R&R.com : Issue Date: June 13, 2008

Country
*** No. 1 *** #1 Carrie Underwood Last Name (Arista/Arista Nashville)
Breaker/Most Increased Audience #29 Keith Urban You Look Good In My Shirt (Capitol Nashville)
Breaker #34 George Strait Troubadour (MCA Nashville)
Breaker #49 Bucky Covington I’ll Walk (Lyric Street)
Debut #56 Randy Houser Anything Goes (Universal South)
Debut #57 One Flew South My Kind Of Beautiful (Decca)
Re-Entry #58 Kid Rock All Summer Long (Top Dog/Atlantic)
Debut #60 Lady Antebellum Lookin’ For A Good Time (Capitol Nashville)

Don’t know but I’d guess in general.

“In the pop world, who do they think is buying all those Celine Dion CDs?”

Gay men?

Razor, when it comes Underwood we will just have to agree to disagree.
If she had came along 30-40 years ago I bet she would have been an outstanding traditional country singer.

No doubt, the market research about the demographics of country radio listeners is extensive, but I find it hard to believe that female listeners only want to hear male artists. In the pop world, who do they think is buying all those Celine Dion CDs? It’s not the men. Why would women who listen to country be different from women who listen to other kinds of music? I’m not trying to argue the point with you, but it just seems odd, don’t you think?

Here’s a quote from Lon Helton, editor and publisher of the trade publication Country Aircheck:
“The country music audience used to be split 51 to 49 female to male, and now it’s skewing about 57 percent female. There’s a theory that women really like to see male artists,”

The fact is that the majority of the country radio listeners are female and they overwhelmingly buy and request songs by male artists.

I meant “I Walk The Line”…I’m old and it’s pass my bedtime! LOL!!!

I though I’d clarify that there are actually three; Maren Morris registers at #19 with “All That It Takes.”

We’re not talking about country records crossing over onto the pop charts. We’re talking about pop records being marketed as country. And “Ring of Fire” came out in 1963, not 1956.

NorthTexas said: “Bullfeathers!! There are plenty of stations here in Texas that play traditional country music mostly from the Texas Music Chart and I guarantee you that Underwood, Swift and the Flatt boys will never appear on their playlists but neither will Ashton Shepherd or Crystal Shawanda. In the latest Texas Music Chart’s Top 40 there’s only two women listed…Miranda Lambert (23) & Sunny Sweeney (37) so I guess if a female country artist wants to be heard they have to go pop-country.”

There may be plenty of stations that play traditional country music in Texas, but that is not the case throughout the country. And why won’t those stations play female artists? Is it because of the shortage of females who are currently doing real country music or is there some other reason?

Bet folks said the same thing when Johnny Cash’s “Ring Of Fire” crossed over to the pop charts back in 1956!