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Posted by admin at 10:51 pm on July 14, 2025

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This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Ashley Monroe began treatment for a rare form of blood cancer
2014 – Brett Eldredge released his single “Mean to Me”
1998 – Collin Raye released his The Walls Came Down album
1998 – Trisha Yearwood released her album Where Your Road Leads
1992 – Tracy Byrd released his debut single “That’s The Thing About a Memory”
1990 – Garth Brooks scored a #1 hit with “The Dance” – it stayed there for 3 weeks
1956 – Elvis Presley scored a #1 hit with “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”

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Posted by admin at 7:37 am on July 13, 2025

Jul 132025

This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Toby Keith, Rhett Akins, Amy Grant, Buddy Cannon and John Scott Sherill were named as the Class of 2021 for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
2019 – Blanco Brown scored a #1 Billboard Country single with “The Git Up”
2018 – Chris Lane released his album Laps Around the Sun
2017 – Kid Rock signed a recording deal with Broken Bow Records
2015 – Thomas Rhett’s single “It Goes Like This” was certified Double Platinum
2014 – David Nail was named co-MVP of the MLB Celebrity Softball Game after hitting 2 HR’s
2012 – Billy Currington’s single “Good Directions” was certified Platinum
2010 – Jerrod Niemann released his debut album Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury
2009 – Uncle Kracker released his single “Smile”
2004 – Jimmy Buffett released his License to Chill album featuring duets with many country stars
2002 – Brad Paisley scored a #1 hit with “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)”
1996 – Shania Twain scored a #1 hit with “No One Needs To Know”
1993 – Clint Black released his album No Time To Kill

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Posted by admin at 7:21 am on July 12, 2025

Jul 122025

This Date in Country Music History

2024 – Megan Moroney released her album Am I Okay?
2019 – Kenny Chesney released his single “Tip of My Tongue”
2018 – Eric Church released his single “Desperate Man”
2017 – Michael Ray’s single “Kiss You In The Morning” was certified Gold
2014 – “Somethin’ Bad” by Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood topped the charts
2013 – Jason Aldean became the first country artist to ever headline a concert at Boston’s Fenway Park
2011 – Blake Shelton released his album Red River Blue
2011 – Chris Young released his album Neon
2010 – Kenny Chesney released his single “The Boys of Fall”
2001 – Alan Jackson Day is declared in Nashville as he celebrates the sale of 35 million albums with a Music Row Block Party

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Posted by admin at 7:54 pm on July 11, 2025

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This Date in Country Music History

2022 – Bailey Zimmerman released his debut single “Fall in Love”
2015 – Kacey Musgraves topped the Billboard country album chart with Pageant Material
2014 – Scotty McCreery performed on Fox & Friends
2012 – Michael Ray won the Orlando regional competition as The CW started filming “The Next,” featuring John Rich, Nelly, Gloria Estefan, and Joe Jonas as mentors. Ray would go on to win the show, launching his career.
1987 – George Strait scored a #1 hit with “All My Ex’s Live In Texas”
1981 – Earl Thomas Conley scored his first #1 hit with “Fire & Smoke”