Collin Raye

Collin Raye (2011)

Collin Raye (* 22. August 1960 as Floyd Collin Wray in De Queen , Arkansas ) is a country singer and songwriter .

Life

Collin Raye's mother was a successful musician who has performed with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash , among others . His father and an uncle were musicians too, so it was almost inevitable that Collin and his brother Scott would appear on stage for the first time as children. The brothers founded their first band, the Wray Brothers Band, in 1976. A few singles were produced, but only one of them was able to place in the lower parts of the country charts.

The band broke up in 1987, and Collin Raye then worked as a singer in Reno and Las Vegas. His marriage, entered into in 1980, ended in divorce after serious health problems for his wife and second child. In 1989 he moved to Nashville . A year later he signed a record deal with the Epic label. His debut album All I Can Be was released in 1992 and went platinum . His second single, Love, Me , reached number 1 on the country charts. The next albums In This Life , Extremes , I Think About You and The Best Of Collin Raye: Direct Hits also went platinum and My Walls Came Down went gold. The decoupled singles consistently reached the top of the charts, In This Life made it to number 1. With I Can Still Feel You he reached the top position of the country charts again in 1998. His sales success only diminished somewhat in 2001 with the album Can't Back Down .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1991	All I Can Be	US54 platinum (43 weeks)US	Country7 (126 weeks) Country
1992	In This Life	US42 platinum (50 weeks)US	Country10 (88 weeks) Country
1994	Extreme	US73 platinum (45 weeks)US	Country12 (88 weeks) Country
1995	I think about you	US40 platinum (95 weeks)US	Country5 (104 weeks) Country
1996	Christmas: The Gift	US126 (4 weeks) US	Country23 (9 weeks) Country	Christmas album
1998	The walls came down	US55 gold (11 weeks)US	Country8 (46 weeks) Country
2000	Tracks	US81 (7 weeks) US	Country9 (25 weeks) Country
2001	Can't back down	-	Country39 (5 weeks) Country
2005	Twenty Years and Change	-	Country73 (1 week) Country
2009	Never going back	-	Country40 (4 weeks) Country

More albums

• 2000: Counting Sheep
• 2006: Fearless
• 2008: A Family Christmas
• 2011: His Love Remains
• 2013: Still on the Line… The Songs of Glen Campbell
• 2014: Everlasting

Live albums

• 2004: Live at Billy Bob's Texas

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1997	The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits	US33 platinum (37 weeks)US	Country4 (104 weeks) Country
2000	Love songs	-	Country43 (4 weeks) Country

More compilations

• 2002: 16 biggest hits

EPs

• 2007: Selected Hits

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1991	All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory) All I Can Be	-	Country29 (20 weeks) Country
	Love, Me All I Can Be	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
1992	Every Second All I Can Be	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	In This Life In This Life	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good) In This Life	-	Country7 (20 weeks) Country
1993	Somebody Else's Moon In This Life	-	Country5 (20 weeks) Country
	That Was a River In This Life	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	That's My Story Extremes	-	Country6 (20 weeks) Country
1994	Little Rock Extremes	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Man of My Word Extremes	-	Country8 (20 weeks) Country
	My Kind of Girl Extremes	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
1995	If I Were You Extremes	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	One Boy, One Girl I Think About You	US87 (7 weeks) US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Not That Different I Think About You	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
1996	I Think About You I Think About You	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
	Love Remains I Think About You	-	Country12 (20 weeks) Country
	What If Jesus Comes Back Like That I Think About You	-	Country21 (22 weeks) Country
1997	On the Verge I Think About You	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	What the Heart Wants The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Little Red Rodeo The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits	-	Country3 (22 weeks) Country
1998	I Can Still Feel You The Walls Came Down	-	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
	Someone You Used to Know The Walls Came Down	US37 (14 weeks) US	Country3 (25 weeks) Country
1999	Anyone Else The Walls Came Down	US37 (20 weeks) US	Country4 (24 weeks) Country
	Start Over Georgia The Walls Came Down	-	Country39 (17 weeks) Country
2000	Couldn't Last a Moment Tracks	US43 (20 weeks) US	Country3 (25 weeks) Country
	Tired of Loving This Way Tracks	-	Country50 (17 weeks) Country	with Bobbie Eakes
	She's All That Tracks	-	Country43 (13 weeks) Country
2001	You Still Take Me There Tracks	-	Country47 (6 weeks) Country
	Ain't Nobody Gonna Take That from Me Can't Back Down	-	Country43 (12 weeks) Country
2007	A Soldier's Prayer Selected Hits	-	Country59 (1 week) 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	It Could Have Been So Good All I Can Be	-	Country74 (1 week) Country
1995	What If Jesus Comes Back Like That I Think About You	-	Country57 (22 weeks) Country
1997	Open Arms The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits	-	Country70 (6 weeks) Country

More singles

• 2002: What I Need
• 2004: World History 101
• 2005: I Know That's Right
• 2006: Hurricane Jane
• 2007: Quitters
• 2009: Mid-Life Chrysler
• 2009: She's with Me
• 2011: Undefeated
• 2012: Never Gonna Stand for This

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		Country
1997	The Gift The Gift	Country51 (11 weeks) Country	with Jim Brickman

Video albums

• 2007: The Power in You

Web links

• www.collinraye.com/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.myspace.com/collinraye . Accessed August 14, 2009.
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: US
4. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales: US