Samuel Timothy McGraw is an American country singer,songwriter,record producer,and actor. He has released 16 studio albums. 10 of those albums have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts,with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. In total,McGraw's albums have produced 65 singles,25 of which have reached number one on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles –"It's Your Love","Just to See You Smile",and "Live Like You Were Dying" –were respectively the top country songs of 1997,1998,and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End. He has also won three Grammy Awards,14 Academy of Country Music awards,11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards,10 American Music Awards,and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour,which was done in partnership with his wife,Faith Hill,is one of the highest-grossing tours in country music history,and one of the top five among all genres of music. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide,making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian and American singer,guitarist,and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognised with four Grammy Awards,Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards,including the Jim Reeves International Award,thirteen CMA Awards,and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song "For You" from the film Act of Valor,which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.
Shane C. Drake is an American music video director and producer originally from Redding,California. He has directed videos for many artists,including Kelly Clarkson,Carrie Underwood,Avril Lavigne,Trivium,Paramore,Fall Out Boy,Panic! at the Disco,Angels &Airwaves,Flo Rida,Timbaland,Blindside,The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus,The Almost,Hawthorne Heights,Subseven,and AJR. He is best known for Panic! At the Disco:I Write Sins Not Tragedies (2006),Tim McGraw &Taylor Swift:Highway Don't Care (2013) and Paramore:Misery Business (2007).
"Tim McGraw" is the debut single by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift,who wrote it with Liz Rose for her self-titled debut studio album (2006). Big Machine Records released the song to US country radio on June 19,2006. Produced by Nathan Chapman,"Tim McGraw" is an acoustic guitar-led country ballad that incorporates the '50s progression and elements of alternative rock. In the lyrics,Swift's character pleads with her ex-boyfriend to remember her every time he hears her favorite song by the country musician Tim McGraw,the song's namesake.
Taylor Swift is the eponymous debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Under Big Machine Records,it was released in North America on October 24,2006,and elsewhere on March 18,2008. Swift had signed with Sony/ATV Tree publishing house in 2004,at age 14,to pursue a career as a country musician. Her contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 enabled her to work on the album during her second year of high school.
"Teardrops on My Guitar" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and the second single from her self-titled debut album (2006). Swift wrote the song with Liz Rose,and Nathan Chapman produced it. Big Machine Records released "Teardrops on My Guitar" to US country radio on February 20,2007. The song was released to US pop radio as a crossover single in November 2007. It was included on the international edition of Swift's second studio album,Fearless,and released in the UK in 2009.
Josh Kear is a multi-Grammy Award winning songwriter based in Nashville,Tennessee.
The discography of albums and singles released by American country music artist Vince Gill comprises 18 studio albums,16 compilation albums and one extended play. Between 1985 and 2017,Gill has charted 67 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart,including seven that reached number one.
Christopher Pierre Janson is an American country music singer and songwriter. Janson has recorded three full-length albums,Buy Me a Boat,Everybody,and Real Friends,through Warner Records Nashville,along with one extended play each for Bigger Picture Music Group,Columbia Records,and Warner Nashville. He has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts,including "Good Vibes" and "Done",both of which went to number one on the latter. In addition to his material,Janson has performed on albums by Holly Williams and Lee Brice and has co-written singles for Tim McGraw,LoCash,Randy Houser and Hank Williams Jr.
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2013.
"One of Those Nights" is a song written by Luke Laird,Rodney Clawson,and Chris Tompkins and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in November 2012 as the second single from McGraw's 2013 album Two Lanes of Freedom and his second one from Big Machine Records.
Two Lanes of Freedom is the twelfth studio album by American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released February 5,2013,as his first album for Big Machine Records following 20 years with Curb Records. He co-produced the album with Byron Gallimore,the producer of his previously released albums. The album includes the singles "Truck Yeah","One of Those Nights","Highway Don't Care" with Taylor Swift and "Southern Girl".
"Changed" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in December 2012 as the third single from their eighth studio album of the same name. The song was written by Gary LeVox,Wendell Mobley and Neil Thrasher. It was released to country radio on December 17,2012,and AC and Christian AC radio on January 22,2013.
Country Airplay is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States since October 20,2012,although the magazine also retrospectively recognizes the Hot Country Songs charts from January 20,1990,through October 13,2012,as part of the history of the Country Airplay listing. The chart lists the 60 most-listened-to records played on 150 mainstream country radio stations across the country as monitored by Nielsen BDS,weighted to each station's Nielsen ratings.
"Beat This Summer" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released in March 2013 as the second single from his 2013 album Wheelhouse. Paisley co-wrote this song with Chris DuBois and Luke Laird.
"Done" is a song recorded by American country music group The Band Perry. It was released in March 2013 as the second single from their second album Pioneer. Neil and Reid Perry co-wrote the song with John Davidson and Jacob Bryant. As of August 28,2013,the first week in which the song was no longer ranked among the top 30 selling country digital singles,the single had sold 782,000 in the United States.
"Southern Girl" is a song written by Jaren Johnston,Rodney Clawson,and Lee Thomas Miller and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in July 2013 as the fourth single from McGraw's album Two Lanes of Freedom.
"New Year's Day" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her sixth studio album,Reputation (2017). Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff,"New Year's Day" is a ballad that is driven by piano riffs and incorporates occasional guitar and synth notes;its acoustic arrangement is a stark contrast to Reputation's heavy electronic production. In the lyrics,a narrator spends the morning after a New Year's Eve party with her lover,and they together clean up their shared house and care for each other.
"That's When" is a song by Taylor Swift featuring Keith Urban. Swift wrote the song with the Warren Brothers when she was 14,and she recorded it with Urban for her first re-recorded album,Fearless (2021),the re-recording of her 2008 studio album Fearless. Produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff,"That's When" is one of the six unreleased "From the Vault" tracks on Fearless.
