Kudos to Taylor and Sugarland for such a successful year. There is something to be said for artists that truly embrace their own music and their own work.
Sure, everyone may not like them but apparently many, many others do. … including me.
Say what you will but I find a definite artists’ uniqueness in these acts, unlike the “hat acts” that immediately follow them on this list.

Taylor and Sugarland offer another “something” to their fans, beit the online relationship Taylor keeps with her fans and the very relatable lyrics (audience age considered) OR the thoughtful, personal lyrics of Sugarland… not to mention how they aren’t so wrapped up in Music Row.

As far as the rest of the list: Interesting how fast Faith Hill’s Christmas cd shot up the list.

Music Row needs to stop fighting the internet and learn to work with it. Times they are a-changin’.

Yes, all things considered, these are fairly good numbers for Patty Loveless..GAC was good to her for a few months, but now she seems to have dropped off even their radar…and CMT pretty much followed suit with country radio and ignored her completely.

And I agree, I am so glad that Patty and Emory have the financial freedom to make the kind of music they love, without sales calculations. We fans of quality Country are the beneficiaries here.

But still, given many of the entertainers who scored a higher rank, I have to say it’s that old inverse ratio thing again, where the more talent one has, the less recognition one recieves. Obviously there are notable exceptions here, but in Patty’s case, as well as some others, this applies. Actually..it applies on both sides of the equation.

Oh and Country Universe has made a good impression on Patty’s record label for your top 40 singles countdown. Sagauro has announced Patty’s #34 ranking on their website, and used Blake’s well written blurb to share the good news! Congrat’s guys!

I think that was a great move for Patty and Emory to move to Saguaro Road Records…they are a label that knows how to SHOW their appreciation for their quality artists by giving them the support they deserve.

Jordan, I didn’t realize that so few female solo artists have had #1 singles since 2005. Very surprising considering how Taylor and Carrie dominate the charts…I’m glad that Sara was one of them anyway…but yeah, that is very surprising.

I wish the industry had a way of seporating sales by genre so that all the pop fans who bought Jessica’s and Taylor’s albums were not counted in this tally so we could see how they really made out in their target audience of country fans.

I have no problem with Taylor, but I think credit in country should only be given where it’s earned IN THE GENRE, not in others as well.

All hope is lost.
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Yea I just saw that when I checked it, I was kinda hoping it would at least make top 15. I’m a bit upset that Lady A slipped from 11 to 12, I thought they’d go top 10 this week. I’m still holding out hope for them though!!

I had an album question, Chuck Wicks’ cd was released in January, has it not even sold 17,000 copies yet?? Or was does it not count for the 2008 list??