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1998 in country music

See also: 1997 in country music, 1998 in music, other events of 1998, 1999 in country music, 1990s in music and the List of years in Country Music

Events

  • January 10 – "Retro Country USA," a weekly two-hour syndicated radio program spotlighting major country hits of the 1980s (along with some from the 1970s and early 1990s), premieres. The show is hosted by Tampa radio personality Ken Cooper.
  • February 25 – Johnny Cash's album, Unchained, wins a Grammy Award for Best Country Album. The album had been a critical success but was largely ignored by mainstream country radio, a fact Cash and producer Rick Rubin pick up on when they purchase a full-page advertisement in Billboard magazine. The ad, which appeared in March, featured a young Cash displaying his middle finger and sarcastically "thanking" radio for supporting the album.
  • June 30 – The divorce of Vince and Janis Gill (of Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is finalized.
  • December – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honors Willie Nelson for his lifetime contributions to the arts. Nelson is the first primarily country performer so honored.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Date Song Name Artist Wks. No. 1 Spec.
Note
January 10 A Broken Wing Martina McBride 1
January 17 Just to See You Smile Tim McGraw 6 1
February 28 What If I Said Anita Cochran with Steve Wariner 1 C - Anita Cochran
B - Steve Wariner
  • The song became Wariner's first No. 1 hit
    in more than eight years and Cochran's only No. 1 hit to date. It was also Anita's only Top 40 single.
March 7 Round About Way George Strait 2
March 21 Nothin' But the Taillights Clint Black 2
April 4 Perfect Love Trisha Yearwood 2
April 18 Bye, Bye Jo Dee Messina 2 A
May 2 You're Still the One Shania Twain 1 Reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest peak in 15 years
for a song that reached No. 1 on the magazine's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
May 9 Two Piña Coladas Garth Brooks 1
May 16 This Kiss Faith Hill 3 Became Hill's breakthrough pop hit, and established her as a major crossover artist.
June 6 I Just Want to Dance With You George Strait 3
June 27 If You See Him/If You See Her Reba McEntire with Brooks & Dunn 2
July 11 The Shoes You're Wearing Clint Black 1
July 18 I Can Still Feel You Collin Raye 2 B
August 1 To Make You Feel My Love Garth Brooks 1 Became the first Bob Dylan-penned song to reach the top of the country charts.
August 8 There's Your Trouble Dixie Chicks 2 A
August 22 I'm Alright Jo Dee Messina 3
September 12 How Long Gone Brooks & Dunn 3
October 3 Where the Green Grass Grows Tim McGraw 4
October 31 Honey, I'm Home Shania Twain 1 B
November 7 Wide Open Spaces Dixie Chicks 4
December 5 It Must Be Love Ty Herndon
(featuring Sons of the Desert)		 1 A - Sons of the Desert
B - Ty Herndon
December 12 Let Me Let Go Faith Hill 1
December 19 Husbands and Wives Brooks & Dunn 1
December 26 You're Easy on the Eyes Terri Clark 3 A
With this, her first No. 1, Clark became just the fourth Canadian-based country act
to have a No. 1 hit (Hank Snow, Anne Murray and Shania Twain were the others). Emerson Drive has since become the fifth Canadian-based country act to do so.
  • 1 – No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
  • 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

Top new album releases

Other top albums

Deaths

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Further reading

  • Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
  • Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
  • Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

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