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!

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