Devise a drinking game with alcohol-themed songs on country radio this past year - like Brothers Osborne’s “Rum,” Frankie Ballard’s “Sunshine and Whiskey” and Tyler Farr’s “Whiskey in My Water” - and you might die while playing. And at least a dozen of those beer-dripping, rum-drenched, whiskey-soaked hits had liquor references in their titles. Of Billboard‘s Top 100 Hot Country Songs of 2014, a whopping 68 featured references to drinking (69 if you consider Bryan trying to pour a little sugar into some poor girl’s Dixie cup an alcohol reference). During a performance of the song, the singer plucked a couple girls from the crowd to dance, take selfies onstage and, for one, upchuck in front of the entire arena.īut spring-break-rivaling revelry wasn’t just the rule of the day in stadiums and arenas - booze tunes also drowned the country airwaves as well. See also: List of number-one country albums of 2008 (U.S.Inside the stadium, the soundtrack to this battle royal of debauchery was almost as intoxicating, thanks in part to the fact that Swindell’s set list featured painfully appropriate numbers like “Brought to You by Beer” and “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey,” while Brice provided such art-imitates-life-imitates-art selections as “Drinking Class,” “Parking Lot Party” and, of course, “Beer.” Bentley brought the house down with his summer hit “Drunk on a Plane,” and Bryan - a singer who, in 2014, stumbled and tumbled off stages so many times it’s hard to believe he’d pass a field sobriety test even when not intoxicated - played the woozy one-two punch of “Drink a Beer” into “Drunk on You” during his headlining set.Īs if “Drunk on a Plane” wasn’t already enough of an anthem for embarrassed alcoholics, a couple hundred miles across the Keystone State, at a Bentley show in Hershey in November, another seemingly intoxicated concertgoer got a spectacularly mortifying 15 minutes of fame. The following albums placed within the Top 50 on the Top Country Albums charts in 2008: See also: List of number-one country hits of 2008 (U.S.) and List of number-one country singles of 2008 (Canada) US The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs or Canada Country charts in 2008: December 18 – Equity Music Group, a label owned by Clint Black, closes after five years in operation. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honors George Jones for his lifetime contributions to the arts. November 20 – Julianne Hough announces that she would not be returning for the foreseeable future to Dancing with the Stars in order to further her country music career.McEntire and Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta had previously worked together in the 1990s when Borchetta was senior president of promotion for MCA Nashville. November 11 – Country music superstar Reba McEntire departs her longtime record label MCA Nashville, after 24 years and signed to The Valory Music Co., sister label to Big Machine Records.June 14 – Sara Evans and radio show host/former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker are married in Franklin, Tennessee, with their children as their attendants.May 23 – Anne Murray performs her final concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and retires from show business.The couple were married on December 28, 1993, after Twain met Lange at Nashville's Fan Fair earlier in the year. May 15 – People Magazine reported Canadian singer Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, had separated after 14 years of marriage.However, McCready would state that the relationship was sexual, and spoke about her affair with Clemens in more detail on the November 17 broadcast of Inside Edition. Though Clemens' attorney, Rusty Hardin, acknowledged that McCready was a "close family friend," Hardin denied the affair and threatened to bring a defamation suit against him. April 27 – A story in the New York Daily News reported a possible long-term relationship between Mindy McCready and baseball star Roger Clemens that began when she was 15 years old.5.3 Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees.5.2 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees.5.1 Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees.
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