Everybody Wins! A 1993 Country Songs Rankdown ("Hurry" WINS)

[Cody Wants Out...]

104. Diamond Rio - Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 5



Total Points: 1184
Average Rank: 78.9333333333
Standard Deviation: 24.5341356

George Strait Junkie - 17
bboat11 - 52
Kanenrá:ke - 57
kw9461 - 60
LBTrocks - 72
Glove Slap - 76
austin - 77
Jrod82 - 85
castleoblivion26 - 91
someguy - 92
rgreen0625 - 93
sabre14 - 95
.indulgecountry - 103
Cody Wants Out... - 106
Tim - 108

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I feel conflicted about this one tbh. Normally, I'm a pretty big fan of Diamond Rio, but this song never had the chance to stick with me. The sad part is, George Strait did this one before these guys got their hands on it. Looking back now, I did underrank this a pretty good bit imo.

And yes, I'll be saying that last sentence a bunch throughout.

George Strait Junkie loses his first top 20 and one of our George Strait experts loses something in their top half.

[Glove Slap]

They have much worse on this list.

[Cody Wants Out...]

103. Restless Heart - We Got the Love



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 11



Total Points: 1164
Average Rank: 77.6
Standard Deviation: 18.26315573 (7th lowest!)

sabre14 - 49
.indulgecountry - 55
LBTrocks - 55
bboat11 - 57
Glove Slap - 67
rgreen0625 - 71
someguy - 75
austin - 81
George Strait Junkie - 84
Tim - 85
Cody Wants Out... - 87
Kanenrá:ke - 90
kw9461 - 101
Jrod82 - 102
castleoblivion26 - 105

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We now see the second song to have no top 40 rankings, but there aren't as many bottom ten rankings this time! I guess that's a good thing?

The acapella opening distracted me the first several times, but this song did eventually grow on me a little bit. Chances are, I would've only ranked this a few spots higher had I gotten another chance.

[Tim]

Jul 10, 2018 19:33:14 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

104. Diamond Rio - Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby


I feel conflicted about this one tbh. Normally, I'm a pretty big fan of Diamond Rio, but this song never had the chance to stick with me. The sad part is, George Strait did this one before these guys got their hands on it. Looking back now, I did underrank this a pretty good bit imo.

This might partially account for my low ranking of this song as I'll always compare it to George's, but even so this is another song that I remember liking back when I was much younger but now not so much anymore. In comparison to the rest of their discography this song also sounds rather weak.

I thought "Too Busy Being in Love" would do a little bit better than the bottom 10, but again Doug Stone doesn't have many fans on Pulse it seems. I've always really liked this song and is one I remember hearing frequently on the radio growing up.

I wish I liked Restless Heart more than I do, but most of their material is just kinda meh for me including "We Got the Love." Again not surprised to see this out already.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Let's keep the groups comin' shall we?

102. Sawyer Brown - Trouble on the Line



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 5



Total Points: 1161
Average Rank: 77.4
Standard Deviation: 18.48860653 (8th lowest!)

LBTrocks - 49
Tim - 55
rgreen0625 - 60
austin - 60
Kanenrá:ke - 61
bboat11 - 67
Glove Slap - 70
sabre14 - 78
kw9461 - 84
George Strait Junkie - 86
someguy - 89
.indulgecountry - 96
castleoblivion26 - 98
Jrod82 - 103
Cody Wants Out... - 105

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Not only is this the fourth song done by a group eliminated, but also the fourth song so far in this rankdown to have no top 40 ranks!

I normally like a few from Sawyer Brown, but something about the opening lines in the first two verses didn't seem right to me.

[LBTrocks]

Not upset about anything so far tbh.

"Trouble On The Line" is good.... ish. I can live without it though. They have several other songs that I like much better. I wouldn't have minded seeing this higher obviously, but also won't be shedding any tears over it either.

[Cody Wants Out...]

101. Collin Raye - Somebody Else's Moon



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 5



Total Points: 1154
Average Rank: 76.9333333
Standard Deviation: 21.61833437 (14th lowest!)

Jrod82 - 31
austin - 38
kw9461 - 65
someguy - 66
castleoblivion26 - 66
Glove Slap - 71
rgreen0625 - 74
bboat11 - 80
Cody Wants Out... - 85
sabre14 - 89
George Strait Junkie - 90
.indulgecountry - 97
Kanenrá:ke - 99
Tim - 100
LBTrocks - 103

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Recently featured in castleoblivion26's Male Country Singers RD, Collin Raye loses his first top 5 hit here. Most of us put this in our bottom half, outside of a couple of top 40s.

The slow tempo in this one kinda dragged on and on for me, despite it being only three minutes long (typical length of a song iirc).

[Cody Wants Out...]

Okay guys, we've made it to the top 100!

Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee
Clay Walker - What's It To You
Tracy Lawrence - Can't Break it to My Heart
Sawyer Brown - Thank God For You
Vince Gill - One More Last Chance
George Strait - Easy Come, Easy Go
Garth Brooks - Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)
Mark Chestnutt - It Sure is Monday
John Michael Montgomery - I Love the Way You Love Me
Doug Stone - Why Didn't I Think of That
Patty Loveless - Blame It On Your Heart
Joe Diffie - Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)
Tracy Lawrence - Alibis
Dwight Yoakam - Ain't That Lonely Yet
Tracy Byrd - Holdin' Heaven
Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
John Anderson - Money in the Bank
Clint Black and Wynonna - A Bad Goodbye
Clint Black - No Time to Kill
Sammy Kershaw - She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Brooks & Dunn - We'll Burn That Bridge
Little Texas - What Might Have Been
Garth Brooks - That Summer
Hal Ketchum - Hearts Are Gonna Roll
Carlene Carter - Every Little Thing
Wynonna - Tell Me Why
Lorrie Morgan - What Part of No
Radney Foster - Nobody Wins
Brooks & Dunn - Hard Workin' Man
Wynonna - Only Love
Randy Travis - Look Heart, No Hands
Travis Tritt - Can I Trust You With My Heart
Reba McEntire and Vince Gill - The Heart Won't Lie
Toby Keith - He Ain't Worth Missing
Alabama - Hometown Honeymoon
Doug Supernaw - Reno
Lee Roy Parnell - Tender Moment
Toby Keith - Should've Been a Cowboy
Reba McEntire and Linda Davis - Does He Love You
Clint Black - When My Ship Comes In
Reba McEntire - It's Your Call
Diamond Rio - In a Week or Two
Aaron Tippin - Working Man's Ph.D.
Garth Brooks - Learning to Live Again
Suzy Bogguss - Drive South
Joe Diffie - Honky Tonk Attitude
George Strait - Heartland
Tanya Tucker and Delbert McClinton - Tell Me About It
Alan Jackson - Tonight I Climbed the Wall
Alabama - Once Upon a Lifetime
Vince Gill - Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away
Trisha Yearwood - Walkaway Joe
Suzy Bogguss - Just Like the Weather
Confederate Railroad - Queen of Memphis
Larry Stewart - Alright Already
Tanya Tucker - It's a Little Too Late
Steve Wariner - If I Didn't Love You
Mark Chestnutt - Ol' Country
Collin Raye - That Was a River
McBride and the Ride - Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run
Mark Collie - Born to Love You
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Passionate Kisses
Wynonna - My Strongest Weakness
Brooks & Dunn - She Used to Be Mine
Collin Raye - I Want You Bad (and That Ain't Good)
Brother Phelps - Let Go
George Strait - When Did You Stop Loving Me
Sawyer Brown - All These Years
Reba McEntire - Take It Back
Garth Brooks - Somewhere Other Than the Night
John Michael Montgomery - Life's a Dance
John Anderson - Let Go of the Stone
Ricky Van Shelton - Wild Man
Alan Jackson - She's Got the Rhythm (and I Got the Blues)
Billy Dean - Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark
Pam Tillis - Let That Pony Run
Restless Heart - Mending Fences
Aaron Tippin - My Blue Angel
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Hard Way
Pam Tillis - Cleopatra, Queen of Denial
Sammy Kershaw - Haunted Heart
Hal Ketchum - Mama Knows the Highway
Travis Tritt - Looking Out for Number One
Diamond Rio - This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet
Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women
Lorrie Morgan - Half Enough
Lee Roy Parnell - On the Road
Alabama - Reckless
Mark Chesnutt - Almost Goodbye
Hal Ketchum - Sure Love
Tanya Tucker - Two Sparrows in a Hurricane
Alabama - I'm In a Hurry (and Don't Know Why)
Martina McBride - My Baby Loves Me
George Strait - I Cross My Heart
Little Texas - God Blessed Texas
Sammy Kershaw - Queen of My Double Wide Trailer
Brooks & Dunn - Lost and Found
Restless Heart - When She Cries
Alan Jackson - Mercury Blues
Mark Collie - Even the Man in the Moon is Cryin'

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What songs do you see (or hope to see) leaving next?

[bboat11]

I must have overranked "Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" because of the George Strait version. I found Diamond Rio's version to be good, but considering that George is like 8,000x better than Diamond Rio as an artist, I never expected for theirs to come even close to his. Still, the familiarity bias helped it out on my list.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Hey guys!

I know you're wanting more results tonight, but unfortunately, I'm running behind a good bit on my graphics. However, I will resume tomorrow evening where a few heart-breakers will come to light, including our first song by a female and you may get to see me lose my first top 20 (or two).

[Tim]

Jul 10, 2018 22:30:26 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Okay guys, we've made it to the top 100!

What songs do you see (or hope to see) leaving next?

I forgot that Doug Stone still has one song remaining and I can actually see it doing quite well so I doubt he'll be leaving again in the next set of reveals. Considering we've seen a string of songs leave already by the groups I think both of Confederate Railroad's songs might be leaving sooner rather than later; other than that I'd really like to see my #110 leave soon.

[.indulgecountry]

I need to see some Barf Brooks start leaving soon.

Some of the straight cheese from John Michael Velveeta can gtfo too.

[Cody Wants Out...]

100. John Anderson - Let Go of the Stone



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 7



Total Points: 1139
Average Rank: 75.933333333
Standard Deviation: 18.00581917 (6th lowest!)

Kanenrá:ke - 45
Glove Slap - 57
LBTrocks - 58
bboat11 - 60
sabre14 - 66
kw9461 - 67
austin - 67
George Strait Junkie - 72
Jrod82 - 84
rgreen0625 - 85
.indulgecountry - 86
Cody Wants Out... - 88
castleoblivion26 - 96
Tim - 103
someguy - 105

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Kicking off our top 100 is the final single from John Anderson's comeback album, which peaked outside the top 5 on country radio in early 1993.

With only one top half ranking, most of us put this towards the bottom part of our lists, including three bottom 20s.

I first discovered this on Prime Country when they were doing a top 30 for a particular week during a certain year (can't remember which one, though), and I really liked the lyrics to this one. Unfortunately, I found the melody to be very drug out and, as a consequence, took away some of the power it could've carried. Maybe it's a grower, but that was just my first impression. Not a bad song at all, though.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Let's make things interesting shall we?

One of our girls loses her first song and one of us loses our first top 15...

[Cody Wants Out...]

No one wants to guess? Okay then...

99. Wynonna - My Strongest Weakness



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 4
Billboard Hot Country Songs of 1993: 68



Total Points: 1138
Average Rank: 75.866666666667
Standard Deviation: 28.82426227

someguy - 14
Tim - 33
.indulgecountry - 44
bboat11 - 61
Glove Slap - 63
castleoblivion26 - 72
rgreen0625 - 75
austin - 75
Kanenrá:ke - 85
Jrod82 - 96
Cody Wants Out... - 98
kw9461 - 99
sabre14 - 107
George Strait Junkie - 108
LBTrocks - 108

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O how the mighty have fallen! The queen who ruled the throne last year by having the most-played song on country radio loses her first song in the bottom 20 after getting all three of her songs in the top 40 '92 Country RD.

"My Strongest Weakness" served as the final single from her self-titled debut album and peaked at #4 on the charts earlier in '93. Alanis Morrisette's highest-charting hit "Ironic" used bunches and bunches of unfortunate circumstances that contradicted each other lyric-wise and I honestly found that to be a fitting hint for the song title of this one here.

someguy loses his first top 15 and Tim loses his first top 40 as well. Bunches of middling and bottom 20 ranks (like mine) held this back and tbh, I was stunned at how low this came in once everything got tallied up!

[LBTrocks]

I couldn't even make it thru "My Strongest Weakness" lol it has, like, NO melody!

[Cody Wants Out...]

Clue for #98:

[Tim]

Jul 12, 2018 19:53:40 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

No one wants to guess? Okay then...

99. Wynonna - My Strongest Weakness



Kanenrá:ke - 85
Jrod82 - 96
Cody Wants Out... - 98
kw9461 - 99
sabre14 - 107
George Strait Junkie - 108
LBTrocks - 108

Seriously how is this song out before the likes of "Trashy Women"

[Cody Wants Out...]

Jul 12, 2018 21:03:34 GMT -5 Tim said:

Jul 12, 2018 19:53:40 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

No one wants to guess? Okay then...

99. Wynonna - My Strongest Weakness



Kanenrá:ke - 85
Jrod82 - 96
Cody Wants Out... - 98
kw9461 - 99
sabre14 - 107
George Strait Junkie - 108
LBTrocks - 108

Seriously how is this song out before the likes of "Trashy Women"

P.S. Scratch my first clue, here's one that should make more sense.

[Tim]

^Well I'm at least hoping this a clue for my last place song...

[Cody Wants Out...]

Y'all deserved an easy one.

98. Travis Tritt - Looking Out for Number One



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 11



Total Points: 1119
Average Rank: 74.6
Standard Deviation: 26.09542927

LBTrocks - 30
George Strait Junkie - 39
Kanenrá:ke - 46
rgreen0625 - 52
.indulgecountry - 56
sabre14 - 64
kw9461 - 68
bboat11 - 81
austin - 83
castleoblivion26 - 88
Glove Slap - 89
someguy - 99
Cody Wants Out... - 107
Jrod82 - 107
Tim - 110

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I wanna talk about me, wanna talk about I, wanna talk about NUMBER ONE oh my me my...

A little bit of crow gets dished out to LBTrocks as he loses his first top 30 while three others lose a top half. Again, most of the bottom 30 ranks held this back quite a bit and seemed destined to be a bottom ten contender most of the time.

Very glad this is out imo. Should've switched this out for the title track of his album instead.

[Tim]

Jul 12, 2018 21:44:24 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Y'all deserved an easy one.

98. Travis Tritt - Looking Out for Number One



Very glad this is out imo. Should've switched this out for the title track of his album instead.

FINALLY! Still can't believe this made it this far. And yes the title track is a favorite of mine and was a bit surprised to see it miss the '93 rankdown.

[Cody Wants Out...]

I'll complete the bottom 20 tomorrow; some of these final placements really surprised me...and NOT in a good way if you ask me.

In fact, I'm too sad about the next couple to continue.

[Cody Wants Out...]

This deserved better you guys...

97. Confederate Railroad - Queen of Memphis



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 2
Billboard Hot Country Songs of 1993: 58



Total Points: 1116
Average Rank: 74.4
Standard Deviation: 18.51177232 (9th lowest!)

bboat11 - 46
kw9461 - 48
austin - 55
castleoblivion26 - 63
Jrod82 - 64
.indulgecountry - 64
Cody Wants Out... - 67
George Strait Junkie - 76
rgreen0625 - 79
sabre14 - 80
LBTrocks - 87
Glove Slap - 88
Tim - 89
Kanenrá:ke - 101
someguy - 109

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I understand that these guys can be a little polarizing, but this deserved better than bottom 20 you guys...

[Glove Slap]

Nice to see I dropped this five spots, hopefully Trashy Women is coming up soon.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Up next is our very first TIE! (one of seven btw)

The winner of this tie has two top 40 ranks, which also includes a near top 20! The loser only has one top 40.

One of these songs is also a lead single.

[Cody Wants Out...]

He kinda looks familiar to me...

96. Steve Wariner - If I Didn't Love You



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 8
Billboard Hot Country Songs of 1993: 62



Total Points: 1111
Average Rank: 74.06666667
Standard Deviation: 17.89439923 (5th lowest!)

Jrod82 - 33
Cody Wants Out... - 51
Kanenrá:ke - 64
bboat11 - 68
rgreen0625 - 68
LBTrocks - 71
sabre14 - 73
Tim - 74
someguy - 76
castleoblivion26 - 78
.indulgecountry - 79
Glove Slap - 84
kw9461 - 85
George Strait Junkie - 97
austin - 110

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Hey! Isn't this the guy that had back-to-back-to-back eliminations from the '92 RD?

At least he lasted a little longer here...wait! Were those bottom twenties really necessary?!?

[Cody Wants Out...]

95. Collin Raye - I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)



Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: 7
Billboard Hot Country Songs of 1993: 70



Total Points: 1111
Average Rank: 74.066666667
Standard Deviation: 25.2938916

LBTrocks - 21
Glove Slap - 31
austin - 51
Kanenrá:ke - 63
someguy - 64
sabre14 - 65
kw9461 - 78
.indulgecountry - 80
bboat11 - 83
George Strait Junkie - 87
castleoblivion26 - 87
Jrod82 - 89
Tim - 98
Cody Wants Out... - 104
rgreen0625 - 110

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Welp, LBTrocks narrowly dodged a bullet with this one, but he did help get this one out of the bottom ten.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Maybe Im more into his ballads?}lol jk; his upbeats are more hit or miss with me (e.g. "Little Red Rodeo", "On the Verge" and "Anyone Else" are some that I like a good bit). This particular one never really jived well with me tbh.

[Jrod82]

Steve Wariner’s better songs were in the mid to late 80’s. My personal favorite song of his is “The Weekend”.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Up next, another top three hit and lead single gets eliminated...