Country Music 1998

Events

After more than ten years, Johnny Cash received the Grammy for his album "Unchained", another major award. Together with his label, he thanks full of sarcasm for having been ignored by the music industry and radio stations for years.
Garth Brooks sets a new sales record with his album "Double Live". Never before in American music history has an album sold so often in the first week.

Top hits of the year

Number 1 hits

January 10th - "A Broken Wing" - Martina McBride
January 17th - "Just To See You Smile" - Tim McGraw
February 28 - "What If I Said" - Anita Cochran and Steve Wariner
March 7th - "Round About Way" - George Strait
March 21 - "Nothin 'But the Taillights" - Clint Black
April 4th - "A Perfect Love" - Trisha Yearwood
April 18th - "Bye-Bye" - Jo Dee Messina
May 2nd - "You're Still the One" - Shania Twain
May 9 - "Two Piña Coladas" - Garth Brooks
May 16 - "This Kiss" - Faith Hill
June 6th - "I Just Want to Dance With You" - George Strait
June 27 - "If You See Him / If You See Her" - Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn
July 11th - "The Shoes You're Wearing" - Clint Black
July 18th - "I Can Still Feel You" - Collin Raye
August 1st - "To Make You Feel My Love" - Garth Brooks
August 8th - "There's Your Trouble" - Dixie Chicks
August 22nd - "I'm Alright" - Jo Dee Messina
September 12th - "How Long Gone" - Brooks & Dunn
October 3rd - "Where the Green Grass Grows" - Tim McGraw
October 31 - "Honey I'm Home" - Shania Twain
November 7th - "Wide Open Spaces" - Dixie Chicks
December 5th - "It Must Be Love" - Ty Herndon
December 12th - "Let Me Let Go" - Faith Hill
December 19 - "Husbands and Wives" - Brooks & Dunn
December 26th - "You're Easy on the Eyes" - Terri Clark

More hits

"26 Cents" - The Wilkinsons
"Absence of the Heart" - Deana Carter
"Angel in My Eyes" - John Michael Montgomery
"A Chance" - Kenny Chesney
"Between the Devil and Me" - Alan Jackson
"Come Some Rainy Day" - Wynonna Judd
"Commitment" - LeAnn Rimes
"Cover You in Kisses" - John Michael Montgomery
"The Day She Left Tulsa (in a Chevy)" - Wade Hayes
"Don't Be Stupid" - Shania Twain
"Dream Walkin '" - Toby Keith
"Everything's Changed" - Lonestar
"Forever Love" - Reba McEntire
"From This Moment On" - Shania Twain with Bryan White
"Getcha Some" - Toby Keith
"Happy Girl" - Martina McBride
"He's Got You" - Brooks & Dunn
"High On Love" - Patty Loveless
"The Hole" - Randy Travis
"Holes in the Floor of Heaven" - Steve Wariner
"How Do You Fall in Love" - Alabama
"I Can Love You Better" - Dixie Chicks
"I Might Even Quit Lovin 'You" - Mark Chesnutt
"I Said a Prayer" - Pam Tillis
"I Wanna Feel That Way Again" - Tracy Byrd
"I Want to Fall in Love" - Lila McCann
"I'll Go On Lovin 'You" - Alan Jackson
"I'm From the Country" - Tracy Byrd
"If You Can't Be Good (Be Good At It)" - Neal McCoy
"If You Have Forever in Mind" - Vince Gill
"Imagine That" - Diamond Rio
"It Would Be You" - Gary Allan
"It's Not Over" - Mark Chesnutt
"It's Your Song" - Garth Brooks
"Just Between You and Me" - The Kinleys
"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" - Faith Hill (featuring Tim McGraw )
"A Little Past Little Rock" - Lee Ann Womack
"Little Red Rodeo" - Collin Raye
"Lonely Won't Leave Me Alone" - Trace Adkins
"Love of My Life" - Sammy Kershaw
"Love Working On You" - John Michael Montgomery
"A Man Holdin 'On (To a Woman Letting Go)" - Ty Herndon
"The Note" - Daryle Singletary
"Nothing New Under the Moon" - LeAnn Rimes
"Now That I Found You" - Terri Clark
"One of These Days" - Tim McGraw
"One of Those Nights" - Lorrie Morgan
"Out of My Bones" - Randy Travis
"Say When" - Lonestar
"She's Gonna Make It" - Garth Brooks
"She's Got That Look in Her Eyes" - Alabama
"Texas Sized Heartache" - Joe Diffie
"Then What" - Clay Walker
"To Have You Back Again" - Patty Loveless
"Too Good to Be True" - Michael Peterson
"Valentine" - Martina McBride (featuring Jim Brinkman )
"We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" - George Strait
"What If" - Reba McEntire
"You Move Me" - Garth Brooks
"You Walked In" - Lonestar
"You'll Never Know" - Mindy McCready
"You're Gone" - Diamond Rio
"You've Got to Talk to Me" - Lee Ann Womack

Albums (selection)

VH-1 Storytellers, Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson
The Very Best of Slim Dusty, Slim Dusty

Died

January 7 - Owen Bradley, 82, producer and co-founder of Nashville Sound
January 19 - Carl Perkins (65), important rockabilly musician
January 24 - Justin Tubb, 62, singer-songwriter, son of Ernest Tubb
February 19 - Grandpa Jones (84), banjo player, popular Grand Ole Opry star
April 6 - Tammy Wynette (55), successful singer of the 1960s ("Stand By Your Man"), wife of George Jones
May 7 - Eddie Rabbitt (56), songwriter and successful singer
June 10 - Steve Sanders, 45, a member of the Oak Ridge Boys from 1987 to 1996
July 6 - Roy Rogers (86), western actor, singing cowboy, member of the Sons of the Pioneers

New members of the Country Music Hall of Fame

George Morgan (1924-1975)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
EW "Bud" Wendell (* 1927)
Tammy Wynette (1942-1998)

The most important awards

Grammys

Best Female Country Vocal Performance - Shania Twain - You're Still The One
Best Male Country Vocal Performance - Vince Gill - If You Ever Have Forever In Mind
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group - Dixie Chicks - There's Your Trouble
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals - various artists - Same Old Train
Best Country Instrumental Performance - Randy Scruggs & Vince Gill - A Soldier's Joy
Best Country Song - Robert John "Mutt" Lange & Shania Twain - You're Still The One
Best Country Album - Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Best Bluegrass Album - Ricky Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder - Bluegrass Rules!

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year - Garth Brooks
Song Of The Year - "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" - Steve Wariner , Billy Kirsch
Single Of The Year - "This Kiss" - Faith Hill
Album Of The Year - Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
Top Male Vocalist - Tim McGraw
Top Female Vocalist - Faith Hill
Top Vocal Duo - Dixie Chicks
Top Vocal Group - Dixie Chicks
Top New Male Vocalist - Mark Wills
Top New Female Vocalist - Jo Dee Messina
Top New Vocal Duo Or Group - Dixie Chicks
Video Of The Year - "This Kiss" - Faith Hill
Vocal Event Of The Year - "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" - Faith Hill with Tim McGraw

Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year - Garth Brooks .
Male Vocalist of the Year - George Strait .
Female Vocalist of the Year - Trisha Yearwood .
Vocal Group of the Year - Dixie Chicks .
Vocal Duo of the Year - Brooks & Dunn .
Horizon Award - Dixie Chicks .
Musician of the Year - Brett Mason.
Vocal Event of the Year - "You Don't Seem to Miss Me," Patty Loveless with George Jones .
Single of the Year - "Holes in the Floor of Heaven," Steve Wariner .
Song of the Year - "Holes in the Floor of Heaven", Steve Wariner and Billy Kirsch.
Album of the Year - Everywhere , Tim McGraw .
Music Video of the Year - "This Kiss," Faith Hill .