1999_in_country

1999 in country music

1 Events
2 Top hits of the year
- 2.1 Number one hits
- 2.2 Other major hits
3 Top new album releases
- 3.1 Other top albums
4 Deaths
5 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
6 Major Awards
7 Further reading
8 Other links
9 External links

Events

March 6 – Legendary performer George Jones, in the midst of a comeback this year, is seriously injured when he crashed his Lexus into a bridge. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident, and he pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges.
June – Comedian Jeff Foxworthy debuts his syndicated radio countdown show, "The Foxworthy Countdown."
September 4 – Lonestar's hit, "Amazed," spends its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming the first song to do so since Jack Greene's 1966 hit, "There Goes My Everything." In several other trade magazines, including Radio & Records, "Amazed" reigns for nine weeks, which made it the longest-lasting Number One single since 1966's "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston. By year's end, "Amazed" is gaining popularity on CHR and adult contemporary stations (in re-mixed versions, which excised the steel guitar).

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Date	Song Name	Artist	Wks. No. 1	Spec. Note
January 16	Right on the Money	Alan Jackson	1
January 23	Wrong Again	Martina McBride	1
January 30	Stand Beside Me	Jo Dee Messina	3	With this No. 1 hit, Messina became the first female artist to score three multi-week No. 1 songs from the same album (1998's I'm Alright*)
February 20	I Don't Want to Miss a Thing	Mark Chesnutt	2	^B Cover of Aerosmith's 1998 single.
March 6	No Place That Far	Sara Evans	1	^A
March 13	You Were Mine	Dixie Chicks	2
March 27	How Forever Feels	Kenny Chesney	6
May 8	Wish You Were Here	Mark Wills	1	^A
May 15	Please Remember Me	Tim McGraw	5	Originally a #69-peaking hit for its co-writer, Rodney Crowell, in 1995.
June 19	Write This Down	George Strait	4
July 17	Amazed	Lonestar	8	¹ Became the longest-running #1 country song since 1966's "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston. In early 2000, "Amazed" became the first song to top both the country charts and Billboard Hot 100 since 1983's "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
September 11	Single White Female	Chely Wright	1	^C
September 18	You Had Me from Hello	Kenny Chesney	1
September 25	Something Like That	Tim McGraw	5
October 30	I Love You	Martina McBride	5
December 4	When I Said I Do	Clint Black (featuring Lisa Hartman Black)	2	² ^{B - Clint Black} ^{C - Lisa Hartman Black} Fell to #2 on December 11.
December 11	He Didn't Have to Be	Brad Paisley	1	^A
December 25	Breathe	Faith Hill	6	Although a #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, this song was that chart's No. 1 song for the year 2000.

¹ - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine
² - Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
^A - First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
^B - Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
^C - Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Other major hits

Peak	Single	Artist	Notes
8	All Things Considered	Yankee Grey
22	Almost Home	Mary Chapin Carpenter
4	Anyone Else	Collin Raye
3	Busy Man	Billy Ray Cyrus	Cyrus' first Top 10 hit since "Somebody New" in 1993.
19	By the Book	Michael Peterson
21	Can't Get Enough	Patty Loveless
6	Come on Over	Shania Twain
30	A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K version)	Chad Brock with Hank Williams, Jr. and George Jones	A rewrite of Hank Williams, Jr.'s 1982 hit "A Country Boy Can Survive", in response to the Year 2000 problem. Williams' first Top 40 country hit since "If It Will, It Will" in 1991.
12	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Dwight Yoakam	Cover of Queen's Number One pop single from 1980.
6	Drive Me Wild	Sawyer Brown
12	Everytime I Cry	Terri Clark
15	Fly (The Angel Song)	The Wilkinsons
2	For a Little While	Tim McGraw
6	For You I Will	Aaron Tippin	Tippin's first Top 40 country hit since "Without Your Love" in early 1996.
3	God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You	Alabama with 'N Sync	'N Sync's only entry on the country charts, and Alabama's last Top Ten country hit. A version featuring only 'N Sync was released to pop radio as well.
4	Gone Crazy	Alan Jackson
5	Hands of a Working Man	Ty Herndon
15	Hello L.O.V.E.	John Michael Montgomery
13	Hillbilly Shoes	Montgomery Gentry
4	Hold On to Me	John Michael Montgomery
2	Home to You	John Michael Montgomery
5	I Can't Get Over You	Brooks & Dunn
10	I'll Go Crazy	Andy Griggs
10	I'll Still Love You More	Trisha Yearwood
2	I'll Think of a Reason Later	Lee Ann Womack
3	I'm Already Taken	Steve Wariner	This was a re-recording of a song that was previously a #63 country single for Wariner in 1978.
17	I'm Leaving	Aaron Tippin
24	It Don't Matter to the Sun	Chris Gaines	This was one of two singles that Garth Brooks made as Chris Gaines, a pseudonymous personality which he created for a side project.
14	Keepin' Up	Alabama
2	Lesson in Leavin'	Jo Dee Messina	Cover of Dottie West's 1980 single "A Lesson in Leaving". Spent seven weeks at #2, the longest time spent at that position since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.
19	Lightning Does the Work	Chad Brock
3	Little Good-Byes	SHeDAISY
3	Little Man	Alan Jackson
5	Lonely and Gone	Montgomery Gentry
12	Love Ain't Like That	Faith Hill
19	Make Up in Love	Doug Stone	Stone's first Top 40 country hit since 1995's "Born in the Dark".
16	A Man Ain't Made of Stone	Randy Travis
4	Man! I Feel Like a Woman!	Shania Twain
17	Maybe Not Tonight	Sammy Kershaw with Lorrie Morgan
4	Meanwhile	George Strait
15	Missing You	Brooks & Dunn	Cover of John Waite's Number One pop hit from 1984.
27	My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man	Vince Gill with Patty Loveless
6	A Night to Remember	Joe Diffie
12	(Now You See Me) Now You Don't	Lee Ann Womack
7	One Honest Heart	Reba McEntire
3	Ordinary Life	Chad Brock
24	Ordinary Love	Shane Minor
6	Pop a Top	Alan Jackson	Cover of the Jim Ed Brown song.
6	Powerful Thing	Trisha Yearwood
2	Ready to Run	Dixie Chicks
4	The Secret of Life	Faith Hill
16	She's Always Right	Clay Walker
7	She's in Love	Mark Wills
20	Slave to the Habit	Shane Minor	Co-written by Toby Keith.
19	Somebody's out There Watching	The Kinleys
2	Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man	Randy Travis	^B
18	Steam	Ty Herndon
16	Stranger in My Mirror	Randy Travis
8	That Don't Impress Me Much	Shania Twain
4	There You Have It	BlackHawk
17	This Heartache Never Sleeps	Mark Chesnutt
6	Tonight the Heartache's on Me	Dixie Chicks
2	Two Teardrops	Steve Wariner
2	Unbelievable	Diamond Rio
4	What Do You Say to That	George Strait
2	Whatever You Say	Martina McBride
12	Who Needs Pictures	Brad Paisley
9	With You	Lila McCann
6	Wrong Night	Reba McEntire
25	You Go First (Do You Wanna Kiss)	Jessica Andrews
2	You Won't Ever Be Lonely	Andy Griggs
2	You're Beginning to Get to Me	Clay Walker
13	You've Got a Way	Shania Twain

^A Reached #1 on U.S. Gavin Report country singles charts.
^B Reached #1 on U.S. Radio & Records (now Mediabase 24/7) country singles charts.

Deaths

December 17 — Rex Allen, 78, "The Arizona Cowboy" and traveling rodeo performer.
December 20 — Hank Snow, 85, "The Singing Ranger," best known for "I'm Movin' On."

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!," Shania Twain
Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "Choices," George Jones
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal -- "Ready to Run," Dixie Chicks
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals -- "After the Gold Rush," Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt
Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Bob's Breakdowns," Tommy Allsup, Asleep at the Wheel, Floyd Domino, Larry Franklin, Vince Gill and Steve Wariner
Best Country Song -- "Come on Over," Shania Twain and Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Best Country Album -- Fly, Dixie Chicks
Best Bluegrass Album -- Ancient Tones, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year -- Shania Twain
Song Of The Year -- "Amazed," Marv Green, Aimee Mayo
Single Of The Year -- "Amazed," Lonestar
Album Of The Year -- Fly, Dixie Chicks
Top Male Vocalist -- Tim McGraw
Top Female Vocalist -- Faith Hill
Top Vocal Duo Or Group -- Dixie Chicks
Top New Male Vocalist -- Brad Paisley
Top New Female Vocalist -- Jessica Andrews
Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Montgomery Gentry
Video Of The Year -- "Breathe," Faith Hill (Director: Lili Fini Zanuck)
Vocal Event Of The Year -- "When I Said I Do," Clint Black with Lisa Hartman Black

Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year -- Shania Twain
Song of the Year -- "This Kiss," Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and Beth Nielsen Chapman
Single of the Year -- "Wide Open Spaces," Dixie Chicks
Album of the Year -- A Place in the Sun, Tim McGraw
Male Vocalist of the Year -- Tim McGraw
Female Vocalist of the Year -- Martina McBride
Vocal Duo of the Year -- Brooks & Dunn
Vocal Group of the Year -- Dixie Chicks
Horizon Award -- Jo Dee Messina
Music Video of the Year -- "Wide Open Spaces," Dixie Chicks (Director: Thom Oliphant)
Vocal Event of the Year -- "My Kind of Woman, My Kind of Man," Vince Gill and Patty Loveless
Musician of the Year -- Randy Scruggs

External links

Country Music Hall of Fame

Contents

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

Other major hits

Top new album releases

Other top albums

Deaths

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Further reading

Other links

External links