by Luke Combs was released. The album first topped the Country album chart later in this month and then continued to return to #1 intermittently for the following two years. Its total of 50 weeks at the top of the chart tied the record for the longest time spent atop the chart by an album.
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On this day June 03, 1997
Curb Records released , the fourth album by Tim McGraw. It was his first release since his marriage to Faith Hill and his collaboration with his wife from the album, "It's Your Love", was nominated for Best Country Collaboration and Best Country Song a...
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On this day June 03, 2000
Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw were arrested in Buffalo, New York after Chesney ran away with a Mounted Reserve deputy's horse, and McGraw attacked deputies that tried to corral him. Chesney asked to sit on the horse outside Ralph Wilson Stadium and the ...
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On this day June 02, 1986
Born on this day was American country singer Craig Strickland, vocalist for the Arkansas-based band, Backroad Anthem. Strickland died in Jan 2016 after he and a friend had gone to Bear Creek Cove, at Kaw Lake to hunt for ducks. Morland drowned after th...
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On this day June 02, 1998
American country music singer Helen Carter died aged 70. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a pioneering al...
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On this day June 02, 2003
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett was released. Written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins it spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It also won the for Vocal Event of the Yea...
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On this day June 02, 2017
by Luke Combs was released. The album first topped the Country album chart later in this month and then continued to return to #1 intermittently for the following two years. Its total of 50 weeks at the top of the chart tied the record for the longes...
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On this day June 01, 1992
Billy Ray Cyrus was at #1 on the US Country music chart with his breakthrough hit "Achy Breaky Heart". Written by Don Von Tress it was originally titled "Don't Tell My Heart" and recorded by The Marcy Brothers in 1991, its name was later changed to "Ac...
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On this day May 31, 1958
Johnny Cash appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grand Ole Opry started as the in the new fifth-floor radio studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925.
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