Trisha Yearwood Rankdown (Winner Revealed)

[bboat11]

Ugh, I love "Broken" so much!! The melody is overly simplistic, so I can definitely understand if people find it boring. I felt that way at first too. But then it sunk its claws into me, and I haven't been able to get enough ever since! Shame it couldn't escape the bottom 10, although I'm not really surprised since it is one of the lesser-known songs in this RD, as well as being too recent to have any sort of nostalgia built up in its favor.

[someguy]

#31 – “In Another’s Eyes”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #2
Highest Ranking: #9 castleoblivion26
Lowest Ranking : #40 .indulgecountry LBTrocks
Total Points: 407
Average Rank: 25.4375

castleoblivion26 – 9
DistrictTwelve – 10
austin – 14
someguy – 16
Troublemaker – 19
bboat11 – 21
fearlessarrow – 23
toomuchboy – 24
sbp17 – 27
Cody Wants Out... – 28
Tim – 30
BackwoodsBarbie – 31
sabre14 – 36
Kanenrá:ke – 39
.indulgecountry – 40
LBTrocks – 40

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“In Another’s Eyes”, the 1997 duet single for Trisha and Garth Brooks, served as the lead single for Garth’s Sevens album and the second single from Trisha’s blockbuster hits album Songbook: A Collection Of Hits. The song rose up the charts very quickly in September of 1997, but was blocked at #2 for two weeks when Shania Twain’s “Love Gets Me Every Time” passed it. Though Garth and Trisha had collaborated before, this was their first true duet release. I really like this song, but am not surprised to see it out here.

[someguy]

That leaves us with our top 30!

I will have to stop here for now - I'll try to post some more album tracks later tonight. If not tonight though, then I'll get back at it tomorrow.

[Kanenrá:ke]

Dang, "Trying To Love You" is so gorgeous I was hoping it would be able to sneak into the top 25 at least. Horrible single choice though, I have no idea what they were thinking with that one.

"PrizeFighter" is great, I don't get the hate it receives but that's fine I'll jam out to it on my own!

"Better Your Heart Than Mine" is one I always wished I liked more but it falls lower on the list for me because I feel it was missing something.

"Broken" was nice, just boring.

"Like We Never Had A Broken Heart" and "In Another's Eyes" are just blah. I love Trisha and she get's a lot of flack for having "boring" songs but these ones don't help matters. Plus they're just so overwrought but I think that's Garth's involvement really. Their other duet "Where You Road Leads" falls into the same trap. "Squeeze Me In" is one of the few that works better but it's still too Garthy.

[someguy]

#29 and #30 are tied in points, but a top 5 ranking for #29 makes the difference here. Also, #30 and #25 are separated by just 14 points!

[someguy]

#30 – “Down On My Knees”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #19
Highest Ranking: #17 .indulgecountry
Lowest Ranking : #34 castleoblivion26
Total Points: 398
Average Rank: 24.875

.indulgecountry – 17
Kanenrá:ke – 19
Troublemaker – 20
sbp17 – 20
BackwoodsBarbie – 20
bboat11 – 23
DistrictTwelve – 24
austin – 24
toomuchboy – 25
Cody Wants Out... – 25
sabre14 – 27
fearlessarrow – 32
LBTrocks – 32
someguy – 33
Tim – 33
castleoblivion26 – 34

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“Down On My Knees”, the fourth and final single from Hearts In Armor was very middle of the road here in terms of rankings. Its highest ranking was only #17, but its lowest was only #34, which allowed it to scrape the bottom of the top 30. This one always felt like a bigger hit to me than its #19 peak would suggest. I think that’s probably because it was included on her 1997 hits album Songbook: A Collection Of Hits while some bigger hits, namely “I Wanna Go Too Far” and “That’s What I Like About You”, were left off. This is a nice song, but I think that the write up in Songbook describes it well – it’s a similar theme to “How Do I Live”, but it lacks the confidence that Trisha had grown into 5 years later with when she recorded it, which makes it not as strong of a song, in my opinion at least.

[.indulgecountry]

I knew this one wouldn't last too long because it wasn't one of her bigger hits during her prime years, but I loved her vocal on this.

[someguy]

#29 – “That’s What I Like About You”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #8
Highest Ranking: #5 sabre14
Lowest Ranking : #39 DistrictTwelve
Total Points: 398
Average Rank: 24.875

sabre14 – 5
LBTrocks – 7
fearlessarrow – 9
Tim – 16
austin – 17
castleoblivion26 – 17
someguy – 24
Kanenrá:ke – 29
sbp17 – 29
toomuchboy – 29
bboat11 – 33
Cody Wants Out... – 34
Troublemaker – 36
BackwoodsBarbie – 37
.indulgecountry – 37
DistrictTwelve – 39

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“That’s What I Like About You”, the third single of Trisha’s career, was her third consecutive top 10 hit, making it to #8. It’s held up better than some of her earlier singles in terms of familiarity and, to me, feels like a bigger hit than its peak suggests. It was very polarizing here, receiving three top 10 rankings, as well as six bottom 10 rankings. Unfortunately for it, it started off as a potential top 20 candidate, but received a few low rankings in a row that it never really recovered from. In fact, it was actually well out of the top 30 until the final list came in, which pushed it up to #29.

[someguy]

Clue for #28:

[.indulgecountry]

Apr 9, 2018 18:37:24 GMT -5 someguy said:

Clue for #28:

Looks like it's goodbye to "They Call It Falling for a Reason."

[Troublemaker]

Real Live Woman???

[sabre14]

Wut? #29 for "That's What I Like About You"???

[someguy]

#28 – “They Call It Falling For A Reason”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #54
Highest Ranking: #10 Tim
Lowest Ranking : #39 toomuchboy
Total Points: 390
Average Rank: 24.375

Tim – 10
someguy – 15
Kanenrá:ke – 15
Troublemaker – 16
austin – 21
sabre14 – 21
.indulgecountry – 23
LBTrocks – 23
bboat11 – 24
BackwoodsBarbie – 27
sbp17 – 28
fearlessarrow – 30
Cody Wants Out... – 30
DistrictTwelve – 32
castleoblivion26 – 36
toomuchboy – 39

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“They Call It Fall It For A Reason”, the third and final single from Heaven, Heartache and the Power Of Love never really had a chance at radio, peaking at #54 in the summer of 2008. I absolutely love it though, and think if it had come out 10 years earlier, it would have been a #1 for her. It started out strongly here, even spending a little time in the top 10. Unfortunately, it started dropping as lists started coming in, and fell all the way back to #28.

Clue explanation: The opening lyric of the song He had me spinning like a girl in the circus in a trapeze act

[someguy]

Clue for #27:

[someguy]

I'm going to have to stop for a bit here, but I should return in a couple hours to do a few more, as well as some album tracks.

[Cody Wants Out...]

"You're Where I Belong"?

[dub]

"That's What I Like About You" is a good one! I forgot about that song. It's catchy!

[someguy]

#27 – “You’re Where I Belong”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #71
Billboard Dance Club Songs peak: #15
Highest Ranking: #3 sbp17
Lowest Ranking : #39 someguy
Total Points: 389
Average Rank: 24.3125

sbp17 – 3
bboat11 – 10
DistrictTwelve – 11
castleoblivion26 – 16
sabre14 – 17
Cody Wants Out... – 19
Troublemaker – 26
LBTrocks – 26
BackwoodsBarbie – 26
toomuchboy – 28
austin – 29
Tim – 32
Kanenrá:ke – 35
fearlessarrow – 36
.indulgecountry – 36
someguy – 39

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Released as a single from the Stuart Little soundtrack, “You’re Where I Belong” continued the trend of Trisha recording and releasing Diane Warren songs as singles in the late 1990s (“How Do I Live”, “I’ll Still Love You More”, “You’re Where I Belong”). It is by far the least successful of the three, though. The song was never sent out as a country radio single, but was released to AC radio, and a remix was serviced to the dance market, where it reached #15. This started out as a candidate for the bottom 5, but eventually settled in at #27.

[someguy]

Clue for #26:

[bboat11]

I'm so glad that "You're Where I Belong" managed to have a bit of legs to it, as I figured it would be a sure bet for the bottom 5! You know, being a soundtrack single and all. I only discovered this song a couple years ago. I was randomly supervising a special ed student while he watched Stuart Little, and when the end credits came on I was like "OMG Is this Trisha???!?!?!!" Lo and behold, it was! This is such a great song, but I may have overhanded it due to the excitement of it being a recently discovered song for me... Lol

Edit: Also, the clue for #26 isn't showing up for me.

[someguy]

#26 – “Powerful Thing”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #6
Highest Ranking: #6 Cody Wants Out...
Lowest Ranking : #38 toomuchboy
Total Points: 387
Average Rank: 24.1875

Cody Wants Out... – 6
sbp17 – 12
.indulgecountry – 13
sabre14 – 15
LBTrocks – 15
fearlessarrow – 16
bboat11 – 19
castleoblivion26 – 21
DistrictTwelve – 25
austin – 30
Troublemaker – 33
BackwoodsBarbie – 35
Tim – 35
Kanenrá:ke – 37
someguy – 37
toomuchboy – 38

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The third single from 1998’s Where Your Road Leads, “Powerful Thing was one of Trisha’s final top 10s at country radio. Released when she was the reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, it reached #6 in the spring of 1999. This never felt like a huge hit, despite its peak. It was up and down the charts pretty quickly, but ended up being the second biggest hit from the album, after “There Goes My Baby”. This started out as a possible contender for last place in the rankdown, but halfway through the submission process, started climbing up, eventually settling in at #26. In hindsight, I probably ranked this one too low.

[castleoblivion26]

I love "You're Where I Belong" a lot and am glad it made it as far as it did because I also thought it would be gone early on.

"Powerful Thing" is a good song but not a favorite compared to a lot of the songs on this list so I'm good with it going out here.

[Cody Wants Out...]

[someguy]

Clue for #25:

[castleoblivion26]

"Real Live Woman" is out next I'm guessing

[someguy]

#25 – “Real Live Woman”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #16
Highest Ranking: #13 sabre14
Lowest Ranking : #36 bboat11
Total Points: 384
Average Rank: 24

sabre14 – 13
DistrictTwelve – 15
BackwoodsBarbie – 16
.indulgecountry – 18
Kanenrá:ke – 20
someguy – 21
sbp17 – 21
fearlessarrow – 22
austin – 25
toomuchboy – 27
LBTrocks – 27
Tim – 29
Troublemaker – 31
castleoblivion26 – 31
Cody Wants Out... – 32
bboat11 – 36

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Released in 2000, “Real Live Woman” is the lead single to the album of the same name. This album is notable in that it was Trisha’s first not to produce a top 10 country airplay single, and it is to date her only studio album to produce only one top 40 airplay hit. This was always middle of the pack during the submission process of the rankdown, and so it seems fitting that it exits here at #25, as we begin to approach the top 20.

Clue explanation: The song was written by Bobbie Cryner, who released two albums in the mid 1990s, the most successful of which being Girl Of Your Dreams, which produced the #56 “You’d Think He’d Know Me Better”, which went on to be a single for Lorrie Morgan a few years later.

[castleoblivion26]

"Real Live Woman" is an alright song but it never worked for me and I never go out of my way to listen to it

[someguy]

Clue for #24:

[someguy]

#24 – “You Can Sleep While I Drive”

Billboard Country Airplay peak: #23
Highest Ranking: #7 BackwoodsBarbie
Lowest Ranking : #37 Cody Wants Out...
Total Points: 379
Average Rank: 23.6875

BackwoodsBarbie – 7
fearlessarrow – 10
toomuchboy – 11
sabre14 – 12
Tim – 19
Kanenrá:ke – 21
DistrictTwelve – 23
Troublemaker – 25
someguy – 28
sbp17 – 30
LBTrocks – 30
castleoblivion26 – 30
.indulgecountry – 32
bboat11 – 32
austin – 32
Cody Wants Out... – 37

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Here we say goodbye to our first single from Thinkin’ About You, the #23 peaking third single, “You Can Sleep While I Drive”. This was a big departure from the two singles that preceded it, “XXXs and OOOs” and “Thinkin’ About You”, and the gamble didn’t really pay off as it stalled out below the top 20. Originally recorded by its writer Melissa Etheridge in 1989, it was never released as a single until Trisha covered it and released it in 1995.

[someguy]

I'll stop here for tonight. I'll try to get to the top 20 tomorrow, and then probably nothing further until the weekend as the rest of this week is pretty crazy. I'll post a few more album tracks tonight though.