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1992 in country music, 1993 in music, other events of 1993, 1994 in country music, 1990s in music and the List of years in Country Music

Contents

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

Other major hits

Top new album releases

Other top albums

On television

Regular series

Specials

Deaths

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Further reading

Other links

External links

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

''(as certified by Billboard magazine)''

'Date'	'Song Name'	'Artist'	'Wks. No. 1'	'Spec. Note'
January 16	Somewhere Other Than the Night	Garth Brooks	1
January 23	Look Heart, No Hands	Randy Travis	2
February 6	Too Busy Being in Love	Doug Stone	1
February 13	Can I Trust You With My Heart	Travis Tritt	2
February 27	What Part of No	Lorrie Morgan	3
March 20	Heartland	George Strait	1
March 27	When My Ship Comes In	Clint Black	2
April 10	The Heart Won't Lie	Reba McEntire with Vince Gill	2
April 24	She Don't Know She's Beautiful	Sammy Kershaw	1	C
May 1	Alibis	Tracy Lawrence	2
May 15	I Love the Way You Love Me	John Michael Montgomery	3	A
June 5	Should've Been a Cowboy	Toby Keith	2	A
June 19	Blame It on Your Heart	Patty Loveless	2
July 3	That Summer	Garth Brooks	1
July 10	Money in the Bank	John Anderson	1	B
July 17	Chattahoochee	Alan Jackson	4	'1'
August 14	It Sure is Monday	Mark Chesnutt	1
August 21	Why Didn't I Think of That	Doug Stone	1	B
August 28	Can't Break It to My Heart	Tracy Lawrence	1
September 4	Thank God For You	Sawyer Brown	2
September 18	Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)	Garth Brooks	2	'2'
September 25	Holdin' Heaven	Tracy Byrd	1	A
October 9	One More Last Chance	Vince Gill	1
October 16	What's It to You	Clay Walker	1
October 23	Easy Come, Easy Go	George Strait	2
November 6	Does He Love You	Reba McEntire with Linda Davis	1	C - Linda Davis
November 13	She Used to Be Mine	Brooks & Dunn	1
November 20	Almost Goodbye	Mark Chesnutt	1
November 27	Reckless	Alabama	1	B
December 4	American Honky-Tonk Bar Association	Garth Brooks	1
December 11	My Second Home	Tracy Lawrence	1
December 18	I Don't Call Him Daddy	Doug Supernaw	2	C

★ ^'1' - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by ''Billboard magazine''.

★ ^'2' - Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot; this was the first song to do so on the Billboard Singles chart since 1975's "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.

★ ^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

★ "A Bad Goodbye" - Clint Black with Wynonna (#2)

★ "A Cowboy's Born With a Broken Heart" - Boy Howdy (#12)

★ "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" - Dwight Yoakam (#2)

★ "Ain't That Lonely Yet" - Dwight Yoakam (#2)

★ "All These Years" - Sawyer Brown (#3)

★ "Alright Already" - Larry Stewart (#5)

★ "An Old Pair of Shoes" - Randy Travis (#21)

★ "Anywhere But Here" - Sammy Kershaw (#10)

★ "Beer and Bones" - John Michael Montgomery (#21)

★ "Born to Love You" - Mark Collie (#6)

★ "The Bug" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (#16)

★ "Cadillac Ranch" - Chris LeDoux (#18)

★ "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" - Pam Tillis (#11)

★ "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" - Pam Tillis (#16)

★ "Down on My Knees" - Trisha Yearwood (#19)

★ "Drive South" - Suzy Bogguss (#2)

★ "Easier Said Than Done" - Radney Foster (#20)

★ "Every Little Thing" - Carlene Carter (#3)

★ "Half Enough" - Lorrie Morgan (#8)

★ "The Hard Way" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (#11)

★ "Haunted Heart" - Sammy Kershaw (#9)

★ "He Ain't Worth Missing" - Toby Keith (#5)

★ "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (#2)

★ "Heartache" - Suzy Bogguss (#23)

★ "Hearts Are Gonna Roll" - Hal Ketchum (#2)

★ "High on a Mountain Top" - Marty Stuart (#24)

★ "High Rollin'" - Gibson/Miller Band (#20)

★ "High-Tech Redneck" - George Jones (#24)

★ "Hometown Honeymoon" - Alabama (#3)

★ "Honky Tonk Attitude" - Joe Diffie (#5)

★ "Hurry Sundown" - McBride & The Ride (#17)

★ "I Fell in the Water" - John Anderson (#13)

★ "I Guess You Had to Be There" - Lorrie Morgan (#14)

★ "I Wanna Take Care of You" - Billy Dean (#22)

★ "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Collin Raye (#7)

★ "If I Didn't Love You" - Steve Wariner (#8)

★ "In a Week or Two" - Diamond Rio (#2)

★ "In the Heart of a Woman" - Billy Ray Cyrus (#3)

★ "It's a Little Too Late" - Tanya Tucker (#2)

★ "It's Your Call" - Reba McEntire (#5)

★ "Janie Baker's Love Slave" - Shenandoah (#15)

★ "Just Like the Weather" - Suzy Bogguss (#5)

★ "Just One Night" - McBride & the Ride (#5)

★ "Kiss Me in the Car" - John Berry (#22)

★ "Learning to Live Again" - Garth Brooks (#2)

★ "Let Go" - Brother Phelps (#6)

★ "Let Go of the Stone" - John Anderson (#7)

★ "Let That Pony Run" - Pam Tillis (#4)

★ "Looking Out For Number One" - Travis Tritt (#11)

★ "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run" - McBride & the Ride (#3)

★ "Love Without Mercy" - Lee Roy Parnell (#8)

★ "Made For Lovin' You" - Doug Stone (#6)

★ "Mama Knows the Highway" - Hal Ketchum (#8)

★ "Mending Fences" - Restless Heart (#13)

★ "Mercury Blues" - Alan Jackson (#2)

★ "My Baby Loves Me" - Martina McBride (#2)

★ "My Blue Angel" - Aaron Tippin (#7)

★ "My Strongest Weakness" - Wynonna (#4)

★ "No Future in the Past" - Vince Gill (#3)

★ "No Time to Kill" - Clint Black (#3)

★ "Nobody Wins" - Radney Foster (#2)

★ "Nothin' But the Wheel" - Patty Loveless (#20)

★ "Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby" - Diamond Rio (#5)

★ "Ol' Country" - Mark Chesnutt (#4)

★ "On the Road" - Lee Roy Parnell (#6)

★ "Once Upon a Lifetime" - Alabama (#3)

★ "Only Love" - Wynonna (#3)

★ "Passionate Kisses" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (#4)

★ "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)" - Joe Diffie (#3)

★ "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer" - Sammy Kershaw (#7)

★ "Reno" - Doug Supernaw (#4)

★ "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" - Billy Ray Cyrus (#6)

★ "Somebody Else's Moon" - Collin Raye (#5)

★ "Somebody New" - Billy Ray Cyrus (#9)

★ "Somebody Paints the Wall" - Tracy Lawrence (#8)

★ "Something's Gonna Change Her Mind" - Mark Collie (#24)

★ "The Song Remembers When" - Trisha Yearwood (#2)

★ "Soon" - Tanya Tucker (#2)

★ "Sure Love" - Hal Ketchum (#3)

★ "Suspicious Minds" - Dwight Yoakam (#35)

★ "Take It Back" - Reba McEntire (#5)

★ "Tell Me About It" - Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton (#4)

★ "Tell Me Why" - Wynonna (#3)

★ "Tender Moment" - Lee Roy Parnell (#2)

★ "Texas Tattoo" - Gibson/Miller Band (#22)

★ "That Was a River" - Collin Raye (#4)

★ "This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet" - Diamond Rio (#13)

★ "Tonight I Climbed the Wall" - Alan Jackson (#4)

★ "Trashy Women" - Confederate Railroad (#10)

★ "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" - Travis Tritt (#13)

★ "Trouble on the Line" - Sawyer Brown (#5)

★ "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" - Billy Dean (#6)

★ "Walkaway Joe" - Trisha Yearwood (featuring Don Henley) (#2)

★ "We Got the Love" - Restless Heart (#11)

★ "We'll Burn That Bridge" - Brooks & Dunn (#2)

★ "When Did You Stop Loving Me" - George Strait (#5)

★ "When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back" - Confederate Railroad (#14)

★ "Wild Man" - Ricky Van Shelton (#5)

★ "Workin' Man's Ph.D." - Aaron Tippin (#7)

★ "Words By Heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus (#12)

★ "You Say You Will" - Trisha Yearwood (#12)

Top new album releases

★ ''Alibis'' — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)

★ ''Almost Goodbye'' — Mark Chesnutt (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Big Time'' — Little Texas (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Call of the Wild'' — Aaron Tippin (RCA)

★ ''Cheap Seats'' — Alabama (RCA)

★ ''Clay Walker'' — Clay Walker (Giant)

★ '' — Various Artists (Giant)

★ ''Easy Come, Easy Go'' — George Strait (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Fire in the Dark'' — Billy Dean (Liberty)

★ ''Greatest Hits 1990-1992'' — Tanya Tucker (Capitol Nashville)

★ ''Greatest Hits Volume Two'' — Reba McEntire (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Hard Workin' Man'' — Brooks & Dunn (Arista Nashville)

★ ''Haunted Heart'' — Sammy Kershaw (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Honky Tonk Angels'' — Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn & Tammy Wynette (Columbia)

★ ''Honky Tonk Attitude'' — Joe Diffie (Epic)

★ ''Honky Tonk Christmas'' — Alan Jackson (Arista Nashville)

★ ''In Pieces'' — Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)

★ ''It Won't Be the Last'' — Billy Ray Cyrus (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Let There Be Peace on Earth'' — Vince Gill (MCA Nashville)

★ ''More Love'' — Doug Stone (Epic)

★ ''No Time to Kill'' — Clint Black (RCA)

★ ''Only What I Feel'' — Patty Loveless (Epic)

★ ''Outskirts of Town'' — Sawyer Brown (Curb)

★ ''Red and Rio Grande'' — Doug Supernaw (BNA)

★ ''Slow Dancing with the Moon'' — Dolly Parton (Columbia)

★ ''Solid Ground'' — John Anderson (BNA)

★ ''The Song Remembers When'' — Trisha Yearwood (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Soon'' — Tanya Tucker (Liberty)

★ ''Take Me as I Am'' — Faith Hill (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Tell Me Why'' — Wynonna (Curb/MCA Nashville)

★ ''This Time'' — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)

★ ''Toby Keith'' — Toby Keith (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Tracy Byrd'' — Tracy Byrd (MCA Nashville)

★ ''The Way That I Am'' — Martina McBride (RCA)

★ ''Wind in the Wire'' — Randy Travis (Warner Bros.)

★ ''You Might Be a Redneck If...'' — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)

Other top albums

★ ''Across the Borderline'' — Willie Nelson (Columbia)

★ ''America, I Believe in You'' — Charlie Daniels (Liberty)

★ ''The Beverly Hillbillies Soundtrack'' — Various Artists (RCA)

★ ''A Bridge I Didn't Burn'' — Ricky Van Shelton (Columbia)

★ ''Cowgirl's Prayer'' — Emmylou Harris (Asylum)

★ ''Croonin' — Anne Murray (EMI)

★ ''Delta Dreamland'' — Deborah Allen (Giant)

★ ''Drive'' — Steve Wariner (Arista Nashville)

★ ''Final Touches'' — Conway Twitty (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Good News'' — Kathy Mattea (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb'' — K. T. Oslin (RCA)

★ ''Heroes'' — Mark O'Connor (Warner Bros.)

★ ''High Tech Redneck'' — George Jones (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Hurry Sundown'' — McBride & the Ride (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Let Go'' — Brother Phelps (Asylum)

★ ''Little Love Letters'' — Carlene Carter (Giant)

★ ''Mark Collie'' — Mark Collie (MCA Nashville)

★ ''Merry Christmas from London'' — Lorrie Morgan (BNA)

★ ''On the Road'' — Lee Roy Parnell (Arista Nashville)

★ ''Out of Left Field'' — Hank Williams, Jr. (Curb/Warner Bros.)

★ ''Rave On!!'' — The Kentucky Headhunters (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Ricky Lynn Gregg'' — Ricky Lynn Gregg (Liberty)

★ ''Shania Twain'' — Shania Twain (Mercury Nashville)

★ ''Shawn Camp'' — Shawn Camp (Reprise)

★ ''Something Up My Sleeve'' — Suzy Bogguss (Liberty)

★ ''Spinning Around the Sun'' — Jimmie Dale Gilmore (Elektra)

★ ''Temptation'' — Shelby Lynne (Morgan Creek)

★ ''Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills'' — Asleep at the Wheel (Liberty)

★ ''True Believer'' — Ronnie Milsap (Liberty)

★ ''Under the Kudzu'' — Shenandoah (RCA)

★ ''Under This Old Hat'' — Chris LeDoux (Liberty)

★ ''The Wheel'' — Rosanne Cash (Columbia)

★ ''Where There's Smoke'' — Gibson/Miller Band (Epic)

On television

Regular series

★ ''Hee Haw'' (1969-1993, syndicated)

Specials

Deaths

★ June 5 – Conway Twitty, 59, giant music star since the 1950s who set records for most No. 1 country hits (abdominal aneurysm).

★ November 30 – David Houston, 54, top country singer of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for "Almost Persuaded" (brain aneurysm).

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

★ Willie Nelson (born 1933)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

★ 'Best Female Country Vocal Performance' -- "Passionate Kisses," Mary Chapin Carpenter

★ 'Best Male Country Vocal Performance' -- "Ain't That Lonely Yet," Dwight Yoakam

★ 'Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal' -- "Hard Workin' Man," Brooks & Dunn

★ 'Best Country Collaboration With Vocals' -- "Does He Love You," Reba McEntire and Linda Davis

★ 'Best Country Instrumental Performance' -- "Red Wing," Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble, Marty Stuart, Reuben "Lucky Oceans" Gosfield & Vince Gill

★ 'Best Country Song' -- "Passionate Kisses," Lucinda Williams (Performer: Mary Chapin Carpenter)

★ 'Best Bluegrass Album' -- ''Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go'', The Nashville Bluegrass Band

Academy of Country Music

★ 'Entertainer Of The Year' -- Garth Brooks

★ 'Song Of The Year' -- "I Love The Way You Love Me," Victoria Shaw and Chuck Cannon (Performer: John Michael Montgomery)

★ 'Single Of The Year' -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson

★ 'Album Of The Year' -- ''A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'Bout Love)'', Alan Jackson

★ 'Top Male Vocalist' -- Vince Gill

★ 'Top Female Vocalist' -- Wynonna

★ 'Top Vocal Duo' -- Brooks & Dunn

★ 'Top Vocal Group' -- Little Texas

★ 'Top New Male Vocalist' -- John Michael Montgomery

★ 'Top New Female Vocalist' -- Faith Hill

★ 'Top New Vocal Duo Or Group' -- Gibson/Miller Band

★ 'Video Of The Year' -- "We Shall Be Free," Garth Brooks

Country Music Association

★ 'Entertainer of the Year' -- Vince Gill

★ 'Song of the Year' -- "I Still Believe in You," Vince Gill and John Jarvis (Performer: Vince Gill)

★ 'Single of the Year' -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson

★ 'Album of the Year' -- ''I Still Believe in You'', Vince Gill

★ 'Male Vocalist of the Year' -- Vince Gill

★ 'Female Vocalist of the Year' -- Mary Chapin Carpenter

★ 'Vocal Duo of the Year' -- Brooks & Dunn

★ 'Vocal Group of the Year' -- Diamond Rio

★ 'Horizon Award' -- Mark Chesnutt

★ 'Music Video of the Year' -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson

★ 'Vocal Event of the Year' -- "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," Various Artists

★ 'Musician of the Year' -- Mark O'Connor

Further reading

★ Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995

★ Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)

★ Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)

★ Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

Other links

★ Country Music Association

★ Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

External links

★ Country Music Hall of Fame