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KRVN Radio DJ Big Al WeekleyThe 2014 IBMA nominations are in!

“The staff here at Music Charts Magazine® is so proud and excited to see our very own interviewer to the stars Big Al Weekley in the Top 5 of the Best of the Best!”

 

2014 INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC SPECIAL AWARD NOMINATIONS

BLUEGRASS BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR

Kyle Cantrell, Bluegrass Junction, Sirius XM
Steve Fisher, Bluegrass Sessions at Ironwood Stage & Grill (Calgary, AB, Canada)
Chris Jones, Bluegrass Junction, Sirius XM
Al Weekley, KRVN; musicchartsmagazine.com
Tim White, Song of the Mountains, PBS

 

Click the red link below to see all the 2014 IBMA nominees:

Nominations 2014 International Bluegrass Music Awards

August 11, 2014

 

Album

LW

TW

Artist

Title

(Label)

TW SPINS

LW SPINS

Weeks on Chart

Spin +/-

Stations

2

1

William Clark Green

Hanging Around

(Bill Grease Records)

1,336

1,363

18

-27

73

1

2

Roger Creager

River Song

(Roger Creager Music)

1,322

1,479

11

-157

75

4

3

Casey Donahew Band

Lovin’ Out of Control

(Almost Country)

1,261

1,191

12

+70

73

6

4

Cody Johnson

Me & My Kind

(CJB)

1,154

1,104

7

+50

72

3

5

Whiskey Myers

Dogwood

(Wiggy Thump)

1,098

1,301

18

-203

69

5

6

Adam Hood

Trying To Write A Love Song

(Adam Hood Music)

1,071

1,189

21

-118

65

7

7

Kyle Park

Long Distance Relationship

(Indie/Thirty Tigers)

1,069

1,038

15

+31

70

8

8

Granger Smith

If Money Didn’t Matter

(GS)

1,053

1,002

13

+51

73

9

9

Zane Williams

Hands of a Workin’ Man

(ZW)

999

937

8

+62

64

11

10

Bart Crow

If I Go, I’m Goin’

(Smith Ent.)

906

880

12

+26

68

15

11

Josh Grider

One Night Taco Stand

(AMP)

897

781

5

+116

65

16

12

Kevin Fowler

Panhandle Poorboy

(Kevin Fowler Records)

891

770

5

+121

70

13

13

Mike Ryan

Dancing All Around It

(MR)

865

834

10

+31

64

14

14

Deryl Dodd

One Night Too Long

(Smith Ent.)

859

808

11

+51

55

10

15

Jason Boland & the Stragglers

Lucky I Guess

(Proud Souls Ent.)

845

933

21

-88

59

17

16

Matt Kimbrow

Abilene

(MK)

763

753

19

+10

52

20

17

Rich O’Toole

Too Good To Call

(PTO Records)

725

645

16

+80

54

19

18

Jesse Raub Jr.

Good Man Go Wrong

(JRJ)

660

667

11

-7

48

26

19

Sunny Sweeney

Bad Girl Phase

(Thirty Tigers)

637

536

4

+101

52

21

20

Ray Johnston Band

More Crown Than Coke

(RJB)

637

622

13

+15

45

12

21

TJ Broscoff

Falling Down

(BGM Records)

620

873

19

-253

42

25

22

Micky & the Motorcars

Hearts From Above

(Smith Ent.)

619

556

5

+63

58

24

23

Cameran Nelson

Shotgun

(CN)

600

578

5

+22

46

23

24

Cody Jinks

Alone

(CJ)

590

598

18

-8

47

31

25

The Statesboro Revue

Live A Little

(Vision Ent./Shalley Records)

534

455

12

+79

37

27

26

Phil Hamilton

Dirty Love

(Winding Road)

519

473

4

+46

42

28

27

Chance Anderson

Windows Down

(CA)

518

470

11

+48

34

22

28

Midnight River Choir

Circles

(Rambling Gypsy)

513

600

19

-87

46

32

29

Matt Hillyer

A Little Less Whiskey

(MH)

512

432

4

+80

44

29

30

LiveWire

Drivin’ You Outta My Mind

(Way Out West Records)

499

459

8

+40

39

33

31

Brian Keane

You Can’t Go Home

(BK)

486

415

3

+71

50

35

32

Cody Bryan Band

Wreck Me

(CBB)

450

406

8

+44

42

49

33

John Slaughter

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

(JS)

409

308

2

+101

36

38

34

Casey Berry

Fool

(80615 Entertainment)

393

382

7

+11

40

44

35

JB and the Moonshine Band

Yes

(Light It Up Records)

370

342

3

+28

42

18

36

Zach Coffey

I Love You Anyway

(ZC)

370

704

20

-334

33

46

37

Bri Bagwell

Crazy

(BB)

367

337

6

+30

34

45

38

Abbi Walker

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

(AW)

361

341

13

+20

36

36

39

Johnny Cooper

Thank You

(Vision Ent.)

359

398

7

-39

31

42

40

Charlie Robison

Look Out Cleveland

(Thirty Tigers/Jetwell, Inc.)

356

368

4

-12

41

40

41

Uncle Lucius

Everybody Got Soul

(Entertainment One Music)

356

370

6

-14

36

IMAGE COMING SOON

50

42

Shane Smith & The Saints

Dance the Night Away

(SSS)

354

298

3

+56

40

43

43

Chris Brazeal Band

Small Town Saturday Night

(CBB)

352

359

9

-7

30

41

44

Kylie Rae Harris

Sticks and Stones

(KRH)

345

370

6

-25

36

37

45

Tori Martin

Done Deal

(Independent/Martin 3)

321

389

12

-68

28

48

46

Saints Eleven

I’ll Be Fine

(SE)

317

310

5

+7

31

39

47

Aaron Kothmann

As Good As It Gets

(Nicol Rae Records)

312

371

9

-59

29

47

48

Scooter Brown Band

Summer Song

(SBB)

311

329

7

-18

28

IMAGE COMING SOON

N

49

Sam Riggs

Hold On and Let Go

(SR)

300

193

1

+107

21

IMAGE COMING SOON

N

50

Dolly Shine

Her Name Was Trouble

(DS)

300

163

1

+137

18

 

Non Reports:

1st Week:  KECO, KORA

 

Freezes:  KACO, KMOU, KOXE, KRVF, KSEL, KWEY, KYBI

 

On Hold:  KDCD

 

Copyright © 2013, the Texas Music Chart. Used with permission from Best In Texas Music Marketing LLC, Houston, TX

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HOTDISC TOP 40
10 August 2014

 

This is a list of the Top 40 Most Popular Songs released on the Rush Released promotional CD. Each week DJs and media people who receive Rush Released send back their reaction sheets where they are given the chance to rate every song. This chart is exclusively for clients of the Rush Released CD.  The chart is published weekly here, and also in Country Music People, Country Music & Dance, Up Country and Southern Country magazines.

To watch the video for each song (where available) click on the titles.

01

NE

How’s The World Treating You
JIM REEVES & BARBI FRANKLIN

02

01

Cowboys Of The Caribbean
BERTIE HIGGINS

03 NE

Maybe There’s Love After You After All
DAVID FRIZZELL

04

02

No More Lonely
THE ROYS

05

03

Distant Drums (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

06

NE

Who Left The Door To Heaven Open  
DAVID WOOD 

07

NE

It Ain’t All Good But It Ain’t Half Bad
TONY STAMPLEY

08

04

Let Your Country Out
JESSIE LEE CATES 

09

05

Never Really Left
BRIAN COLLINS

10 10

Let’s Start A Party
OWEN HOWELL

 

 

 

 

11

08

That’s The Sound
SARABETH

12 12

Everything Is Made In China
DAVID STARR

13 06

Wake Up Drunk
COREY COX

14 07

This Is Me
BRYAN MAYER  

15

11

Walk Out Of The Rain
SAWYER BROWN

16 09

Jezebel
GRACIA HARRISON

17

13

Fresno Silver Mine
DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT

18 NE

Good Day To Get Gone
KAYLEE RUTLAND

19

NE

How I Only Wish That I Could Fly
CHARLIE BOSTON

20 NE

Welcome Home
MIKE WARD

 

 

 

 

21 15

Put That Country Song On  
TONY CLARKE

22

NE

Something I Wrote
CODY RILEY

23

NE

Put It In Your Pocket
SONIA LEIGH  

24

NE

Southern Drawl
DAVID SHELBY

25

14

Baddest Gunslingin’ Man
ACE DIAMOND

26

17

15 Minutes
JAMIE LEE THURSTON

27

NE

Seamus Finn
REG KEYWORTH BAND

28

16

Train Wreck
JAMES HOUSE

29

NE

Wrecking My World
M CALLAHAN

30

NE

Ten Thousand Ways
LOST HOLLOW

 

 

 

 

31

20

Catchin’ Fireflies
MADELINE SMITH 

32

22

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

33

19

The Ways Of Love
MIM GREY 

34 23

Summer Love
MOORE & MOORE

35

21

Georgia For This
ERICA SUNSHINE LEE

36

25

Go Big Or Go Home
HOLLY MAY

37

NE

Theme For Garth Brooks
DONNY RICHMOND 

38

18

God’s Green Earth
M CALLAHAN

39

NE

Streets Of Loneliness 
JANEY KIRK with JERRY DONAHUE 

40

27

Fabulous Day
BLAIR MATHEWS  

THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10

01

NE

How I Only Wish I Could Fly
CHARLIE BOSTON

02

NE

Welcome Home
MIKE WARD

03

01

Put That Country Song On
TONY CLARKE

04

03

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

05

02

The Ways Of Love
Mim Grey

06

NE

Streets Of Loneliness
JANEY KIRK with JERRY DONOHUE

07

04

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

08

NE

Do You Recall, The War To End All War
TONY RENNEY

09

NE

Dreams Sometimes Come True
KEITH SHAW

10

05

Picture Of My Life
THE SONNY WALTERS BAND

 

The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.

The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!

Copyright © 2014, Hotdisc, The Old Manse, Hallidays Park, Selkirk, TD7 4LA, Scotland. Used with permission from HotDisk.

HotDisc Top 40 at Music Charts Magazine

Music Charts Magazine Exclusive Interview with Doug Phelps of The Kentucky Headhunters

 

Music Charts Magazine® Presents “The Kentucky Headhunters”

 

Once upon a time, in a deep and dark forest, in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky, not far from the village of Edmonton, stood a psychedelic shack where the only rock and roll band in Metcalfe County rehearsed.

 

The Kentucky Headhunters – audio interview – Grammy Award Winners – Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame

 

ERICH MCMANN - The Last American Songbook - Music Charts Magazine Country Music CD ReviewIf you have ever read any of my CD reviews, you know that I am a huge fan of traditional country music. I get very excited when out of the crowd of very talented musicians we have in this world, a real country artist emerges. That doesn’t happen often any more. But, it does happen from time to time. When it does, I want to tell you all about it. Today, I found Erich McMann.

Erich’s album, “The Last American Songbook” was quite a surprise. While I still don’t like the direction country music is going, I’ve grown to expect it. It seems that country/pop, country/rock, and country/rap are going to be part of the country music scene whether we old folks like it or not. So, try to imagine the huge smile that came across my face when I popped this great CD into my computer this afternoon.

I couldn’t say it any better than the artist did, so I’m going to share his words with you. “This album is an audio snapshot of America, it’s people, music, and culture. Written in a week, recorded in a day, it explores the diverse sonic landscape of Americana through traditional country, western swing, cowboy, folk, trucker, honky tonk and roots music genres,” Erich McMann wrote.

“Inspired by the sights and sounds encountered on a road trip to America’s Heartland, the songs reflect my personal experience as an artist and an American through this journey,” Erich added.

Erich is from the Midwest, born into a musical family. He began picking the guitar at an early age. He said growing up on a farm in the heartland of America exposed him to country music through cross-over country hits on AM radio, and atching Buck Owens’ on “Hee Haw” every Saturday night on television. It was a girlfriend’s father that introduced him to Hank Williams work, and soon after that, Erich began writing and recording.

The songs you will hear on this album are “The Red White and Blue,” “Redneck Hippie 2012,” “My Heart Pounds (When I See Your Face)”, “Keep Me Loving You,” “Back on the Farm,” “The Ghost of Senior Carmello,” “I don’t Need No Woman (To Tell Me How to Drive),” “The Branson, Mo., Summer Blues,” “The Time Has Come,” and “The Last Song”.

In 2013, the song “Keep Me Loving You” was nominated for “Song of the Year”  by the Academy of Western Artists.

There is not a bad song on the album. You won’t want to be doing anything else when you are listening to this music. You will want to listen to every word, and see where he is going with the story. I hear a lot of old country coming out in Erich. It was nice to get that back. I’m certain people from my generation are going to fall in love with this music. I hope some of that will reach our younger fans, too. There is a lot of country music they’ve been missing out on. The music is good, the vocals are good. Erich was born to sing country music. 

This album is available for free download, by visiting www.erichmcmann.bandcamp.com, and entering a price of zero. If you are a fan of real country music, I know you will enjoy this album as much as I do.

Erich doesn’t have a web site as yet, but keep reading countryschatter.com, and we’ll put up any news we get about him. If you aren’t following us on Twitter, we’d love to have you. You will find us @countryschatter.​

About Fred’s Country program:

Le program Fred’s Country: La musique Country de Tradition avec Frederic (Fred) Moreau. Le program Fred’s Country est diffusé sur 47 fréquences FM, 53 radios ou webradios.

The Fred’s Country program, is hosted by Frederic (Fred) Moreau and broadcasted weekly on 47 frequencies, 53 Affiliated FM and Web Radio Stations in France, Canada, Belgium, Spain, and more. Listen, download The Fred’s Country program here…

Autre particularité du program Fred’s Country, c’est la seule émission en Europe à programmer un minimum de 75% d’artistes Canadiens particularity of the Fred’s Country program, each week, a minimum of 75% of Canadian Country artists on the air

Radio Show Host: Fred Moreau

Program Fred’s Country w32-2014 – 8 août 2014 à 15:00 – August 8th, 2014

 

 

Music Charts Magazine is proud to be friends with Mr. Moreau and glad to now be one of the many to host Program Fred’s Country. ( French/English)

Radio Program “Fred’s Country” – Now at Music Charts Magazine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

August 4, 2014

 

Album

LW

TW

Artist

Title

(Label)

TW SPINS

LW SPINS

Weeks on Chart

Spin +/-

Stations

3

1

Roger Creager

River Song

(Roger Creager Music)

1,479

1,351

10

+128

78

1

2

William Clark Green

Hanging Around

(Bill Grease Records)

1,363

1,361

17

+2

77

2

3

Whiskey Myers

Dogwood

(Wiggy Thump)

1,301

1,359

17

-58

75

5

4

Casey Donahew Band

Lovin’ Out of Control

(Almost Country)

1,191

1,087

11

+104

74

4

5

Adam Hood

Trying To Write A Love Song

(Adam Hood Music)

1,189

1,154

20

+35

71

7

6

Cody Johnson

Me & My Kind

(CJB)

1,104

1,021

6

+83

73

8

7

Kyle Park

Long Distance Relationship

(Indie/Thirty Tigers)

1,038

1,014

14

+24

72

10

8

Granger Smith

If Money Didn’t Matter

(GS)

1,002

997

12

+5

73

13

9

Zane Williams

Hands of a Workin’ Man

(ZW)

937

778

7

+159

63

9

10

Jason Boland & the Stragglers

Lucky I Guess

(Proud Souls Ent.)

933

1,001

20

-68

64

11

11

Bart Crow

If I Go, I’m Goin’

(Smith Ent.)

880

894

11

-14

68

6

12

TJ Broscoff

Falling Down

(BGM Records)

873

1,039

18

-166

53

12

13

Mike Ryan

Dancing All Around It

(MR)

834

794

9

+40

62

14

14

Deryl Dodd

One Night Too Long

(Smith Ent.)

808

765

10

+43

57

18

15

Josh Grider

One Night Taco Stand

(AMP)

781

630

4

+151

62

22

16

Kevin Fowler

Panhandle Poorboy

(Kevin Fowler Records)

770

616

4

+154

67

16

17

Matt Kimbrow

Abilene

(MK)

753

692

18

+61

53

15

18

Zach Coffey

I Love You Anyway

(ZC)

704

750

19

-46

50

20

19

Jesse Raub Jr.

Good Man Go Wrong

(JRJ)

667

625

10

+42

49

19

20

Rich O’Toole

Too Good To Call

(PTO Records)

645

629

15

+16

52

25

21

Ray Johnston Band

More Crown Than Coke

(RJB)

622

546

12

+76

47

21

22

Midnight River Choir

Circles

(Rambling Gypsy)

600

618

18

-18

48

17

23

Cody Jinks

Alone

(CJ)

598

634

17

-36

52

26

24

Cameran Nelson

Shotgun

(CN)

578

511

4

+67

46

28

25

Micky & the Motorcars

Hearts From Above

(Smith Ent.)

556

473

4

+83

56

30

26

Sunny Sweeney

Bad Girl Phase

(Thirty Tigers)

536

450

3

+86

46

32

27

Phil Hamilton

Dirty Love

(Winding Road)

473

435

3

+38

37

42

28

Chance Anderson

Windows Down

(CA)

470

369

10

+101

32

29

29

LiveWire

Drivin’ You Outta My Mind

(Way Out West Records)

459

457

7

+2

35

24

30

Randy Rogers Band

Satellite

(MCA Nashville)

457

565

17

-108

39

27

31

The Statesboro Revue

Live A Little

(Vision Ent./Shalley Records)

455

491

11

-36

36

44

32

Matt Hillyer

A Little Less Whiskey

(MH)

432

342

3

+90

44

47

33

Brian Keane

You Can’t Go Home

(BK)

415

312

2

+103

47

23

34

Curtis Grimes

Our Side of the Fence

(CG)

415

607

14

-192

37

43

35

Cody Bryan Band

Wreck Me

(CBB)

406

360

7

+46

45

37

36

Johnny Cooper

Thank You

(Vision Ent.)

398

379

6

+19

31

33

37

Tori Martin

Done Deal

(Independent/Martin 3)

389

432

11

-43

34

31

38

Casey Berry

Fool

(80615 Entertainment)

382

437

6

-55

40

38

39

Aaron Kothmann

As Good As It Gets

(Nicol Rae Records)

371

376

8

-5

35

34

40

Uncle Lucius

Everybody Got Soul

(Entertainment One Music)

370

431

5

-61

38

40

41

Kylie Rae Harris

Sticks and Stones

(KRH)

370

371

5

-1

37

45

42

Charlie Robison

Look Out Cleveland

(Thirty Tigers/Jetwell, Inc.)

368

331

3

+37

41

39

43

Chris Brazeal Band

Small Town Saturday Night

(CBB)

359

374

8

-15

33

49

44

JB and the Moonshine Band

Yes

(Light It Up Records)

342

308

2

+34

40

41

45

Abbi Walker

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

(AW)

341

370

12

-29

35

48

46

Bri Bagwell

Crazy

(BB)

337

311

5

+26

32

46

47

Scooter Brown Band

Summer Song

(SBB)

329

328

6

+1

34

50

48

Saints Eleven

I’ll Be Fine

(SE)

310

300

4

+10

30

N

49

John Slaughter

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

(JS)

308

249

1

+59

29

IMAGE COMING SOON

R

50

Shane Smith & The Saints

Dance the Night Away

(SSS)

298

298

2

—–

37

Non Reports:

1st Week:  KBIM, KMKT, KVOM, TXRDR

 

Freezes:

KACO, KBST, KECO, KFLP, KMKS, KMRK, KOKE, KOLI, KORA, KRRG, KTCU, KTKO, KVST

Music Charts Magazine® History

– Song for the month of August 2014:

Billy Joel Piano Man

Billy Joel - Piano Man - Music Charts Magazine Song of the Month for August 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Piano Man” is the first single released by Billy Joel. It was released on November 2, 1973, and has been on several albums. Billy Joel’s first major hit and his signature song, the song peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1974.

“Piano Man” is a fictionalized retelling of Joel’s experience as a piano-lounge singer for six months in 1972 at the now defunct Executive Room bar in Los Angeles, located near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. Joel has stated that all of the characters depicted in the song were based on real people. Joel had moved from New York to L.A. to record his first album, Cold Spring Harbor which was marred by a mastering error by the album’s producers at Family Productions, the first label that signed Joel. After this bad experience, Joel wanted to leave his contract with Family Productions for Columbia Records, but the contract that he’d signed made this very difficult. So Joel stated that he was “hiding out” at the bar, performing under the name Bill Martin, while lawyers at Columbia Records tried to get him out of his first record deal.

The verses of the song are sung from the point of view of a bar piano player who focuses mainly on everyone else at the bar: an old man, John the bartender, the waitress, businessmen, and bar regulars like “real estate novelist” Paul and US Navy sailor, Davey. Most of these characters have unfulfilled dreams, and the pianist’s job is to help them “forget about life for a while.” The chorus, in bar-room sing-along style, comes from the bar patrons themselves, who plead, “Sing us a song, / You’re the piano man; / Sing us a song tonight. / Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody, / And you’ve got us feeling all right.”

 

Read more at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Man_(song)

HOTDISC TOP 40
3 August 2014

 

This is a list of the Top 40 Most Popular Songs released on the Rush Released promotional CD. Each week DJs and media people who receive Rush Released send back their reaction sheets where they are given the chance to rate every song. This chart is exclusively for clients of the Rush Released CD.  The chart is published weekly here, and also in Country Music People, Country Music & Dance, Up Country and Southern Country magazines.

To watch the video for each song (where available) click on the titles.

01

02

Cowboys Of The Caribbean
BERTIE HIGGINS

02

01

No More Lonely
THE ROYS

03

03

Distant Drums (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

04

04

Let Your Country Out
JESSIE LEE CATES 

05

07

Never Really Left
BRIAN COLLINS

06 05

Wake Up Drunk
COREY COX

07 06

This Is Me
BRYAN MAYER  

08

10

That’s The Sound
SARABETH

09 09

Jezebel
GRACIA HARRISON

10 16

Let’s Start A Party
OWEN HOWELL

 

 

 

 

11

08

Walk Out Of The Rain
SAWYER BROWN

12 15

Everything Is Made In China
DAVID STARR

13

18

Fresno Silver Mine
DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT

14

11

Baddest Gunslingin’ Man
ACE DIAMOND

15 14

Put That Country Song On  
TONY CLARKE

16

13

Train Wreck
JAMES HOUSE

17

12

15 Minutes
JAMIE LEE THURSTON

18

17

God’s Green Earth
M CALLAHAN

19

19

The Ways Of Love
MIM GREY 

20

21

Catchin’ Fireflies
MADELINE SMITH 

 

 

 

 

21

23

Georgia For This
ERICA SUNSHINE LEE

22

22

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

23 26

Summer Love
MOORE & MOORE

24

24

Candles On A Cake Of Pink And White
DONNY RICHMOND

25

28

Go Big Or Go Home
HOLLY MAY

26 20

You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma
DAVID FRIZZELL & SHELLY WEST

27

27

Fabulous Day
BLAIR MATHEWS  

28

25

Cornfields  
ALLAN CRAIG MILLER 

29

29

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

30 33

While I Am Still Here
T PAUL MATSON

 

 

 

 

31

34

Country Love
RE MATTEI

32 35

Manana (The Pajama Song)
CERRITO

33

31

More Than A Cotton Dress
TYLER BARHAM

34

32

Country Girl 101
LEAH SEAWRIGHT  

35

38

Sorry Ain’t Enough
KASEY LANSDALE

36

30

Where Are You Spending Your Nights These Days
DAVID FRIZZELL

37

39

I’ll Fly Away (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

38

40

Yesterday’s Child
BILLY CHERNOFF

39

37

Picture Of My Life
THE SONNY WALTERS BAND 

40

36

Key Largo (Country Version) 
BERTIE HIGGINS 

THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10

01

01

Put That Country Song On
TONY CLARKE

02

02

The Ways Of Love
Mim Grey

03

03

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

04

04

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

05

05

Picture Of My Life
THE SONNY WALTERS BAND

06

06

Crazy Love
GARY CURTIS

07

07

A Horse Called Bob
GEORGE INGLIS

08

09

One Minute More
SAM HOLLYMAN

09

08

What’s Left Is What’s Right
JOHN HINSHELWOOD

10

10

Bright Side Of Life
HAYLEY OLIVER BAND

 

The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.

The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!

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