint Black-RCA 5. When I Call Your Name-Vince Gill-MCA 6. Pickin' On Nashville-Kentucky Headhunters-Mercury 7. Garth Brooks-Garth Brooks-Capitol 8. Livin' It Up-George Strait-MCA 9. Here In The Real World-Alan Jackson-Arista 10. A Collection Of Hits-Kathy Mattea-Mercury
P.S.: Happy Thanksgiving!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2011 23:38:50 GMT -5
Chart's already out, but here are the 12/10 Chart Highlights:
*** No. 1 *** "We Owned The Night" Lady Antebellum Greatest Gainer No. 4 "Keep Me In Mind" Zac Brown Band Hot Shot Debut No. 56 "Ours" Taylor Swift Debut No. 57 "Like We Never Said Goodbye" Clay Walker Re-entry No. 58 "Care" Kid Rock featuring Angaleena Presley or Martina McBride Debut No. 60 "Why Ya Wanna" Jana Kramer
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 29, 2011 11:12:39 GMT -5
1. LADY A OWNS #1: Lady Antebellum collects their sixth chart topping hit in We Owned The Night. They are starting their third CD just like they started their second: two #1 hits. Their Need You Now CD started with the title track (#1 in 2009) and American Honey (#1 in 2010). Own The Night started with Just A Kiss (#1 in 2011). 2. FINALLY!: After three weeks at #11, David Nail scores his second top ten hit in Let It Rain (at #9). His first, Red Light hit #7 in 2009. He finally breaks the top ten after 43 weeks on the chart. In comparison, it took Lee Brice 46 weeks to hit the top ten with Love Like Crazy (#10 at 46 weeks, peaking at #3 in 2010). 3. SHE LOVES PRONOUNS: If she can score a hit with Mine, why not one with Ours? Taylor Swift's fifth Speak Now single grabs the Hot Shot Debut at #56. 4. THEIR ANGEL'S FLYING: Love And Theft have the fastest climbing song of the week as Angel Eyes vaults eleven to #46. 5. A MIXED BAG: Scotty McCreery returns to #1 on the country albums chart after selling 33,000 copies of his Clear As Day CD. However, he was caught lip syncing his current hit, The Trouble With Girls at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. 6. A 90S LOOK: These were the top songs during the last week in November during the 1990s: 1990: Come Next Monday-K.T. Oslin-RCA 1991: Forever Together-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1992: I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know Why-Alabama-RCA 1993: Reckless-Alabama-RCA 1994: The Big One-George Strait-MCA 1995: Check Yes Or No-George Strait-MCA 1996: Strawberry Wine-Deana Carter-Capitol 1997: Love Gets Me Every Time-Shania Twain-Mercury 1998: Wide Open Spaces-Dixie Chicks-Monument 1999: I Love You-Martina McBride-RCA 7. LET'S PLAY CATCH UP: Every once in awhile, I will be listing the biggest hit from those artists who do not have enough #1s to rank (even though I may have ranked some of the artists listed below). Here is the third list of 25 artists. Their biggest hit is determined by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie-1957-8-22 2. Barbara Fairchild-Teddy Bear Song-1973-2-15 3. Freddy Fender-Wasted Days And Wasted Nights-1975-2-11 4. Flatt And Scruggs-The Ballad Of Jed Clampett-1963-3-20 5. Tennessee Ernie Ford-The Shot Gun Boogie-1951-14-25 6. David Frizzell-I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home-1982-1-14 7. Gatlin Brothers-Houston Means I'm One Day Closer To You-1983-2-15 8. Don Gibson-Oh Lonesome Me-1958-8-34 9. Jim Glaser-You're Gettin' To Me Again-1984-1-14 10. Bobby Goldsboro-Honey-1968-3-12 11. Vern Gosdin-Set 'Em Joe-1988-1-15 12. Jack Guthrie-Oklahoma Hills-1945-6-19 13. George Hamilton-Abilene-1963-4-24 14. Hawkshaw Hawkins-Lonesome 7-7203-1963-4-25 15. Wade Hayes-Old Enough To Know Better-1995-2-16 16. Bobby Helms-Fraulein-1957-4-52 17. Ty Herndon-It Must Be Love-1998-1-23 18. Highway 101-Somewhere Tonight-1987-2-14 19. Goldie Hill-I Let The Stars Get In My Eyes-1953-3-09 20. Johnny Horton-The Battle Of New Orleans-1959-10-21 21. Jan Howard-For Loving You-with Bill Anderson-1967-4-18 22. Ferlin Husky-Wings Of A Dove-1960-10-36 23. Julio Iglesias-To All The Girls I've Loved Before-with Willie Nelson-1984-2-13 24. Stonewall Jackson-Waterloo-1959-5-19 25. Johnnie And Jack-Oh Baby Mine I Get So Lonely-1954-2-18 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Guess who had SIX #1 albums during a calendar year? Is it Garth Brooks? No. Let me give you a hint. It happened in 1968 by a big crossover artist at the time. His name is Glen Campbell and album #6 was our top seller 43 years ago this week. The album's name is Wichita Lineman. As always, let us list those first five albums and their hits: 1. Gentle On My Mind-1967-#1 for 2 weeks in 1968-1X platinum a. Gentle On My Mind-1967-#30 2. By The Time I Get To Phoenix-1967-#1 for 4 weeks in 1968-1X platinum a. By The Time I Get To Phoenix-1968-#2 b. Hey Little One-1968-#13 3. Hey Little One-1968-#1 for 1 week-gold album a. Hey Little One-1968-#13-he must have loved that song! b. I Wanna Live-1968-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 4. A New Place In The Sun-1968-#1 for 6 weeks-no certification no hits came from this album 5. Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell-1968-#1 for 1 week-gold album a. Less Of Me-1968-#44 b. Let It Be Me-1969-#14 Then the second annual C.M.A. Awards were handed out and Campbell was the big winner, winning Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist. His next album was released shortly after called Wichita Lineman. It became his ONLY double #1 album when it topped the country albuims chart for 20 weeks (his longest reign) and the top 200 for five weeks. It contained the following hits: 1. Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife-1968-#3 2. Wichita Lineman-1968-#1 The album was on the charts for 46 weeks and is certified double platinum. Campbell continued his winning streak into 1969 with his seventh consecutive #1 album, Galveston. The title track hit #1 while Where's The Playground Susie hit #28. Could Campbell's streak hit eight #1 albums in a row? The answer is no. His next album, Glen Campbell-Live hit #2. The next time he topped the country albums chart was in 1975 with Rhinestone Cowboy and in 1977 with Southern Nights. The title tracks to both albums became his ONLY triple #1s on country, pop, and adult contemporary charts. He kept releasing albums with regularity during the 1970s and 1980s on labels like Capitol, Atlantic America, MCA, and back to Capitol. In 2005, he was inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. This year he announced he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and released his last studio CD, Ghost On The Canvas. Usually I would give you the top ten chart, but this week I will give you the top 20 albums for the week because ALL six #1 albums by Campbell were residing in that part of the chart.
BILLBOARD TOP TWENTY FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1968: 1. WICHITA LINEMAN-GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 2. Harper Valley P.T.A.-Jeannie C. Riley-Plantation 3. GENTLE ON MY MIND-GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 4. BOBBIE GENTRY & GLEN CAMPBELL-BOBBIE GENTRY AND GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 5. Walkin' In Loveland-Eddy Arnold-RCA 6. Mama Tried-Merle Haggard-Capitol 7. Just The Two Of Us-Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton-RCA 8. Songs Of Pride...Charley, That Is-Charley Pride-RCA 9. Next In Line-Conway Twitty-Decca 10. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison-Johnny Cash-Columbia 11. HEY LITTLE ONE-GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 12. A NEW PLACE IN THE SUN-GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 13. Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits-Loretta Lynn-Decca 14. The Romantic World Of Eddy Arnold-Eddy Arnold-RCA 15. Another Time, Another Place-Jerry Lee Lewis-Smash 16. BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX-GLEN CAMPBELL-CAPITOL 17. D-I-V-O-R-C-E-Tammy Wynette-Epic 18. I Walk Alone-Marty Robbins-Columbia 19. Jim Reeves On Stage-Jim Reeves-RCA 20. Honey-Bobby Goldsboro-United Artists
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Post by blou on Nov 30, 2011 20:21:07 GMT -5
"5. A MIXED BAG: Scotty McCreery returns to #1 on the country albums chart after selling 33,000 copies of his Clear As Day CD. However, he was caught lip syncing his current hit, The Trouble With Girls at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."
This caught my eye and pisses me off! Everyone knows...or should know...most performances in the Macy's parade are lip-synced. There are no bands...accompaniment. Don't pick on the kid...he's not used to lip-syncing.
No. 1 selling country album again this week +165%....probably because of that Macy's appearance.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 30, 2011 20:30:43 GMT -5
"5. A MIXED BAG: Scotty McCreery returns to #1 on the country albums chart after selling 33,000 copies of his Clear As Day CD. However, he was caught lip syncing his current hit, The Trouble With Girls at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."This caught my eye and pisses me off! Everyone knows...or should know...most performances in the Macy's parade are lip-synced. There are no bands...accompaniment. Don't pick on the kid...he's not used to lip-syncing. No. 1 selling country album again this week +165%....probably because of that Macy's appearance. Welcome to Pulse Music Board. If Scotty McCreery can survive the rigors of American Idol and post Idol, he should be able to take the good with the bad and vice versa. I thought it was important enough to mention him this week. By the way, he did outsell Taylor Swift's latest CD/DVD, so that should make you happy! Look forward to more exciting posts from you.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2011 20:38:33 GMT -5
People always make a big deal about lip-syncing. I don't pay much attention to it. Maybe people do it all the time at the Macy's Parade, and Scotty is just another in a long list, but why do people say "oh my gosh, he was lip syncing!" and make a big deal out of it when he's already proved that he can sing?
Anyway, I'm sure it was the Macy's Parade and just general Black Friday shopping that boosted Scotty's album sales. It's gotten pretty good reviews and I'm sure it was visible to people who maybe hadn't been out shopping hardly at all. Non-country fans are buying it, too, because he is the "American Idol", but I bet a lot of kids or their parents bought the album, too, with the parents probably thinking it would make a good present/stocking stuffer for middle school or high school aged kids.
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Post by blou on Nov 30, 2011 23:08:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome! That's nice of you after I got testy. It's an interesting board and I enjoy it. :)
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 6, 2011 11:19:37 GMT -5
1. HURRAY FOR TIM!: Usually, in this section I would not be playing the role of a cheerleader, but I am glad Tim McGraw won his case last week against Curb Records. That said, he has the Hot Shot Debut this week with Better Than I Used To Be at #51. By the way, you should see me with my pom poms! 2. A TWO WEEK LONG NIGHT: Lady Antebellum continues to have the #1 hit in country with We Owned The Night. 3. NOT #10 AGAIN!: Eric Church lands his third top ten with Drink In My Hand at #10 this week. His other two top tens have peaked at #10: Love Your Love The Most in 2009 and Hell On The Heart in 2010. 4. YOURS IS SLOW, OURS IS FAST: Taking a 19 point jump this week, Taylor Swift has the fastest climbing song in Ours (at #37). 5. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: We have our first Christmas songs on the chart this week. They are: 1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town-The Band Perry-#56 2. Wonderful Christmastime-Eli Young Band-#57 6. SECOND A.C.A. WINNERS: This is the list of those who won awards at the second American Country Awards show: 1. Artist of the Year-Jason Aldean 2. Male Artist-Brad Paisley 3. Female Artist-Carrie Underwood 4. Group-Lady Antebellum 5. Breakthough Artist-Chris Young 6. New Artist-Scotty McCreery 7. Single of the Year-Voices-Chris Young 8. Male Single-My Kinda Party-Jason Aldean 9. Female Single-Mama's Song-Carrie Underwood 10. Group Single-Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not-Thompson Square 11. New Artist Single-Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not-Thompson Square 12. Vocal Collaboration Single-Don't You Wanna Stay-Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson 13. Touring Artist-Jason Aldean 14. Music Video of the Year-Who Are You When I'm Not Looking-Blake Shelton 15. Male Video-Who Are You When I'm Not Looking-Blake Shelton 16. Female Video-Mama's Song-Carrie Underwood 17. Group or Collaboration Video-Don't You Wanna Stay-Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson 18. New Artist Video-Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not-Thompson Square 19. Greatest Hits Award-Alabama 20. Artist of the Decade-Toby Keith 7. A 90S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling CDs during the first week in December during the 1990s: 1990: No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1991: Ropin' The Wind-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1992: The Chase-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1993: Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles-Various-Giant 1994: Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 1995: Fresh Horses-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1996: Everything I Love-Alan Jackson-Arista 1997: Come On Over-Shania Twain-Mercury 1998: Double Live-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1999: Breathe-Faith Hill-Warner Bros. 8. LET'S PLAY CATCH UP: I will be lisitng the biggest hit from those artists who do not have enough #1s to rank (even though I may have ranked some of the artists listed below). Here is the fourth list of 25 artists. Their biggest hit is determined by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Michael Johnson-Give Me Wings-1987-1-16 2. Tom Jones-Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow-1977-1-10 3. Louis Jordan-Is You Or Is You Ain't Ma' Baby-1944-5-09 4. The Kendalls-Heaven's Just A Sin Away-1977-4-13 5. Sammy Kershaw-She Don't Know She's Beautiful-1993-1-18 6. Claude King-Wolverton Mountain-1962-9-26 7. Pee Wee King-Slow Poke-1951-15-31 8. Kris Kristofferson-Highwayman-with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings-1985-1-14 9. Cristy Lane-One Day At A Time-1980-1-14 10. Dicky Lee-Rocky-1975-1-14 11. Little Texas-My Love-1994-2-17 12. Hank Locklin-Please Help Me, I'm Falling-1960-14-36 13. Dave Loggins-Nobody Loves Me Like You Do-with Anne Murray-1984-1-13 14. Louvin Brothers-I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby-1956-2-24 15. Warner Mack-The Bridge Washed Out-1965-1-22 16. Cledus Maggard And The Citizen's Band-The White Night-1976-1-11 17. Kathy Mattea-Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses-1988-2-14 18. C.W. McCall-Convoy-1975-6-13 19. Charly McClain-Radio Heart-1985-1-14 20. Neal McCoy-Wink-1994-4-18 21. Mindy McCready-Guys Do It All The Time-1996-1-15 22. Mel McDaniel-Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On-1985-1-15 23. Skeets McDonald-Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes-1952-3-18 24. Ronnie McDowell-You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation-1983-1-12 25. Roger Miller-Dang Me-1964-6-22 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: This week's feature is dedicated to: Chris Austin, Kirk Cappello, Joey Cigainero, Paula Kaye Evans, John Hammon, Terry Jackson, Tony Saputo, Michael Thomas, Chris Hollinger, and Don Holms. Who were those people? The first eight were part of Reba McEntire's band while the last two were the pilots at the controls of the plane. The plane crash happened in March, 1991. McEntire's song of heartache, For My Broken Heart was our #1 song twenty years ago this week. Let us start the story in 1990 when McEntire released her Rumor Has It CD. The CD started well when You Lie became her fifteenth #1 hit. She followed it with the title track which hit #3 in 1991. Then we come to March 15, 1991. Reba and her band were in San Diego for a private concert for IBM employees. They had a concert scheduled in Fort Wayne the next night. Reba's band left on two planes (Reba and her husband, Narvel Blackstock stayed in San Diego overnight and would take off the next day in their private jet). The eight aforementioned band members left first while two others, Pete Finney and Joe McGlohon left right after. They left San Diego around 2 a.m. on March 16. Minutes after the first plane left, one of its wings clipped a mountain before it exploded and killed everyone on board. Reba and Narvel were told of the plane crash and instead flew to Nashville the next day (where the second plane flew after the news of the first plane not making it to its destination). ALL of Nashville was in mourning. The city had not seen that kind of reaction since Keith Whitley passed away two years prior. McEntire met with all of the families and a memorial service was scheduled for March 20. Johnny Cash sang a song at the service, Jim I Wore A Tie Today and offered his remarks, which had a great impact for those who attended. McEntire canceled several concerts, but kept her committment to the Academy Awards, which were held March 25 in Los Angeles. She was encouraged to continue with her music by the families later that spring. Getting back to the music, McEntire was on the charts with two songs for the week ending March 16, 1991: Rumor Has It at #34 and falling and Fancy at #32 and rising. Fancy, probably her most played recurrent song peaked at #8. The Rumor Has It CD ended on a #2 single with Fallin' Out Of Love. McEntire's mood was certainly different when she went to record a follow up CD. The CD's title was For My Broken Heart. The title track was released in October and made its way to #1 in December. She dedicated her CD to her lost bandmates. Garth Brooks did the same with his Ropin' The Wind CD. For My Broken Heart (the CD) kept McEntire on the charts throughout all of 1992 with these hits: 1. Is There Life Out There-#1 2. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia-#12 3. The Greatest Man I Never Knew-#3 This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 7, 1991: 1. FOR MY BROKEN HEART-REBA MCENTIRE-MCA 2. Shameless-Garth Brooks-Capitol 3. My Next Broken Heart-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 4. Then Again-Alabama-RCA 5. Forever Together-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. You Don't Count The Cost-Billy Dean-Capitol 7. The Chill Of An Early Fall-George Strait-MCA 8. Some Guys Have All The Love-Little Texas-Warner Bros. 9. Look At Us-Vince Gill-MCA 10. Love, Me-Collin Raye-Epic
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Post by carriekins on Dec 6, 2011 12:23:28 GMT -5
9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: This week's feature is dedicated to: Chris Austin, Kirk Cappello, Joey Cigainero, Paula Kaye Evans, John Hammon, Terry Jackson, Tony Saputo, Michael Thomas, Chris Hollinger, and Don Holms. Who were those people? The first eight were part of Reba McEntire's band while the last two were the pilots at the controls of the plane. The plane crash happened in March, 1991. McEntire's song of heartache, For My Broken Heart was our #1 song twenty years ago this week. Let us start the story in 1990 when McEntire released her Rumor Has It CD. The CD started well when You Lie became her fifteenth #1 hit. She followed it with the title track which hit #3 in 1991. Then we come to March 15, 1991. Reba and her band were in San Diego for a private concert for IBM employees. They had a concert scheduled in Fort Wayne the next night. Reba's band left on two planes (Reba and her husband, Narvel Blackstock stayed in San Diego overnight and would take off the next day in their private jet). The eight aforementioned band members left first while two others, Pete Finney and Joe McGlohon left right after. They left San Diego around 2 a.m. on March 16. Minutes after the first plane left, one of its wings clipped a mountain before it exploded and killed everyone on board. Reba and Narvel were told of the plane crash and instead flew to Nashville the next day (where the second plane flew after the news of the first plane not making it to its destination). ALL of Nashville was in mourning. The city had not seen that kind of reaction since Keith Whitley passed away two years prior. McEntire met with all of the families and a memorial service was scheduled for March 20. Johnny Cash sang a song at the service, Jim I Wore A Tie Today and offered his remarks, which had a great impact for those who attended. McEntire canceled several concerts, but kept her committment to the Academy Awards, which were held March 25 in Los Angeles. She was encouraged to continue with her music by the families later that spring. Getting back to the music, McEntire was on the charts with two songs for the week ending March 16, 1991: Rumor Has It at #34 and falling and Fancy at #32 and rising. Fancy, probably her most played recurrent song peaked at #8. The Rumor Has It CD ended on a #2 single with Fallin' Out Of Love. McEntire's mood was certainly different when she went to record a follow up CD. The CD's title was For My Broken Heart. The title track was released in October and made its way to #1 in December. She dedicated her CD to her lost bandmates. Garth Brooks did the same with his Ropin' The Wind CD. For My Broken Heart (the CD) kept McEntire on the charts throughout all of 1992 with these hits: 1. Is There Life Out There-#1 2. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia-#12 3. The Greatest Man I Never Knew-#3 This is what the chart looked like back then: BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 7, 1991: 1. FOR MY BROKEN HEART-REBA MCENTIRE-MCA 2. Shameless-Garth Brooks-Capitol 3. My Next Broken Heart-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 4. Then Again-Alabama-RCA 5. Forever Together-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. You Don't Count The Cost-Billy Dean-Capitol 7. The Chill Of An Early Fall-George Strait-MCA 8. Some Guys Have All The Love-Little Texas-Warner Bros. 9. Look At Us-Vince Gill-MCA 10. Love, Me-Collin Raye-Epic I was 11 years old when the plane crash happened, and Reba and George Strait were my favorite artists. I remember this era like it was yesterday. Those are some great, great albums - I can probably sing many of them word-for-word still today - 20 years later. Dierks Bentley did a cover/duet of the Louvin Bros. "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby" and it's quite possibly one of my favorite tracks, ever. Love that song.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 13, 2011 11:43:17 GMT -5
1. KEEP ME AT #1: The Zac Brown Band collects their eighth #1 hit in Keep Me In Mind. In the meantime, their current CD You Get What You Give is their second CD to contain a quartet of #1 hits. Their CDs and chart toppers are: 1. The Foundation a. Chicken Fried-2008 b. Toes-2009 c. Highway 20 Ride-2010 d. Free-2010 2. You Get What You Give a. As She's Walking Away-with Alan Jackson-2010 b. Colder Weather-2011 c. Knee Deep-with Jimmy Buffett-2011 d. Keep Me In Mind Starting with Toes, this is the Zac Brown Band's seventh consecutive #1 hit, putting them in a second place tie with Exile for the group with the most back to back #1s. Exile scored theirs between 1984-1986. Alabama's 21 between 1980-1987 is first. In the meantime, Zac Brown joins the Judds to have their first two CDs (once RCA released the Judds' first two full length CDs) to have four #1s on EACH CD. Furthermore, the You Get What You Give CD is the 29th in country music history with a quartet of #1 hits (minus greatest hits CDs). The others: 1. Don't Make It Easy For Me-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 2. Roll On-Alabama-RCA 3. Why Not Me-the Judds-RCA 4. Rockin' With The Rhythm-the Judds-RCA 5. Lost In The Fifties Tonight-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 6. Hang On To Your Heart-Exile-Epic 7. Wheels-Restless Heart-RCA 8. Always & Forever-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 9. King's Record Shop-Rosanne Cash-Columbia 10. The Heart Of It All-Earl Thomas Conley-RCA 11. Southern Star-Alabama-RCA 12. Killin' Time-Clint Black-RCA 13. No Fences-Garth Brooks-Capitol 14. Don't Rock The Jukebox-Alan Jackson-Arista 15. Brand New Man-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 16. I Still Believe In You-Vince Gill-MCA 17. Alibis-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic 18. Who I Am-Alan Jackson-Arista 19. The Woman In Me-Shania Twain-Mercury 20. Everywhere-Tim McGraw-Curb 21. A Place In The Sun-Tim McGraw-Curb 22. Lonely Grill-Lonestar-BNA 23. Set This Circus Down-Tim McGraw-Curb 24. If You're Going Through Hell-Rodney Atkins-Curb 25. Golden Road-Keith Urban-Capitol 26. Time Well Wasted-Brad Paisley-Arista 27. Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood-Artista 28. The Foundation-Zac Brown Band-Atlantic 29. You Get What You Give-Zac Brown Band-Atlantic 2. LOVIN' #2: Jason Aldean is spending his fourth week at #2 with Tattoos On This Town. He has spent seven weeks at the runner up position this year as My Kinda Party was a three week #2 in January. 3. MORE GOOD NEWS FOR MCGRAW: Tim McGraw has the fastest climbing single of the week as Better Than I Used To Be climbs twelve to #39. 4. HER BIGGEST IN FOUR YEARS: Faith Hill scores her biggest hit since Red Umbrella peaked at #28 in 2007. This week, her Come Home is at #26. 5. NOW WE'RE TAKING NOTICE: Toby Keith is in the top twenty with his Red Solo Cup (full of egg nog, I'm sure) at #17 this week. 6. SECOND WEEK OF CHRISTMAS: This is the second week of new Christmas debuts. They are: 1. Christmas All Over The World-Tim McGraw-his StyleSonic Records debut-#54 2. Mele Kalikimaka-Jake Owen-#55 7. #1 HITS: These were the top songs in 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, and 1986: 2006: My Wish-Rascal Flatts-Lyric Street 2001: I Wanna Talk About Me-Toby Keith-Dreamworks 1996: Little Bitty-Alan Jackson-Arista 1991: For My Broken Heart-Reba McEntire-MCA 1986: Hell And High Water-T. Graham Brown-Capitol 8. LET'S PLAY CATCH UP: I will be listing the biggest hit from those artists who do not have enough #1s to rank (even though I may have ranked some of the artists listed below). Here is the fifth list of 25 artists. Their biggest hit is determined by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Priscilla Mitchell-Yes, Mr. Peters-with Roy Drusky-1965-2-23 2. Melba Montgomery-No Charge-1974-1-12 3. George Morgan-Candy Kisses-1949-3-23 4. Lorrie Morgan-What Part Of No-1993-3-18 5. Moon Mullican-I'll Sail My Ship Alone-1950-4-36 6. Michael Martin Murphey-What's Forever For-1982-1-16 7. David Lee Murphy-Dust On The Bottle-1995-2-17 8. Juice Newton-Both To Each Other Friends And Lovers-with Eddie Rabbitt-1986-1-14 9. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Fishin' In The Dark-1987-1-15 10. The O'Kanes-Can't Stop My Heart From Loving You-1987-1-14 11. K.T. Oslin-Come Next Monday-1990-2-18 12. Marie Osmond-Paper Roses-1973-2-12 13. Paul Overstreet-Daddy's Come Around-1991-1-18 14. Johnny Paycheck-Take This Job And Shove It-1978-1-13 15. Leon Payne-I Love You Because-1950-2-32 16. Carl Perkins-Blue Suede Shoes-1956-3-24 17. Michael Peterson-From Here To Eternity-1997-1-20 18. Jeanne Pruett-Satin Sheets-1973-3-15 19. Wayne Raney-Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me-1949-3-22 20. Collin Raye-Love, Me-1992-3-17 21. Jerry Reed-When You're Hot, You're Hot-1971-5-13 22. Del Reeves-Girl On The Billboard-1965-2-18 23. Mike Reid-Walk On Faith-1991-2-17 24. Ricochet-Daddy's Money-1996-2-17 25. Jeannie C. Riley-Harper Valley P.T.A.-1968-3-13 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: It is time to review those artists, songs, CDs, and chart achievements that were discussed in this section this year. 1. Anne Murray and Dave Loggins have a #1 duet in Nobody Loves Me Like You Do in 1985 2. C.W. McCall scores a monster crossover hit in Convoy in 1975 3. Reba McEntire has a pair of top tens in the top ten in 1986 4. Johnny Cash scores a classic in Daddy Sang Bass in 1969 5. Kenny Rogers scores a #1 in Morning Desire in 1986 6. Lionel Richie and Alabama have a top ten duet in Deep River Woman in 1987 7. Ronnie Milsap scores a #1 in I'd Be A Legend In My Time in 1975 8. George Jones and Tammy Wynette score their last #1 together, Near You in 1977 9. Rosanne Cash remakes her daddy's Tennessee Flat Top Box in 1988 10. George Strait has his first #1 CD in Right Or Wrong in 1984 11. Marty Robbins scores a classic in Don't Worry in 1961 12. Merle Haggard scores his first #1 in The Fugitive in 1967 13. Ronnie Milsap makes Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me a #1 in 1989 14. Conway Twitty scores his 75th and final top ten in I Couldn't See You Leavin' in 1991 15. The Dixie Chicks score their last top ten in Travelin' Soldier in 2003 16. Ricky Skaggs scores a live #1 CD in Live In London in 1986 17. Tennessee Bird Walk becomes a novelty #1 for Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan in 1970 18. George Jones scores his first #1, White Lightning in 1959 19. Hank Williams, Jr. scores his biggest #2 hit in A Country Boy Can Survive in 1982 20. Waylon Jennings scores his last #1 in Rose In Paradise in 1987 21. Debby Boone scores her only #1 country hit in Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again in 1980 22. Kenny Rogers scores a comeback hit in Buy Me A Rose in 2000 23. Cal Smith is a #1 Country Bumpkin in 1974 24. Toby Keith's most intensive hits collection, 35 Biggest Hits is #1 in 2008 25. Reba McEntire becomes a superstar when Whoever's In New England is #1 in 1986 26. Randy Travis hits #1 with I Told You So in 1988 27. Patty Loveless scores her first #1 for Epic Records, Blame It On Your Heart in 1993 28. Conway Twitty scores his biggest hit in the 1980s with Slow Hand in 1982 29. Vern Gosdin scores his first #1 in I Can Tell By The Way You Dance You're Gonna Love Me Tonight in 1984 30. Brad Paisley's 5th Gear is a top selling CD in 2007 31. Universal Records has a #1 in Eddy Raven's In A Letter To You in 1989 32. Pancho And Lefty becomes a classic duet for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1984 33. Exile scores Arista's biggest hit in Nobody's Talking in 1990 34. George Strait scores his first top ten in Unwound in 1981 35. Highwayman becomes a #1 hit for Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson in 1985 36. Johnny Cash scores his biggest crossover hit in A Boy Named Sue in 1969 37. Trisha Yearwood wins the How Do I Live 'battle' in country in 1997 38. Brooks & Dunn score their first #1 in Brand New Man in 1991 39. The 9/11 chart in 2001 40. George Jones scores his biggest hit in Tender Years in 1961 41. Rodney Crowell scores his fifth #1 from Diamonds & Dirt, Above And Beyond in 1989 42. Garth Brooks debuts at #1 with his Ropin' The Wind CD in 1991 43. Heaven's Just A Sin Away is a #1 for the Kendalls in 1977 44. I Will Always Love You hits #1 for the second time for Dolly Parton in 1982 45. Tim McGraw's Something Like That is a #1 in 1999 46. The Oak Ridge Boys score a #1 in Gonna Take A Lot Of River in 1988 47. Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles is a top seller in 1993 48. Check Yes Or No is a #1 for George Strait in 1995 49. Travis Tritt, after a label change is #1 with Best Of Intentions in 2000 50. Randy Travis scores his fifth and final #1 CD with Heroes And Friends in 1990 51. Glen Campbell scores his sixth #1 album with Wichita Lineman in 1968 52. After tragedy, Reba McEntire scores a #1, For My Broken Heart in 1991 More to come!
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Dec 19, 2011 18:29:19 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Keep Me In Mind" Zac Brown Band Greatest Gainer No. 3 "Easy" Rascal Flatts Featuring Natasha Bedingfield Hot Shot Debut No. 57 "Please Come Home For Christmas" Martina McBride
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Post by drock89 on Dec 19, 2011 23:34:20 GMT -5
I'll make sure this is all updated for the year now that school is over.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 21, 2011 19:07:00 GMT -5
1. A Z.B.B. #1: The Zac Brown Band continues to have the #1 hit in Keep Me In Mind. This is their fifth single that has spent two weeks at #1. The others: 1. Chicken Fried-2008 2. Toes-2009 3. As She's Walking Away-with Alan Jackson-2010 4. Colder Weather-2011 5. Keep Me In Mind-2011 If they can hold on to #1 for another week, Keep Me In Mind will become their biggest hit. 2. THE HITS KEEP COMIN': Kenny Chesney lands the fifth top ten from Hemingway's Whiskey this week. Reality is at #10 and it follows the four others from the CD: 1. The Boys Of Fall-2010-#1 2. Somewhere With You-2011-#1 3. Live A Little-2011-#1 4. You And Tequila-with Grace Potter-2011-#3 His current CD is his fourth with at least a quintet of top tens following: 1. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems 2. When The Sun Goes Down 3. The Road And The Radio 4. Hemingway's Whiskey 3. A FAST CHRISTMAS: Tim McGraw has the fastest climbing song of the week as Christmas All Over The World zips to #34 from #54. 4. THIRD WEEK OF CHRISTMAS: Martina McBride debuts at #57 with Please Come Home For Christmas, her first Republic Nashville holiday offering. 5. A MAJOR M.G. HIT: Montgomery Gentry is back in the top twenty this week with their Average Joe's debut, Where I Come From (at #19). This is their first top twenty since One In Every Crowd peaked at #5 in 2009 (their last top ten on Columbia Records). 6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: Christmas marks the birthdays of three chart topping artists: Jimmy Buffett, Barbara Mandrell, and Steve Noel Wariner. It also marks the birthday of Sissy Spacek, who played Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter. 7. #1 CDS: These were the top selling CDs in 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, and 1986: 2006: Some Hearts-Carrie Underwood-Arista 2001: Scarecrow-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1996: Blue-LeAnn Rimes-Curb 1991: Ropin' The Wind-Garth Brooks-Capitol 1986: The Touch-Alabama-RCA 8. LET'S PLAY CATCH UP: I will be listing the biggest hit from those artists who do not have enough #1s to rank (even though I may have ranked some of the artists listed below). Here is the sixth list of 25 artists. Their biggest hit is determined by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Tex Ritter-You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often-1945-11-20 2. Judy Rodman-Until I Met You-1986-1-14 3. Linda Ronstadt-To Know Him Is To Love Him-with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris-1987-1-14 4. Leon Russell-Heartbreak Hotel-with Willie Nelson-1979-1-09 5. Sawyer Brown-Thank God For You-1993-2-18 6. John Schneider-You're The Last Thing I Needed Tonight-1986-1-15 7. Schuyler, Knobloch, and Overstreet-Baby's Got A New Baby-1987-1-14 8. Kevin Sharp-Nobody Knows-1997-4-16 9. Jean Shepard-A Dear John Letter-with Ferlin Husky-1953-6-23 10. Cal Smith-The Lord Knows I'm Drinking-1973-1-15 11. Connie Smith-Once A Day-1964-8-27 12. Margo Smith-Don't Break The Heart That Loves You-1978-2-14 13. Sammi Smith-Help Me Make It Through The Night-1971-3-18 14. Red Sovine-Giddyup, Go-1966-6-21 15. Billie Jo Spears-Blanket On The Ground-1975-1-10 16. Joe Stampley-Soul Song-1973-1-14 17. Statler Brothers-Do You Know You Are My Sunshine-1978-2-11 18. Gary Stewart-She's Actin' Single I'm Drinkin' Doubles-1975-1-09 19. Wynn Stewart-It's Such A Pretty World Today-1967-2-18 20. Doug Stone-A Jukebox With A Country Song-1992-2-18 21. Doug Supernaw-I Don't Call Him Daddy-1993-2-17 22. Billy Swan-I Can Help-1974-2-09 23. Sylvia-Nobody-1982-1-14 24. B.J. Thomas-Whatever Happened To Old Fashioned Love-1983-1-14 25. Dick Thomas-Sioux City Sue-1945-4-23 9. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: 2011 is the silver anniversary year of anything happening in 1986. Let us go back in time to the ONLY year where there was a different #1 for each week of the year. However, I am not responsible for the following: 1. Any spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors. 2. Any factual errors (there are a few-can you spot them?). 3. Any personal commentary. 4. There are a few 'crappy' versions of songs that are in the videos. Before I give you the videos, let us list the top ten songs of 1986 from both the American Country Countdown and Billboard: The A.C.C.: 1. Morning Desire-Kenny Rogers-RCA 2. Have Mercy-the Judds-RCA 3. Never Be You-Rosanne Cash-Columbia 4. I'll Never Stop Loving You-Gary Morris-Warner Bros. 5. You Can Dream Of Me-Steve Wariner-MCA 6. I Don't Mind The Thorns If You're The Rose-Lee Greenwood-MCA 7. There's No Stopping Your Heart-Marie Osmond-Capitol 8. The Chair-George Strait-MCA 9. Just Another Love-Tanya Tucker-Capitol 10. Cry-Crystal Gayle-Warner Bros. Billboard: 1. Never Be You-Rosanne Cash-Columbia 2. Too Much On My Heart-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. 6. Morning Desire-Kenny Rogers-RCA 7. You Can Dream Of Me-Steve Wariner-MCA 8. Whoever's In New England-Reba McEntire-MCA 9. Until I Met You-Judy Rodman-MTM 10. On The Other Hand-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. P.S.: Merry Christmas! 1986 Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBfqKlxHBQ1986 Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkW72ObTgFQ&feature=related
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Dec 26, 2011 19:32:57 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Keep Me In Mind" Zac Brown Band Greatest Gainer No. 29 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" The Band Perry Hot Shot Debut No. 49 "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" Little Big Town Debut No. 53 "Over You" Miranda Lambert Debut No. 56 "Drink On It" Blake Shelton Debut No. 58 "Run Rudolph Run" Justin Moore Debut No. 59 "O Holy Night" Edens Edge
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 13:36:50 GMT -5
Country Songs *** No. 1 *** "Keep Me In Mind" Zac Brown Band Greatest Gainer No. 29 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" The Band Perry Hot Shot Debut No. 49 "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" Little Big Town Debut No. 53 "Over You" Miranda Lambert Debut No. 56 "Drink On It" Blake Shelton Debut No. 58 "Run Rudolph Run" Justin Moore Debut No. 59 "O Holy Night" Edens Edge This is really weird. These chart highlights don't agree with the new chart. There is no LBT at #49...instead that is where The Lost Trailers are at (down 2 spots from last week). The Hot Shot Debut is instead Miranda Lambert's "Over You" at #52 and NOT #53. The #53 song is a new entry, Chris Young's "O Holy Night", which the highlights above do not list at all. Blake, Justin, and Eden's Edge are listed in their correct debut spots, however.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 29, 2011 13:57:12 GMT -5
1. THEIR BIGGEST HIT: The Zac Brown Band has the #1 hit for the third straight week with Keep Me In Mind. In the process, it becomes their biggest hit to date. 2. THE SPOUSES ARE BACK: Miranda Lambert debuts at #52 (the Hot Shot Debut) with Over You. It is the follow up to Baggage Claim which peaked at #3. Meanwhile, her husband Blake Shelton follows his #1 hit, God Gave Me You with Drink On It at #56 this week. 3. OWEN'S FAST: Jake Owen has the fastest climbing song of the week with Mele Kalikimaka (#58 to #40). 4. THIRD WEEK OF CHRISTMAS: Three more Christmas songs debut this week. They are: 1. O Holy Night-Chris Young-#53 2. Run Rudolph Run-Justin Moore-#58 3. O Holy Night-Edens Edge-#59 5. AN 80S LOOK: These were the chart topping songs during the last week of December during the 1980s: 1980: One In A Million-Johnny Lee-Asylum 1981: Love In The First Degree-Alabama-RCA 1982: Wild And Blue-John Anderson-Warner Bros. 1983: Houston Means I'm One Day Closer To You-Gatlin Bros.-Columbia 1984: Why Not Me-the Judds-RCA 1985: Have Mercy-the Judds-RCA 1986: Mind Your Own Business-Hank Williams, Jr., Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Reverend Ike, and Willie Nelson-Warner Bros. 1987: Somewhere Tonight-Highway 101-Warner Bros. 1988: When You Say Nothing At All-Keith Whitley-RCA 1989: A Woman In Love-Ronnie Milsap-RCA 6. LET'S PLAY CATCH UP: I will be listing the biggest hit from those artists who do not have enough #1s to rank (even though I may have ranked some of the artists listed below). Here is the final list of 26 artists. Their biggest hit is determined by weeks at #1 followed by weeks in the top 40. 1. Hank Thompson-The Wild Side Of Life-1952-15-30 2. Pam Tillis-Mi Vida Loca My Crazy Life-1995-2-15 3. Floyd Tillman-They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven-1944-1-13 4. Aaron Tippin-There Ain't Nothing Wrong With The Radio-1992-3-18 5. Mitchell Torok-Caribbean-1953-2-24 6. Merle Travis-Divorce Me C.O.D.-1946-14-23 7. Rick Trevino-Running Out Of Reasons To Run-1997-1-18 8. Mary Lou Turner-Sometimes-with Bill Anderson-1976-1-11 9. Wesley Tuttle-With Tears In My Eyes-1945-4-14 10. Leroy Van Dyke-Walk On By-1961-19-37 11. Porter Wagoner-A Satisfied Mind-1955-4-33 12. Jimmy Wakely-Slipping Around-with Margaret Whiting-1949-17-28 13. Billy Walker-Charlie's Shoes-1962-2-23 14. Jerry Wallace-If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry-1972-2-16 15. Gene Watson-Fourteen Carat Mind-1982-1-15 16. Lawrence Welk-Shame On You-1945-1-14 17. Kitty Wells-It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels-1952-6-18 18. Shelly West-Jose Cuervo-1983-1-13 19. Bryan White-So Much For Pretending-1996-2-16 20. Margaret Whiting-Slipping Around-with Jimmy Wakely-1949-17-28 21. Slim Willet-Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes-1952-1-23 22. Tex Williams-Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette-1947-16-23 23. Sheb Wooley-That's My Pa-1962-1-17 24. Chely Wright-Single White Female-1999-1-24 25. Johnny Wright-Hello Vietnam-1965-3-20 26. Dwight Yoakam-I Sang Dixie-1989-1-16 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Seventeen years ago this week, Garth Brooks had the top selling CD in the land with his first greatest hits package called The Hits. By the time 1994 ended, Brooks had: 22 major hits, 21 top tens, and 13 #1 hits. The CD collected hits from his first five studio albums. They are: 1. Garth Brooks-1989 2. No Fences-1990 3. Ropin' The Wind-1991 4. The Chase-1992 5. In Pieces-1993 The track listing for the CD is as follows: 1. Ain't Going Down Til The Sun Comes Up-1993-#1 2. Friends In Low Places-1990-#1-chart wise, his biggest hit 3. Callin' Baton Rouge-1994-#2 4. The River-1992-#1 5. Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old-1989-#8 6. The Thunder Rolls-1991-#1 7. American Honky-Tonk Bar Association-1993-#1 8. If Tomorrow Never Comes-1989-#1 9. Unanswered Prayers-1991-#1 10. Standing Outside The Fire-1994-#3 11. Rodeo-1991-#3 12. What She's Doing Now-1992-#1 13. We Shall Be Free-1992-#12 14. Papa Loved Mama-1992-#3 15. Shameless-1991-#1 16. Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House-1991-#1 17. That Summer-1993-#1 18. The Dance-1990-#1 The CD debuted at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts. It spent 16 weeks at #1 on the country albums chart and eight weeks at the top of the top 200 chart. The CD is certified ten times platinum. Thirteen years later, Brooks released another hits CD called The Ultimate Hits. It was a 2CD/DVD set that made history when a new tune, More Than A Memory became the first single to start its chart life at #1. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1994: 1. THE HITS-GARTH BROOKS-CAPITOL 2. Not A Moment Too Soon-Tim McGraw-Curb 3. The Tractors-The Tractors-Arista 4. Stones In The Road-Mary Chapin Carpenter-Columbia 5. Who I Am-Alan Jackson-Arista 6. Waitin' On Sundown-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 7. Lead On-George Strait-MCA 8. Read My Mind-Reba McEntire-MCA 9. You Might Be A Redneck If...-Jeff Foxworthy-Warner Bros. 10. Third Rock From The Sun-Joe Diffie-Epic
P.S.: Happy New Year!
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 3, 2012 13:37:13 GMT -5
Chart Highlights: #1-Keep Me In Mind-Zac Brown Band Greatest Gainer-#3-Drink In My Hand-Eric Church Hot Shot Debut-#56-Time Is Love-Josh Turner #59-Fly Over States-Jason Aldean #60-Until The Rain Stops-Steve Holy
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 4, 2012 10:48:13 GMT -5
1. AN OLD #1: For the fourth consecutive week, the Zac Brown Band has the top song of the week with Keep Me In Mind. The last time a song was #1 for four weeks happened last year with Blake Shelton's Honey Bee. 2. A NEW #2: After six long weeks in the runner up position, Jason Aldean slips to #4 with Tattoos On This Town (his biggest #2 hit). In its place is David Nail with Let It Rain. It is Nail's highest chart placing period. At 48 weeks, it is the slowest climb to #2. If it hits #1 next week, it will make history as the slowest climbing #1 single. The record is currently held by Tracy Lawrence who took Find Out Who Your Friends Are to #1 in 2007 in its 41st week. 3. A FAST DRINK: Blake Shelton flies up the fifteen spaces to #41 with Drink On It, the week's fastest climbing song. 4. NO CHRISTMAS: Well, after three weeks of having Christmas songs on the chart, there are none this week. As a matter of fact, ALL 60 positions this week are bulleted. 5. AN 80S LOOK PART II: These were the top selling albums during the first week of January during the 1980s: 1980: Kenny-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 1981: Greatest Hits-Kenny Rogers-Liberty 1982: Feels So Right-Alabama-RCA 1983: Mountain Music-Alabama-RCA 1984: Eyes That See In The Dark-Kenny Rogers-RCA 1985: Kentucky Hearts-Exile-Epic 1986: The Heart Of The Matter-Kenny Rogers-RCA 1987: The Touch-Alabama-RCA 1988: Always & Forever-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 1989: Old 8 X 10-Randy Travis-Warner Bros. 6. THEIR TEN BIGGEST: I have been ranking 100s of artists and 1000s of hits for over the past two years. This section will return on an occasional basis. 7. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: Restless Heart certainly needed a shot in the arm during the early 1990s. They got it when they landed their biggest hit of the decade twenty years ago this week with You Can Depend On Me. Between 1985-1989, Restless Heart had: 12 top 40 hits, 11 top tens, and six #1s. They released three CDs. They are: 1. Restless Heart-1985 2. Wheels-1986 3. Big Dreams In A Small Town-1988 When the 1980s became the 1990s, Restless Heart saw a decline in their popularity (thanks to the Class of 1989). Their first release of the 1990s was Fast Movin' Train. A quartet of top 40s were produced: 1. Fast Movin' Train-1990-#4 2. Dancy's Dream-1990-#5 3. When Somebody Loves You-1990-#21 4. Long Lost Friend-1991-#16 Shortly after title #4 peaked, RCA decided that after six years, it was time to release a greatest hits CD. It was called The Best Of Restless Heart. Its track listing is: 1. You Can Depend On Me-1992-#3 2. Fast Movin' Train-1990-#4 3. A Tender Lie-1988-#1 4. Wheels-1988-#1 5. The Bluest Eyes In Texas-1988-#1 6. Familiar Pain-1992-#40 7. That Rock Won't Roll-1986-#1-chart wise, their biggest hit 8. Til I Loved You-1986-#10 9. Why Does It Have To Be Wrong Or Right-1987-#1 10. I'll Still Be Loving You-1987-#1 You Can Depend On Me was released in October, 1991 and reached its peak position of #3 during the first week of 1992. It certainly gave them confidence to release another CD later that year called Big Iron Horses. Its first single, When She Cries hit #9 country, #11 pop (ending their one hit wonder status on that chart as I'll Still Be Loving You hit #33 in 1987), and #2 adult contemporary (becoming their third major hit there as I'll Still Be Loving You hit #3 and Why Does It Have To Be Wrong Or Right peaked at #11 in 1987). Mending Fences (#13) and We Got The Love (#11) became their last major country hits in 1993. A track from the CD, Tell Me What You Dream with Warren Hill became their ONLY A.C. chart topper in 1993 without making the country list. In 1998, RCA released Greatest Hits which contained their last top 40 hit for the label: No End To This Road-#33. Their final top 40 was on Koch Records: Feel My Way To You in 2004-#29. Since then, they released a live CD through their website called 25 And Live. What are they up to these days? Who knows? I certainly would love to see a Restless Heart reunion. This is what the chart looked like back then:
BILLBOARD TOP TEN FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 4, 1992: 1. Love, Me-Collin Raye-Epic 2. My Next Broken Heart-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 3. YOU CAN DEPEND ON ME-RESTLESS HEART-RCA 4. Look At Us-Vince Gill-MCA 5. For My Broken Heart-Reba McEntire-MCA 6. Leave Him Out Of This-Steve Wariner-Arista 7. Cadillac Style-Sammy Kershaw-Mercury 8. Without You What Do I Do With Me-Tanya Tucker-Capitol 9. The Chill Of An Early Fall-George Strait-MCA 10. Sticks And Stones-Tracy Lawrence-Atlantic
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Post by Zazie on Jan 4, 2012 18:51:09 GMT -5
Thanks for a look at Restless Heart. It wasn't their biggest hit, but to me their best song by a longshot was Fast Movin' Train. Good band.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 4, 2012 21:57:22 GMT -5
^ One of my favorites too. I've never heard that song actually, but I've heard most of their other stuff.
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 5, 2012 23:09:30 GMT -5
Thanks for a look at Restless Heart. It wasn't their biggest hit, but to me their best song by a longshot was Fast Movin' Train. Good band. Agreed, that song is one of the finest of that era. I also especially liked Dancy's Dream and their comeback single, Feel My Way To You. It's a shame their label folded just as they were making a comeback.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 6, 2012 1:07:06 GMT -5
^ Okay, listened to Fast Movin' Train. Agreed it's one of their best. Also agree with Dancy's Dream and Feel My Way to You. My favorite, though, is When She Cries.
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 7, 2012 14:35:36 GMT -5
My favorite, though, is When She Cries. It's funny, that song barely cracked the top 10, yet it's about the only Restless Heart song I ever hear anymore (once in a blue moon I'll hear Why Does It Have To Be, but that's about it). I've always been a big Larry Stewart fan, so it's a shame no one gets to hear him anymore.
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