This Date in Country Music History – December 16th

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Dec 162025

This Date in Country Music History

2020 – LeAnn Rimes was crowned the winner of The Masked Singer on Fox
2017 – Garth Brooks scored a #1 album with The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years
2017 – The Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line duet “Meant to Be” topped the Billboard Country Singles Chart for the first of 50 weeks
2014 – Craig Wayne Boyd won NBC’s The Voice
2013 – Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price passed away from pancreatic cancer
2013 – Brantley Gilbert released his single “Bottoms Up“
2008 – Julianne Hough made her Grand Ole Opry debut
2006 – Rascal Flatts scored a #1 hit with “My Wish”
2000 – Brad Paisley was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry
2000 – Tim McGraw topped the charts with “My Next Thirty Years”
1991 – Garth Brooks released his single “What She’s Doing Now”
1978 – Kenny Rogers topped the charts with his iconic hit “The Gambler”
1969 – The Johnny Cash & June Carter duet “If I Were A Carpenter” was released