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Contents 1 Events 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.1.1 United States 2.1.2 Canada 2.2 Other major hits 2.2.1 Singles released by American artists 2.2.2 Singles released by Canadian artists 3 Top new album releases 3.1 Other top albums 4 Deaths 5 Hall of Fame inductees 5.1 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees 5.2 Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees 6 Major awards 6.1 Grammy Awards 6.2 Juno Awards 6.3 Academy of Country Music 6.4 Canadian Country Music Association 6.5 Country Music Association 6.6 RPM Big Country Awards 7 Further reading 8 References 9 Other links 10 External links

[edit] Events

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

[edit] United States

(as certified by Billboard)

Date	Single Name	Artist	Wks. No.1	CAN peak	Spec. Note
January 14	Not a Moment Too Soon	Tim McGraw	2
January 28	Gone Country	Alan Jackson	1	2
February 4	Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)	Pam Tillis	2		[C] Fell from #1 to #16, the biggest fall from #1 since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.
February 18	My Kind of Girl	Collin Raye	1	24
February 25	Old Enough to Know Better	Wade Hayes	2		[C]
March 11	You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody	George Strait	1	2
March 18	This Woman and This Man	Clay Walker	2	2
April 1	Thinkin' About You	Trisha Yearwood	2	4
April 15	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Reba McEntire	1
April 22	I Can Love You Like That	John Michael Montgomery	3	3	[2] This was the second John Michael Montgomery song covered by R&B quartet All-4-One; like 1994's "I Swear," the cover version also became a major Billboard Hot 100 hit. Fell to #2 on the chart week of April 29.
April 29	Little Miss Honky Tonk	Brooks & Dunn	1
May 20	Gonna Get a Life	Mark Chesnutt	1	2
May 27	What Mattered Most	Ty Herndon	1		[A]
June 3	Summer's Comin'	Clint Black	3
June 24	Texas Tornado	Tracy Lawrence	1
July 1	Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)	John Michael Montgomery	3		[1]
July 22	Any Man of Mine	Shania Twain	2		[A] With this, her first No. 1, Twain became the first Canadian singer to reach No. 1 since Anne Murray reached No. 1 with "Now and Forever (You and Me)" in 1986.
August 5	I Don't Even Know Your Name	Alan Jackson	1	4
August 12	I Didn't Know My Own Strength	Lorrie Morgan	1	12	[B]
August 19	You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone	Brooks & Dunn	2		Of Brooks & Dunn's 20 Billboard Number Ones, this was the only one to feature Kix Brooks on lead vocals. All others featured Ronnie Dunn.
September 2	Not on Your Love	Jeff Carson	1	2	[C]
September 9	Someone Else's Star	Bryan White	1	5	[A]
September 16	I Like It, I Love It	Tim McGraw	5
October 21	She's Every Woman	Garth Brooks	1
October 28	Dust on the Bottle	David Lee Murphy	2	9	[C]
November 11	Check Yes or No	George Strait	4
December 9	Tall, Tall Trees	Alan Jackson	2		Written by George Jones and Roger Miller.
December 23	That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You	Aaron Tippin	2	10

[edit] Canada

(as certified by RPM)

Date	Single Name	Artist	Wks. No.1	U.S. Peak	Spec. Note
January 9	This Is Me	Randy Travis	1	5	Hit #5 in the US in 1994.
January 16	Not a Moment Too Soon	Tim McGraw	2
January 30	You and Only You	John Berry	2	4	[B]
February 13	Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)	Pam Tillis	1		[C]
February 20	I'm Here	Charlie Major	2	—
March 6	Old Enough to Know Better	Wade Hayes	1		[C]
March 13	Hopeless Love	One Horse Blue	1	—	[A]
March 20	Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?	Shania Twain	2	11	[A]
April 3	O Siem	Susan Aglukark	1	—	[C] Also reached #1 on the RPM Adult Contemporary charts.
April 10	What's Holding Me	George Fox	1	—	[A]
April 17	What Else Can I Do	Patricia Conroy	1	—	[B]
April 24	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Reba McEntire	1
May 1	So Help Me Girl	Joe Diffie	1	2
May 8	Little Miss Honky Tonk	Brooks & Dunn	1
May 15	Don't Cry Little Angel	Prairie Oyster	1	—
May 22	What Mattered Most	Ty Herndon	1		[A]
May 29	What Kind of Man	Joel Feeney	1	—	[C]
June 5	Any Man of Mine	Shania Twain	3
June 26	Summer's Comin'	Clint Black	1
July 3	Bringing Back Your Love	One Horse Blue	1	—	[B]
July 10	Texas Tornado	Tracy Lawrence	1
July 17	Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)	John Michael Montgomery	1
July 24	First Comes Love	George Fox	1	—	[B]
July 31	This Used to Be Our Town	Jason McCoy	2	—	[A]
August 14	And Still	Reba McEntire	1	2
August 21	Only One Moon	Prairie Oyster	2	—
September 4	You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone	Brooks & Dunn	1
September 11	She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl	Alabama	1	2
September 18	One Emotion	Clint Black	1	2
September 25	I Like It, I Love It	Tim McGraw	2
October 9	(I Do It) For the Money	Charlie Major	1	—
October 16	She's Every Woman	Garth Brooks	2		[2] Fell to #2 on October 23 and reclaimed #1 spot on November 20.
October 23	The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)	Shania Twain	2	14	[1]
November 6	I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No	BlackHawk	1	2	[A]
November 13	Learning a Lot About Love	Jason McCoy	1	—
November 27	Check Yes or No	George Strait	1
December 4	Tall, Tall Trees	Alan Jackson	2
December 18	Life Gets Away	Clint Black	1	4

[edit] Other major hits

[edit] Singles released by American artists

US	CAN	Single	Artist	Notes
3	2	Adalida	George Strait
8	8	All I Need to Know	Kenny Chesney
49	20	All That Heaven Will Allow	The Mavericks
4	6	Amy's Back in Austin	Little Texas
2	18	As Any Fool Can See	Tracy Lawrence
4	12	Back in Your Arms Again	Lorrie Morgan
3	28	Bend It Until It Breaks	John Anderson
11	3	Between an Old Memory and Me	Travis Tritt
15	10	Big Ol' Truck	Toby Keith
6	6	Bobbie Ann Mason	Rick Trevino
7	2	The Box	Randy Travis
16	12	Bubba Hyde	Diamond Rio
26	14	Cain's Blood	4 Runner	Co-written by Michael Johnson. 4 Runner's only Top 40 hit in the US.
2	4	Can't Be Really Gone	Tim McGraw
3	3	The Car	Jeff Carson
20	37	Clown in Your Rodeo	Kathy Mattea
4	7	Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)	Shenandoah	Co-written by Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn.
5	3	Doctor Time	Rick Trevino
10	12	Don't Stop	Wade Hayes
10	10	Down in Flames	BlackHawk
23	7	Down in Tennessee	Mark Chesnutt
13	20	Faith in Me, Faith in You	Doug Stone
6	6	Fall in Love	Kenny Chesney
23	2	The Fever	Garth Brooks	This is a re-written version of rock band Aerosmith's 1993 single "Fever".
19	23	Finish What We Started	Diamond Rio
5	4	The First Step	Tracy Byrd
3	8	For a Change	Neal McCoy
3	3	Give Me One More Shot	Alabama
14	7	Go Rest High on That Mountain	Vince Gill
2	2	Goin' Through the Big D	Mark Chesnutt
6	16	Halfway Down	Patty Loveless
13	9	Hard Lovin' Woman	Mark Collie
51	18	A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive	4 Runner
24	20	Heaven Bound (I'm Ready)	Shenandoah
22	4	Here Comes the Rain	The Mavericks
4	11	Here I Am	Patty Loveless
4	8	I Don't Believe in Goodbye	Sawyer Brown	Co-written by Bryan White.
15	9	I Got It Honest	Aaron Tippin
2	2	I Let Her Lie	Daryle Singletary
4	4	I Think About It All the Time	John Berry
9	25	I Wanna Go Too Far	Trisha Yearwood
7	9	I Want My Goodbye Back	Ty Herndon
16	20	I Was Blown Away	Pam Tillis	This song was withdrawn as a single after the Oklahoma City bombing.[1]
15	22	I Will Always Love You	Dolly Parton with Vince Gill	Cover of Parton's signature song, which was a Number One country hit for her twice. This rendition was not officially released as a single.
7	3	I'll Never Forgive My Heart	Brooks & Dunn
5	6	I'm Still Dancin' with You	Wade Hayes
25	11	If I Had Any Pride Left at All	John Berry
16	16	If I Was a Drinkin' Man	Neal McCoy
4	4	If I Were You	Collin Raye
2	7	If the World Had a Front Porch	Tracy Lawrence
18	15	If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl	Sammy Kershaw
3	7	In Between Dances	Pam Tillis
4	3	In Pictures	Alabama
2	5	The Keeper of the Stars	Tracy Byrd
7	8	Lead On	George Strait	Co written by Teddy Gentry of Alabama.
5	9	Let's Go to Vegas	Faith Hill
5	4	Life Goes On	Little Texas
9	6	Lipstick Promises	George Ducas
2	2	A Little Bit of You	Lee Roy Parnell
7	20	Little Houses	Doug Stone
24	12	Look at Me Now	Bryan White
11	14	Look What Followed Me Home	David Ball
9	13	Love Lessons	Tracy Byrd
15	11	Mississippi Moon	John Anderson
16	6	My Heart Will Never Know	Clay Walker
9	6	Night Is Fallin' in My Heart	Diamond Rio
3	2	No Man's Land	John Michael Montgomery
20	20	Nothing	Dwight Yoakam
20	22	On My Own	Reba McEntire	Cover of Patti LaBelle's 1986 duet with Michael McDonald. This rendition features guest vocals from Linda Davis, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood, who were not credited on it.
2	4	One Boy, One Girl	Collin Raye
6	7	Party Crowd	David Lee Murphy
5	3	Refried Dreams	Tim McGraw
4	38	Safe in the Arms of Love	Martina McBride	Canadian singer Michelle Wright concurrently released her own version of this same song.
3	2	Should've Asked Her Faster	Ty England	Before the release of this, his debut single, England was a guitarist in Garth Brooks' road band.
7	6	Sometimes She Forgets	Travis Tritt	Written by Steve Earle.
7	7	Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart	Shenandoah with Alison Krauss
6	11	Song for the Life	Alan Jackson
27	17	Southbound	Sammy Kershaw
27	18	Southern Grace	Little Texas
2	6	Standing on the Edge of Goodbye	John Berry
8	10	Stay Forever	Hal Ketchum
33	17	Storm in the Heartland	Billy Ray Cyrus	Peaked in the US in 1994
2	3	Tell Me I Was Dreaming	Travis Tritt
6	2	Tender When I Want to Be	Mary Chapin Carpenter
8	11	Tequila Talkin'	Lonestar
3	7	That Ain't My Truck	Rhett Akins
10	18	That's How You Know (When You're in Love)	Lari White
7	9	That's Just About Right	BlackHawk
3	8	They're Playin' Our Song	Neal McCoy
6	10	This Is Me Missing You	James House
11	5	(This Thing Called) Wantin' and Havin' It All	Sawyer Brown
2	5	This Time	Sawyer Brown
2	6	Till You Love Me	Reba McEntire
18	19	Trouble	Mark Chesnutt
10	10	Upstairs Downtown	Toby Keith
15	11	Walkin' to Jerusalem	Tracy Byrd
16	26	What'll You Do About Me	Doug Supernaw	Previously a #76 single in 1984 for Steve Earle and a #74 single in 1992 for The Forester Sisters.
24	17	When and Where	Confederate Railroad
3	7	When You Say Nothing at All	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Cover of Keith Whitley's Number One hit from 1989.
3	4	Wherever You Go	Clint Black
4	3	Which Bridge to Cross (Which Bridge to Burn)	Vince Gill
5	3	Whiskey Under the Bridge	Brooks & Dunn
2	2	Who Needs You Baby	Clay Walker
2	3	You Ain't Much Fun	Toby Keith
2	2	You Better Think Twice	Vince Gill
5	17	You Don't Even Know Who I Am	Patty Loveless
4	8	You Have the Right to Remain Silent	Perfect Stranger	Perfect Stranger's only Top 40 country hit.

[edit] Singles released by Canadian artists

US	CAN	Single	Artist
	20	Better Off Blue	Rena Gaile
3	3	Better Things to Do	Terri Clark
	7	Black-Eyed Susan	Prairie Oyster
	15	Broken String of Pearls	Prescott-Brown
	6	Chevy Coupe	Jim Witter
	15	Family Love	Farmer's Daughter
	10	The Girl Is on a Roll Tonight	Terry Kelly
	4	Head Over Heels	Blue Rodeo
	19	Hina Na Ho (Celebration)	Susan Aglukark
	8	I Don't Wanna Be the One	Patricia Conroy
	9	I Really Dug Myself a Hole	The Goods
	9	Life Is Just a Dream	Joel Feeney
	16	Light in My Life	The Johner Brothers with Lisa Brokop
	20	Listen to the Radio	Rebecca Miller
	18	Missing You	Calvin Wiggett
	20	Radioland	South Mountain
	18	Roy Orbison Came On	Ron Hynes
	4	Safe in the Arms of Love	Michelle Wright
	18	Starting Right Now	The Johner Brothers
	18	This Old Guitar	Jim Matt
	10	Time of My Life	George Fox
	16	Two Broken Hearted Fools	Rick Tippe
	19	Walkin' That Line	Tineta
	4	The Wall	Michelle Wright
	5	You Can't Resist It	Patricia Conroy
	14	You Feel the Same Way Too	The Rankin Family

[edit] Top new album releases

US	CAN	Album	Artist	Record Label
27	7	4 Runner	4 Runner	Polydor Nashville
1	1	All I Want	Tim McGraw	Curb
25	21	All of This Love	Pam Tillis	Arista Nashville
13	5	Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles	Various Artists	Liberty
	3	Country Heat 5	Various Artists	RCA
8	4	Dwight Live	Dwight Yoakam	Reprise
	6	Endless Seasons	The Rankin Family	EMI
1	1	Fresh Horses	Garth Brooks	Liberty
2	6	Games Rednecks Play	Jeff Foxworthy	Warner Bros.
5	5	Gone	Dwight Yoakam	Reprise
17		Greatest Hits	Little Texas	Warner Bros.
5	6	Greatest Hits	Lorrie Morgan	BNA
5	7	Greatest Hits 1990–1995	Sawyer Brown	Curb
3	17	Greatest Hits: From the Beginning	Travis Tritt	Warner Bros.
1	1	The Greatest Hits Collection	Alan Jackson	Arista Nashville
	22	Gypsies & Lovers	The Irish Descendants	Warner
12		Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas	The Tractors	Arista Nashville
19		The Hits Chapter 1	Sammy Kershaw	Mercury/PolyGram
14		Hog Wild	Hank Williams, Jr.	Curb/Warner Bros.
10		Hypnotize the Moon	Clay Walker	Giant
5	13	I Think About You	Collin Raye	Epic
12	10	In Pictures	Alabama	RCA Nashville
4	2	It Matters to Me	Faith Hill	Warner Bros.
	2	Jason McCoy	Jason McCoy	MCA
22	4	Jeff Carson	Jeff Carson	Curb
1	1	John Michael Montgomery	John Michael Montgomery	Atlantic
	8	Kickin' Country 3	Various Artists	Sony
13		Life Is Good	Emilio	Capitol Nashville
28	14	Life's So Funny	Joe Diffie	Epic
65	18	Little Acts of Treason	Carlene Carter	Giant
11	2	Lonestar	Lonestar	BNA
	5	Long Gone to the Yukon	Stompin' Tom Connors	EMI
25		Looking for Christmas	Clint Black	RCA Nashville
17		Looking for the Light	Rick Trevino	Columbia
6	15	Love Lessons	Tracy Byrd	MCA Nashville
	4	Lucky Man	Charlie Major	Arista
	14	Made for Each Other	Calvin Wiggett	Royalty
24		Mr. Christmas	Joe Diffie	Epic
9	3	Music for All Occasions	The Mavericks	MCA Nashville
13	12	NASCAR: Runnin' Wide Open	Various Artists	Columbia
	1	New Country 2	Various Artists	Warner
2	1	Now That I've Found You: A Collection	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Rounder
	18	Nowhere to Here	Blue Rodeo	Warner
21		O Holy Night	John Berry	Capitol Nashville
19		Old Enough to Know Better	Wade Hayes	Columbia
12	23	One	George Jones & Tammy Wynette	MCA Nashville
10	2	Out with a Bang	David Lee Murphy	MCA Nashville
19		The Redneck Test Volume 43	Jeff Foxworthy	Laughing Hyena
42	10	The Road Goes on Forever	The Highwaymen	Columbia
10	7	Something Special	Dolly Parton	Columbia
3	3	Souvenirs	Vince Gill	MCA Nashville
12	9	Standing on the Edge	John Berry	Patriot/Liberty
1	1	Starting Over	Reba McEntire	MCA Nashville
9	7	Strait Out of the Box	George Strait	MCA Nashville
4	5	Strong Enough	BlackHawk	Arista Nashville
13	2	Terri Clark	Terri Clark	Mercury/PolyGram
3	18	Thinkin' About You	Trisha Yearwood	MCA Nashville
	1	This Child	Susan Aglukark	EMI
10		This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All	Sawyer Brown	Curb
45	23	A Thousand Memories	Rhett Akins	Decca Nashville
	4	Time of My Life	George Fox	Warner
12		Tool Box	Aaron Tippin	RCA Nashville
24	10	Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged	Tracy Lawrence	Atlantic
13	30	Ty England	Ty England	RCA Nashville
	4	Untamed and True 2	Various Artists	MCA
9	3	What Mattered Most	Ty Herndon	Epic
	3	The Wheel Keeps on Rollin'	Asleep at the Wheel	Capitol Nashville
21		When and Where	Confederate Railroad	Atlantic
17	4	Wild Angels	Martina McBride	RCA Nashville
24	11	Wings	Mark Chesnutt	Decca Nashville
1	1	The Woman in Me	Shania Twain	Mercury/PolyGram
	19	Work of the Heart	Quartette	Denon
10		You Gotta Love That	Neal McCoy	Atlantic
7	13	You Have the Right to Remain Silent	Perfect Stranger	Curb

[edit] Other top albums

US	CAN	Album	Artist	Record Label
39		All I Need to Know	Kenny Chesney	BNA
41	27	Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel	Various Artists	Sparrow
43		Any Way the Wind Blows	Brother Phelps	Asylum
73		Born That Way	Boy Howdy	Curb
69		Country Dance Super Hits	Various Artists	K-Tel
44		Daryle Singletary	Daryle Singletary	Giant
48		Days Gone By	James House	Epic
45		Faith in Me, Faith in You	Doug Stone	Epic
28		Fire to Fire	Tanya Tucker	Liberty
	36	A Gene MacLellan Tribute	John Gracie	Atlantica
57		George Ducas	George Ducas	Liberty
61		Heart and Soul	Elvis Presley	RCA
48		Junior High	Junior Brown	Curb
72		Kim Richey	Kim Richey	Mercury/PolyGram
61		Labor of Love	Radney Foster	Arista Nashville
68		Letter to Laredo	Joe Ely	MCA Nashville
37		The Marty Party Hit Pack	Marty Stuart	MCA Nashville
44		The Moffatts	The Moffatts	Polydor Nashville
27		The Original Volume 79	Jeff Foxworthy	Laughing Hyena
72		Restless	Shelby Lynne	Magnatone
35		Sold Out Volume 80	Jeff Foxworthy	Laughing Hyena
54		Super Hits	Roy Orbison	Columbia
64		Super Hits	Ricky Van Shelton	Columbia
	26	Ten More Miles	The Johner Brothers	Warner
66		Today's Pure Country	Various Artists	K-Tel
63		Today's Sizzlin' Country	Various Artists	K-Tel
	37	Under the Big Sky	Hemingway Corner	Epic
26		We All Get Lucky Sometimes	Lee Roy Parnell	Career

[edit] Deaths

• November 10 — Curly Fox, 85, fiddler and one half of country-comedy duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby.

[edit] Hall of Fame inductees

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

• Roger Miller (1936-1992)
• Jo Walker-Meador (born 1924)

[edit] Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

• Gene MacLellan
• Stan Klees

[edit] Major awards

[edit] Grammy Awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Baby, Now That I've Found You," Alison Krauss
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "Go Rest High on That Mountain," Vince Gill
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "Here Comes the Rain," The Mavericks
• Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart," Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
• Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Hightower," Asleep at the Wheel, Béla Fleck and Johnny Gimble
• Best Country Song — "Go Rest High on That Mountain," Vince Gill
• Best Country Album — The Woman in Me, Shania Twain (Producer: Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
• Best Bluegrass Album — Unleashed, The Nashville Bluegrass Band

[edit] Juno Awards

• Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Charlie Major
• Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Shania Twain
• Country Group or Duo of the Year — Prairie Oyster

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer of the Year — Brooks & Dunn
• Song of the Year — "The Keeper of the Stars," Dickey Lee, Karen Staley, Danny Mayo (Performer: Tracy Byrd)
• Single of the Year — "Check Yes or No," George Strait
• Album of the Year — The Woman in Me, Shania Twain
• Top Male Vocalist — Alan Jackson
• Top Female Vocalist — Patty Loveless
• Top Vocal Duo — Brooks & Dunn
• Top Vocal Group — The Mavericks
• Top New Male Vocalist — Bryan White
• Top New Female Vocalist — Shania Twain
• Top New Vocal Duo or Group — Lonestar
• Video of the Year — "The Car" - Jeff Carson (Director: Michael Salomon)

[edit] Canadian Country Music Association

• Bud Country Fans' Choice Award — Michelle Wright
• Male Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
• Female Artist of the Year — Shania Twain
• Group or Duo of the Year — Prairie Oyster
• SOCAN Song of the Year — "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?," Shania Twain
• Single of the Year — "Any Man of Mine," Shania Twain
• Album of the Year — The Woman in Me, Shania Twain
• Top Selling Album — The Hits, Garth Brooks
• Video of the Year — "Any Man of Mine," Shania Twain
• Vista Rising Star Award — Farmer's Daughter
• Vocal Collaboration of the Year — Jim Witter and Cassandra Vasik

[edit] Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year — Alan Jackson
• Song of the Year — "Independence Day," Gretchen Peters (Performer: Martina McBride)
• Single of the Year — "When You Say Nothing at All," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Album of the Year — When Fallen Angels Fly, Patty Loveless
• Male Vocalist of the Year — Vince Gill
• Female Vocalist of the Year — Alison Krauss
• Vocal Duo of the Year — Brooks & Dunn
• Vocal Group of the Year — The Mavericks
• Horizon Award — Alison Krauss
• Music Video of the Year — "Baby Likes to Rock It," The Tractors (Director: Michael Salomon)
• Vocal Event of the Year — "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart," Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
• Musician of the Year — Mark O'Connor

[edit] RPM Big Country Awards

• Canadian Country Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
• Best Country Album — Only One Moon, Prairie Oyster
• Best Country Single — "Such a Lonely One", Prairie Oyster
• Male Artist of the Year — Charlie Major
• Female Artist of the Year — Michelle Wright
• Group of the Year — Prairie Oyster
• Outstanding New Artist — Shania Twain
• Top Country Composer(s) — Jim Witter and Johnny Douglas

[edit] Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

[edit] References

[edit] Other links

• Country Music Association
• Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

[edit] External links

• Country Music Hall of Fame