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1987 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1987.

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Events

  • June 13 — Randy Travis' "Forever and Ever, Amen" spends three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It is the first multi-week chart-topping song since "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" by Ronnie Milsap spent two weeks atop the chart in September 1985; in that time span, 85 other songs had been No. 1. Only three other songs during the 1980s — all of them in 1980 — would spend more than two weeks at No. 1, owing much to how Billboard compiled the chart data at the time.
  • September — Dolly Parton's TV variety series, Dolly, premieres on ABC in September. Despite strong ratings in its early weeks, the show was panned by critics and viewership declined. The series was cancelled at the end of the 1987–1988 season.

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  • 46-year-old singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin becomes the success story of the year with her hit "80s Ladies", a Grammy Award-winner which tells the story of three childhood friends who stay together through an era of social change. The song spawns an award-winning video and, despite only reaching No. 7 on the Hot Country Singles chart, was one of the most played songs of the year. Oslin's rise to fame in her mid-40s came at a time when mainstream country radio was beginning to shun older female artists for younger, more attractive stars.

Top hits of the year

{{See also|List of number-one country singles of 1987 (U.S.)|List of number-one country hits of 1987 (Canada)}}

=Singles released by American artists=

class="wikitable sortable"

!width="50"|US

!width="50"|CAN

!width="250"|Single

!width="150"|Artist

align="center"|7

|align="center"|4

|80's Ladies

|K. T. Oslin

align="center"|86

|align="center"|17

|Ain't No Cure for Love

|Jennifer Warnes

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|All My Ex's Live in Texas

|George Strait

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Am I Blue

|George Strait

align="center"|16

|align="center"|35

|American Me

|S-K-O

align="center"|4

|align="center"|—

|Another World

|Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|Baby's Got a Hold on Me

|Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

align="center"|1

|align="center"|—

|Baby's Got a New Baby

|S-K-O

align="center"|4

|align="center"|8

|The Bed You Made for Me

|Highway 101

align="center"|10

|align="center"|9

|Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)

|David Lynn Jones

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Born to Boogie

|Hank Williams, Jr.

align="center"|9

|align="center"|4

|Brilliant Conversationalist

|T. Graham Brown

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You

|The O'Kanes

align="center"|6

|align="center"|1

|The Carpenter

|John Conlee

align="center"|4

|align="center"|7

|Chains of Gold

|Sweethearts of the Rodeo

align="center"|16

|align="center"|30

|Changin' Partners

|Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers

align="center"|13

|align="center"|14

|Child Support

|Barbara Mandrell

align="center"|5

|align="center"|3

|Cinderella

|Vince Gill

align="center"|10

|align="center"|23

|Cowboy Man

|Lyle Lovett

align="center"|3

|align="center"|7

|Crazy from the Heart

|The Bellamy Brothers

align="center"|4

|align="center"|—

|Crazy Over You

|Foster & Lloyd

align="center"|7

|align="center"|5

|Crime of Passion

|Ricky Van Shelton

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|Cry Myself to Sleep

|The Judds

align="center"|9

|align="center"|12

|Daddies Need to Grow Up Too

|The O'Kanes

align="center"|10

|align="center"|10

|Deep River Woman

|Lionel Richie with Alabama

align="center"|85

|align="center"|17

|Didn't You Go and Leave Me

|Rosemary Sharp

align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

|Do Ya

|K. T. Oslin

align="center"|4

|align="center"|5

|Domestic Life

|John Conlee

align="center"|10

|align="center"|4

|Don't Be Cruel

|The Judds

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Don't Go to Strangers

|T. Graham Brown

align="center"|20

|align="center"|19

|Don't Touch Me There

|Charly McClain

align="center"|4

|align="center"|7

|A Face in the Crowd

|Michael Martin Murphey and Holly Dunn

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|Fallin' for You for Years

|Conway Twitty

align="center"|8

|align="center"|11

|Fallin' Out

|Waylon Jennings

align="center"|7

|align="center"|5

|Fire in the Sky

|Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Fishin' in the Dark

|Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

align="center"|7

|align="center"|11

|Forever

|The Statler Brothers

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Forever and Ever, Amen

|Randy Travis

align="center"|16

|align="center"|18

|Full Grown Fool

|Mickey Gilley

align="center"|7

|align="center"|10

|Girls Ride Horses Too

|Judy Rodman

align="center"|13

|align="center"|18

|Give Back My Heart

|Lyle Lovett

align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

|Give Me Wings

|Michael Johnson

align="center"|18

|align="center"|23

|God Will

|Lyle Lovett

align="center"|8

|align="center"|10

|Goodbye's All We've Got Left

|Steve Earle

align="center"|10

|align="center"|11

|Gotta Get Away

|Sweethearts of the Rodeo

align="center"|9

|align="center"|6

|Gotta Have You

|Eddie Rabbitt

align="center"|2

|align="center"|3

|Half Past Forever (Till I'm Blue in the Heart)

|T. G. Sheppard

align="center"|6

|align="center"|6

|The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

|Glen Campbell (with Steve Wariner)

align="center"|10

|align="center"|—

|Hard Livin'

|Keith Whitley

align="center"|14

|align="center"|50

|Have I Got Some Blues for You

|Charley Pride

align="center"|18

|align="center"|39

|He's Letting Go

|Baillie & the Boys

align="center"|9

|align="center"|25

|Homecoming '63

|Keith Whitley

align="center"|17

|align="center"|12

|House of Blue Lights

|Asleep at the Wheel

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|How Do I Turn You On

|Ronnie Milsap

align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

|I Can't Win for Losin' You

|Earl Thomas Conley

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|I Know Where I'm Going

|The Judds

align="center"|14

|align="center"|19

|I Only Wanted You

|Marie Osmond

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|I Prefer the Moonlight

|Kenny Rogers

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|I Want to Know You Before We Make Love

|Conway Twitty

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|I Will Be There

|Dan Seals

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)

|Randy Travis

align="center"|10

|align="center"|24

|I'll Be the One

|The Statler Brothers

align="center"|5

|align="center"|9

|I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

|Judy Rodman

align="center"|2

|align="center"|1

|I'll Come Back as Another Woman

|Tanya Tucker

align="center"|4

|align="center"|15

|I'll Never Be in Love Again

|Don Williams

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|I'll Still Be Loving You

|Restless Heart

align="center"|9

|align="center"|24

|If There's Any Justice

|Lee Greenwood

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow)

|The Oak Ridge Boys

align="center"|31

|align="center"|7

|It Won't Hurt

|Dwight Yoakam

align="center"|8

|align="center"|12

|It's Only Over for You

|Tanya Tucker

align="center"|2

|align="center"|3

|Julia

|Conway Twitty

align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

|Kids of the Baby Boom

|The Bellamy Brothers

align="center"|37

|align="center"|20

|Killbilly Hill

|Southern Pacific

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|The Last One to Know

|Reba McEntire

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Leave Me Lonely

|Gary Morris

align="center"|4

|align="center"|5

|Let the Music Lift You Up

|Reba McEntire

align="center"|16

|align="center"|17

|Let's Do Something

|Vince Gill

align="center"|7

|align="center"|3

|Little Sister

|Dwight Yoakam

align="center"|8

|align="center"|1

|Little Ways

|Dwight Yoakam

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|A Long Line of Love

|Michael Martin Murphey

align="center"|10

|align="center"|7

|Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This

|Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White

align="center"|2

|align="center"|3

|Love Me Like You Used To

|Tanya Tucker

align="center"|6

|align="center"|5

|Love Reunited

|The Desert Rose Band

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|Love Someone Like Me

|Holly Dunn

align="center"|6

|align="center"|4

|Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me

|John Schneider

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Lynda

|Steve Wariner

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Make No Mistake, She's Mine

|Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap

align="center"|11

|align="center"|7

|Mama's Rockin' Chair

|John Conlee

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Maybe Your Baby's Got the Blues

|The Judds

align="center"|4

|align="center"|6

|Midnight Girl/Sunset Town

|Sweethearts of the Rodeo

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder

|Michael Johnson

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Mornin' Ride

|Lee Greenwood

align="center"|19

|align="center"|37

|No Easy Horses

|S-K-B

align="center"|2

|align="center"|1

|No Place Like Home

|Randy Travis

align="center"|20

|align="center"|7

|Nowhere Road

|Steve Earle

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Ocean Front Property

|George Strait

align="center"|9

|align="center"|17

|Oh Heart

|Baillie & the Boys

align="center"|11

|align="center"|—

|Old Bridges Burn Slow

|Billy Joe Royal

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|One for the Money

|T. G. Sheppard

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|One Promise Too Late

|Reba McEntire

align="center"|4

|align="center"|7

|Only When I Love

|Holly Dunn

align="center"|9

|align="center"|9

|Plain Brown Wrapper

|Gary Morris

align="center"|76

|align="center"|17

|Real Good Heartache

|Rosemary Sharp

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Right from the Start

|Earl Thomas Conley

align="center"|3

|align="center"|5

|Right Hand Man

|Eddy Raven

align="center"|8

|align="center"|6

|The Right Left Hand

|George Jones

align="center"|16

|align="center"|14

|The Rock and Roll of Love

|Tom Wopat

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Rose in Paradise

|Waylon Jennings

align="center"|6

|align="center"|18

|Rough and Rowdy Days

|Waylon Jennings

align="center"|9

|align="center"|12

|Señorita

|Don Williams

align="center"|4

|align="center"|3

|She Couldn't Love Me Anymore

|T. Graham Brown

align="center"|9

|align="center"|—

|She Thinks That She'll Marry

|Judy Rodman

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|She's Too Good to Be True

|Exile

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Shine, Shine, Shine

|Eddy Raven

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Small Town Girl

|Steve Wariner

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Snap Your Fingers

|Ronnie Milsap

align="center"|1

|align="center"|5

|Somebody Lied

|Ricky Van Shelton

align="center"|5

|align="center"|3

|Someone

|Lee Greenwood

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Somewhere Tonight

|Highway 101

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|Straight to the Heart

|Crystal Gayle

align="center"|20

|align="center"|—

|Susannah

|Tom Wopat

align="center"|37

|align="center"|19

|Sweet Little '66

|Steve Earle

align="center"|10

|align="center"|7

|Take the Long Way Home

|John Schneider

align="center"|4

|align="center"|3

|Talkin' to the Moon

|Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers

align="center"|7

|align="center"|4

|Tar Top

|Alabama

align="center"|3

|align="center"|6

|Telling Me Lies

|Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|That Was a Close One

|Earl Thomas Conley

align="center"|3

|align="center"|4

|Then It's Love

|Don Williams

align="center"|1

|align="center"|2

|This Crazy Love

|The Oak Ridge Boys

align="center"|5

|align="center"|1

|Those Memories of You

|Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Three Time Loser

|Dan Seals

align="center"|6

|align="center"|10

|Till I'm Too Old to Die Young

|Moe Bandy

align="center"|17

|align="center"|35

|Time In

|The Oak Ridge Boys

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|To Know Him Is to Love Him

|Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

align="center"|5

|align="center"|4

|Too Many Rivers

|The Forester Sisters

align="center"|6

|align="center"|15

|Train of Memories

|Kathy Mattea

align="center"|2

|align="center"|2

|Twenty Years Ago

|Kenny Rogers

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|The Way We Make a Broken Heart

|Rosanne Cash

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|The Weekend

|Steve Wariner

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|What Am I Gonna Do About You

|Reba McEntire

align="center"|9

|align="center"|7

|What Can I Do with My Heart

|Juice Newton

align="center"|20

|align="center"|10

|When a Woman Cries

|Janie Fricke

align="center"|2

|align="center"|1

|Whiskey, If You Were a Woman

|Highway 101

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right)

|Restless Heart

align="center"|15

|align="center"|24

|Why I Don't Know

|Lyle Lovett

align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

|You Again

|The Forester Sisters

align="center"|11

|align="center"|—

|You Haven't Heard the Last of Me

|Moe Bandy

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|You Still Move Me

|Dan Seals

align="center"|2

|align="center"|5

|You're My First Lady

|T. G. Sheppard

align="center"|3

|align="center"|6

|You're Never Too Old for Young Love

|Eddy Raven

align="center"|5

|align="center"|—

|You're the Power

|Kathy Mattea

align="center"|1

|align="center"|1

|"You've Got" the Touch

|Alabama

align="center"|12

|align="center"|13

|Your Love

|Tammy Wynette

=Singles released by Canadian artists=

class="wikitable sortable"

!width="50"|US

!width="50"|CAN

!width="250"|Single

!width="150"|Artist

align="center"|—

|align="center"|8

|All I Really Need

|Audie Henry

align="center"|20

|align="center"|10

|Are You Still in Love with Me

|Anne Murray

align="center"|—

|align="center"|6

|Arms That Love (Hearts That Don't)

|Carroll Baker

align="center"|—

|align="center"|19

|Better Off Alone

|The Good Brothers

align="center"|—

|align="center"|9

|Cowboy Pride

|Ian Tyson

align="center"|—

|align="center"|10

|Death and Taxes and Me Lovin' You

|Carroll Baker

align="center"|—

|align="center"|15

|Denim Blue Eyes

|Sylvia Tyson

align="center"|—

|align="center"|14

|Diamonds in the Dark

|Cameron Molloy with Silver Weasel

align="center"|—

|align="center"|9

|Heroes

|Mercey Brothers

align="center"|—

|align="center"|10

|I Love You More

|Family Brown

align="center"|—

|align="center"|20

|I've Found Someone Too

|Anita Perras

align="center"|—

|align="center"|16

|Listen to My Heart

|Stoker Bros

align="center"|—

|align="center"|11

|New Fool at an Old Game

|Michelle Wright

align="center"|—

|align="center"|9

|No Holiday in L.A.

|Ronnie Prophet

align="center"|—

|align="center"|13

|None of the Feeling Is Gone

|Terry Carisse with Michelle Wright

align="center"|—

|align="center"|3

|Old Photographs

|Terry Carisse

align="center"|—

|align="center"|8

|Raised by the Radio

|Mercey Brothers

align="center"|84

|align="center"|11

|Roller Coaster

|Alibi

align="center"|—

|align="center"|13

|Say When

|Tim Taylor

align="center"|—

|align="center"|14

|Small Talk

|Glory-Anne Carriere

align="center"|—

|align="center"|10

|Starting Forever Again

|Terry Carisse

align="center"|—

|align="center"|15

|Taste of Romance

|Bootleg

align="center"|—

|align="center"|20

|Too Short a Ride

|Sylvia Tyson

align="center"|—

|align="center"|14

|True Blue

|Anne Lord

align="center"|—

|align="center"|1

|Try

|Blue Rodeo

align="center"|—

|align="center"|10

|Walk in the Rain Tonight

|Gary Fjellgaard

align="center"|—

|align="center"|20

|What a Fool I'd Be

|Colleen Peterson

Top new album releases

{{see also|List of number-one country albums of 1987 (U.S.)}}

class="wikitable sortable"
US

! Album

! Artist

! Record Label

align="center"| 16

| 10

| Asleep at the Wheel

| Epic

align="center"| 14

| 20 Greatest Hits

| Don Williams

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| 80's Ladies

| K. T. Oslin

| RCA

align="center"| 18

| After All This Time

| Charley Pride

| 16th Avenue

align="center"| 1

| Always & Forever

| Randy Travis

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 16

| American Faces

| John Conlee

| Columbia

align="center"| 23

| Angel Band

| Emmylou Harris

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 7

| The Best

| Dan Seals

| Capitol

align="center"| 25

| Borderline

| Conway Twitty

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| Born to Boogie

| Hank Williams, Jr.

| Curb/Warner Bros.

align="center"| 23

| Brilliant Conversationalist

| T. Graham Brown

| Capitol

align="center"| 8

| Chill Factor

| Merle Haggard

| Epic

align="center"| 17

| Come On Joe

| Jo-El Sonnier

| RCA

align="center"| 22

| Cornerstone

| Holly Dunn

| MTM

align="center"| 21

| Country Rap

| The Bellamy Brothers

| Curb/MCA

align="center"| 25

| Crackin' Up

| Ray Stevens

| MCA

align="center"| 24

| The Desert Rose Band

| The Desert Rose Band

| Curb/MCA

align="center"| 15

| Exit 0

| Steve Earle & The Dukes

| MCA

align="center"| 2

| Greatest Hits

| Reba McEntire

| MCA

align="center"| 22

| Greatest Hits

| John Schneider

| MCA

align="center"| 25

| Greatest Hits

| Steve Wariner

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| Greatest Hits Volume Two

| George Strait

| MCA

align="center"| 19

| Hangin' Tough

| Waylon Jennings

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| Hank Live

| Hank Williams, Jr.

| Curb/Warner Bros.

align="center"| 9

| Harmony

| Anne Murray

| Capitol

align="center"| 13

| Heart & Soul

| Ronnie Milsap

| RCA

align="center"| 20

| Heartbeat

| The Oak Ridge Boys

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| Heartland

| The Judds

| Curb/RCA

align="center"| 7

| Highway 101

| Highway 101

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 1

| Hillbilly Deluxe

| Dwight Yoakam

| Reprise

align="center"| 24

| Hits

| Gary Morris

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 14

| Hold On

| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 18

| I Prefer the Moonlight

| Kenny Rogers

| RCA

align="center"| 14

| Island in the Sea

| Willie Nelson

| Columbia

align="center"| 1

| Just Us

| Alabama

| RCA

align="center"| 6

| King's Record Shop

| Rosanne Cash

| Columbia

align="center"| 3

| The Last One to Know

| Reba McEntire

| MCA

align="center"| 23

| Lone Star State of Mind

| Nanci Griffith

| MCA

align="center"| 10

| Love Me Like You Used To

| Tanya Tucker

| Capitol

align="center"| 22

| A Man Called Hoss

| Waylon Jennings

| MCA

align="center"| 9

| Maple Street Memories

| The Statler Brothers

| Mercury

align="center"| 1

| Ocean Front Property

| George Strait

| MCA

align="center"| 18

| Rainbow

| Dolly Parton

| Columbia

align="center"| 18

| Right Hand Man

| Eddy Raven

| RCA

align="center"| 5

| The Royal Treatment

| Billy Joe Royal

| Atlantic

align="center"| 13

| Shelter from the Night

| Exile

| Epic

align="center"| 16

| Somewhere in the Night

| Sawyer Brown

| Capitol/Curb

align="center"| 24

| Sure Feels Good

| Barbara Mandrell

| EMI America

align="center"| 14

| Too Wild Too Long

| George Jones

| Epic

align="center"| 1

| Trio

| Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt
& Emmylou Harris

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 11

| Untasted Honey

| Kathy Mattea

| Mercury

align="center"| 13

| The Way Back Home

| Vince Gill

| RCA

align="center"| 25

| What If We Fall in Love?

| Crystal Gayle & Gary Morris

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 14

| Where the Fast Lane Ends

| The Oak Ridge Boys

| MCA

align="center"| 1

| Wild-Eyed Dream

| Ricky Van Shelton

| Columbia

align="center"| 13

| You Again

| The Forester Sisters

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 10

| You Haven't Heard the Last of Me

| Moe Bandy

| Curb

=Other top albums=

class="wikitable sortable"
US

! Album

! Artist

! Record Label

align="center"| 29

| After Midnight

| Janie Frickie

| Columbia

align="center"| 37

| Ain't No Binds

| The Whites

| MCA

align="center"| 32

| Americana

| Michael Martin Murphey

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 56

| Angel with a Lariat

| k.d. lang

| Sire

align="center"| 48

| Back to Basics

| Mickey Gilley

| Epic

align="center"| 27

| Baillie & the Boys

| Baillie & the Boys

| RCA

align="center"| 53

| The Best of Crystal Gayle

| Crystal Gayle

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 41

| Blue Skies Again

| John Anderson

| MCA

align="center"| 51

| Break the Routine

| The Kendalls

| Step One

align="center"| 63

| Celebration

| Janie Frickie

| Columbia

align="center"| 66

| A Christmas Card

| The Forester Sisters

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 57

| A Christmas Tradition

| Various Artists

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 49

| Christmas Time with The Judds

| The Judds

| Curb/RCA

align="center"| 47

| Country Collection

| Various Artists

| K-Tel

align="center"| 48

| Country Now

| Various Artists

| K-Tel

align="center"| 50

| Crazy from the Heart

| The Bellamy Brothers

| Curb/MCA

align="center"| 69

| A Crystal Christmas

| Crystal Gayle

| Warner Bros.

align="center"| 59

| Emotion

| Juice Newton

| RCA

align="center"| 33

| Foster & Lloyd

| Foster & Lloyd

| RCA

align="center"| 43

| Greatest Hits

| Mel McDaniel

| Capitol

align="center"| 59

| Greatest Hits

| Sylvia

| RCA

align="center"| 41

| Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

| Ray Stevens

| MCA

align="center"| 62

| Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

| Ray Stevens

| MCA

align="center"| 28

| Hard Times on Easy Street

| David Lynn Jones

| Mercury

align="center"| 43

| Higher Ground

| Tammy Wynette

| Epic

align="center"| 54

| Honky Tonk Crazy

| Gene Watson

| Epic

align="center"| 38

| If There's Any Justice

| Lee Greenwood

| MCA

align="center"| 29

| It's a Crazy World

| Steve Wariner

| MCA

align="center"| 36

| Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town

| Johnny Cash

| Mercury/PolyGram

align="center"| 54

| Larry Boone

| Larry Boone

| Mercury

align="center"| 63

| The Lonesome Jubilee

| John Mellencamp

| Mercury

align="center"| 50

| A Matter of Life... and Death

| David Allan Coe

| Columbia

align="center"| 72

| Merry Christmas to You

| Reba McEntire

| MCA

align="center"| 54

| Modern Times

| Johnny Paycheck

| Mercury/PolyGram

align="center"| 52

| No Easy Horses

| S-K-B

| MTM

align="center"| 47

| One for the Money

| T. G. Sheppard

| Columbia

align="center"| 55

| The Only One

| O. B. McClinton

| Epic

align="center"| 71

| The Patsy Cline Story

| Patsy Cline

| MCA

align="center"| 29

| A Place Called Love

| Judy Rodman

| MTM

align="center"| 49

| Rattlesnake Annie

| Rattlesnake Annie

| Columbia

align="center"| 60

| Romeo's Escape

| Dave Alvin

| Epic

align="center"| 65

| Rosie Flores

| Rosie Flores

| Reprise

align="center"| 31

| Seashores of Old Mexico

| Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson

| Epic

align="center"| 35

| Still I Stay

| Charly McClain

| Epic

align="center"| 32

| Still within the Sound of My Voice

| Glen Campbell

| MCA

align="center"| 26

| Super Hits

| George Jones

| Epic

align="center"| 39

| Walking the Line

| Merle Haggard, George Jones
& Willie Nelson

| Epic

align="center"| 42

| What a Girl Next Door Could Do

| Girls Next Door

| MTM

align="center"| 41

| You Ain't Seen the Last of Me

| John Schneider

| MCA

On television

=Regular series=

  • Dolly (1987–1988, ABC)
  • Hee Haw (1969–1993, syndicated)

=Specials=

Births

  • January 31 – Tyler Hubbard, member of Florida Georgia Line, a duo of the 2010s.
  • May 7 – Russell Dickerson, country performer of the 2010s onward.
  • May 21 – Cody Johnson, Texas country singer-songwriter of the 2010s onward ("'Til You Can't").
  • August 16 – Dan Smyers, member of Dan + Shay, a rising duo of the 2010s.
  • September 25 — Greg Bates, up-and-coming country singer of the early 2010s.
  • October 17 – Jameson Rodgers, up-and-coming country singer-songwriter of the early 2020s.

Deaths

  • June 25 – Boudleaux Bryant, 67, songwriter (with wife Felice) of many 1950s and 1960s hits.

Hall of Fame inductees

=Country Music Hall of Fame inductees=

=Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees=

Major awards

=Grammy Awards=

=Juno Awards=

=Academy of Country Music=

= ARIA Awards =

(presented in Sydney on March 2, 1987)

=Canadian Country Music Association=

=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.

Other links

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20051201094226/http://www.cmaawards.com/2004/hof/default.asp Country Music Hall of Fame]

{{List of years in country music}}

Country

Category:Country music by year