1999 in country music

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Contents

1 Events
2 Top hits of the year

2.1 Number one hits
2.2 Other major hits

3 Top new album releases
4 Deaths
5 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
6 Major Awards

6.1 Grammy awards
6.2 Academy of Country Music
6.3 Country Music Association

7 Further reading
8 Other links
9 External links

Events

March 6 – Legendary performer George Jones, in the midst of a comeback this year, is seriously injured when he crashed his Lexus into a bridge. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident, and he pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges.

Also during the year, Jones releases the album, Cold Hard Truth (to critical acclaim), and releases his semi-autobiographical single, "Choices."

June – Comedian Jeff Foxworthy debuts his syndicated radio countdown show, "The Foxworthy Countdown."

September 4 – Lonestar's monster hit, "Amazed," spends its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming the first song to do so since Jack Greene's 1966 hit, "There Goes My Everything." In several other trade magazines, including Radio & Records, "Amazed" reigns for nine weeks, which made it the longest-reigning single since 1966's "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston. The song cements Lonestar's status as the top country band for pop-styled ballads, and further fueled the debate as to what is considered "real country." In fact, by year's end, "Amazed" is gaining popularity on CHR and adult contemporary stations (in re-mixed versions, which excised the steel guitar).

As of 2006, only one other song – 2003's "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett – had matched Lonestar's No. 1-reign feat.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

January 16 - "Right on the Money" - Alan Jackson
January 23 - "Wrong Again" - Martina McBride
January 30 - "Stand Beside Me" - Jo Dee Messina
February 20 - "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Mark Chesnutt
March 6 - "No Place That Far" - Sara Evans
March 13 - "You Were Mine" - Dixie Chicks
March 27 - "How Forever Feels" - Kenny Chesney
May 8 - "Wish You Were Here" - Mark Wills
May 15 - "Please Remember Me" - Tim McGraw
June 19 - "Write This Down" - George Strait
July 17 - "Amazed" - Lonestar
September 11 - "Single White Female" - Chely Wright
September 18 - "You Had Me From Hello" - Kenny Chesney
September 25 - "Something Like That" - Tim McGraw
October 30 - "I Love You" - Martina McBride
December 4 - "When I Said I Do" - Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black
December 11 - "He Didn't Have to Be" - Brad Paisley

("When I Said I Do" by Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black returns to No. 1 December 18)

December 25 - "Breathe" - Faith Hill

Other major hits

"A Man Ain't Made of Stone" - Randy Travis
"Anyone Else" - Collin Raye
"Choices" - George Jones
"Come On Over" - Shania Twain
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Dwight Yoakam
"Drive Me Wild" - Sawyer Brown
"Every Time I Cry" - Terri Clark
"For You I Will" - Aaron Tippin
"Fly (The Angel Song)" - The Wilkinsons
"God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You" - Alabama
"Gone Crazy" - Alan Jackson
"Hands of a Working Man" - Ty Herndon
"Hillbilly Shoes" - Montgomery Gentry
"How Do You Sleep at Night" - Wade Hayes
"Hold On to Me" - John Michael Montgomery
"Home To You" - John Michael Montgomery
"I Can't Get Over You" - Brooks & Dunn
"I'll Go Crazy" - Andy Griggs
"I'll Think of a Reason Later" - Lee Ann Womack
"I'm Already Taken" - Steve Wariner
"I'm Leaving" - Aaron Tippin
"Keepin' Up" - Alabama
"Lesson in Leavin'" - Jo Dee Messina
"Lightnin' Does the Work" - Chad Brock
"Little Goodbyes" - SHeDaisy
"Little Man" - Alan Jackson
"Lonely and Gone" - Montgomery Gentry
"Love Ain't Like That" - Faith Hill
"Make Up in Love" - Doug Stone
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" - Shania Twain
"Maybe Not Tonight" - Sammy Kershaw and Lorrie Morgan
"Meanwhile" - George Strait
"Missing You" - Brooks & Dunn
"Now You See Me (Now You Don't)" - Lee Ann Womack
"One Honest Heart" – Reba McEntire
"Ordinary Life" - Chad Brock
"Pop a Top" - Alan Jackson
"Powerful Thing" - Trisha Yearwood
"Ready to Run" - Dixie Chicks
"The Secret of Life" - Faith Hill
"She's Always Right" - Clay Walker
"Somebody's Out There Watching" - The Kinleys
"She's in Love" - Mark Wills
"Stranger in My Mirror" - Randy Travis
"That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain
"That's The Truth" – Paul Brandt
"There You Have It" - Blackhawk
"This Heartache Never Sleeps" - Mark Chesnutt
"Tonight the Heartache's On Me" - Dixie Chicks
"Two Teardrops" - Steve Wariner
"Unbelievable" - Diamond Rio
"What Do You Say to That" - George Strait
"Whatever You Say" - Martina McBride
"Who Needs Pictures" - Brad Paisley
"With You" - Lila McCann
"Wrong Night" - Reba McEntire
"You Won't Ever Be Lonely" - Andy Griggs
"You're Beginning to Get to Me" - Clay Walker
"You've Got a Way" - Shania Twain

Deaths

December 17 — Rex Allen, 78, "The Arizona Cowboy" and traveling rodeo performer.
December 20 — Hank Snow, 85, "The Singing Ranger," best known for "I'm Movin' On."

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" - Shania Twain
Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "Choices" - Country Music Icon George Jones
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal -- "Ready To Run" - Dixie Chicks
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals -- "After The Gold Rush" - Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton
Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Bob's Breakdowns" - Asleep At The Wheel (Featuring Ray Benson, Chris Booher, Cindy Cashdollar, Floyd Domino, Michael Francis, Larry Franklin, David Miller, Jason Roberts, David Sanger, Steve Wariner, Tommy Allsup, and Vince Gill)
Best Country Song -- "Come On Over" - Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Shania Twain, songwriters.
Best Country Album -- "Fly" - Dixie Chicks
Best Bluegrass Album -- "Ancient Tones" - Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year -- Shania Twain
Song Of The Year -- "Amazed" - Lonestar - Marv Green, Aimee Mayo
Single Of The Year -- "Amazed" - Lonestar
Album Of The Year -- Fly - 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 -- Brad Paisley
Top New Female Vocalist -- Jessica Andrews
Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Montgomery Gentry
Video Of The Year -- "Breathe" - Faith Hill (Director: Lili Fini Zanuck)
Vocal Event Of The Year -- When I Said I Do" - Clint Black with Lisa Hartman Black

Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year -- Shania Twain
Male Vocalist of the Year -- Tim McGraw
Female Vocalist of the Year -- Martina McBride
Vocal Group of the Year -- Dixie Chicks
Vocal Duo of the Year -- Brooks & Dunn
Horizon Award -- Jo Dee Messina
Musician of the Year -- Randy Scruggs
Vocal Event of the Year -- "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man" -- Vince Gill and Patty Loveless
Single of the Year -- "Wide Open Spaces", Dixie Chicks
Song of the Year -- "This Kiss", Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and Beth Nielsen Chapman
Album of the Year -- A Place in the Sun, Tim McGraw
Music Video of the Year -- "Wide Open Spaces", Dixie Chicks (director: Thom Oliphant)

External links

[Country Music Hall of Fame]

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