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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