Official Country Rankdown Thread

[taylor is terrified]

Jul 19, 2020 12:56:47 GMT -5 taylor is terrified said:

This is going to sound wild, but hear me out. Has anyone ever considered or done a Barbra Streisand rankdown? I've really been invested in her music for the past couple years ever since Walls came out and I then explored her catalog a bit. She's one of the absolute pinnacles of music and if she hasn't had a rankdown before, I would very happily host one eventually if there's enough interest. What say you all?

She's not country, and her discography would be quite a massive undertaking, but I do know our music tastes tend to stray outside the country genre sometimes. Barbra is an absolute legend, and if there's enough interest to generate going through with a rankdown for her (I can't find any history of there ever being a Barbra rankdown before), I would gladly host one for her eventually (not in the immediate future though, mind you).

So basically this post, much like when I asked about some of you participating in Adele's rankdowns, is to ask if any of you would be interested in participating in Barbra's should it take place. (she does have a very slight connection with country too--having selected Blake Shelton to appear on her 2014 album Partners, and it was very much a country song they performed)

[tim]

After wrapping up the Alan Jackson rankdown I’m switching gears and am currently finalizing the list of artists and songs for what will be the fourth installment highlighting the women in country music...this time for the 2010s! I’ve decided to go in a somewhat different direction than what I was expecting to, however, and am going to take the next week to revise the songs. In each previous rankdown I’ve done a showcase for each song/artist prior to the full launch and might just forgo that this time, but either way I expect to get this going at the beginning of August.

[davidcountry]

We could do one for Tina Turner. Her debut solo album is country. Her vocals actually help bring the likes of Reba McEntyre to be signed.

[tim]

Country Ladies in the ‘10s is one weekend away from launching!  What artists or songs are you most excited to reminisce about as you look back on the previous decade?

[taylor is terrified]

Jul 26, 2020 3:23:08 GMT -5 tim said:

Country Ladies in the ‘10s is one weekend away from launching!  What artists or songs are you most excited to reminisce about as you look back on the previous decade?

I'm very excited to see how Carrie Underwood does here. I'm also stoked to revisit such Miranda songs as "The House That Built Me," "White Liar," "Automatic," and "Vice." I'm also excited for any artists I possibly let fly under my personal radar. I can't wait to see how Taylor Swift does here also.

The 2010s is filled with nostalgia music-wise for me, as half of the songs from this decade are from my late childhood and half of them are from my teenage years, with the very tail-end of them being the first songs I've heard as a young adult, so I'm very excited for this rankdown!

[tim]

Jul 28, 2020 8:55:13 GMT -5 taylor is terrified said:

I'm very excited to see how Carrie Underwood does here. I'm also stoked to revisit such Miranda songs as "The House That Built Me," "White Liar," "Automatic," and "Vice." I'm also excited for any artists I possibly let fly under my personal radar. I can't wait to see how Taylor Swift does here also.

The 2010s is filled with nostalgia music-wise for me, as half of the songs from this decade are from my late childhood and half of them are from my teenage years, with the very tail-end of them being the first songs I've heard as a young adult, so I'm very excited for this rankdown!

Well you might be in for a surprise because not one of those songs are in this! I just wrapped up the playlist for the rankdown and while it might not quite be what some of you were thinking I do hope y'all will appreciate the selection of songs that were included. I'm looking forward to sharing the artists and songs with everyone this weekend!

[tim]

Country Ladies in the '10s is live! Special thanks to bboat11 , .indulgecountry , and Kanenrá:ke for their assistance over the past couple of months assisting me in the process as I went through the selection of artists and songs. Looking forward to everyone's lists!

[castleoblivion26]

just wanna do a quick update for everyone on what my current plans are for rankdowns.

This weekend I will present results for Lee Ann Womack's There's More Where That Came From

Next weekend I will present results for Lee Ann Womack's Call Me Crazy

The following weekend I will present results for Matraca Berg

after that I will get the Pam Tillis' Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey to be due around the middle to the end of Sept.

After that my plan for Sept/Oct is:

Kip Moore - Slowheart
Brett Young - Ticket to LA
Ashley McBryde - Jalopies & Expensive Guitars
Next albums for Pam, Lee Ann, & Patty

[taylor is terrified]

It's been awhile so I wanted to give an update on my end of things:

--Shania's album is due in two days! No extension longer than like 24 hours will be happening. I'm very strict on this, only because I head back to campus on Friday and need to adjust to things. If you haven't sent a list, please do so or you'll miss the boat and have to sit on the sidelines and wait around for Come On Over. The playlist is right here! Or you can spin it on the record/CD player!

--Following that, Jake Owen's Barefoot Blue Jean Night will be due on August 25! We're currently at 10 lists so I hope to see a couple more of y'all join in for this one!

--Carrie Underwood's 2.0 singles rankdown is due on Wednesday, September 2. We're currently at 17 lists and I hope to see a lot more in the next 2 1/2 weeks!

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As for afterwards, going into the fall:

--The next albums in the Shania and Jake album series of course

--Jon Pardi album rankdowns will be coming in the fall

--I'm still figuring out a way to include any Hootie & the Blowfish music into the Darius Rucker rankdown, which should likely be coming in the fall provided "Beers and Sunshine" isn't for a new album, in which case idk

--the Luke Bryan Rankdown will be coming likely towards the end of the current era. I don't see a fifth single coming from a 10-song album but we never know with him

--the Carrie Underwood Extras Rankdown will be opened immediately upon completion of her 2.0 rankdown

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I did have a couple new ideas for rankdowns in the future:

--I had an idea for a "Very Carrie Christmas" rankdown. We'd probably rank the upcoming Christmas album and the previous 5 songs from the 2008 holiday re-issue of Carnival Ride. If that's something of interest, I'd love to host it!

--I think I might do a rankdown of my personal chart at the beginning of January 2021. This would be an all-genre kind of thing, and we'd rank the top 50 songs from my 2020 year-end chart. I'm still brainstorming a way to reveal the Year-End chart at the end of December and transition smoothly into the rankdown, but just know that participation is of course very optional!!

--I see that Eric Church doesn't have an album series. I'd be down to host that in 2021 if there are no objections or previous plans!

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And there you have it! Let me know what you think, particularly about the rankdown ideas. 

[Darkest Hour]

Aug 16, 2020 20:55:23 GMT -5 taylor is terrified said:

--Jon Pardi album rankdowns will be coming in the fall

--I see that Eric Church doesn't have an album series. I'd be down to host that in 2021 if there are no objections or previous plans!

Excited for these. Although I can see them having basic results (singles dominating) except for Sinners Like Me and Carolina album rankdown.

[tim]

My second legends of country music rankdown is coming soon...any guesses on for whom?

[bboat11]

I don’t think I’m allowed to guess, but I know who it is 🤠

[tim]

Aug 28, 2020 4:30:13 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

I don’t think I’m allowed to guess, but I know who it is 🤠

Just a couple of more days to find out

[HeyHeyHey]

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/198707/participate-rankdowns

I made a poll regarding how people participate in rankdowns.

[davidcountry]

You know, you could do a rankdown of pop artists who went country, but not stay in the country genre. I don't include Aaron Lewis on this one because he still do country albums and still be the frontman of Staind.

[castleoblivion26]

Time for my monthly update of Rankdowns

Matraca Berg results are coming soon, I'm still working on the graphics and that is why I haven't started that yet but I've got half of them done so expect these to begin within the next day or two.

Pam Tillis' Above and Beyond album is due next Friday and I plan on getting the results to that album done by the end of the following week

Lee Ann Womack's albums The Way I'm Livin' and The Lonely, The Lonesome, and the Gone are due on Sept 25th and I want to try and stay on top of that so that we can get to her Extras rankdown next month!

Beyond that I've been trying to decide how I want to proceed. I am prioritizing finishing Lee Ann's series first, followed by Pam Tillis, as both are the closest to being done. In order to do this there is a good chance I'm gonna keep Patty Loveless on hold for the time being, though I may do one album either next month or Nov just to knock an album out.

The 3rd version of my Songwriters rankdown series will open soon. I will be spotlighting a songwriting duo this time, The Warren Brothers. They have written many big hits, some great, and some not so great. They also have some incredible songs from their own albums. This rankdown will likely not be due until January but I want to open it sooner than later

Oct marks 6 months since Ashley McBryde's new album was released and it is nominated for Album of the Year at the CMA awards. I'd like to get her 2 albums and 1 EP done in Oct and will likely do what I did with Brothers Osborne with her.

Kip Moore's latest album will be 6 months old in Nov so I'm gonna plan to get Slowheart and Wild World done then.

Brett Young and Carly Pearce's last albums will be fit in there at some point, just need to figure out due dates and stuff.

My hope is to get these one off albums and the Lee Ann Womack and Pam Tillis series done by January. That way I can then jump into an Album series for The Wilkinsons and Mark Wills, and get Rebecca Lynn Howard's albums done. I've also considered doing Lila McCann, and Jessica Andrews at some point as well.

anyways these are just my ramblings and ideas lol

[tim]

I had planned on launching the Patsy Cline rankdown on September 8th (her birthday), but in looking at the rankdown calendar I got the sense there's far too much going on right now so I'm going to hold off until early next year in doing that one. While I do plan on launching the Alan Jackson album series this fall, I'm actually going utilize this time to do his two Christmas albums first and then jump-start into his studio albums once 2021 rolls around.

Can I recommend that we maybe slow down a bit on the studio albums for the last two months of the year? There's been a plethora of them opening up from multiple artists and once November/December rolls around I'd personally like to focus more on any holiday rankdowns and end-of-year type stuff.

[taylor is terrified]

Figured I oughta just pull a page out of castleoblivion26 's book and offer monthly updates on my plans, so here goes:

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Current rankdowns:
I'm going to be spending the rest of September revealing the rest of Jake Owen's Barefoot Blue Jean Night album (my apologies for the delay in getting this set of reveals finished; college is proving to be quite a haul this semester) as well as the results for the Carrie Underwood 2.0. Beyond that, I'm just going to be doing my best to stay above the river of rankdowns that are due in September/October. (I happen to agree with tim on rankdowns, but I'll get to that later.)

Shania Twain's Come On Over album rankdown is due on Monday, October 12. Considering the album fatigue a couple of us (myself included) are starting to feel, this is going to be the last non-holiday album I have open and due until 2021.

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In the pipeline:
As I've said, everything that is non-holiday or year-end themed that I have planned will be held off until 2021. I do hope to do a couple holiday/year-end themed rankdowns though: one such rankdown is a "Carrie Christmas" rankdown, in which we rank all of her holiday music. This consists of the entire upcoming album My Gift, as well as four of the tracks from her 2008 Christmas EP. "O Holy Night" is featured on both the EP and My Gift, so we will do something similar to the Come On Over rankdown and just rank "O Holy Night" based on the version we already prefer. This would be opened probably shortly after I reveal COO results and then be due in December, right after the Thanksgiving rush and before the Christmas madness.

I also plan on introducing a year-end rankdown of my personal favorites from 2020. This is all-genre rankdown as my personal chart is all-genre and I will be showcasing the Top 50 songs that make my personal Year-End chart. This will likely be introduced just before 2021 is rung in and will be due probably in early February sometime.

It's in January that I will begin coming back to everything else I have planned, such as the Carrie Underwood Extras, the Jon Pardi albums, the Luke Bryan/Darius Rucker rankdowns, and the remaining albums from Jake and Shania.

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Now...as for the rest of the year. I agree with tim on slowing things down. As I mentioned, there seems to be a bit of fatigue setting in, similar to the fatigue that began to kick in last year right around this time. (Whoa, it's crazy to think I've been here long enough that I'm speaking in "last year" terms. Wow.) Anyways, I do think that there's a bit much happening right now in the submitting column of this thread, and when you compound that with everything that's happening in our world right now, and trying to juggle this rankdowns with our personal lives (some of us are in college right now, some of us may even be living right in the danger zone of the wildfires in the West Coast), it's just a bit overwhelming, to be quite frank. I've tried to catch up on things, but I'm still only just now getting to my Tanya Tucker list (and now that's probably still gonna have to wait for tomorrow to be sent   ), and...well, there's just a lot on that submitting column. I too think that we oughta slow things down just a bit and give ourselves a breather once October and the rest of 2020 rolls around.

[tim]

Phew...I'm glad to see I'm not alone in thinking we should put the breaks on rankdowns for the rest of the year. I say if you want to launch rankdowns in November/December that are due in the first few months of 2021, go for it. But I'd personally like to hold off on anyone launching an artist rankdown or even additional albums for the last last two months of the year as it seems a few of us already have plans for some holiday rankdowns (mine being for Alan, taylor is terrified 's for Carrie, and I think bboat11 has plans for some type of Reba holiday rankdown) and are just getting slightly burned out (especially when it comes to trying to keep up with commenting along for the reveals). In years past it seems we haven't really followed this idea, but more than any year this really seems like a good time to take a pause and a breather. It goes without saying that bboat11 has the final say on any of this of course

[fearlessarrow]

I was planning a Taylor Swift holiday rankdown too but it's also just 7 songs so.... I'm figuring that it won't be a heavy addition to our plates.

[tim]

Sept 13, 2020 19:58:03 GMT -5 fearlessarrow said:

I was planning a Taylor Swift holiday rankdown too but it's also just 7 songs so.... I'm figuring that it won't be a heavy addition to our plates.

Oh, I think we can handle that! I'm not sure I'm ready to revisit "Santa Baby" as that is one of my least favorite holidays songs, but her singing that at barely 18 years of age just makes me wince.

[castleoblivion26]

I didn't really give it a thought about the amount of other rankdowns when typing out my plans. I can definitely adjust things and hold off on a few of my ideas for later in the year.

that being said I do want to try and get Lee Ann Womack's series done at least between now and January. After the current albums I have the Extras and Album Tracks rankdowns. I could have the Album Tracks due in January though, with the Extras due in Oct or early Nov. I'll put Pam and Patty on hold til the beginning of next year.

I do want to open the Songwriter #3: The Warren Brothers rankdown soon but that will be due in Jan or Feb so that'll be due after the holidays. It will probably good for me to slow down on rankdowns a bit.

As for the other albums I'd like to get done, I might do one set of them for Oct but the rest I'll save for next year.

[Darkest Hour]

So to enhance my knowledge on older country music I dig up Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time and guess what? I think I have heard more songs in that list before than I thought lol
Which brings me an idea to host a rankdown around that list! Right now I hope to put that idea in queue. Probably won't happen until next year though.

[bboat11]

Oop, just noticed all the discussion about slowing things down... So here's my plans for the rest of the year for anyone who cares!!

I am kinda in a good place in the sense that most of my open album series are reaching a natural stopping point! Reba's '90s phase will be done as soon as I finish revealing So Good Together, so you'll get a few months off from her regular albums before I launch the early phase of her career As tim said, I am indeed planning a Reba holiday rankdown this year. It will be two albums, serving as a bridge from the '90s to the '80s. In other words, we will rank Secret Of Giving to represent the end of her '90s albums, followed by Merry Christmas To You to represent the start of her '80s albums Her newer Christmas album, My Kind Of Christmas, will be saved for next year. I would also LOVE to finish her '90s album tracks rankdown before we get to the holidays, but we can play it by ear with that one. I am always busy with year-end rankdown stuff in December/January, so not finishing her '90s album tracks by the holidays might mean a several month delay on that one, which would not be ideal.

George's entire album series will be finished before the holidays, as there is only one more set and then the Extras rankdown before his is finished. So I'm going to ask that you guys bear with me and not be offended if I don't slow that one down. It will feel soooooo good for all of us to have that huge series finished!! I still plan to do album tracks rankdowns for George as well, but I will save that for next year.

Terri Clark has Some Songs due in October, but after that I can hold off on opening a new one for awhile. I am thinking I will do a holiday rankdown for her as well this year. Her album series will hopefully be finished before next holiday season is upon us, so it doesn't really make sense to wait until next year.

Then it'll be time for the 2020 year-end!!! Yay!!!!

Best/Revenge of the Best Part V will probably be upon us by late January/early February if I had to predict, so y'all keep that in mind as well. I can't really hold off on those once we hit enough songs to launch them, because if I hold off then we will arrive at the next set without having taken a big enough break first, lol.

I have been considering launching a Tracy Lawrence singles rankdown after finishing with Martina, but he can totally wait until next year.

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So to recap, here is the rest of my year, ideally:

October:
-Martina McBride's singles (50 songs)
-George Strait: Easy Come Easy Go/Lead On (10 songs each)
-Terri Clark: Some Songs (10 songs)
-September New Releases (20-25 songs)

November:
-George Strait: Blue Clear Sky/Carrying Your Love With Me (10 songs each)
-Reba McEntire '90s album tracks (41 songs, I believe)
-October New Releases (20-25 songs)

December:
-George Strait Extras (about 20 songs)
-Reba McEntire: Secret Of Giving/Merry Christmas To You (10 songs each)
-Terri Clark: It's Christmas...Cheers! (12 songs)
-New Country Releases: Christmas Edition! (15ish songs, probably)

January:
-A Terri Clark album if y'all are up for it?
-November/December New Country Releases
-2020 Year-end Rankdown

[bboat11]

Also, I have a few thoughts about why rankdowns feel so overwhelming right now. Yes, there is a lot going on, but it is made exponentially worse when there are rankdowns in a perpetual state of collecting dust. For several months now, we have had to look 5-6 rankdowns down the list to even get caught up to current times. Literally 25% of our queue is rankdowns that should have closed days to weeks ago but the host has not done anything.

On top of that, there are several rankdowns in our queue that are in a constant state of being extended but then never happening. Tanya Tucker and 1991 Country, for example, have been on the queue for ALMOST THIS ENTIRE YEAR. Tanya mercifully finally started today and vacated the queue, but in addition to 1991 there are also the Lady A albums and Brooks & Dunn album that have been on the queue for like 3 months now, as well as the 2012 rankdown that has been open for 6 months.

Y'all, there are only TEN rankdowns that have been on the queue for less than two months:
-Pam Tillis: Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey
-Tim McGraw: Live Like You Were Dying
-Lee Ann Womack's next set
-Martina McBride
-Female Flops of 2015
-George Strait's next set
-Shania Twain: Come On Over
-Terri Clark: Some Songs
-Morgan Wallen: If I Know Me
-Blake Shelton

Of those, the George Strait and Terri Clark albums are the ONLY ones that have been opened this month.

In other words, out of 22 open rankdowns on our queue, less than half of them have been opened in the last two months, and less than ten percent of them have been opened in the past month. ***People are not overwhelmed because of what is currently being thrown at them, they are overwhelmed because of what was thrown at them months ago but continues to hang over their heads.***


It should be perfectly common sense, so I hate that I have to ask... If you cannot commit to hosting a rankdown, do not open a rankdown. When rankdowns are actively hosted, they are predictable and easy to plan around. For example, you know that the monthly new releases rankdowns are going to happen the last week of the month, like clockwork, and the participants can plan to do them accordingly, and other hosts can plan around them as needed. But a rankdown like 1991 is not at all predictable. It is a huge, intimidating rankdown, that is going to land wherever the heck it wants to on the schedule because the host is stretched too thin and keeps extending it, and other hosts cannot plan around it because they have no idea when it will actually close, nor can participants prioritize when to work on it because they have no idea how concrete the deadline is... So then you end up with people who cannot work on a newer rankdown, because they are too busy being bogged down by rankdowns that should have been cleared out of the way months ago.

I don't say all this to throw certain hosts under the bus, but I do want to get the point across that things will go MUCH smoother if hosts only open what they can handle. An extension of a week or two is fine! But if you set a deadline, you need to somewhat commit to it, because if you don't, you will be f**king things up later for hosts who are planning around the deadline you told us you would be using.

If you only open what you can truly commit to hosting, and take care of those rankdowns expeditiously, things will be much better for all of us, because less rankdowns will be opened, and rankdowns from the past will not continue to distract people from the present

I genuinely believe that we Country hosts do a pretty good job of being mindful of each other’s rankdowns, and not opening too much for people to handle at once. But it is just impossible for us to plan our own stuff around all the rankdowns that do not operate according to schedule... That is a fairly large pet peeve for me, that has gotten noticeably worse the last several months, lol.

[taylor is terrified]

bboat11 I will say in defense regarding the Carrie 2.0 that around all my college work, I'm also trying to do trajectory paths for the 30 songs. I received 38 lists for Carrie so that's been taking some time. I really don't need to do the trajectories, but as with your Martina Extras rankdown (or was it the Album Tracks?), I really care about the results and want to do them. I plan that by Sunday night (after I've done the college work I need to focus on at the moment and I've spent all of Sunday afternoon finalizing trajectories), results for Carrie will begin in earnest. 5 songs a night for 6 nights seems very doable, and that would have results wrapped up Saturday, October 10.

As for Shania...I was just about to update the album thread and send out a reminder but currently the October 12 deadline remains the same. I too would like to hurry and get Come On Over closed, revealed and finished (and I'm sure everyone else would prefer that as well) so that I can prepare for the Carrie holiday and personal year-end rankdowns I have planned (and part of that preparation consists of catching up on revealing my chart...my last Pulse update is from July 24.)

Y'all have my word that my two current rankdowns will be done and finished soon.

[bboat11]

Sept 28, 2020 17:11:11 GMT -5 taylor is terrified said:

bboat11 I will say in defense regarding the Carrie 2.0 that around all my college work, I'm also trying to do trajectory paths for the 30 songs. I received 38 lists for Carrie so that's been taking some time. I really don't need to do the trajectories, but as with your Martina Extras rankdown (or was it the Album Tracks?), I really care about the results and want to do them. I plan that by Sunday night (after I've done the college work I need to focus on at the moment and I've spent all of Sunday afternoon finalizing trajectories), results for Carrie will begin in earnest. 5 songs a night for 6 nights seems very doable, and that would have results wrapped up Saturday, October 10.

As for Shania...I was just about to update the album thread and send out a reminder but currently the October 12 deadline remains the same. I too would like to hurry and get Come On Over closed, revealed and finished (and I'm sure everyone else would prefer that as well) so that I can prepare for the Carrie holiday and personal year-end rankdowns I have planned (and part of that preparation consists of catching up on revealing my chart...my last Pulse update is from July 24.)

Y'all have my word that my two current rankdowns will be done and finished soon.

Yeah, you've been insanely busy, and I am definitely not blaming you for the queue logjam. From my perspective, the only open rankdown you have on the queue is Shania, which is still in good shape! I moved Carrie into the "revealing" section once you posted pre-reveal questions :) You'll get to Carrie when you get to her, but imo she is not one of the ones causing a logjam, because you did officially close her rankdown and it's not an open deadline that's hanging over people's heads anymore :)

[taylor is terrified]

Time for my monthly rankdown update, since I still have one open!

Now that the Carrie Underwood 2.0 is behind us, I'm pushing full speed ahead with Shania's Come On Over album. I have extended the deadline because I didn't do too good a job this week with reminders, having been entrenched into Carrie's RD. I'll be sending reminders out every day starting tomorrow however, as the deadline is only three extra days. You have until Thursday, October 15 for Shania. I can't really go further out than that because Terri has an album due October 18, and I would've put Shania for October 26 to maximize participation....but the 120+ song list known as the 2012 Country Rankdown is due October 24 and I want there to be breathing room for y'all. So again, Shania's album is due Thursday, October 15.

Following that, I have a tentative date of somewhere between November 15 and November 18 as the day I open up Her Gift: the Carrie Underwood Christmas Rankdown for submissions. I'm thinking I'd give exactly a month for that, making the due date December 18 so that reveals can be wrapped up by Christmas Eve. This is an incredible set of songs so I hope I see a huge turnout!

Once I reveal my personal chart's 2020 Year-End edition at the end of the year, I will be opening its rankdown of the 50 songs that made that chart. This will likely open at the very beginning of January 2021, with a due date probably in mid-February.

After all of that is said and done, Shania's and Jake's album series will continue, and everything else will be opened up in due time, with more consideration for everything else already open so that we don't become overwhelmed (even if rankdowns are being done by then at a leisurely pace).

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I did have a second idea for a holiday rankdown, if y'all don't mind. I was thinking of planning A Holly Dolly Christmas Rankdown. This would consist of all three of her Christmas albums (the 1997 edition of Once Upon a Christmas, Home for Christmas, and A Holly Dolly Christmas), for a total of 33 songs. If I were to host, I would have this done before the Carrie rankdown so the open date and deadline would be a bit earlier...I'm thinking about a week earlier? So, around November 8 is when I would open the rankdown, and the due date would be December 11, an exact week before Carrie's would be due. And reveals would be done by the 18 as well. I do want your feedback on that though, so do chime in!

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So to summarize (these are categorized by months in which the due date would fall):

October:
Shania Twain: Come On Over (due October 15)

December:
A Holly Dolly Christmas Rankdown (would be due December 11)
Her Gift: the Carrie Underwood Christmas Rankdown (likely going to be due December 18)

February 2021:
Tay's Hot 50: the 2020 YE Rankdown (due around the middle of the month)

Let me know what y'all think!

[bboat11]

I'd be in for a Dolly Christmas rankdown! I am torn about whether I would recommend you do it though, because with Carrie, Reba, Terri, and Alan all having Christmas rankdowns lined up, plus the New Country Releases Christmas Edition happening in December, it might already be kind of a lot.

But on the other hand, the majority of our regular participants avoid the Christmas rankdowns anyway, and the ones who participate likely enjoy Christmas music enough to not be bothered by one more seasonal rankdown, especially from a beloved favorite like Dolly!

So I'm torn, but I think I lean more towards saying do it :) I guess we'll see what other people have to say about it!

[castleoblivion26]

taylor is terrified I'm game for the Dolly rankdown, I've always wanted to dive into her Christmas music more. I do agree that there are quite a few Christmas rankdowns already and many people are complaining about there being too many. I'm with bboat11 that I'd participate and say do it.

I have an idea for a small rankdown series. Each installment would be 10 songs only. I'd hit shuffle on certain playlist I have on Spotify, etc. The first 10 songs would be the ones we would rank. Would anyone be interested in this?

As for my other rankdowns, I'm focusing on the Lee Ann Womack series, the rest are on hold til next year.