Clint Black

Clinton Patrick "Clint" Black (born February 4, 1962 in Long Branch , New Jersey , USA ) is an American country singer. Between 1989 and 1999 he reached the top of the Billboard Country Songs with 13 tracks .

Beginnings

Clint grew up in Texas as the youngest of four brothers. At 15 he learned to play the guitar and soon after played bass guitar in his brother Kevin's band. In 1987 he met the guitarist and songwriter Hayden Nicholas . They began to write songs together and a year later they were able to attract Bill Ham , the manager of ZZ Top . Bill Ham brokered a contract with RCA for Clint Black that same year .

Career

Black's first single, A Better Man , hit number 1 on the country charts in 1989. His CD Killin 'Time , which was released shortly thereafter, sold more than three million copies and achieved triple platinum status . In addition, three other number 1 singles were released. Black received numerous awards for Best Album , Best Single , Best Male Vocalist , Artist of the Year , Songwriter of the Year , etc.

The success was repeated a year later with the CD Put Yourself in My Shoes . Once again, more than three million records were sold (triple platinum), and again there were several single releases that reached top positions. The songwriting duo Clint Black / Hayden Nicholas hit the top after just two years. The third CD, The Hard Way , was released in 1992 and reached number 2 on the country charts, as was the follow-up album No Time to Kill from 1993

In the following years, Black studio albums appeared again and again, all of which were able to place in the top 10 of the country charts, most recently in 1999 the album D'lectrified . After a five-year break, the album Spend My Time was released in 2004 by Black's newly founded label “Equity Music Group” , which again reached number 3 on the country charts. In 2005 the album Drinkin 'Songs & Other Logic was released , which could not build on the previous successes.

Private life

Black married the singer and actress Lisa Hartman in 1991 and their daughter was born in 2001. Hartman and Black stood together in 1998 for the television film Cadillac Jack: A cowboy never gives up in front of the camera and also appeared as a duet partner.

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title music label	US	Country	Remarks
1989	Killin 'Time RCA	US31 × 3 Triple platinum (143 weeks)US	Country1 (195 weeks) Country
1990	Put Yourself In My Shoes RCA	US18th × 3 Triple platinum (80 weeks)US	Country1 (111 weeks) Country
1992	The Hard Way RCA	US8th platinum (41 weeks)US	Country2 (55 weeks) Country
1993	No Time To Kill RCA	US14th platinum (52 weeks)US	Country2 (75 weeks) Country
1994	One Emotion RCA	US37 platinum (33 weeks)US	Country8 (62 weeks) Country
1995	Looking For Christmas RCA	US138 (7 weeks) US	Country25 (10 weeks) Country
1997	Nothin 'But The Taillights RCA	US43 platinum (43 weeks)US	Country4 (81 weeks) Country
1999	D'lectrified RCA	US75 gold (23 weeks)US	Country7 (72 weeks) Country
2004	Spend My Time Equity	US27 (7 weeks) US	Country3 (16 weeks) Country
2004	Christmas With You	-	Country46 (3 weeks) Country
2005	Drinkin 'Songs and Other Logic RCA	-	Country36 (3 weeks) Country
2007	The Love Songs	-	Country37 (4 weeks) Country
2015	One purpose	-	Country13 (3 weeks) Country

More albums

2019: Still Killin 'Time

Compilations

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title music label	US	Country	Remarks
1996	Greatest Hits RCA	US12 (40 weeks) US	Country2 (104 weeks) Country
2001	Greatest Hits II RCA	US97 × 2 Double platinum (7 weeks)US	Country8 (51 weeks) Country
2003	Super hits 2	-	Country53 (11 weeks) Country
2003	Ultimate Clint Black	-	Country39 (17 weeks) Country
2007	16 Biggest Hits	-	Country72 (2 weeks) Country
2013	When I Said I Do	US162 (3 weeks) US	Country30 (14 weeks) Country

More compilations

1998: great hits
2018: The Clint Black Christmas Collection

EPs

2008: The Long Cool EP

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title album	US	Country	Remarks
1989	Better Man Killin 'Time	-	Country1 (24 weeks) Country
1989	Killin 'Time Killin' Time	-	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
1990	Nobody's Home Killin 'Time	-	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
	Walking Away Killin 'Time	-	Country1 (25 weeks) Country
	Nothing's News Killin 'Time	-	Country3 (21 weeks) Country
	Put Yourself In My Shoes Put Yourself In My Shoes	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	Til 'Santa's Gone (I Just Can't Wait) Home for the Holidays	-	Country34 (16 weeks) Country
1991	Loving Blind Put Yourself In My Shoes	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Where Are You Now Put Yourself In My Shoes	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	One More Payment Put Yourself In My Shoes	-	Country7 (20 weeks) Country
1992	We Tell Ourselves The Hard Way	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
1992	Burn One Down The Hard Way	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
1993	When My Ship Comes In The Hard Way	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	A Bad Goodbye No Time to Kill	US43 (11 weeks) US	Country2 (20 weeks) Country	with Wynonna
	No Time to Kill No Time to Kill	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
	State Of Mind No Time to Kill	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Tuckered out	-	Country74 (1 week) Country	B-side of State of Mind
1994	A Good Run Of Bad Luck No Time to Kill	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Half The Man No Time to Kill	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	Untanglin 'My Mind One Emotion	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
1995	Wherever You Go One Emotion	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
	Summer's Comin ' One Emotion	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	One Emotion One Emotion	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Life Gets Away One Emotion	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	The Kid Looking for Christmas	-	Country67 (3 weeks) Country
1996	Like The Rain Greatest Hits	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
1996	Half Way Up Greatest Hits	-	Country6 (20 weeks) Country
1997	Something That We Do Nothin 'But The Taillights	US76 (9 weeks) US	Country2 (21 weeks) Country
1997	Still Holding On Nothin 'But The Taillights	-	Country11 (20 weeks) Country	with Martina McBride
1998	Nothin 'But The Taillights Nothin' But The Taillights	-	Country1 (29 weeks) Country
	The Shoes You're Wearing Nothin 'But The Taillights	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Loosen Up My Strings Nothin 'But The Taillights	-	Country12 (20 weeks) Country
1999	You Don't Need Me Now Nothin 'But The Taillights	-	Country29 (15 weeks) Country
1999	When I Said I Do D'lectrified	US31 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (27 weeks) Country
2000	Been There D'lectrified	US44 (20 weeks) US	Country5 (22 weeks) Country	with Steve Wariner
2000	Love She Can't Live Without D'lectrified	-	Country30 (20 weeks) Country
2001	Easy For Me To Say Greatest Hits II	-	Country27 (20 weeks) Country	with Lisa Hartman Black
2002	Money Or Love Greatest Hits II	-	Country50 (6 weeks) Country
2003	Iraq and Roll	-	Country42 (7 weeks) Country
2004	Hey good lookin '	US63 (11 weeks) US	Country8 (20 weeks) Country	with Jimmy Buffett , Kenny Chesney , Alan Jackson and George Strait
	Spend My Time Spend My Time	-	Country16 (4 weeks) Country
	The Boogie Man Spend My Time	-	Country51 (9 weeks) Country
	My Imagination Spend My Time	-	Country42 (8 weeks) Country
	Christmas With You Christmas with You	-	Country54 (1 week) Country
2005	Rainbow In The Rain Drinkin 'Songs and Other Logic	-	Country44 (11 weeks) Country
2006	Drinkin 'Songs & Other Logic Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic	-	Country54 (7 weeks) Country
2007	The Strong One The Long Cool EP	-	Country37 (30 weeks) Country
2008	Long Cool Woman The Long Cool EP	-	Country58 (2 weeks) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
1992	This Nightlife The Hard Way	-	Country61 (8 weeks) Country
1993	Desperado Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles	-	Country54 (20 weeks) Country

More singles

2005: Code of the West
2006: Heartaches
2015: Time for That
2016: You Still Get to Me (with Lisa Hartman Black)
2016: Still Calling It News
2019: This Old House (with Trace Adkins , Dierks Bentley , Sara Evans , Cody Jinks, Michael Ray, Darius Rucker , Travis Tritt & Steve Wariner )

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title album	US	Country	Remarks
1991	Hold On Partner Tribute	-	Country42 (10 weeks) Country	with Roy Rogers
1992	Hotel Whiskey Maverick	-	Country54 (11 weeks) Country	with Hank Williams, Jr.
1998	Same Old Train Tribute to Tradition	-	Country59 (5 weeks) Country	with various artists

Video albums

1990: Put Yourself In My Shoes (US:gold)

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Canada Canada
- 1992: for the album The Hard Way
- 1994: for the album No Time To Kill
- 1998: for the album Nothin 'But The Taillights

Platinum record

Canada Canada
- 1990: for the album Killin 'Time
- 1991: for the album Put Yourself In My Shoes
- 1995: for the album One Emotion
- 1998: for the album The Greatest Hits

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	550,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	12 × platinum12	12,550,000	riaa.com
All in all	5 × gold5	16 × platinum16

The most important awards

year	Org.	Award	title
1989	ACM	Album Of The Year	Killin 'time
	ACM	Single Of The Year	A better man
	ACM	Top male vocalist
	ACM	Top New Male Vocalist
	CMA	Horizon Award
1990	CMA	Male Vocalist Of The Year
	TNN	Album Of The Year	Killin 'time
	TNN	Star of Tomorrow
1999	ACM	Vocal Event Of The Year	When I Said I Do

literature

Erlewine, Michael et al. (Ed.): All Music Guide to Country Music. The experts guide to the best recordings in country music . San Francisco, Cal .: Miller Freeman Books, 1997, pp. 38f.

Individual evidence

^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits . 7th revised and expanded edition, New York City, New York: Billboard Books, 2005, pp. 45–47
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chart sources: US
↑ ^a ^b Awards for Music Sales: US

Web links

Clint Black's website

personal data
SURNAME	Black, Clint
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Black, Clinton Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Long Branch , New Jersey , USA

[1] Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits . 7th revised and expanded edition, New York City, New York: Billboard Books, 2005, pp. 45–47

[charts-2] Chart sources: US

[ausz-3] Awards for Music Sales: US