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Always & Forever. Always & Forever, Travis' sophomore release, came out in 1987 and spawned four No. 1 singles, including "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "I Told You So." It stayed at the top of the country charts for several weeks that year and the next, becoming the year-end No. 1 album in 1988. Warner Bros. Records Always & Forever earned Travis a CMA for Album of the Year in 1987, the same year that he won Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year, the latter for "Forever and Ever, Amen." That song won two ACM Awards in 1987 as well, for Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year...

Tweet Cover art: Lonestar, "Amazed"; Maren Morris, "The Bones" 2020 marked the fourth consecutive year in which a single that had a strong showing on Billboard’s weekly Hot Country Songs chart also appeared in the top 10 of the trade magazine’s all-genre Year-End Hot 100 Songs chart. Maren Morris’ “The Bones,” which had a 19-week run in the No. 1 spot on Hot Country Songs, came in at No. 9 on the Hot 100 wrap-up in 2020. In 2019, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was a record-setting hit on the Hot 100, and climbed to No. 19 on Hot Country Songs befo...

Remember When Clint Black Scored His First Platinum Album? Killin' Time. Released via RCA Records on May 8, 1989, Killin' Time was chock-full of hit singles, beginning with its lead single, "A Better Man," which hit No. 1 on June 10 of that year. Black followed up that success with three more No. 1 hits from that career-launching album, including the title song, "Nobody's Home" and "Walkin' Away," and he scored another Top 5 with "Nothing's News." Killin' Time was certified Gold for sales of 500,000 units on Sept. 24, 1989, and went on to be certified Platinum for sales of a million units on...

Killin' Time record. RCA Records Killin' Time, which was released in 1989, was Black's very first album; Black wrote or co-wrote all 10 songs on the project. Four of  Killin' Time's tracks became No. 1 hits, including the record's title track and Black's debut single, "A Better Man." Black ended 1990 on a high note as well: He met his now-wife, Lisa Hartman Black, at his New Year's Eve show that year. The two were married less than one year later. Killin' Time earned Black an ACM for Album of the Year, with "A Better Man" earning the awards show's trophy for Single Record of the Year as w...

Fifty-one years ago today, on Dec. 29, 1969, Merle Haggard's Okie From Muskogee album was released. The record, along with the title track, soared to the top of the charts. "Okie From Muskogee" -- with lines like, "And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee / A place where even squares can have a ball / We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse / And white lightnin''s still the biggest thrill of all" -- was considered by many to be a statement against the political condition of the country at the time, even though that wasn't Haggard's original intent. Capitol "We wrote it to be satiri...