1996 in country music

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|align="center"|18

|4 to 1 in Atlanta

|Tracy Byrd

|

|align="center"|3

|Ain't Got Nothin' on Us

|John Michael Montgomery

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|align="center"|2

|All I Want Is a Life

|Tim McGraw

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|align="center"|15

|All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down

|The Mavericks
(feat. Flaco Jiménez)

|

|align="center"|14

|Almost a Memory Now

|BlackHawk

|

|align="center"|18

|Are We in Trouble Now

|Randy Travis

|

|align="center"|1

|The Beaches of Cheyenne

|Garth Brooks

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|align="center"|1

|Believe Me Baby (I Lied)

|Trisha Yearwood

|

|align="center"|8

|Big Guitar

|BlackHawk

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|align="center"|1

|Bigger Than the Beatles

|Joe Diffie

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|align="center"|1

|Blue

|LeAnn Rimes

|

|align="center"|1

|Blue Clear Sky

|George Strait

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|align="center"|14

|Born in the Dark

|Doug Stone

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|align="center"|24

|Bury the Shovel

|Clay Walker

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|align="center"|21

|By My Side

|Lorrie Morgan & Jon Randall

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|align="center"|2

|Carried Away

|George Strait

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|align="center"|8

|The Change

|Garth Brooks

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|align="center"|30

|Change My Mind

|John Berry

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|align="center"|4

|Cowboy Love

|John Michael Montgomery

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|align="center"|3

|Daddy's Money

|Ricochet

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|align="center"|2

|Deep Down

|Pam Tillis

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|align="center"|9

|Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You

|Toby Keith

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|align="center"|8

|Don't Get Me Started

|Rhett Akins

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|align="center"|10

|Every Light in the House

|Trace Adkins

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|align="center"|2

|Every Time I Get Around You

|David Lee Murphy

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|align="center"|17

|Every Time My Heart Calls Your Name

|John Berry

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|align="center"|1

|The Fear of Being Alone

|Reba McEntire

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|align="center"|10

|Givin' Water to a Drowning Man

|Lee Roy Parnell

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|align="center"|44

|Goodnight Sweetheart

|David Kersh

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|align="center"|17

|Grandpa Told Me So

|Kenny Chesney

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|align="center"|1

|Guys Do It All the Time

|Mindy McCready

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|align="center"|3

|Heads Carolina, Tails California

|Jo Dee Messina

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|align="center"|12

|Heart Half Empty

|Ty Herndon featuring Stephanie Bentley

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|align="center"|3

|Heart's Desire

|Lee Roy Parnell

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|align="center"|5

|Heaven Help My Heart

|Wynonna Judd

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|align="center"|34

|Heaven in My Woman's Eyes

|Tracy Byrd

|

|align="center"|1

|High Lonesome Sound

|Vince Gill

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|align="center"|20

|Holdin' Onto Something

|Jeff Carson

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|align="center"|4

|Home

|Alan Jackson

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|align="center"|8

|Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best

|Marty Stuart & Travis Tritt

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|align="center"|6

|Hypnotize the Moon

|Clay Walker

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|align="center"|3

|I Am That Man

|Brooks & Dunn

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|align="center"|2

|I Can Still Make Cheyenne

|George Strait

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|align="center"|8

|I Don't Think I Will

|James Bonamy

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|align="center"|8

|I Know She Still Loves Me

|George Strait

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|align="center"|2

|I Think About You

|Collin Raye

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|align="center"|5

|I'll Try

|Alan Jackson

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|align="center"|2

|I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore

|Bryan White

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|align="center"|4

|If You Loved Me

|Tracy Lawrence

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|align="center"|2

|It Matters to Me

|Faith Hill

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|align="center"|17

|It Works

|Alabama

|

|align="center"|4

|It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings

|Mark Chesnutt

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|align="center"|17

|It's All in Your Head

|Diamond Rio

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|align="center"|21

|It's Lonely Out There

|Pam Tillis

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|align="center"|2

|It's Midnight Cinderella

|Garth Brooks

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|align="center"|11

|It's What I Do

|Billy Dean

|

|align="center"|6

|Jacob's Ladder

|Mark Wills

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|align="center"|28

|Learning as You Go

|Rick Trevino

|

|align="center"|1

|Like the Rain

|Clint Black

|

|align="center"|1

|Like There Ain't No Yesterday

|BlackHawk

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|align="center"|2

|Little Bitty

|Alan Jackson

|

|align="center"|1

|Living in a Moment

|Ty Herndon

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|align="center"|3

|Lonely Too Long

|Patty Loveless

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|align="center"|4

|Long as I Live

|John Michael Montgomery

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|align="center"|10

|Love Is Stronger Than Pride

|Ricochet

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|align="center"|20

|Love Remains

|Collin Raye

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|align="center"|13

|The Maker Said Take Her

|Alabama

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|align="center"|8

|Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing

|Brooks & Dunn

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|align="center"|6

|Me and You

|Kenny Chesney

|

|align="center"|4

|Meant to Be

|Sammy Kershaw

|

|align="center"|7

|More Than You'll Ever Know

|Travis Tritt

|

|align="center"|1

|My Maria

|Brooks & Dunn

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|align="center"|1

|No News

|Lonestar

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|align="center"|4

|Not Enough Hours in the Night

|Doug Supernaw

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|align="center"|10

|Not That Different

|Collin Raye

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|align="center"|2

|On a Good Night

|Wade Hayes

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|align="center"|4

|One Way Ticket (Because I Can)

|LeAnn Rimes

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|align="center"|7

|Only on Days That End in "Y"

|Clay Walker

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|align="center"|5

|Out with a Bang

|David Lee Murphy

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|align="center"|14

|Ready, Willing and Able

|Lari White

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|align="center"|2

|Rebecca Lynn

|Bryan White

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|Redneck 12 Days of Christmas

|Jeff Foxworthy

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|align="center"|14

|Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands

|Reba McEntire

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|align="center"|14

|The River and the Highway

|Pam Tillis

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|align="center"|12

|The Road You Leave Behind

|David Lee Murphy

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|align="center"|19

|'Round Here

|Sawyer Brown

|

|align="center"|9

|Runnin' Away with My Heart

|Lonestar

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|align="center"|18

|Say I

|Alabama

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|align="center"|5

|She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart

|Tim McGraw

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|align="center"|20

|She Said Yes

|Rhett Akins

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|align="center"|20

|She's Got a Mind of Her Own

|James Bonamy

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|align="center"|1

|So Much for Pretending

|Bryan White

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|align="center"|13

|Some Things Are Meant to Be

|Linda Davis

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|align="center"|8

|Someone Else's Dream

|Faith Hill

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|align="center"|42

|Stars over Texas

|Tracy Lawrence

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|align="center"|26

|Starting Over Again

|Reba McEntire

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|align="center"|1

|Strawberry Wine

|Deana Carter

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|align="center"|13

|Ten Thousand Angels

|Mindy McCready

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|align="center"|3

|That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me

|Billy Dean

|

|align="center"|3

|That Ol' Wind

|Garth Brooks

|

|align="center"|34

|That's Enough of That

|Mila Mason

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|align="center"|19

|That's What I Get for Lovin' You

|Diamond Rio

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|align="center"|7

|Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

|Neal McCoy

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|align="center"|33

|There's a Girl in Texas

|Trace Adkins

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|align="center"|27

|A Thousand Times a Day

|Patty Loveless

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|align="center"|1

|Time Marches On

|Tracy Lawrence

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|align="center"|3

|To Be Loved by You

|Wynonna Judd

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|align="center"|10

|Too Much Fun

|Daryle Singletary

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|align="center"|19

|Treat Her Right

|Sawyer Brown

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|align="center"|7

|Vidalia

|Sammy Kershaw

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|align="center"|2

|Walkin' Away

|Diamond Rio

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|align="center"|21

|What Do I Know

|Ricochet

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|align="center"|15

|What I Meant to Say

|Wade Hayes

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|align="center"|21

|When a Woman Loves a Man

|Lee Roy Parnell

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|align="center"|18

|When Cowboys Didn't Dance

|Lonestar

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|align="center"|5

|Wild Angels

|Martina McBride

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|align="center"|10

|A Woman's Touch

|Toby Keith

|

|align="center"|6

|Worlds Apart

|Vince Gill

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|align="center"|18

|Would I

|Randy Travis

|

|align="center"|13

|Wrong Place, Wrong Time

|Mark Chesnutt

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|align="center"|1

|You Can Feel Bad

|Patty Loveless

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|align="center"|1

|You Can't Lose Me

|Faith Hill

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|align="center"|13

|You Gotta Love That

|Neal McCoy

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|align="center"|22

|You're Not in Kansas Anymore

|Jo Dee Messina

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|All She Wants

|Rena Gaile

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|align="center"|4

|All the Way

|Jason McCoy

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|align="center"|5

|Ancient History

|Prairie Oyster

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|align="center"|1

|Anita Got Married

|Duane Steele

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|align="center"|1

|Candle

|Jason McCoy

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|align="center"|10

|Cloud of Dust

|Rena Gaile

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|align="center"|1

|Cornfields or Cadillacs

|Farmer's Daughter

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|align="center"|1

|Crank My Tractor

|Michelle Wright

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|align="center"|20

|A Fine Line

|Lawnie Wallace

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|align="center"|10

|Foolproof

|Desert Dolphins

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|align="center"|18

|Forty Days and Nights

|The Rankin Family

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|align="center"|7

|Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)

|Shania Twain

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|align="center"|1

|I Do

|Paul Brandt

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|align="center"|4

|I Waited

|Chris Cummings

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|align="center"|1

|If I Were You

|Terri Clark

|

|align="center"|1

|(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!

|Shania Twain

|

|align="center"|1

|It's Lonely I Can't Stand

|Charlie Major

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|align="center"|3

|Keep Me Rockin'

|Patricia Conroy

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|align="center"|13

|Love Music Loves to Dance

|Calvin Wiggett

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|align="center"|1

|My Heart Has a History

|Paul Brandt

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|align="center"|1

|No One Needs to Know

|Shania Twain

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|align="center"|1

|Nobody's Girl

|Michelle Wright

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|align="center"|4

|One Step Back

|Jamie Warren

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|align="center"|1

|Poor Poor Pitiful Me

|Terri Clark

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|align="center"|16

|Rhythm of Your Wings

|Gary Fjellgaard

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|align="center"|9

|Roving Gypsy Boy

|The Rankin Family

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|align="center"|14

|Sittin' Pretty

|Thomas Wade & Wayward

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|align="center"|18

|So, So Long

|Rachel Matkin

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|align="center"|2

|Stuck on Your Love

|Duane Steele

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|align="center"|11

|Suddenly Single

|Terri Clark

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|align="center"|1

|Sure Enough

|Chris Cummings

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|align="center"|13

|Take You by the Heart

|The Cruzeros

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|align="center"|1

|Tell Me Something I Don't Know

|Charlie Major

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|align="center"|8

|Thought I Was Dreaming

|Lawnie Wallace

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|align="center"|3

|The Trouble with Love

|Duane Steele

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|align="center"|1

|Unbelievable Love

|Prairie Oyster

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|align="center"|2

|Waiting on You

|Charlie Major

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|align="center"|12

|Watching Her Sleep

|Jamie Warren

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|align="center"|3

|When Boy Meets Girl

|Terri Clark

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|align="center"|15

|Wild and Free

|Joan Kennedy

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|align="center"|15

|Windows to the Past

|The Neilsons

|

|align="center"|1

|You Win My Love

|Shania Twain

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|align="center"|8

|Zero to Sixty

|Thomas Wade & Wayward

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| align="center"| 21

| All the Good 'Uns (The Best of Ian Tyson)

| Ian Tyson

| Stony Plain

| align="center"| 10

| Anne Murray

| Anne Murray

| SBK/Capitol

| align="center"| 13

| The Best of Country Heat

| Various Artists

| BMG

| align="center"| 9

| The Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney

| Various Artists

| Walt Disney

| align="center"| 3

| Between Now and Forever

| Bryan White

| Asylum

| align="center"| 18

| Big Love

| Tracy Byrd

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"| 13

| The Birth of a Star

| Patsy Cline

| Razor & Tie

| align="center"| 1

| Blue

| LeAnn Rimes

| Curb

| align="center"| 3

| Blue Clear Sky

| George Strait

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Blue Moon

| Toby Keith

| A&M

| align="center"| 5

| Blue Plate Special

| Prairie Oyster

| Velvel

| align="center"| 1

| Borderline

| Brooks & Dunn

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"| 12

| BR5-49

| BR5-49

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"| 1

| Calm Before the Storm

| Paul Brandt

| Reprise

| align="center"|

| Christmas: The Gift

| Collin Raye

| Epic

| align="center"|

| Christmas Vol. II

| Alabama

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"| 1

| CMT Canada '96

| Various Artists

| BMG

| align="center"| 1

| Collection

| The Rankin Family

| EMI

| align="center"|

| Crank It Up: The Music Album

| Jeff Foxworthy

| Warner Bros.

| align="center"| 1

| Did I Shave My Legs for This?

| Deana Carter

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"| 16

| Dreamin' Out Loud

| Trace Adkins

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"| 22

| Everybody Knows

| Trisha Yearwood

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"| 1

| Everything I Love

| Alan Jackson

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"| 9

| Faces

| John Berry

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"| 6

| For Me It's You

| Michelle Wright

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"| 4

| Friends & Lovers

| Various Artists

| Sony

| align="center"| 10

| Full Circle

| Randy Travis

| Warner Bros.

| align="center"| 6

| Gettin' Out the Good Stuff

| David Lee Murphy

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| The Gift

| Kenny Rogers

| Magnatone

| align="center"|

| Goodnight Sweetheart

| David Kersh

| Curb

| align="center"| 9

| Greater Need

| Lorrie Morgan

| BNA

| align="center"| 5

| Greatest Hits

| Clint Black

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"| 14

| Greatest Hits

| Mark Chesnutt

| Decca Nashville

| align="center"| 5

| High Lonesome Sound

| Vince Gill

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"| 21

| Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best

| Marty Stuart

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| I Stoled This Record

| Cledus T. Judd

| Razor & Tie

| align="center"|

| It's What I Do

| Billy Dean

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"| 4

| IV

| Diamond Rio

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"| 8

| Jo Dee Messina

| Jo Dee Messina

| Curb

| align="center"| 3

| Just the Same

| Terri Clark

| Mercury/PolyGram

| align="center"|

| Learning as You Go

| Rick Trevino

| Columbia

| align="center"| 18

| Lisa Brokop

| Lisa Brokop

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"| 18

| Living in a Moment

| Ty Herndon

| Epic

| align="center"| 11

| Makin' Hay

| Farmer's Daughter

| Universal

| align="center"|

| Me and You

| Kenny Chesney

| BNA

| align="center"| 2

| Measure of a Man

| Kevin Sharp

| Asylum

| align="center"| 7

| Neal McCoy

| Neal McCoy

| Atlantic

| align="center"| 3

| New Country 3

| Various Artists

| Warner

| align="center"| 11

| Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly)

| Various Artists

| Decca Nashville

| align="center"|

| On a Good Night

| Wade Hayes

| Columbia

| align="center"| 14

| One Ride in Vegas

| Deryl Dodd

| Columbia

| align="center"| 13

| A Place in the World

| Mary Chapin Carpenter

| Columbia

| align="center"|

| Politics, Religion and Her

| Sammy Kershaw

| Mercury/PolyGram

| align="center"| 13

| Reflections: Songs of Love

| John Denver

| RCA

| align="center"| 8

| The Restless Kind

| Travis Tritt

| Warner Bros.

| align="center"| 1

| Revelations

| Wynonna Judd

| Curb/MCA Nashville

| align="center"| 12

| Ricochet

| Ricochet

| Columbia

| align="center"|

| The Road to Ensenada

| Lyle Lovett

| Curb

| align="center"|

| Shady Grove

| Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

| Acoustic Disc

| align="center"| 11

| Solid Ground

| Ricky Skaggs

| Atlantic

| align="center"|

| Somebody New

| Rhett Akins

| Decca Nashville

| align="center"| 21

| Somewhere Inside

| Chris Cummings

| Warner

| align="center"| 4

| Spirit

| Willie Nelson

| Island

| align="center"| 11

| Stars and Stripes Vol. 1

| The Beach Boys

| River North

| align="center"| 21

| Steppin' Country 2

| Various Artists

| Columbia

| align="center"| 1

| Ten Thousand Angels

| Mindy McCready

| BNA

| align="center"| 3

| Tennessee Moon

| Neil Diamond

| Columbia

| align="center"| 20

| That's Enough of That

| Mila Mason

| Atlantic

| align="center"| 4

| Time Marches On

| Tracy Lawrence

| Atlantic

| align="center"| 14

| Trail of Tears

| Billy Ray Cyrus

| Mercury/PolyGram

| align="center"| 24

| Treasures

| Dolly Parton

| Rising Tide

| align="center"| 16

| The Trouble with the Truth

| Patty Loveless

| Epic

| align="center"| 8

| Untamed and True 3

| Various Artists

| MCA

| align="center"|

| Used Heart for Sale

| Gary Allan

| Decca Nashville

| align="center"| 14

| What I Do the Best

| John Michael Montgomery

| Atlantic

| align="center"|

| What I Live to Do

| James Bonamy

| Epic

| align="center"| 3

| What If It's You

| Reba McEntire

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| A.K.A. Wham Bam Sam

| Hank Williams, Jr.

| Curb

| align="center"|

| All Because of You

| Daryle Singletary

| Giant

| align="center"|

| Almost Alone

| Chet Atkins

| Columbia

| align="center"|

| Don't Fence Me In

| Lari White

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Elvis: Great Country Songs

| Elvis Presley

| RCA

| align="center"|

| Give Me Some Wheels

| Suzy Bogguss

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"|

| Greatest Hits

| John Anderson

| BNA

| align="center"|

| Greatest Hits

| Confederate Railroad

| Atlantic

| align="center"| 36

| Hang of the Heartache

| Desert Dolphins

| Quality

| align="center"|

| Hit Country '96

| Various Artists

| K-Tel

| align="center"|

| The Hits

| Hal Ketchum

| Curb

| align="center"|

| I Lived to Tell It All

| George Jones

| MCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| I Will Always Love You
and Other Greatest Hits

| Dolly Parton

| Columbia

| align="center"|

| Live

| Jeff Foxworthy

| Laughing Hyena

| align="center"|

| The Luv Collection: Real Luv

| Various Artists

| EMI-Capitol

| align="center"| 28

| Mandy Barnett

| Mandy Barnett

| Asylum

| align="center"|

| Mark Wills

| Mark Wills

| Mercury Nashville

| align="center"|

| "My Roots Are Showing..."

| K. T. Oslin

| BNA

| align="center"|

| NASCAR: Hotter Than Asphalt

| Various Artists

| Columbia

| align="center"|

| NFL Country

| Various Artists

| Gridiron

| align="center"|

| Now and Then

| Shenandoah

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"|

| Paradise

| John Anderson

| BNA

| align="center"| 32

| P.O. Box 423

| Duane Steele

| Mercury/PolyGram

| align="center"| 36

| Remembering Stan Rogers:
An East Coast Tribute II

| Various Artists

| Atlantica

| align="center"|

| The Rocky Mountain Collection

| John Denver

| RCA

| align="center"|

| Semi Crazy

| Junior Brown

| Curb

| align="center"|

| Smokin' Armadillos

| Smokin' Armadillos

| Curb

| align="center"|

| Some Things Are Meant to Be

| Linda Davis

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"|

| Stampede

| Chris LeDoux

| Capitol Nashville

| align="center"|

| Star of Wonder –
A Country Christmas Collection

| Various Artists

| Arista Nashville

| align="center"|

| Starlite Lounge

| David Ball

| Warner Bros.

| align="center"|

| Super Hits

| Alabama

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Super Hits

| Waylon Jennings

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Super Hits

| Keith Whitley

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts

| Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr.
& Hank Williams III

| Curb

| align="center"|

| Two Ways to Fall

| Ty England

| RCA Nashville

| align="center"|

| Unchained

| Johnny Cash

| American

| align="center"| 31

| You Still Got Me

| Doug Supernaw

| Giant