Blake Shelton‘s thundering”God’s Country” won only one of this year in the 55th yearly Academy of Country Music Awards Wednesday (Sept. 16), 10 weeks later it won in exactly the exact identical class at the 53rd annual Country Music awards.
“God’s Country” is your 20th only to take high honors in either of country music’s best award shows. All of 20 singles reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Country Singles chart. This ’no surprise. All of these are stone-cold nation classics.
Alan Jackson includes just two of those double sided winners–his good-time smash”Chattahoochee” along with also his 9/11 rumination”Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).”
For any reason, fewer singles have chosen the top prize at the two displays in the last several decades. In the last twenty decades, six sisters have won only of the year in both displays down from nine sisters at the past 20 years (1980-99).
Following is an entire collection of those 20 singles who have won only of the year in the CMAs and the ACMs, together with how long they woke Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart and just how large they climbed onto the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
1969: Merle Haggard‘s “Okie from Muskogee.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: No. 41.
This is the very first single by a female performer to win one of this year in both displays. Additionally, this happened that the only time that an artist first chart hit won at the top class at both displays. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 for 3 months; Sexy 100: No. 11.
Hot Country Songs: No. 1 to 2 weeks; Sexy 100: No. 15.
This is the very first of six sisters who won one of the year in the two shows, but did not even create the Hot 100. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 for a week; Sexy 100: failed to chart.
That was the very first of four sisters who won one of the year in the two displays that left the top 10 on the Hot 100. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 to 2 weeks; Sexy 100: No. 5.
1980: George Jones‘ “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for a week; Sexy 100: didn’t chart.
This is the very first only by a band or duo to acquire one of this year in both displays. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 for a week; Sexy 100: No. 5.
1982: Willie Nelson‘s”Always in My Head.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 to 2 weeks; Sexy 100: No. 5.
1987: Randy Travis‘ “Forever and Ever, Amen.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 3 months; Sexy 100: didn’t chart.
1988: Kathy Mattea‘s “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses.” This is the 2nd only by a female performer to win one of this year in both displays. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 to 2 weeks; Sexy 100: didn’t chart.
1990: Garth Brooks‘”Friends in High Places.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: didn’t chart.
Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: No. 46.
Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: No. 42.
1995: George Strait‘s”Check No or Yes.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: didn’t chart.
2000: Lee Ann Womack/Sons of the Desert’s “I Hope You Dance.” Here is the sole collaboration to acquire single of this year at both displays. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 for 5 months; Sexy 100: No. 14.
2001: Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 5 months; Sexy 100: No. 28.
Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months; Sexy 100: No. 29.
2009: Woman A‘s”Need You” That is the only single by a mixed-gender team or duo to acquire one of this year in both displays. Of those 20 singles who won both of this year in the two shows, this achieved the maximum rank in the Hot 100. Sexy Country Tunes: No. 1 for 5 months; Sexy 100: No. 2.
2015: Thomas Rhett‘s”Die a Happy Person.” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 to 17 months (No. 1 to 2 months on Nation Airplay); Sexy 100: No. 21.
2019: Blake Shelton’s”God’s Country” Hot Country Songs: No. 1 for 2 months (No. 1 to a couple of weeks on Nation Airplay); Sexy 100: No. 17.
Notice: The years shown are the ACM awards decades. “God’s Country” is your 2019 ACM winner for every single of this year.
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