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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 10:47:50 GMT -5
Blown Away takes back-to-back hits at the start of the Top 10 with "Good Girl" leaving at #9. This rockin' uptempo has always been one of my least favorite Carrie singles, and it's certainly my least favorite lead single from her thus far. The production is so bombastic and while I still enjoy it (again...this is my queen mother. LN is literally the only song on her catalog that I actively hate), I never find myself with the desire to go back and revisit it or seek it out. I literally only play it when I'm spinning the album, or listening to the radio, or in this case, doing a rankdown that it's featured in. It also doesn't really feel like it fits the vibe of the parent album, and I personally would've just left it in the reject pile and put it on something else later, leaving room for BA to be the lead and smash even harder than it did.
GG was the album's lead single, released February 23, 2012. It was a smash, peaking at at #1 on the Country Airplay chart, on which it debuted at #30 after only three days of airplay. It crossed over to the Adult Top 40 format and peaked at #20, marking her highest peak there, surpassed only by BHC. It debuted at #24 on the Hot 100 and peaked at #18, becoming her twelfth Top 20 hit on that chart.
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 9, 2020 10:49:11 GMT -5
See You Again: My least favorite Carrie Underwood single. I like the message, I don't like the song. It just drags on for me and is boring. I'm glad to see that so many people like it though.
Good Girl: This song and Cowboy Casanova were a little too similar sound wise for me but they both are great. A great start to a great era (excluding See You Again).
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Post by lipe on Oct 9, 2020 10:50:59 GMT -5
Good Girl is a BOP.
See You Again is okay, good song but not one of my favorites by her standards.
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Post by wrip on Oct 9, 2020 10:51:03 GMT -5
Glad that Good Girl made top ten! I forgot exactly when I first heard it but I’ve always enjoyed it since first listen
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Post by lipe on Oct 9, 2020 10:55:31 GMT -5
See You Again: My least favorite Carrie Underwood single. I like the message, I don't like the song. It just drags on for me and is boring. I'm glad to see that so many people like it though. Good Girl: This song and Cowboy Casanova were a little too similar sound wise for me but they both are great. A great start to a great era. I never thought about Cowboy Casanova/Good Girl being similar but maybe that's why I love them both so much lol (they were my #1 and #3). And also I noticed that they're carriefan15's #1 and #2.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:01:06 GMT -5
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 9, 2020 11:06:15 GMT -5
I didn't remember this made it to the top 10 last time, solid track
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:13:10 GMT -5
JTTW indeed cause that one stung a little.
The one that started it all leaves us at #8. JTTW is and will forever be one of my absolute favorite Carrie songs of all time and it's certainly one of my favorite songs of all time period. I may have only been 5, but I still distinctly remember when this song came out. The production is gorgeous, the vocal is magnificent...everything is beautiful. It pains me that I couldn't find room in my Top 5 for this song, but seeing it make it there in this rankdown would have been amazing.
This incredible ballad, about a woman releasing control to a higher power and praying for Jesus to come help her in an emergency, was released as her debut country radio single and technically the album's lead on October 3, 2005 (15 years ago, my God), and was an instant blockbuster smash. Where do I begin: it peaked at #1 on Country Airplay and stayed there for six weeks, it crossed over to the Hot Christian Songs chart and peaked at #4, it hopped on over to the AC chart and peaked at #23, and it peaked at #20 on the Hot 100. It's since become, aside from BHC, her biggest signature hit: she has performed JTTW nearly everywhere she's gone and on every tour. As if that wasn't enough, JTTW won Single of the Year at the 2005 ACMs, as well as Carrie's first Grammy Awards in 2007: for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, the same night that she won Best New Artist, the second of only three country artists in history to win that award.
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Post by lipe on Oct 9, 2020 11:15:18 GMT -5
"Jesus, Take the Wheel" is a classic. It deserves to be on the top10.
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Post by fireflies on Oct 9, 2020 11:15:35 GMT -5
Luckily, the singles for the "Blown Away" era were in the exact order that was on the album. "See You Again" was number 4. Before the 4th single announcement, I was thinking, "Don't break the streak now." Happy that both "See You Again" and "Jesus, Take the Wheel" both made top 10 even though they should have been locks for top 5.
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 9, 2020 11:16:57 GMT -5
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:19:01 GMT -5
So um...only 13 points separate #7 from #4, in case anyone was wondering how brutal the fight was for spots in the Top 10 penthouse, full of diamonds and champagne. We're losing an album next!
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 9, 2020 11:25:08 GMT -5
So um...only 13 points separate #7 from #4, in case anyone was wondering how brutal the fight was for spots in the Top 10 penthouse, full of diamonds and champagne. We're losing an album next!
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 9, 2020 11:33:42 GMT -5
Yeah this always annoyed me, I think is too loudly for my taste. She has a great voice and don't need to exagerate it.
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 9, 2020 11:37:18 GMT -5
She had a couple great performances with Church Bells but overall the song doesn't grab me. Much like the Storyteller album overall (with a few gems in it).
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Post by austin on Oct 9, 2020 11:37:36 GMT -5
Church Bells has really grown on me over the years. I dig it now.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:39:33 GMT -5
Feary guessed it! The "Church Bells" start ringing at #7, drowning out the sound of Storyteller. This one is the best uptempo to come from Carrie's entire career thus far. It's a jam and a half and I'm gobsmacked by those four CHOICES of ranks at the bottom. Like...lol WUT? Did you listen to the correct song?! Sorry to you jamatthews83 who loses their #1! This song really deserved the Top 5 tbh. </3 CB, a song compared to the likes of "Goodbye Earl," "Independence Day," and "Fancy," was released as the album's third single on April 3, 2016, and impacted radio on April 11. It peaked at #1 on the Country Airplay chart and became her 15th #1 on the chart and...her last #1 on that chart to date. Like...it's been 5 years and the closest anything has come was "Southbound." Criminal behavior by country radio and particularly Billboard. I can't wait for the day that we see her next #1 on that chart. ANYWAYS...since I'm on a tangent: it also peaked at #43 on the Hot 100. At the 2017 Grammy Awards, "Church Bells" was nominated for Best Country Vocal Performance. It also deserved lead single treatment. God, it would've smashed hard. Sony Music Entertainment, queen of fumbled leads. </3
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Post by jamatthews83 on Oct 9, 2020 11:40:05 GMT -5
I'm embarrassed for you all.
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Post by lipe on Oct 9, 2020 11:46:13 GMT -5
Love "Church Bells". I have to confess that I didn't pay much attention to it before it was released as a single, but damn I was missing out.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:52:52 GMT -5
Album Showcase: Storyteller
Released: October 23, 2015 Label: 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville Length: 53:59 Produced by: Mark Bright, Zach Crowell & Jay Joyce Tracklist (* indicates a radio single):1. Renegade Runaway 2. Dirty Laundry* 3. Church Bells* 4. Heartbeat* 5. Smoke Break* 6. Choctaw County Affair 7. Like I'll Never Love You Again 8. Chaser 9. Relapse 10. Clock Don't Stop 11. The Girl You Think I Am 12. Mexico 13. What I Never Knew I Always Wanted 14. Heartbeat (stripped) (Target-exclusive bonus track) 15. Little Girl Don't Grow Up Too Fast (Target-exclusive bonus track) Featured Album Tracks:"Chaser""Relapse""Renegade Runaway""What I Never Knew I Always Wanted""Little Girl Don't Grow Up Too Fast""Like I'll Never Love You Again""Mexico"
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 11:55:49 GMT -5
Yeah, that's um...literally her best album. I've said that about CP before admittedly, but no. Giving some of these songs another listen again, it's clear that Storyteller is her magnum opus thus far. The highest of highs and...well that's just it really.
Before He Cheats Wasted Just a Dream Blown Away Two Black Cadillacs Something in the Water Come back around tonight to witness the grand finale! I'll be revealing these final six!!!
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 9, 2020 11:57:45 GMT -5
biiiiiiiiitch I was waiting for #6!!!
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Post by tim on Oct 9, 2020 12:09:00 GMT -5
Although I've never been fond of "Something in the Water" myself, it seems to be quite the fan favorite so I'm not too surprised it made the top six. If I were to guess, though, I'd say that or "Just a Dream" are one of the two songs most likely to miss the top five.
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Post by lipe on Oct 9, 2020 13:12:38 GMT -5
I don't want "Wasted" or "Just a Dream" winning...
And even though I ranked it high, I don't want "Before He Cheats" to win because it's her biggest hit and it would be too obvious.
I'm fine with the other three!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 9, 2020 13:29:03 GMT -5
I don't want "Wasted" or "Just a Dream" winning... And even though I ranked it high, I don't want "Before He Cheats" to win because it's her biggest hit and it would be too obvious.I'm fine with the other three! Well, out of the 282 country rankdowns that have ever happened, "Before He Cheats" has won exactly zero of them. However, it has finished at #2 three times now! So I think a lot of people would consider it to be a pretty neat revenge story if it were to finally get its chance to win after all these years :) Although it would also be pretty funny to see it get stuck at #2 again, so I'm split 😂
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Post by dgarcia3377 on Oct 9, 2020 13:32:14 GMT -5
Dead at my number 30 still being here. I'm hoping that misses the top 5. Otherwise I'm cool with any of the other songs winning
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Post by Az Paynter on Oct 9, 2020 13:35:19 GMT -5
Does Jesus know how to handle a right-hand drive? :sip2:
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 15:12:25 GMT -5
Does Jesus know how to handle a right-hand drive? He's Jesus. I'm sure he'd figure it out.
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 9, 2020 16:10:48 GMT -5
Does Jesus know how to handle a right-hand drive? Of all the things Jesus wouldn't know how to do why would it be not being able to handle a right-hand drive...
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