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See also: 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 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 Christmas albums 4 On television 4.1 Regular series 4.2 Specials 5 Deaths 6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 7 Major Awards 7.1 Grammy awards 7.2 Academy of Country Music 7.3 Country Music Association 8 Further reading 9 Other links 10 External links

[edit] Events

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] 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
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
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
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 evidently the first song to do so on the Billboard Singles chart.}
• ^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.

[edit] Other major hits

• "A Bad Goodbye" - Clint Black with Wynonna
• "A Cowboy's Born With a Broken Heart" - Boy Howdy
• "A Little Bit of Her Love" - Robert Ellis Orrall
• "A Mind of Her Own" - John Berry
• "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" - Dwight Yoakam
• "Ain't That Lonely Yet" - Dwight Yoakam
• "All These Years" - Sawyer Brown
• "Alright Already" - Larry Stewart
• "An Old Pair of Shoes" - Randy Travis
• "Anywhere But Here" - Sammy Kershaw
• "Beer and Bones" - John Michael Montgomery
• "Born to Love You" - Mark Collie
• "The Bug" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Cadillac Ranch" - Chris LeDoux
• "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" - Pam Tillis
• "Dance with the One That Brought You" - Shania Twain
• "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" - Pam Tillis
• "Down on My Knees" - Trisha Yearwood
• "Drive South" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Easier Said Than Done" - Radney Foster
• "Finally Friday" - George Jones
• "Half Enough" - Lorrie Morgan
• "The Hard Way" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Haunted Heart" - Sammy Kershaw
• "He Ain't Worth Missing" - Toby Keith
• "Heartache" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Hearts Are Gonna Roll" - Hal Ketchum
• "Hey Baby" - Marty Stuart
• "High on a Mountain Top" - Marty Stuart
• "High Rollin'" - The Gibson/Miller Band
• "High-Tech Redneck" - George Jones
• "Hometown Honeymoon" - Alabama
• "Honky Tonk Attitude" - Joe Diffie
• "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" - George Jones (featuring Clint Black, Garth Brooks, T. Graham Brown, Mark Chesnutt, Joe Diffie, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, and Travis Tritt)
• "I Fell in the Water" - John Anderson
• "I Guess You Had to Be There" - Lorrie Morgan
• "I Wanna Take Care of You" - Billy Dean
• "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Collin Raye
• "I'm Not Built That Way" - Billy Dean
• "In a Week or Two" - Diamond Rio
• "In the Heart of a Woman" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "If I Didn't Love You" - Steve Wariner
• "It's a Little Too Late" - Tanya Tucker
• "It's Your Call" - Reba McEntire
• "Just Like the Weather" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Kiss Me in the Car" - John Berry
• "Learning to Live Again" - Garth Brooks
• "Let Go" - Brother Phelps
• "Let Go of the Stone" - John Anderson
• "Let That Pony Run" - Pam Tillis
• "Like a River to the Sea" - Steve Wariner
• "Looking Out For Number One" - Travis Tritt
• "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run" - McBride & the Ride
• "Love Without Mercy" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Made For Lovin' You" - Doug Stone
• "Mama Knows the Highway" - Hal Ketchum
• "Mending Fences" - Restless Heart
• "Mercury Blues" - Alan Jackson
• "My Baby Loves Me" - Martina McBride
• "My Blue Angel" - Aaron Tippin
• "My Strongest Weakness" - Wynonna
• "No Future in the Past" - Vince Gill
• "No Time to Kill" - Clint Black
• "Nobody Wins" - Radney Foster
• "Nothin' But the Wheel" - Patty Loveless
• "Now I Pray For Rain" - Neal McCoy
• "Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" - Diamond Rio
• "Ol' Country" - Mark Chesnutt
• "On the Road" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Once Upon a Lifetime" - Alabama
• "Only Love" - Wynonna
• "Passionate Kisses" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)" - Joe Diffie
• "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer" - Sammy Kershaw
• "Reno" - Doug Supernaw
• "Romeo" - Dolly Parton (featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kathy Mattea, and Tanya Tucker)
• "Shame Shame Shame Shame" - Mark Collie
• "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "Somebody Else's Moon" - Collin Raye
• "Somebody New" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "Somebody Paints the Wall" - Tracy Lawrence
• "Something's Gonna Change Her Mind" - Mark Collie
• "The Song Remembers When" - Trisha Yearwood
• "Soon" - Tanya Tucker
• "Sure Love" - Hal Ketchum
• "Suspicious Minds" - Dwight Yoakam
• "Take It Back" - Reba McEntire
• "Tell Me About It" - Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton
• "Tell Me Why" - Wynonna
• "Tender Moment" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Texas Tattoo" - The Gibson/Miller Band
• "That Was a River" - Collin Raye
• "This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet" - Diamond Rio
• "Tonight I Climbed The Wall" - Alan Jackson
• "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" - Travis Tritt
• "Trouble on the Line" - Sawyer Brown
• "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" - Billy Dean
• "Walkaway Joe" - Trisha Yearwood (featuring Don Henley)
• "We Got the Love" - Restless Heart
• "We'll Burn That Bridge" - Brooks & Dunn
• "What Made You Say That" - Shania Twain
• "When Did You Stop Loving Me" - George Strait
• "Wild Man" - Ricky Van Shelton
• "Workin' Man's Ph.D" - Aaron Tippin
• "Worth Every Mile" - Travis Tritt
• "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me" - Shania Twain
• "You Say You Will" - Trisha Yearwood

[edit] Top new album releases

• Almost Goodbye – Mark Chesnutt (MCA)
• Close to the Edge – Diamond Rio (Arista)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – Reba McEntire (MCA)
• Hard Working Man – Brooks & Dunn (Arista)
• In Pieces – Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• No Ordinary Man – Tracy Byrd (MCA)
• No Time to Kill – Clint Black (RCA)
• Shania Twain – Shania Twain (Mercury/Polygram)
• Tell Me Why - Wynonna (MCA)
• True Believer – Ronnie Milsap (Liberty)

[edit] Christmas albums

• Let There Be Peace on Earth – Vince Gill (MCA)

[edit] On television

[edit] Regular series

• Hee Haw (1969-1993, syndicated)

[edit] Specials

[edit] 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).

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Willie Nelson (born 1933)

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Garth Brooks
• Song Of The Year -- "I Love The Way You Love Me" - John Michael Montgomery - Victoria Shaw, Chuck Cannon
• Single Of The Year -- "Chattahoochee" - Alan Jackson
• Album Of The Year -- A Lot About Livin' - 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 -- The Gibson/Miller Band
• Video Of The Year -- "We Shall Be Free" - Garth Brooks

[edit] Country Music Association

[edit] 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.

[edit] Other links

• Country Music Association
• Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

[edit] External links

• Country Music Hall of Fame