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CMA Flashback: Album of the Year (2022 Edition)

November 10, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 16

Here are all of the nominees and winners for CMA Album of the Year, starting with a look at this year’s contenders and stretching back to the first ceremony in 1967.

CMA Flashback: Single of the Year (2022 Edition)

November 10, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 8

Here’s a look back at the previous winners for CMA Single of the Year, along with a look at this year’s nominees.

Every No. 1 Country Single of the Eighties: Don Williams, “Love Me Over Again”

November 2, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 7

The Gentle Giant arrives with his first No. 1 single of the eighties.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #90-#81

July 26, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 12

Wasting away again in Siriusville.

Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Don Williams, “Back in My Younger Days”

June 30, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 3

Another Hall of Fame legend earns his final No. 1 hit.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #340-#331

January 25, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 11

As we inch closer to the top, the ratio of legends to newer artists is slightly more narrow. Six Hall of Fame inductees rub elbows here with established superstars, with only one relatively new act in the mix.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #460-#451

September 4, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 12

We’re begging of you, please, don’t take this list too seriously.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #690-#681

January 12, 2020 Jonathan Keefe 8

This may be the oddest collection yet of entries, featuring lesser known versions of hit songs and novelty numbers that weren’t nearly as good as the artists who sang them.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #870-#861

August 26, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 10

Another ten entries on a list that has too much Florida Georgia Line and not enough Dixie Chicks. This section has both.

100 Greatest Women, #8: Trisha Yearwood

September 24, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 15

Trisha Yearwood was the genre’s most consistently excellent recording artist during the boom years of the nineties and the decade that followed.