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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1995.
Events
- February - Western Flyer releases "Cherokee Highway", a song against interracial violence. While the song does not chart, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta Scott King invites the band to perform at his birthday celebration in Atlanta, Georgia.
- June - Ty Herndon is arrested for indecent exposure in Fort Worth, Texas, by an undercover police officer.
- December 31: Great American Country is launched by the Jones Radio Network. With a heavy emphasis on country music videos, the network is the first major rival to CMT.
Top hits of the year
Singles released by American artists
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|align="center"|2
|Adalida
|George Strait
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|align="center"|8
|align="center"|8
|All I Need to Know
|Kenny Chesney
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|align="center"|49
|align="center"|20
|All That Heaven Will Allow
|The Mavericks
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|6
|Amy's Back in Austin
|Little Texas
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|1
|And Still
|Reba McEntire
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|18
|As Any Fool Can See
|Tracy Lawrence
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|12
|Back in Your Arms Again
|Lorrie Morgan
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|28
|Bend It Until It Breaks
|John Anderson
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|align="center"|11
|align="center"|3
|Between an Old Memory and Me
|Travis Tritt
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|align="center"|15
|align="center"|10
|Big Ol' Truck
|Toby Keith
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|6
|Bobbie Ann Mason
|Rick Trevino
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|2
|The Box
|Randy Travis
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|align="center"|16
|align="center"|12
|Bubba Hyde
|Diamond Rio
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|align="center"|26
|align="center"|14
|Cain's Blood
|4 Runner
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|4
|Can't Be Really Gone
|Tim McGraw
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|3
|The Car
|Jeff Carson
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Check Yes or No
|George Strait
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|align="center"|20
|align="center"|37
|Clown in Your Rodeo
|Kathy Mattea
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|7
|Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)
|Shenandoah
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|3
|Doctor Time
|Rick Trevino
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|align="center"|10
|align="center"|12
|Don't Stop
|Wade Hayes
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|align="center"|10
|align="center"|10
|Down in Flames
|BlackHawk
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|align="center"|23
|align="center"|7
|Down in Tennessee
|Mark Chesnutt
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|9
|Dust on the Bottle
|David Lee Murphy
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|align="center"|13
|align="center"|20
|Faith in Me, Faith in You
|Doug Stone
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|6
|Fall in Love
|Kenny Chesney
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|align="center"|23
|align="center"|2
|The Fever
|Garth Brooks
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|align="center"|19
|align="center"|23
|Finish What We Started
|Diamond Rio
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|4
|The First Step
|Tracy Byrd
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|8
|For a Change
|Neal McCoy
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|3
|Give Me One More Shot
|Alabama
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|align="center"|14
|align="center"|7
|Go Rest High on That Mountain
|Vince Gill
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|2
|Goin' Through the Big D
|Mark Chesnutt
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|Gone Country
|Alan Jackson
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|Gonna Get a Life
|Mark Chesnutt
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|16
|Halfway Down
|Patty Loveless
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|align="center"|13
|align="center"|9
|Hard Lovin' Woman
|Mark Collie
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
|Reba McEntire
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|align="center"|51
|align="center"|18
|A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive
|4 Runner
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|align="center"|24
|align="center"|20
|Heaven Bound (I'm Ready)
|Shenandoah
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|align="center"|22
|align="center"|4
|Here Comes the Rain
|The Mavericks
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|11
|Here I Am
|Patty Loveless
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|3
|I Can Love You Like That
|John Michael Montgomery
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|12
|I Didn't Know My Own Strength
|Lorrie Morgan
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|8
|I Don't Believe in Goodbye
|Sawyer Brown
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|4
|I Don't Even Know Your Name
|Alan Jackson
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|align="center"|15
|align="center"|9
|I Got It Honest
|Aaron Tippin
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|2
|I Let Her Lie
|Daryle Singletary
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|I Like It, I Love It
|Tim McGraw
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|4
|I Think About It All the Time
|John Berry
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|align="center"|9
|align="center"|25
|I Wanna Go Too Far
|Trisha Yearwood
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|9
|I Want My Goodbye Back
|Ty Herndon
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|align="center"|16
|align="center"|20
|I Was Blown Away
|Pam Tillis
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|align="center"|15
|align="center"|22
|I Will Always Love You
|Dolly Parton & Vince Gill
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|3
|I'll Never Forgive My Heart
|Brooks & Dunn
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|1
|I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No
|BlackHawk
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|6
|I'm Still Dancin' with You
|Wade Hayes
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|align="center"|25
|align="center"|11
|If I Had Any Pride Left at All
|John Berry
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|align="center"|16
|align="center"|16
|If I Was a Drinkin' Man
|Neal McCoy
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|4
|If I Were You
|Collin Raye
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|7
|If the World Had a Front Porch
|Tracy Lawrence
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|align="center"|18
|align="center"|15
|If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl
|Sammy Kershaw
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|7
|In Between Dances
|Pam Tillis
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|3
|In Pictures
|Alabama
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|5
|The Keeper of the Stars
|Tracy Byrd
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|8
|Lead On
|George Strait
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|9
|Let's Go to Vegas
|Faith Hill
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|1
|Life Gets Away
|Clint Black
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|4
|Life Goes On
|Little Texas
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|align="center"|9
|align="center"|6
|Lipstick Promises
|George Ducas
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|2
|A Little Bit of You
|Lee Roy Parnell
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|20
|Little Houses
|Doug Stone
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Little Miss Honky Tonk
|Brooks & Dunn
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|align="center"|24
|align="center"|12
|Look at Me Now
|Bryan White
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|align="center"|11
|align="center"|14
|Look What Followed Me Home
|David Ball
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|align="center"|9
|align="center"|13
|Love Lessons
|Tracy Byrd
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
|Pam Tillis
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|align="center"|15
|align="center"|11
|Mississippi Moon
|John Anderson
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|align="center"|16
|align="center"|6
|My Heart Will Never Know
|Clay Walker
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|24
|My Kind of Girl
|Collin Raye
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|align="center"|9
|align="center"|6
|Night Is Fallin' in My Heart
|Diamond Rio
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|2
|No Man's Land
|John Michael Montgomery
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Not a Moment Too Soon
|Tim McGraw
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|Not on Your Love
|Jeff Carson
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|align="center"|20
|align="center"|20
|Nothing
|Dwight Yoakam
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Old Enough to Know Better
|Wade Hayes
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|align="center"|20
|align="center"|22
|On My Own
|Reba McEntire
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|4
|One Boy, One Girl
|Collin Raye
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|1
|One Emotion
|Clint Black
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|7
|Party Crowd
|David Lee Murphy
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|3
|Refried Dreams
|Tim McGraw
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|38
|Safe in the Arms of Love
|Martina McBride
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|1
|She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl
|Alabama
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|She's Every Woman
|Garth Brooks
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|2
|Should've Asked Her Faster
|Ty England
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|1
|So Help Me Girl
|Joe Diffie
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
|John Michael Montgomery
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|5
|Someone Else's Star
|Bryan White
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|6
|Sometimes She Forgets
|Travis Tritt
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|7
|Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart
|Shenandoah/Alison Krauss
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|11
|Song for the Life
|Alan Jackson
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|align="center"|27
|align="center"|17
|Southbound
|Sammy Kershaw
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|align="center"|27
|align="center"|18
|Southern Grace
|Little Texas
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|6
|Standing on the Edge of Goodbye
|John Berry
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|align="center"|8
|align="center"|10
|Stay Forever
|Hal Ketchum
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|align="center"|33
|align="center"|16
|Storm in the Heartland
|Billy Ray Cyrus
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Summer's Comin'
|Clint Black
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Tall, Tall Trees
|Alan Jackson
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|Tell Me I Was Dreaming
|Travis Tritt
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|2
|Tender When I Want to Be
|Mary Chapin Carpenter
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|align="center"|8
|align="center"|11
|Tequila Talkin'
|Lonestar
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Texas Tornado
|Tracy Lawrence
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|7
|That Ain't My Truck
|Rhett Akins
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|10
|That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You
|Aaron Tippin
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|align="center"|10
|align="center"|18
|That's How You Know (When You're in Love)
|Lari White
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|9
|That's Just About Right
|BlackHawk
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|8
|They're Playin' Our Song
|Neal McCoy
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|4
|Thinkin' About You
|Trisha Yearwood
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|1
|This Is Me
|Randy Travis
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|10
|This Is Me Missing You
|James House
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|align="center"|11
|align="center"|5
|(This Thing Called) Wantin' and Havin' It All
|Sawyer Brown
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|5
|This Time
|Sawyer Brown
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|This Woman and This Man
|Clay Walker
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|6
|Till You Love Me
|Reba McEntire
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|align="center"|18
|align="center"|19
|Trouble
|Mark Chesnutt
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|align="center"|10
|align="center"|10
|Upstairs Downtown
|Toby Keith
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|align="center"|15
|align="center"|11
|Walking to Jerusalem
|Tracy Byrd
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|What Mattered Most
|Ty Herndon
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|align="center"|16
|align="center"|26
|What'll You Do About Me
|Doug Supernaw
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|align="center"|24
|align="center"|17
|When and Where
|Confederate Railroad
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|7
|When You Say Nothing at All
|Alison Krauss & Union Station
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|4
|Wherever You Go
|Clint Black
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|3
|Which Bridge to Cross (Which Bridge to Burn)
|Vince Gill
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|3
|Whiskey Under the Bridge
|Brooks & Dunn
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|2
|Who Needs You Baby
|Clay Walker
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|You Ain't Much Fun
|Toby Keith
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|1
|You and Only You
|John Berry
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|align="center"|2
|align="center"|2
|You Better Think Twice
|Vince Gill
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody
|George Strait
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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|17
|You Don't Even Know Who I Am
|Patty Loveless
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|align="center"|4
|align="center"|8
|You Have the Right to Remain Silent
|Perfect Stranger
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
|Brooks & Dunn
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Singles released by Canadian artists
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|Any Man of Mine
|Shania Twain
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|align="center"|20
|Better Off Blue
|Rena Gaile
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|align="center"|3
|align="center"|3
|Better Things to Do
|Terri Clark
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|7
|Black-Eyed Susan
|Prairie Oyster
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|Bringing Back Your Love
|One Horse Blue
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|15
|Broken String of Pearls
|Prescott-Brown
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|align="center"|6
|Chevy Coupe
|Jim Witter
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|align="center"|1
|Don't Cry Little Angel
|Prairie Oyster
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|15
|Family Love
|Farmer's Daughter
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|align="center"|1
|First Comes Love
|George Fox
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|10
|The Girl Is on a Roll Tonight
|Terry Kelly
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|4
|Head Over Heels
|Blue Rodeo
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|19
|Hina Na Ho (Celebration)
|Susan Aglukark
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|Hopeless Love
|One Horse Blue
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|(I Do It) For the Money
|Charlie Major
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|8
|I Don't Wanna Be the One
|Patricia Conroy
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|9
|I Really Dug Myself a Hole
|The Goods
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|I'm Here
|Charlie Major
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|Learning a Lot About Love
|Jason McCoy
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|9
|Life Is Just a Dream
|Joel Feeney
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|align="center"|16
|Light in My Life
|The Johner Brothers with Lisa Brokop
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|20
|Listen to the Radio
|Rebecca Miller
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|18
|Missing You
|Calvin Wiggett
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|O Siem
|Susan Aglukark
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|Only One Moon
|Prairie Oyster
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|20
|Radioland
|South Mountain
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|18
|Roy Orbison Came On
|Ron Hynes
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|4
|Safe in the Arms of Love
|Michelle Wright
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|18
|Starting Right Now
|The Johner Brothers
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|18
|This Old Guitar
|Jim Matt
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|This Used to Be Our Town
|Jason McCoy
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|10
|Time of My Life
|George Fox
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|16
|Two Broken Hearted Fools
|Rick Tippe
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|19
|Walkin' That Line
|Tineta
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|4
|The Wall
|Michelle Wright
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|What Else Can I Do
|Patricia Conroy
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|What's Holding Me
|George Fox
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|1
|What Kind of Man
|Joel Feeney
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|align="center"|11
|align="center"|1
|Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
|Shania Twain
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|align="center"|14
|align="center"|1
|The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)
|Shania Twain
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|5
|You Can't Resist It
|Patricia Conroy
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|align="center"|—
|align="center"|14
|You Feel the Same Way Too
|The Rankin Family
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Top new album releases
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| align="center"| 27
| align="center"| 7
| 4 Runner
| 4 Runner
| Polydor Nashville
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| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 1
| All I Want
| Tim McGraw
| Curb
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| align="center"| 25
| align="center"| 21
| All of This Love
| Pam Tillis
| Arista Nashville
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| align="center"| 5
| Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles
| Various Artists
| Liberty
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| Country Heat 5
| Various Artists
| RCA
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| align="center"| 8
| align="center"| 4
| Dwight Live
| Dwight Yoakam
| Reprise
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| Endless Seasons
| The Rankin Family
| EMI
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| Fresh Horses
| Garth Brooks
| Liberty
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| align="center"| 6
| Games Rednecks Play
| Jeff Foxworthy
| Warner Bros.
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| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 5
| Gone
| Dwight Yoakam
| Reprise
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| align="center"| 17
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| Greatest Hits
| Little Texas
| Warner Bros.
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| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 6
| Greatest Hits
| Lorrie Morgan
| BNA
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| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 7
| Greatest Hits 1990–1995
| Sawyer Brown
| Curb
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| align="center"| 3
| align="center"| 17
| Greatest Hits: From the Beginning
| Travis Tritt
| Warner Bros.
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| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 1
| The Greatest Hits Collection
| Alan Jackson
| Arista Nashville
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| align="center"| 22
| Gypsies & Lovers
| The Irish Descendants
| Warner
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| align="center"| 12
| align="center"|
| Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas
| The Tractors
| Arista Nashville
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| align="center"|
| The Hits Chapter 1
| Sammy Kershaw
| Mercury/PolyGram
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| align="center"| 14
| align="center"|
| Hog Wild
| Hank Williams, Jr.
| Curb/Warner Bros.
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| align="center"| 10
| align="center"|
| Hypnotize the Moon
| Clay Walker
| Giant
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| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 13
| I Think About You
| Collin Raye
| Epic
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| align="center"| 12
| align="center"| 10
| In Pictures
| Alabama
| RCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 4
| align="center"| 2
| It Matters to Me
| Faith Hill
| Warner Bros.
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 2
| Jason McCoy
| Jason McCoy
| MCA
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| align="center"| 22
| align="center"| 4
| Jeff Carson
| Jeff Carson
| Curb
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| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 1
| John Michael Montgomery
| John Michael Montgomery
| Atlantic
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 8
| Kickin' Country 3
| Various Artists
| Sony
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| align="center"| 13
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| Life Is Good
| Emilio Navaira
| Capitol Nashville
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| align="center"| 28
| align="center"| 14
| Life's So Funny
| Joe Diffie
| Epic
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| align="center"| 65
| align="center"| 18
| Little Acts of Treason
| Carlene Carter
| Giant
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| align="center"| 11
| align="center"| 2
| Lonestar
| Lonestar
| BNA
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| align="center"| 5
| Long Gone to the Yukon
| Stompin' Tom Connors
| EMI
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| align="center"| 25
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| Looking for Christmas
| Clint Black
| RCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 17
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| Looking for the Light
| Rick Trevino
| Columbia
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| align="center"| 6
| align="center"| 15
| Love Lessons
| Tracy Byrd
| MCA Nashville
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| Lucky Man
| Charlie Major
| Arista
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| align="center"| 14
| Made for Each Other
| Calvin Wiggett
| Royalty
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| align="center"| 24
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| Mr. Christmas
| Joe Diffie
| Epic
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| align="center"| 9
| align="center"| 3
| Music for All Occasions
| The Mavericks
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 13
| align="center"| 12
| NASCAR: Runnin' Wide Open
| Various Artists
| Columbia
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| New Country 2
| Various Artists
| Warner
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| align="center"| 2
| align="center"| 1
| Now That I've Found You: A Collection
| Alison Krauss
| Rounder
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| Nowhere to Here
| Blue Rodeo
| Warner
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| align="center"| 21
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| O Holy Night
| John Berry
| Capitol Nashville
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| align="center"| 19
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| Old Enough to Know Better
| Wade Hayes
| Columbia
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| align="center"| 12
| align="center"| 23
| One
| George Jones & Tammy Wynette
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 10
| align="center"| 2
| Out with a Bang
| David Lee Murphy
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 19
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| The Redneck Test Volume 43
| Jeff Foxworthy
| Laughing Hyena
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| align="center"| 42
| align="center"| 10
| The Road Goes on Forever
| The Highwaymen
| Columbia
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| align="center"| 10
| align="center"| 7
| Something Special
| Dolly Parton
| Columbia
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| align="center"| 3
| align="center"| 3
| Souvenirs
| Vince Gill
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 12
| align="center"| 9
| Standing on the Edge
| John Berry
| Patriot/Liberty
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| align="center"| 1
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| Starting Over
| Reba McEntire
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 9
| align="center"| 7
| Strait Out of the Box
| George Strait
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 4
| align="center"| 5
| Strong Enough
| BlackHawk
| Arista Nashville
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| align="center"| 13
| align="center"| 2
| Terri Clark
| Terri Clark
| Mercury/PolyGram
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| align="center"| 3
| align="center"| 18
| Thinkin' About You
| Trisha Yearwood
| MCA Nashville
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| This Child
| Susan Aglukark
| EMI
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| align="center"| 10
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| This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All
| Sawyer Brown
| Curb
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| align="center"| 45
| align="center"| 23
| A Thousand Memories
| Rhett Akins
| Decca Nashville
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| align="center"| 4
| Time of My Life
| George Fox
| Warner
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| align="center"| 12
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| Tool Box
| Aaron Tippin
| RCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 24
| align="center"| 10
| Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged
| Tracy Lawrence
| Atlantic
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| align="center"| 13
| align="center"| 30
| Ty England
| Ty England
| RCA Nashville
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 4
| Untamed and True 2
| Various Artists
| MCA
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| align="center"| 9
| align="center"| 3
| What Mattered Most
| Ty Herndon
| Epic
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 3
| The Wheel Keeps on Rollin
| Asleep at the Wheel
| Capitol Nashville
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| align="center"| 21
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| When and Where
| Confederate Railroad
| Atlantic
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| align="center"| 17
| align="center"| 4
| Wild Angels
| Martina McBride
| RCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 24
| align="center"| 11
| Wings
| Mark Chesnutt
| Decca Nashville
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| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 1
| The Woman in Me
| Shania Twain
| Mercury/PolyGram
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| Work of the Heart
| Quartette
| Denon
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| align="center"| 10
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| You Gotta Love That
| Neal McCoy
| Atlantic
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| align="center"| 7
| align="center"| 13
| You Have the Right to Remain Silent
| Perfect Stranger
| Curb
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Other top albums
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! Record label
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| align="center"| 39
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| All I Need to Know
| Kenny Chesney
| BNA
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| align="center"| 41
| align="center"| 27
| Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel
| Various Artists
| Sparrow
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| align="center"| 43
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| Any Way the Wind Blows
| Brother Phelps
| Asylum
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| align="center"| 73
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| Born That Way
| Boy Howdy
| Curb
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| align="center"| 69
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| Country Dance Super Hits
| Various Artists
| K-Tel
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| align="center"| 44
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| Daryle Singletary
| Daryle Singletary
| Giant
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| align="center"| 48
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| Days Gone By
| James House
| Epic
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| align="center"| 45
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| Faith in Me, Faith in You
| Doug Stone
| Epic
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| align="center"| 28
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| Fire to Fire
| Tanya Tucker
| Liberty
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| align="center"| 36
| A Gene MacLellan Tribute
| John Gracie
| Atlantica
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| align="center"| 57
| align="center"|
| George Ducas
| George Ducas
| Liberty
|-
| align="center"| 61
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| Heart and Soul
| Elvis Presley
| RCA
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| align="center"| 48
| align="center"|
| Junior High
| Junior Brown
| Curb
|-
| align="center"| 72
| align="center"|
| Kim Richey
| Kim Richey
| Mercury/PolyGram
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| align="center"| 61
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| Labor of Love
| Radney Foster
| Arista Nashville
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| align="center"| 68
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| Letter to Laredo
| Joe Ely
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 37
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| The Marty Party Hit Pack
| Marty Stuart
| MCA Nashville
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| align="center"| 44
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| The Moffatts
| The Moffatts
| Polydor Nashville
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| align="center"| 27
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| The Original Volume 79
| Jeff Foxworthy
| Laughing Hyena
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| align="center"| 72
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| Restless
| Shelby Lynne
| Magnatone
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| align="center"| 35
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| Sold Out Volume 80
| Jeff Foxworthy
| Laughing Hyena
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| align="center"| 54
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| Super Hits
| Roy Orbison
| Columbia
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| align="center"| 64
| align="center"|
| Super Hits
| Ricky Van Shelton
| Columbia
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 26
| Ten More Miles
| The Johner Brothers
| Warner
|-
| align="center"| 66
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| Today's Pure Country
| Various Artists
| K-Tel
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| align="center"| 63
| align="center"|
| Today's Sizzlin' Country
| Various Artists
| K-Tel
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| align="center"|
| align="center"| 37
| Under the Big Sky
| Hemingway Corner
| Epic
|-
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"|
| We All Get Lucky Sometimes
| Lee Roy Parnell
| Career
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Births
- July 7 — Taylor Kerr, member of Maddie & Tae.
- August 11 – Priscilla Block, 2020s country singer-songwriter ("Just About Over You").
- September 18 — Maddie Font, member of Maddie & Tae.
Deaths
- May 25 – Dick Curless, 63, best known for his hit "A Tombstone Every Mile" (stomach cancer)
- July 25 — Charlie Rich, 62, Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter ("Behind Closed Doors", The Most Beautiful Girl") (pulmonary embolism)
- November 10 — Curly Fox, 85, fiddler and one half of country-comedy duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby.
Hall of Fame inductees
Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Jimmy Martin
Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Roger Miller (1936–1992)
- Jo Walker-Meador (born 1924)
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Gene MacLellan
- Stan Klees
Major awards
Grammy Awards
- Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Baby, Now That I've Found You", Alison Krauss
- Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "Go Rest High on That Mountain", Vince Gill
- Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "Here Comes the Rain", The Mavericks
- Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
- Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Hightower," Asleep at the Wheel, Béla Fleck and Johnny Gimble
- Best Country Song — "Go Rest High on That Mountain", Vince Gill
- Best Country Album — The Woman in Me, Shania Twain (Producer: Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
- Best Bluegrass Album — Unleashed, The Nashville Bluegrass Band
Juno Awards
- Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Charlie Major
- Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Shania Twain
- Country Group or Duo of the Year — Prairie Oyster
Academy of Country Music
- Entertainer of the Year — Brooks & Dunn
- Song of the Year — "The Keeper of the Stars", Dickey Lee, Karen Staley, Danny Mayo (Performer: Tracy Byrd)
- Single of the Year — "Check Yes or No", George Strait
- Album of the Year — The Woman in Me (Shania Twain)
- Top Male Vocalist — Alan Jackson
- Top Female Vocalist — Patty Loveless
- Top Vocal Duo — Brooks & Dunn
- Top Vocal Group — The Mavericks
- Top New Male Vocalist — Bryan White
- Top New Female Vocalist — Shania Twain
- Top New Vocal Duo or Group — Lonestar
- Video of the Year — "The Car" – Jeff Carson (Director: Michael Salomon)
ARIA Awards
(presented in Sydney on October 20, 1995)
- Best Country Album - Beyond the Dancing (Troy Cassar-Daley)
Canadian Country Music Association
- Bud Country Fans' Choice Award — Michelle Wright
- Male Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
- Female Artist of the Year — Shania Twain
- Group or Duo of the Year — Prairie Oyster
- SOCAN Song of the Year — "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?", Shania Twain
- Single of the Year — "Any Man of Mine", Shania Twain
- Album of the Year — The Woman in Me, Shania Twain
- Top Selling Album — The Hits, Garth Brooks
- Video of the Year — "Any Man of Mine", Shania Twain
- Vista Rising Star Award — Farmer's Daughter
- Vocal Collaboration of the Year — Jim Witter and Cassandra Vasik
Country Music Association
- Entertainer of the Year — Alan Jackson
- Song of the Year — "Independence Day", Gretchen Peters (Performer: Martina McBride)
- Single of the Year — "When You Say Nothing at All", Alison Krauss & Union Station
- Album of the Year — When Fallen Angels Fly, Patty Loveless
- Male Vocalist of the Year — Vince Gill
- Female Vocalist of the Year — Alison Krauss
- Vocal Duo of the Year — Brooks & Dunn
- Vocal Group of the Year — The Mavericks
- Horizon Award — Alison Krauss
- Music Video of the Year — "Baby Likes to Rock It", The Tractors (Director: Michael Salomon)
- Vocal Event of the Year — "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
- Musician of the Year — Mark O'Connor
RPM Big Country Awards
- Canadian Country Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
- Best Country Album — Only One Moon, Prairie Oyster
- Best Country Single — "Such a Lonely One", Prairie Oyster
- Male Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
- Female Artist of the Year — Michelle Wright
- Group of the Year — Prairie Oyster
- Outstanding New Artist — Shania Twain
- Top Country Composer(s) — Jim Witter and Johnny Douglas
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Stars who were honored in 1995
Garth Brooks
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
- Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
References
Other links
- Country Music Association
- Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
External links
- Country Music Hall of Fame