HOTDISC TOP 40
9 November 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 01

An Affair To Remember
RAY PRICE feat. MARTINA McBRIDE

02 03

Pride
IAN HIGHLAND feat. FRANK JENNINGS

03 NE

That’ll Be The Day
MERLE HAGGARD

04

04

Good On You
NATIVE RUN 

05

02

Drinkin’ Beer
RAY SCOTT 

06 08

Enjoy The Ride
BRIAN COLLINS

07

NE

Drunk Americans
TOBY KEITH

08 NE

TRAVELLIN’ SOLDIER
MEGAN ADAMS

09

NE

New Country Singers
JAMES CAROTHERS

10

05

I’m Gonna Hire A Wino (To Decorate Our Home)
DAVID FRIZZELL

 

 

 

 

11

07

Gaia Blues
KENNY BUTTERILL feat. DONOVAN LEITCH 

12

10

One Night Between Friends
KATIE ARMIGER

13

NE

Feels Like Coming Home
DAVID STARR  

14

NE

My Best Friend
MICHAEL LUSK

15

06

Radio Song
MICHAEL SCOTT

16

NE

Mosaic
BEAU + LUCI

17 11

Fire
BEAU + LUCI

18

NE

He’s Messed Up!!!  
JO DEE MESSINA

19

NE

Raise That Bar
TONY CLARKE

20

NE

Miranda In The Moonlight
GORDON JENSEN

 

 

 

 

21 09

Highway Number Nine
DAVE SHERIFF  

22

12

Fishin’ Pole Dancin’
BRUCE LARSON

23

13

California Girls Have Gone Country
STEVIE LEE WOODS

24

NE

Like A Fading Rose
KARIN WRIGHT

25

NE

Stay 
MADELINE SMITH 

26

NE

Two Cats
OWEN MOORE

27

16

Hop In My Truck
TIM CADIERE  

28

17

Party In The Barn
JAMES ROBERT WEBB

29

NE

Down To Ride
MIKE DONNELL BAND

30

NE

Memphis Buzz
DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT 

 

 

 

 

31

14

Southern Drawl
DAVID SHELBY

32

NE

Applications For An Angel
C W MONTGOMERY

33

15

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

34

NE

Ralph The Sneaky Elf
DAVID WOOD

35

18

This I Promise You
KEYTH YOUNGSTER

36

NE

Hometown Hottie  
LOCATION OF INCIDENT

39

19

Pretty Girls
BARRY P FOLEY & DOUG ADKINS

37

22

Full Moon Friday
BRITTANY SPRIGGS

38

NE

Unfaithfully  
A P MAURO 

40

20

Whole Lot Of Livin’
NORTH 40

THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10

01

01

Pride
IAN HIGHLAND feat. FRANK JENNINGS

02

NE

Travellin’ Soldier
MEGAN ADAMS

03

NE

Raise That Bar
TONY CLARKE

04

02

Highway Number Nine
DAVE SHERIFF

05

NE

Two Cats
OWEN MOORE

06

03

I Am What I Am
TONY CLARKE

07

06

Mexican Joe
MEXICAN JOE WALKER

08

04

Travelling Star
MIM GREY

09

07

A Love Song
KEITH SHAW

10

05

I’m Texas Bound!
ROB ALLEN

 

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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