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Events

April 30 - Billboard magazine renames the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart "Hot Country Songs." The chart's renaming is part of a major redesign of the 110-year-old magazine.
May 25 - Oklahoma-born Carrie Underwood becomes the fourth-season winner of "American Idol." Although her first single, "Inside Your Heaven," tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the 22-year-old Underwood's influences and music are predominantly country. Late in the year, she entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the first time with "Jesus Take the Wheel." Her debut album, Some Hearts, rockets to No. 1 on the album charts.
May 25 - Garth Brooks proposes to longtime girlfriend and fellow country music star Trisha Yearwood in Bakersfield, California, ending long-standing speculation about their relationship.
September – Country music acts participate in benefit concerts to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. On September 9, Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are among the artists participating in "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast," which airs live on cable and broadcast television stations in the United States and worldwide.

"ReAct Now: Music & Relief" is held September 10. Country performers at the 4 1/2-hour concert — which airs live on CMT — include Alan Jackson and Gretchen Wilson.

October - Koch Records Nashville folds when its parent company goes out of business.
November 9 – After 27 years as host of "American Country Countdown," radio personality Bob Kingsley steps down, after his production company and ABC Radio Networks (which distributes the show) fail to come to terms in renegotiating a distribution agreement. Kix Brooks, one half of the superstar duo Brooks & Dunn, is named the new host and was slated to take over January 21, 2006. Kingsley's last shows with "ACC" are the December 24 countdown program and "Christmas in America."
November 18 – The Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line, opens nationwide. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as "The Man in Black" and Reese Witherspoon as his girlfriend (and wife-to-be) June Carter. The movie is widely praised by critics and a major box office hit.
November 25 - Garth Brooks releases The Limited Series, his second box set to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. The set contains his previous two studio albums, Sevens and Scarecrow; plus his Double Live album; The Lost Sessions, a new album of previously unreleased material; and an All Access DVD containing behind-the-scenes footage of his concerts. The Limited Series is Brooks' first box set to be released under his new label, Pearl Records; he had left his longtime label, Capitol Records, earlier in the year.
December 5 - Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood marry at their home in Oklahoma. It is Brooks' second marriage, Yearwood's third.
December 31 – Bob Kingsley's new countdown program, "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40," premieres with the annual year-end countdown. The new four-hour show, which aired on many of the same stations that aired "ACC," is distributed by the Jones Radio Network.

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Mindy McCready endures a rough year, with stories about her personal and legal problems making headlines. They include violent run-ins with her ex-boyfriend, Billy McKnight; various crimes she had been charged with (including fraud, prescription drug crimes, driving under the influence and probation violation) and at least two suicide attempts. Late in the year, Mindy spoke about her problems on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.
Toby Keith, the flagship artist for DreamWorks Nashville, departs to form his own label, Show Dog Nashville. DreamWorks – which had never really lived up to its expectations – is shut down shortly thereafter by its parent company, Universal Music Group.
The Country Music Association announces a new TV deal to move the CMA Awards to ABC, after years of being broadcast on CBS.
Tammy Genovese becomes the head of the Country Music Association, succeeding Ed Benson.
Country music icon George Jones marks his 50th year in country music.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Date	Song Name	Artist	Wks. No. 1	Spec. Note
January 22	Awful, Beautiful Life	Darryl Worley	2	^B
February 5	Mud on the Tires	Brad Paisley	1
February 12	Bless the Broken Road	Rascal Flatts	5
March 19	Nothin' to Lose	Josh Gracin	1	^C
March 26	That's What I Love About Sunday	Craig Morgan	4	^{1, C}
April 23	Anything but Mine	Kenny Chesney	2
May 7	It's Getting Better All the Time	Brooks & Dunn	1
May 14	My Give a Damn's Busted	Jo Dee Messina	2	^B Co-written by Joe Diffie, who recorded it on his 2001 album In Another World.
May 28	Making Memories of Us	Keith Urban	5	Co-written by Rodney Crowell, who recorded it on his 2004 album The Notorious Cherry Bombs.
July 2	Fast Cars and Freedom	Rascal Flatts	3
July 23	As Good as I Once Was	Toby Keith	6
September 3	Mississippi Girl	Faith Hill	2	^B This song marked Hill's return to No. 1 in five years, as her last chart-topper was "The Way You Love Me" in 2000.
September 17	Play Something Country	Brooks & Dunn	1	^B
September 24	A Real Fine Place to Start	Sara Evans	2	^B Co-written by Radney Foster, who previously recorded it on his 2002 album Another Way to Go.
October 8	Something to Be Proud Of	Montgomery Gentry	2
October 22	Better Life	Keith Urban	6	^B
December 3	Come a Little Closer	Dierks Bentley	3	²
December 17	Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off	Joe Nichols	1	^B
December 31	Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right	Billy Currington	2	^A

¹ – No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
² – Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
^A - First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
^B - Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
^C - Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Peak	Single	Artist	Notes
4	Alcohol	Brad Paisley
8	All Jacked Up	Gretchen Wilson	This song, which debuted at #21, set a record for what was then the highest debut made by a female artist on the Hot Country Songs charts.
16	Arlington	Trace Adkins
21	Baby Doll	Pat Green	Co-written by Rob Thomas of the rock band Matchbox 20.
2	Baby Girl	Sugarland	Spent forty-six weeks on the charts, setting a record for the longest chart run since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.
7	Best I Ever Had	Gary Allan	Cover of rock band Vertical Horizon's 2001 single.
5	Big Blue Note	Toby Keith
20	Big Time	Big & Rich
10	Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On	Neal McCoy	McCoy's first Top Ten country hit since 1997's "The Shake".
35	The Bumper of My SUV	Chely Wright	This song attracted controversy after members of Wright's fan club called radio stations, asking for increased airplay of the song.
16	Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us)	Lonestar
21	Comin' to Your City	Big & Rich
23	Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)	Jo Dee Messina
5	Do You Want Fries with That	Tim McGraw
24	Don't!	Shania Twain
16	Don't Ask Me How I Know	Bobby Pinson	Although this was Pinson's only Top 40 hit as a singer, he has co-written singles for Sugarland, Tracy Lawrence, Toby Keith and Trent Tomlinson.
14	Drugs or Jesus	Tim McGraw	McGraw's first release since 1993's "Memory Lane" to miss Top Ten.
15	Georgia Rain	Trisha Yearwood
16	God's Will	Martina McBride
3	Gone	Montgomery Gentry
22	Good Ole Days	Phil Vassar
3	Good Ride Cowboy	Garth Brooks	Written as a tribute to Chris LeDoux, who died in 2005. This song debuted at #18 on Hot Country Songs, tying a record previously set in 1978 by Eddie Rabbitt's "Every Which Way but Loose" for the highest debut on that chart.
10	Goodbye Time	Blake Shelton	Cover of Conway Twitty's #7-peaking single from 1988.
7	He Gets That from Me	Reba McEntire
22	He Oughta Know That by Now	Lee Ann Womack
8	Help Somebody	Van Zant	This was the first country release for Van Zant, who were originally a Southern Rock duo.
10	Hicktown	Jason Aldean
15	Holy Water	Big & Rich
2	Homewrecker	Gretchen Wilson
8	Honkytonk U	Toby Keith
4	How Am I Doin'	Dierks Bentley
18	How Do You Get That Lonely	Blaine Larsen
22	I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today	Gretchen Wilson
10	I May Hate Myself in the Morning	Lee Ann Womack
18	(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden	Martina McBride	Cover of Lynn Anderson's Number One single from 1970.
17	I'll Take That as a Yes (The Hot Tub Song)	Phil Vassar
5	If Heaven	Andy Griggs
9	If Something Should Happen	Darryl Worley
22	It's a Heartache	Trick Pony	Cover of a pop standard previously recorded by Bonnie Tyler and Juice Newton.
6	Keg in the Closet	Kenny Chesney
8	Let Them Be Little	Billy Dean	Co-written by Richie McDonald, then lead vocalist of the group Lonestar.
17	Long, Slow Kisses	Jeff Bates
3	Lot of Leavin' Left to Do	Dierks Bentley
12	Miss Me Baby	Chris Cagle
5	Monday Morning Church	Alan Jackson
16	My Sister	Reba McEntire
5	Nothing 'bout Love Makes Sense	LeAnn Rimes
18	Paper Angels	Jimmy Wayne
8	Pickin' Wildflowers	Keith Anderson
3	Probably Wouldn't Be This Way	LeAnn Rimes
2	Redneck Yacht Club	Craig Morgan
25	She Didn't Have Time	Terri Clark
2	Skin (Sarabeth)	Rascal Flatts	Initially a hidden track on Rascal Flatts' 2004 album Feels Like Today, this song charted at #38 from unsolicited airplay before its release as a single.
3	Somebody's Hero	Jamie O'Neal
2	Something More	Sugarland
2	Songs About Me	Trace Adkins
5	Stay with Me (Brass Bed)	Josh Gracin
18	The Talkin' Song Repair Blues	Alan Jackson
18	Trying to Find Atlantis	Jamie O'Neal
18	USA Today	Alan Jackson
4	What's a Guy Gotta Do	Joe Nichols
4	When I Think About Cheatin'	Gretchen Wilson
2	Who You'd Be Today	Kenny Chesney
23	XXL	Keith Anderson
4	You'll Be There	George Strait	Debuted at #30, setting what was then a record for the highest-debuting single of Strait's career
8	You're Like Coming Home	Lonestar	Originally recorded by Emerson Drive on their 2004 album What If?
2	You're My Better Half	Keith Urban

Top new album releases

All Jacked Up — Gretchen Wilson (Epic)
Anywhere But Here — Chris Cagle (Capitol)
Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) — Kenny Chesney (BNA)
Blame the Vain — Dwight Yoakam (New West)
Brave — Jamie O'Neal (Capitol)
Coming Home — Lonestar (BNA)
Comin' to Your City — Big & Rich (Warner)
Countryman — Willie Nelson (Lost Highway)
Delicious Surprise — Jo Dee Messina (Curb)
Doin' Somethin' Right — Billy Currington (Mercury)
Erika Jo — Erika Jo (Universal South)
Fireflies — Faith Hill (Warner)
Get Right with the Man — Van Zant (Columbia)
Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime — Wynonna Judd (Curb)
Hillbilly Deluxe — Brooks & Dunn (Arista Nashville)
Honkytonk University — Toby Keith (DreamWorks)
Hot Apple Pie — Hot Apple Pie (DreamWorks)
III — Joe Nichols (Universal South)
Jason Aldean — Jason Aldean (Broken Bow)
Jasper County — Trisha Yearwood (MCA)
Kerosene — Miranda Lambert (Epic)
The Legend of Johnny Cash — Johnny Cash (Legacy)
Life Goes On — Terri Clark (Mercury)
Loco Motive — Cowboy Troy (RAYBAW)
The Lost Sessions — Garth Brooks (Pearl)
Modern Day Drifter — Dierks Bentley (Capitol)
My Kind of Livin' — Craig Morgan (Broken Bow)
Real Fine Place — Sara Evans (RCA)
Reba #1's — Reba McEntire (MCA)
R.I.D.E. — Trick Pony (Asylum-Curb)
The Right to Bare Arms — Larry the Cable Guy (Warner)
The Road and the Radio — Kenny Chesney (BNA)
The Road to Here — Little Big Town (Equity)
Some Hearts — Carrie Underwood (Arista)
Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005 — Montgomery Gentry (Columbia)
Somewhere Down in Texas — George Strait (MCA)
Songs About Me — Trace Adkins (Capitol)
That's Life — Neal McCoy (903 Music)
Then & Now: The Hits Collection — Tracy Lawrence (Mercury)
There's More Where That Came From — Lee Ann Womack (MCA)
Those Were the Days — Dolly Parton (Blue Eye/Sugar Hill)
Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll — Keith Anderson (Arista Nashville)
This Woman — LeAnn Rimes (Asylum-Curb)
Time Well Wasted — Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville)
Timeless — Martina McBride (RCA)
Times Like These — Buddy Jewell (Columbia)
Totally Country Vol. 4 — Various Artists (Sony/BMG/WEA/Universal)
Tough All Over — Gary Allan (MCA)
Walk the Line — Soundtrack (Wind-Up)

Other top albums

All of Me — Anne Murray (StraightWay)
Anthology, Volume 1 — Chris LeDoux (Capitol)
Barely Famous Hits — The Warren Brothers (BNA)
Chicago Wind — Merle Haggard (Capitol)
Cost of Living — Delbert McClinton (New West)
Down This Road — The Wrights (ACR/RCA)
Dream Big — Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand (Capitol)
Dreamin' My Dreams — Patty Loveless (Epic)
Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic — Clint Black (Equity)
Everything and More — Billy Gilman (Image)
Garage — Cross Canadian Ragweed (Universal South)
Glory Train: Songs of Faith, Worship and Praise — Randy Travis (Word/Curb)
Greatest Hits — Tracy Byrd (BNA)
Hanna-McEuen — Hanna-McEuen (DreamWorks)
Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't — George Jones (Bandit)
The Legend — Johnny Cash (Legacy)
Let Them Be Little — Billy Dean (Curb)
Man Like Me — Bobby Pinson (RCA)
The Metropolitan Hotel — Chely Wright (DualTone)
Mission Temple Fireworks Stand — Sawyer Brown (Curb)
My Kind of Music — Ray Scott (Warner)
Off to Join the World — Blaine Larsen (BNA)
The Outsider — Rodney Crowell (Columbia)
Patriotic Country 2 — Various Artists (BMG Heritage)
Put the "O" Back in Country — Shooter Jennings (Universal South)
Ride — Shelly Fairchild (Columbia)
Right Out of Nowhere — Kathy Mattea (Narada)
Songs — Willie Nelson (Lost Highway)
Souls' Chapel — Marty Stuart (Superlatone)
The Story of My Life — Deana Carter (Vanguard)
The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways — Emmylou Harris (Rhino)
Twenty Years and Change — Collin Raye (Aspirion)
Unforgettable — Merle Haggard (Capitol)
What I Really Mean — Robert Earl Keen (Koch)

Deaths

February 6 — Merle Kilgore, 70, prolific songwriter ("Wolverton Mountain," "Ring of Fire") and manager of Hank Williams Jr. (cancer)
February 12 — Sammi Smith, 61, best known for "Help Me Make it Through the Night."
March 2 — Joe Carter, 78, son of A.P. and Sara Carter.
March 9 — Chris LeDoux, 56, world champion bareback rider who sang about the rodeo circuit and cowboy life.
May 14 — Jimmy Martin, 77, the "King of Bluegrass."
August 16 – Vassar Clements, 77, legendary fiddle player. (cancer)

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Alabama (Randy Owen (born 1949); Teddy Gentry (born 1952); Jeff Cook (born 1949); and Mark Herndon (born 1955).
DeFord Bailey (1899-1982)
Glen Campbell (born 1936)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

(presented February 8, 2006 in Los Angeles)

Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "The Connection," Emmylou Harris
Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "You'll Think of Me," Keith Urban
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal -- "Restless," Alison Krauss & Union Station
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals -- "Like We Never Loved At All," Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Unionhouse Branch," Alison Krauss & Union Station
Best Country Song -- "Bless the Broken Road", Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon
Best Country Album -- Lonely Runs Both Ways, Alison Krauss & Union Station
Best Bluegrass Album -- The Company We Keep, Del McCoury Band

Academy of Country Music

(presented May 23, 2006 in Las Vegas)

Entertainer of the Year -- Kenny Chesney
Song of the Year -- "Believe," Ronnie Dunn and Craig Wiseman
Single of the Year -- "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Carrie Underwood
Album of the Year -- Time Well Wasted, Brad Paisley
Top Male Vocalist -- Keith Urban
Top Female Vocalist -- Sara Evans
Top Vocal Duo -- Brooks & Dunn
Top Vocal Group -- Rascal Flatts
Top New Male Vocalist -- Jason Aldean
Top New Female Vocalist -- Carrie Underwood
Top New Duo or Group -- Sugarland
Video of the Year -- "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton (Director: Jim Shea)
Vocal Event of the Year -- "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton
ACM/Home Depot Humanitarian of the Year -- Vince Gill
Pioneer Awards -- Little Jimmy Dickens, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs

Country Music Association

(presented November 15 in New York City)

Entertainer of the Year -- Keith Urban
Song of the Year -- "Whiskey Lullaby," Bill Anderson and Jon Randall
Single of the Year -- "I May Hate Myself in the Morning," Lee Ann Womack
Album of the Year -- There's More Where That Came From, Lee Ann Womack
Male Vocalist of the Year -- Keith Urban
Female Vocalist of the Year -- Gretchen Wilson
Vocal Duo of the Year -- Brooks & Dunn
Vocal Group of the Year -- Rascal Flatts
Horizon Award -- Dierks Bentley
Video of the Year -- "As Good As I Once Was," Toby Keith (Director: Michael Salomon)
Vocal Event of the Year -- "Good News, Bad News," George Strait and Lee Ann Womack
Musician of the Year -- Jerry Douglas

Sources

Stark, Phyllis, "Toby Keith topped country charts, shook up Music Row," Billboard magazine, December 24, 2005, p. YE-18.

External links

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 *''[[Honkytonk University]]'' — [[Toby Keith]] (DreamWorks)
 *''[[Hot Apple Pie (album)|Hot Apple Pie]]'' — [[Hot Apple Pie]] (DreamWorks)
-*''[[III (Joe Nichols album)|III]]'' — [[Joe Nichols (country singer)|Joe Nichols]] (Universal South)
+*''[[III (Joe Nichols album)|III]]'' — [[Joe Nichols]] (Universal South)
 *''[[Jason Aldean (album)|Jason Aldean]]'' — [[Jason Aldean]] (Broken Bow)
 *''[[Jasper County (album)|Jasper County]]'' — [[Trisha Yearwood]] (MCA)