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Artist Countdown February 21, 2022February 21, 2022

Monday 2/21/22 10am ET: Artist Countdown: Mary Chapin Carpenter Top 30 Hits

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer-songwriter.[1][2] Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter entered the 2000s with her seventh studio album Time* Sex* Love* (2001), debuting at number six on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The release was nominated by the Grammy Awards in 2002 for Best-Engineered Album. Three years later, Between Here and Gone (2004) was issued. The record was co-produced by Carpenter and pianist Matt Rollings. She returned in 2007 with her 10th studio album The Calling on Zoë Records. The project debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and sold 100,000 copies within its first few weeks. After recording a holiday album, Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas in 2008, Carpenter entered the next decade with The Age of Miracles in April 2010. Among other entries, The Age or Miracles debuted within the top 10 of the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. She followed with her 13th studio album Ashes and Roses (2012). Carpenter then collaborated with arranger Vince Mendoza to issue Songs from the Movie (2014), an album of orchestral music. In May 2016, The Things That We Are Made Of marked a return to traditional roots music and debuted a number eight on the Top Country Albums chart. Carpenter’s fifteenth studio album Sometimes Just the Sky (2018) contained new versions of previously-recorded material and debuted at number thirteen on the Billboard folk albums chart.

1	Passionate Kisses
2	I Feel Lucky
3	Shut Up and Kiss Me
4	He Thinks He’ll Keep Her
5	I Take My Chances
6	Tender When I Want to Be
7	Down at the Twist and Shout
8	Romeo (Dolly Parton & Friends)
9	Never Had It So Good
10	Quittin’ Time
11	Let Me into Your Heart
12	Something of a Dreamer
13	You Win Again
14	The Hard Way
15	Going Out Tonight
16	Not Too Much to Ask (with Joe Diffie)
17	Right Now
18	The Bug
19	House of Cards
20	Almost Home
21	How Do
22	I Want to Be Your Girlfriend
23	Why Walk When You Can Fly
24	The Way I Feel
25	Wherever You Are
26	Better to Dream of You
27	Simple Life
28	Keeping the Faith
29	I Put My Ring Back On
30	Soul Companion (with James Taylor)

Artist Countdown June 12, 2021

Saturday 6/12/21 12pm ET: Country Artist Countdown: Waylon Jennings Top 30 Hits

Waylon Arnold Jennings (born Wayland Arnold Jennings; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as one of the founding pioneers of the Outlaw Movement in country music. A total of sixteen Jennings’ singles have reached number one on music charts.

1	Good Hearted Woman (with Willie Nelson)	1976
2	Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)	1977
3	Amanda	1979
4	Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Willie Nelson)	1978
5	Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys)	1980
6	Take It to the Limit (with Willie Nelson)	1983
7	Just to Satisfy You (with Willie Nelson)	1982
8	Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way	1975
9	This Time	1974
10	Can’t You See	1976
11	I Ain’t Living Long Like This	1979
12	Rose in Paradise	1987
13	Brown Eyed Handsome Man	1969
14	Suspicious Minds (with Jessi Colter)	1976
15	Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will)	1983
16	Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand	1978
17	Shine	1981
18	The Taker	1970
19	There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang (Johnny Cash with Waylon Jennings)	1978
20	Pretend I Never Happened	1972
21	Clyde	1980
22	I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain’t Used Up)	1984
23	Never Could Toe the Mark	1984
24	You Can Have Her	1973
25	Sweet Dream Woman	1972
26	Are You Ready for the Country	1977
27	Women Do Know How to Carry On	1982
28	Will the Wolf Survive	1986
29	Working Without a Net	1986
30	Breakin’ Down	1983

Artist Countdown June 5, 2021June 5, 2021

Saturday 6/5/21 12pm ET: Mac Country Saturday: Country Artist Countdown: Brooks & Dunn Top 30 Hits (Twitter: @BrooksAndDunn)

Brooks & Dunn is an American country music duo composed of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn. Signed to Arista Nashville, Brooks & Dunn has released twelve studio albums and seven compilation albums for the label. The duo has also charted 55 singles on the Billboard country charts, including twenty Number One hits. Two of their Number Ones have been declared by Billboard as the country single of the year: a cover of B.W. Stevenson’s “My Maria” in 1996.

We have tried to rank the Top 30 and it was one of the more difficult to do.

1	Cowgirls Don’t Cry (with Reba McEntire)	2008
2	Put a Girl in It	2008
3	Proud of the House We Built	2007
4	Husbands and Wives	1998
5	Play Something Country	2005
6	That’s What It’s All About	2004
7	Boot Scootin’ Boogie	1992
8	I Can’t Get Over You	1999
9	It’s Getting Better All the Time	2004
10	That’s What She Gets for Loving Me	2004
11	You’ll Always Be Loved by Me	2000
12	Building Bridges (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)	2006
13	My Maria	1996
14	Believe	2005
15	God Must Be Busy	2007
16	Missing You	1999
17	Rock My World (Little Country Girl)	1993
18	Brand New Man	1991
19	Neon Moon	1992
20	She Used to Be Mine	1993
21	She’s Not the Cheatin’ Kind	1994
22	Little Miss Honky Tonk	1995
23	You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone	1995
24	If You See Him/If You See Her (with Reba McEntire)	1998
25	How Long Gone	1998
26	We’ll Burn That Bridge	1993
27	Indian Summer	2009
28	My Next Broken Heart	1991
29	That Ain’t No Way to Go	1994
30	Hard Workin’ Man	1993

Artist Countdown May 29, 2021May 29, 2021

Saturday 5/29/21 12pm ET: MaxCountry Saturday: Artist Countdown: Wynonna Judd – Top 30 Hits

Wynonna Judd has released nine studio albums, four compilation albums, two video albums, one live album, 43 singles, 11 music videos and one other-charting song. She achieved success as one half of the mother-daughter duo, The Judds. In 1991, the duo split and Wynonna signed a solo recording contract with MCA Records that year. In March 1992, her debut studio album entitled Wynonna reached number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number four on the Billboard 200. The album spawned three number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: “She Is His Only Need,” “I Saw the Light” and “No One Else on Earth.” The album also sold over five million copies. In 1993, it was followed by Tell Me Why, which certified platinum in the United States. It also topped the country albums chart and reached number five on the Billboard 200 It spawned five more top ten country hits, including the title track and “Rock Bottom.”

In 1996, her third studio album Revelations was issued. It produced the number one hit “To Be Loved by You” and reached number two on the Billboard country albums chart. It was followed by 1997’s The Other Side, which debuted in the Billboard country top five. It spawned two top 20 hits, including “When Love Starts Talkin’.” In 2000, Judd released her fifth studio album, New Day Dawning, which produced no major hit singles. In 2003, Judd returned with her sixth studio effort, What the World Needs Now Is Love. It reached number one on the Top Country Albums chart and number eight on the Billboard 200. It produced Judd’s final top 20 country hit: “What the World Needs.” In 2005, she released her first live effort entitled Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime. Its only single, “Attitude,” is her final country top 40 hit to date. In 2006, her first holiday album reached number ten on the country albums chart. In 2009, she issued an album of cover songs entitled Sing: Chapter 1. The title track reached number four on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In 2016, Judd released her eighth studio offering called Wynonna & the Big Noise on Curb Records.

1	Tell Me Why	1993
2	No One Else on Earth	1992
3	She Is His Only Need	1992
4	To Be Loved by You	1996
5	A Bad Goodbye (Clint Black with Wynonna Judd)	1993
6	I Saw the Light	1992
7	Only Love	1993
8	Rock Bottom	1994
9	My Strongest Weakness	1992
10	Is It Over Yet	1993
11	When Love Starts Talkin’	1997
12	Girls with Guitars	1994
13	Heaven Help My Heart	1996
14	Come Some Rainy Day	1997
15	I Want to Know What Love Is	2004
16	My Angel Is Here	1996
17	Can’t Nobody Love You (Like I Do)	1999
18	What the World Needs	2003
19	Always Will	1998
20	Going Nowhere	2000
21	Sing	2009
22	Somebody to Love You	1996
23	Flies on the Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) with Naomi Judd	2004
24	Woman to Woman	1998
25	Heaven Help Me	2003
26	Attitude	2005
27	Freedom	1998
28	Let’s Make a Baby King	1993
29	Father Sun	1993
30	Cool Ya!	2016

Feature Artist April 24, 2021

Saturday 4/24/21 1pm ET: Max Country Feature Artist – Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lee Lawrence (born January 27, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Atlanta, Texas and raised in Foreman, Arkansas, Lawrence began performing at age 15 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1990 to begin his country music career. He signed to Atlantic Records Nashville in 1991 and made his debut late that year with the album Sticks and Stones. Five more studio albums, as well as a live album and a compilation album, followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label’s country division was closed in 2001. Afterward, he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, DreamWorks Records, Mercury Records Nashville, and his own labels, Rocky Comfort Records and Lawrence Music Group.

Lawrence has released a total of 14 studio albums. His most commercially successful albums are Alibis (1993) and Time Marches On (1996), both certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including eight songs that reached the number one position: “Sticks and Stones”, “Alibis”, “Can’t Break It to My Heart”, “My Second Home”, “If the Good Die Young”, “Texas Tornado”, “Time Marches On”, and “Find Out Who Your Friends Are”. Of these, “Time Marches On” is his longest-lasting at three weeks, while “Find Out Who Your Friends Are” set a record at the time for the slowest ascent to the top of that chart. His musical style is defined mainly by neotraditional country and honky-tonk influences, although he has also recorded country pop, Christmas music, and Christian country music. He has won Top New Male Vocalist from Billboard in 1992 and from Academy of Country Music in 1993, and Vocal Event of the Year from the Country Music Association in 2007.