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On March 2. 1996, Martina McBride earned her first No. 1 hit, with Wild Angels, the title track of her third studio album.

On March 2. 1996, Martina McBride earned her first No. 1 hit, with Wild Angels, the title track of her third studio album.

On March 2. 1996, Martina McBride earned her first No. 1 hit, with Wild Angels, the title track of her third studio album.

Twenty-five years ago today, on March 2, 1996, Martina McBride hit a new career milestone. It was on that date that the singer scored her first No. 1 hit, with "Wild Angels," her 10th single and the title track of her third studio album. Written by Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison and Harry Stinson, "Wild Angels" was unlike anything Berg ever expected to write. RCA Nashville "I started it with Harry," she recalls to The Boot. "I don’t know what we were smoking that day, but it was a very lofty, ...