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Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1990, 24 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine. The chart was published under the title Hot Country Singles through the February 10 issue and Hot Country Singles & Tracks thereafter. [1]
The release of Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection continues a trend towards chronicling the genre's history via compact disc during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Time-Life Music's Country USA series continued to issue new albums, while Columbia Records issues its five-volume Country Classics series during the summer.
"Help Me Hold On" is a song by American country music artist Travis Tritt. It was released in February 1990 as the second single from his debut album Country Club. It reached number 1 in both the United States and Canada, thus becoming Travis Tritt's first number-one hit. The song was written by Tritt and Pat Terry.
"If You Could Only See Me Now" is a song written by Susan Longacre and Rick Giles, and recorded by American country music artist T. Graham Brown. It was released in April 1990 as the first single from the album Bumper to Bumper. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
Rumor Has It is the sixteenth studio album by American country music artist Reba McEntire.It was released on September 4, 1990, by MCA Records.The album continued her streak of success and features one of her signature songs, a cover of Bobbie Gentry's 1969 hit "Fancy", of which CMT ranked at No. 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Country Songs in 2003. [5]
The song cemented Brooks as a country superstar and made him the face of the country music explosion during the 90s. In 1990, it was named both Song of the Year and Video of the Year by the Academy of Country Music. It was awarded the number 14 position in the CMT 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music broadcast in 2003 [4] and also the number 5 ...
The song was later covered by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson and became the opening track of their 1990 album Highwayman 2. [3] Released in 1990 as a lead single (Columbia 38-73233, with "American Remains" on the opposite side) from the album, [4] the song peaked at number 25 on U.S. Billboard 's country chart for the week of April 28.
1980 in country music, Debuts of movies about country music and/or country singers in leading roles (Coal Miner's Daughter, Urban Cowboy); nomination of two country songs for Academy Award for Best Original Song; Alabama signs with RCA Records and begins long-term success. Death of Red Sovine.