George Strait
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Albums
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“Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
“Shiftwork” (with Kenny Chesney)
Industry Honors:
Country Music Hall of Fame, 2006
Grammy Awards
- Best Country Album: Troubadour, 2009
Country Music Association Awards
- Album: Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, 1985
- Male Vocalist, 1985, 1986, 1996, 1997 & 1998
- Entertainer, 1989 & 1990
- Album: Blue Clear Sky, 1996
- Single: “Check Yes or No,” 1996
- Album: Carrying Your Love with Me, 1997
- Vocal Event: “Murder on Music Row (with Alan Jackson),” 2000
- Album: It Just Comes Natural, 2007
- Album: Troubadour, 2008
- Single: “I Saw God Today,” 2008
Academy of Country Music Awards
- Top Male Vocalist, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1997 & 1998
- Album: Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, 1986
- Entertainer, 1990
- Album: Blue Clear Sky, 1997
- Album: Carrying Your Love with Me, 1998
- Single: “Give It Away,” 2007
- Song: “Give It Away,” 2007
RIAA Certifications
Albums
8x Platinum
- Strait Out of the Box, 1995
7x Platinum
- 50 Number Ones, 2004
6x Platinum
- Pure Country (Soundtrack), 1992
4x Platinum
- Greatest Hits, 1985
3x Platinum
- Greatest Hits Volume Two, 1987
- Blue Clear Sky, 1996
- Carrying Your Love With Me, 1997
2x Platinum
- Merry Christmas Strait to You, 1986
- Ocean Front Property, 1987
- Easy Come Easy Go, 1993
- Lead On, 1994
- One Step at a Time, 1998
- Latest Greatest Straitest Hits, 2000
Platinum
- Strait Country, 1981
- Strait From the Heart, 1982
- Right or Wrong, 1983
- Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, 1984
- Something Special, 1985
- #7, 1986
- If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’, 1988
- Beyond the Blue Neon, 1989
- Livin’ it Up, 1990
- Chill of an Early Fall, 1991
- Ten Strait Hits, 1991
- Holding My Own, 1992
- Always Never the Same, 1999
- The Road Less Traveled, 2001
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection, 2002
- Honkytonkville, 2003
- Somewhere Down in Texas, 2005
- It Just Comes Natural, 2006
- Fresh Cut Christmas, 2006
- Troubadour, 2008
Gold
- Merry Christmas Wherever You Are, 1999
- George Strait, 2000
- For the Last Time: Live From the Astrodome, 2003
- 22 More Hits, 2007
- Twang, 2009
Singles
Gold
- I Saw God Today, 2008
- Troubadour, 2008
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