1999 IN COUNTRY MUSIC

''See also'':
1998 in country music, 1999 in music, other events of 1999, 2000 in country music, 1990s in music and the List of years in Country Music

Events

★ March 6 – Legendary performer George Jones, in the midst of a comeback this year, is seriously injured when he crashed his Lexus into a bridge. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident, and he pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges.
: Also during the year, Jones releases the album, ''Cold Hard Truth'' (to critical acclaim), and releases his semi-autobiographical single, "Choices."

★ June – Comedian Jeff Foxworthy debuts his syndicated radio countdown show, "'The Foxworthy Countdown'."

★ September 4 – Lonestar's monster hit, "Amazed," spends its eighth week at No. 1 on the ''Billboard magazine'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming the first song to do so since Jack Greene's 1966 hit, "There Goes My Everything." In several other trade magazines, including ''Radio & Records'', "Amazed" reigns for nine weeks, which made it the longest-reigning single since 1966's "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston. The song cements Lonestar's status as the top country band for pop-styled ballads, and further fueled the debate as to what is considered "real country." In fact, by year's end, "Amazed" is gaining popularity on CHR and adult contemporary stations (in re-mixed versions, which excised the steel guitar).
: As of 2006, only one other song – 2003's "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett – had matched Lonestar's No. 1-reign feat.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

''(As certified by Billboard magazine''

'Date'	'Song Name'	'Artist'	'Wks. No. 1'	'Spec. Note'
January 16	Right on the Money	Alan Jackson	1
January 23	Wrong Again	Martina McBride	1
January 30	Stand Beside Me	Jo Dee Messina	3	With this No. 1 hit, Messina became the first female artist to score three multi-week No. 1 songs from the same album (1998's ''I'm Alright'')
February 20	I Don't Want to Miss a Thing	Mark Chesnutt	2	^B ★ Cover of the Aerosmith song.
March 6	No Place That Far	Sara Evans (featuring Vince Gill)	1	^{A - Sara Evans} ^{B - Vince Gill}
March 13	You Were Mine	Dixie Chicks	2
March 27	How Forever Feels	Kenny Chesney	6
May 8	Wish You Were Here	Mark Wills	1	^A
May 15	Please Remember Me	Tim McGraw	5
June 19	Write This Down	George Strait	4
July 17	Amazed	Lonestar	8	^'1' ★ With its eight-week run, became the longest-running No. 1 song since 1966's "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston. ★ In early 2000, "Amazed" became the first song to top ''both'' the Hot Country Singles & Tracks ''and'' Billboard Hot 100 (since 1983's "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton).
September 11	Single White Female	Chely Wright	1	^C
September 18	You Had Me From Hello	Kenny Chesney	1
September 25	Something Like That	Tim McGraw	5
October 30	I Love You	Martina McBride	5
December 4	When I Said I Do	Clint Black (featuring Lisa Hartman Black)	2	^'2' ^{B - Clint Black} ^{C - Lisa Hartman Black}
December 11	He Didn't Have to Be	Brad Paisley	1	^A
December 25	Breathe	Faith Hill	6	A major crossover hit, "Breathe" peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100; although never a No. 1 song there, it was the Hot 100 chart's No. 1 hit of the year for 2000. Coincidentally, it ranked only No. 13 on the 2000 year-end ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

★ ^'1' - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by ''Billboard magazine''

★ ^'2' - song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.

★ ^A - First ''Billboard'' No. 1 hit for that artist.

★ ^B - Last ''Billboard'' No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

★ ^C - Only ''Billboard'' No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Other major hits

★ "A Man Ain't Made of Stone" - Randy Travis (#16)

★ "All Things Considered" - Yankee Grey (#8)

★ "Almost Home" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (#22)

★ "Anyone Else" - Collin Raye (#4)

★ "Busy Man" - Billy Ray Cyrus (#3)

★ "Come on Over" - Shania Twain (#6)

★ "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Dwight Yoakam (#12)

★ "Drive Me Wild" - Sawyer Brown (#6)

★ "Everytime I Cry" - Terri Clark (#12)

★ "For You I Will" - Aaron Tippin (#6)

★ "Fly (The Angel Song)" - The Wilkinsons (#15)

★ "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" - Alabama featuring 'N Sync (#3)

★ "Gone Crazy" - Alan Jackson (#4)

★ "Hands of a Working Man" - Ty Herndon (#5)

★ "Hillbilly Shoes" - Montgomery Gentry (#13)

★ "Hold on to Me" - John Michael Montgomery (#4)

★ "Home to You" - John Michael Montgomery (#2)

★ "I Can't Get Over You" - Brooks & Dunn (#5)

★ "I'll Go Crazy" - Andy Griggs (#10)

★ "I'll Think of a Reason Later" - Lee Ann Womack (#2)

★ "I'm Already Taken" - Steve Wariner (#3)

★ "I'm Leaving" - Aaron Tippin (#17)

★ "It Don't Matter To The Sun" - Chris Gaines (#24)

★ "Keepin' Up" - Alabama (#14)

★ "Lesson in Leavin'" - Jo Dee Messina (#2)

★ "Lightning Does the Work" - Chad Brock (#22)

★ "Little Good-Byes" - SHeDAISY (#3)

★ "Little Man" - Alan Jackson (#3)

★ "Lonely and Gone" - Montgomery Gentry (#5)

★ "Love Ain't Like That" - Faith Hill (#12)

★ "Make Up in Love" - Doug Stone (#19)

★ "Man! I Feel like a Woman!" - Shania Twain (#4)

★ "Maybe Not Tonight" - Sammy Kershaw and Lorrie Morgan (#17)

★ "Meanwhile" - George Strait (#4)

★ "Missing You" - Brooks & Dunn (#15)

★ "Now You See Me (Now You Don't)" - Lee Ann Womack (#12)

★ "One Honest Heart" – Reba McEntire (#7)

★ "Ordinary Life" - Chad Brock (#3)

★ "Ordinary Love" - Shane Minor (#24)

★ "Pop a Top" - Alan Jackson (#6)

★ "Powerful Thing" - Trisha Yearwood (#6)

★ "Ready to Run" - Dixie Chicks (#2)

★ "The Secret of Life" - Faith Hill (#4)

★ "She's Always Right" - Clay Walker (#16)

★ "Somebody's Out There Watching" - The Kinleys (#19)

★ "She's in Love" - Mark Wills (#7)

★ "Slave to the Habit" - Shane Minor (#20)

★ "Small Stuff" - Alabama (#24)

★ "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man" Randy Travis (#2)

★ "Stranger in My Mirror" - Randy Travis (#16)

★ "That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain (#8)

★ "There You Have It" - BlackHawk (#4)

★ "This Heartache Never Sleeps" - Mark Chesnutt (#17)

★ "Tonight the Heartache's On Me" - Dixie Chicks (#6)

★ "Two Teardrops" - Steve Wariner (#2)

★ "Unbelievable" - Diamond Rio (#2)

★ "What Do You Say to That" - George Strait (#4)

★ "Whatever You Say" - Martina McBride (#2)

★ "Who Needs Pictures" - Brad Paisley (#12)

★ "With You" - Lila McCann (#9)

★ "Wrong Night" - Reba McEntire (#6)

★ "You Won't Ever Be Lonely" - Andy Griggs (#2)

★ "You're Beginning to Get to Me" - Clay Walker (#2)

★ "You've Got a Way" - Shania Twain (#13)

Top new album releases

★ ''Always Never the Same'' — George Strait (MCA)

★ ''Breathe'' — Faith Hill (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Classics'' — Patty Loveless (Epic)

★ ''Cold Hard Truth'' — George Jones (Elektra/Asylum)

★ ''D'lectrified'' — Clint Black (RCA)

★ ''Emotion'' — Martina McBride (RCA)

★ ''Everywhere We Go'' — Kenny Chesney (BNA)

★ ''Fly'' — Dixie Chicks (Monument/Sony)

★ ''Forget About It'' — Alison Krauss (Rounder)

★ ''Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas'' — Garth Brooks (Capitol)

★ ''How Do You Like Me Now?!'' — Toby Keith (DreamWorks)

★ ''I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'' — Mark Chesnutt (MCA)

★ ''Keepers: Greatest Hits'' — Tracy Byrd (MCA)

★ ''Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the '90s'' — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)

★ ''LeAnn Rimes'' — LeAnn Rimes (Curb)

★ ''Live, Laugh, Love'' — Clay Walker (Giant)

★ ''Lonely Grill'' — Lonestar (BNA)

★ ''Merry Christmas Wherever You Are'' — George Strait (MCA)

★ ''Party Doll and Other Favorites'' — Mary Chapin Carpenter (Columbia)

★ ''A Place in the Sun'' — Tim McGraw (Curb)

★ '' — Reba McEntire (MCA)

★ ''She Rides Wild Horses'' — Kenny Rogers (Dreamcatcher)

★ ''Smoke Rings in the Dark'' — Gary Allan (MCA)

★ ''So Good Together'' — Reba McEntire (MCA)

★ ''Something in the Air'' — Lila McCann (Asylum)

★ ''Tattoos & Scars'' — Montgomery Gentry (Columbia)

★ ''Tightrope'' — Brooks & Dunn (Arista)

★ ''Trio II'' — Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton (Asylum)

★ ''Twentieth Century'' — Alabama (RCA)

★ ''Two Teardrops'' — Steve Wariner (Capitol)

★ ''Under the Influence'' — Alan Jackson (Arista)

★ ''The Whole SHeBANG'' — SHeDAISY (Lyric Street)

★ ''Who Needs Pictures'' — Brad Paisley (Arista)

Other top albums

★ ''20 Greatest Hits'' — Chris LeDoux (Capitol)

★ ''The Austin Sessions'' — Kris Kristofferson (Atlantic)

★ ''Being Human'' — Michael Peterson (Reprise)

★ ''Chad Brock'' — Chad Brock (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Closer'' — Susan Ashton (Capitol)

★ ''CMT All Access - Girls Night Out'' — Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Mindy McCready & Lorrie Morgan (RCA)

★ ''Deryl Dodd'' — Deryl Dodd (Columbia)

★ ''Drive Me Wild'' — Sawyer Brown (Curb)

★ ''Duets Volume 1'' — Patsy Cline (Mercury)

★ ''For the Record - 43 Legendary Hits'' — Merle Haggard (BNA)

★ ''The Grass Is Blue'' — Dolly Parton (Sugar Hill)

★ ''Greatest Bits'' — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Heart Shaped World'' — Jessica Andrews (DreamWorks)

★ ''Hits'' — Johnny Cash (Mercury)

★ ''Hits and Highways Ahead'' — Lee Roy Parnell (Arista)

★ ''Home to You'' — John Michael Montgomery (Atlantic)

★ ''How Lucky I Am'' — Bryan White (Asylum)

★ ''I'm Not So Tough'' — Mindy McCready (BNA)

★ ''I've Got a Right to Cry'' — Mandy Barnett (Sire)

★ ''In Spite of Ourselves'' — John Prine (Oh Boy)

★ ''It's About Time'' — Tracy Byrd (RCA)

★ ''Juddmental'' — Cledus T. Judd (Razor & Tie)

★ ''The Life of the Party'' — Neal McCoy (Giant)

★ ''Live in Texas'' — Lyle Lovett (Curb)

★ ''Live with the Possum'' — George Jones (Asylum)

★ ''Love in the Real World'' — Sherrié Austin (Arista)

★ ''Made Up in Love'' — Doug Stone (Atlantic)

★ ''A Man Ain't Made of Stone'' — Randy Travis (DreamWorks)

★ ''Maybe Not Tonight'' — Sammy Kershaw (Mercury)

★ ''More'' — Trace Adkins (Capitol)

★ ''The Mountain'' — Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band (E-Squared)

★ ''My Heart'' — Lorrie Morgan (BNA)

★ ''A Night to Remember'' — Joe Diffie (Epic)

★ ''Old Dogs'' — Old Dogs (Atlantic)

★ ''The Pilgrim'' — Marty Stuart (MCA)

★ ''Play'' — David Ball (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Revolutions'' — The Great Divide (Atlantic)

★ ''Ride with Bob'' — Asleep at the Wheel (DreamWorks)

★ ''Single White Female'' — Chely Wright (MCA)

★ ''South Sixty-Five'' — South Sixty-Five (Atlantic)

★ ''Steam'' — Ty Herndon (Epic)

★ ''Stormy'' — Hank Williams, Jr. (Curb)

★ ''Super Colossal Smash Hits of the '90s: The Best of The Mavericks'' — The Mavericks (Mercury)

★ ''Suzy Bogguss'' — Suzy Bogguss (Platinum)

★ ''That's the Truth'' — Paul Brandt (Reprise)

★ ''Untamed'' — Yankee Grey (Monument)

★ ''Western Wall — The Tucson Sessions'' — Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris (Asylum)

★ ''What a Wonderful World'' — Anne Murray (StraightWay)

★ ''What I Deserve'' — Kelly Willis (Rykodisc)

★ ''Wildest Dreams'' — John Berry (DreamWorks)

★ ''You Won't Ever Be Lonely'' — Andy Griggs (RCA)

Deaths

★ December 17 — Rex Allen, 78, "The Arizona Cowboy" and traveling rodeo performer.

★ December 20 — Hank Snow, 85, "The Singing Ranger," best known for "I'm Movin' On."

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

★ Johnny Bond (1915-1978)

★ Dolly Parton (born 1946)

★ Conway Twitty (1933-1993)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

★ 'Best Female Country Vocal Performance' -- "Man! I Feel like a Woman!," Shania Twain

★ 'Best Male Country Vocal Performance' -- "Choices," George Jones

★ 'Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal' -- "Ready to Run," Dixie Chicks

★ 'Best Country Collaboration with Vocals' -- "After the Gold Rush," Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt

★ 'Best Country Instrumental Performance' -- "Bob's Breakdowns," Tommy Allsup, Asleep at the Wheel, Floyd Domino, Larry Franklin, Vince Gill and Steve Wariner

★ 'Best Country Song' -- "Come on Over," Shania Twain and Robert John "Mutt" Lange

★ 'Best Country Album' -- ''Fly'', Dixie Chicks

★ 'Best Bluegrass Album' -- ''Ancient Tones'', Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Academy of Country Music

★ 'Entertainer Of The Year' -- Shania Twain

★ 'Song Of The Year' -- "Amazed," Marv Green, Aimee Mayo

★ 'Single Of The Year' -- "Amazed," Lonestar

★ 'Album Of The Year' -- ''Fly'', Dixie Chicks

★ 'Top Male Vocalist' -- Tim McGraw

★ 'Top Female Vocalist' -- Faith Hill

★ 'Top Vocal Duo Or Group' -- Dixie Chicks

★ 'Top New Male Vocalist' -- Brad Paisley

★ 'Top New Female Vocalist' -- Jessica Andrews

★ 'Top New Vocal Duo Or Group' -- Montgomery Gentry

★ 'Video Of The Year' -- "Breathe," Faith Hill (Director: Lili Fini Zanuck)

★ 'Vocal Event Of The Year' -- "When I Said I Do," Clint Black with Lisa Hartman Black

Country Music Association

★ 'Entertainer of the Year' -- Shania Twain

★ 'Song of the Year' -- "This Kiss," Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and Beth Nielsen Chapman

★ 'Single of the Year' -- "Wide Open Spaces," Dixie Chicks

★ 'Album of the Year' -- ''A Place in the Sun'', Tim McGraw

★ 'Male Vocalist of the Year' -- Tim McGraw

★ 'Female Vocalist of the Year' -- Martina McBride

★ 'Vocal Duo of the Year' -- Brooks & Dunn

★ 'Vocal Group of the Year' -- Dixie Chicks

★ 'Horizon Award' -- Jo Dee Messina

★ 'Music Video of the Year' -- "Wide Open Spaces," Dixie Chicks (Director: Thom Oliphant)

★ 'Vocal Event of the Year' -- "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man," Vince Gill and Patty Loveless

★ 'Musician of the Year' -- Randy Scruggs

External links

★ Country Music Hall of Fame

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