HOTDISC TOP 40
13 July 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

No More Lonely
THE ROYS

02

NE

Distant Drums (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

03

01

Walk Out Of The Rain
SAWYER BROWN

04 03

This Is Me
BRYAN MAYER  

05

02

15 Minutes
JAMIE LEE THURSTON

06 NE

Wake Up Drunk
COREY COX

07

NE

Cowboys Of The Caribbean
BERTIE HIGGINS

08

04

Let Your Country Out
JESSIE LEE CATES 

09

05

God’s Green Earth
M CALLAHAN

10

07

Georgia For This
ERICA SUNSHINE LEE

 

 

 

 

11

10

Baddest Gunslingin’ Man
ACE DIAMOND

12

06

I’ll Fly Away (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

13

08

The Ways Of Love
MIM GREY 

14 NE

Jezebel
GRACIA HARRISON

15

NE

Train Wreck
JAMES HOUSE

16

NE

Never Really Left
BRIAN COLLINS

17

09

Key Largo (Country Version) 
BERTIE HIGGINS 

18

NE

Put That Country Song On  
TONY CLARKE

19

NE

That’s The Sound
SARABETH

20

12

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

 

 

 

 

21 11

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

22

16

Candles On A Cake Of Pink And White
DONNY RICHMOND

23

15

Sorry Ain’t Enough
KASEY LANSDALE

24

14

Cornfields  
ALLAN CRAIG MILLER 

25

13

Where Are You Spending Your Nights These Days
DAVID FRIZZELL

26

NE

Everything Is Made In China
DAVID STARR

27

NE

Catchin’ Fireflies
MADELINE SMITH 

28

NE

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

29

NE

Fabulous Day
BLAIR MATHEWS  

30

NE

Fresno Silver Mine
DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT

 

 

 

 

31

20

More Than A Cotton Dress
TYLER BARHAM

32 21

Lovin’ Out Of Control
CASEY DONAHEW BAND

33

17

Country Girl 101
LEAH SEAWRIGHT  

34

19

Picture Of My Life
THE SONNY WALTERS BAND 

35

18

Yesterday’s Child
BILLY CHERNOFF

36

26

Country Love
RE MATTEI

37 25

High And Mighty
JAY JOLLEY

38 NE

Summer Love
MOORE & MOORE

39

NE

Go Big Or Go Home
HOLLY MAY

40

NE

While I Am Still Here
T PAUL MATSON

THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10

01

01

The Ways Of Love
Mim Grey

02

NE

Put That Country Song On
TONY CLARKE

03

02

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

04

NE

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

05

03

Picture Of My Life
THE SONNY WALTERS BAND

06

04

A Horse Called Bob
GEORGE INGLIS

07

05

Crazy Love
GARY CURTIS

08

07

One Minute More
SAM HOLLYMAN

09

06

Bright Side Of Life
HAYLEY OLIVER BAND

10

08

What’s Left Is What’s Right
JOHN HINSHELWOOD

 

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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