Some Gave All

Some Gave All
Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released May 19, 1992
Recorded 1989-1991
Genre Country
Length 35:42
Label Mercury
Producer Joe Scaife, Jim Cotton
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology

Some Gave All
(1992)		 It Won't Be the Last
(1993)
Singles from Some Gave All
  1. "Achy Breaky Heart"
    Released: March 23, 1992
  2. "Could've Been Me"
    Released: July, 13, 1992
  3. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?"
    Released: October 17, 1992
  4. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore"
    Released: January 23, 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment Weekly D+[2]
Robert Christgau C+[3]
Rolling Stone [4]

Some Gave All is the debut album by American country music musician Billy Ray Cyrus. It was his first album for Mercury Records in 1992, and it produced four hit singles on the Billboard country charts. The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the charts in several countries. In the US it was a five-week number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, as well as a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country.[5][6] Thanks to the video of the song, there was an explosion of line dancing into the mainstream, becoming a craze.[7][8][9][10] This song was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.

"Could've Been Me", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" were also released as singles, peaking at numbers 2, 23, and 6, respectively, on the country charts. The title track also reached number 52 based on unsolicited airplay and Cyrus' cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" charted only outside the United States.

Album success

Overall, the album is his most successful album to date, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.[11][12] It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the top-ranking debut album by a country artist. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks.[13] Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums chart.[14] The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo artist. Some Gave All was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies.[15][16]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Could've Been Me"  Monty Powell, Reed Nielsen 3:44
2. "Achy Breaky Heart"  Don von Tress 3:23
3. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore"  Billy Ray Cyrus, Buddy Cannon, Terry Shelton 3:25
4. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?"  B.R. Cyrus, Cindy Cyrus 3:29
5. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"  Lee Hazlewood 2:47
6. "Someday, Somewhere, Somehow"  B.R.Cyrus 3:47
7. "Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You"  Jim McKnight, Mike Murphy 3:41
8. "Ain't No Good Goodbye"  Barton Stevens, B.R. Cyrus, Kevin White 3:22
9. "I'm So Miserable"  B.R. Cyrus, Corky Holbrook 3:59
10. "Some Gave All"  B.R. Cyrus, C. Cyrus 4:05

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1992/1993)
[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]		 Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums 1
Austrian Albums 32
Canadian RPM Albums 1
Canadian RPM Top Country Albums 1
French SNEP Albums 33
German Media Control Albums 48
Netherlands Megachart Albums 58
New Zealand RIANZ Albums 2
Spanish AFYVE Albums 40
Swedish Fullprice Albums 42
Swiss Albums 34
U.K. Albums 9
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
Norwegian VG-lista Albums 5
Chart (1995)
[27]		 Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Catalog Albums 5

End-of-decade charts

Chart (1990–1999) Position
U.S. Billboard 200[28] 23

Sales and certifications

Country Certifications Certifications sales
Australia 3× Platinum[29] 210,000
Canada Diamond[30] 1,000,000
United Kingdom Gold[31] 100,000
United States 9× Platinum[32] 9,000,000

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[33]		 US
[33]		 CAN Country CAN
[34][35]		 AUS
[36]		 GER
[37]		 IRE
[38]		 NL
[39]		 NZ
[40]		 UK
[41]
1992 "Achy Breaky Heart" 1 4 1 4 1 62 2 23 1 3
"Could've Been Me" 2 72 1 72 43 59 15 28 7 24
"Wher'm I Gonna Live?" 23 — 16 — — — — — — —
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" — — — — — — — 27 42 63
1993 "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" 6 70 3 — — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other charted songs

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
[33]		 CAN Country
1992 "Some Gave All" 52 86

Personnel

Production

See also

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ↑ Robert Christgau review
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hurst, Jack (1993-07-04). "ACHY BREAKY START BRUISED BY THE CRITICS, BILLY RAY CYRUS IS COMING BACK FOR MORE". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  6. ↑ "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Singles 1992". ARIA. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  7. ↑ "Line dancing refuses to go out of style". Star-News. 1992-10-30. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Stepping to country fun". The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City). 1993-04-17. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  9. ↑ "Cyrus sets off dance craze". The Daily Courier. 1994-07-25. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  10. ↑ "This time around, the country craze proves to have some staying power". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1995-06-13. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  11. ↑ Billy Ray Cyrus Explores His Gospel 'Side'. Billboard Magazine. 2003-10-18. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  12. ↑ "Mariah Carey Can't Stop Taylor Swift". Yahoo!. 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  13. ↑ "Chart Watch Extra: Ropin' The Biggest Country Hits". Yahoo!. 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  14. ↑ Hurst, Jack (1992-10-16). "COUNTRIFIED KATHY MATTEA IS BACK IN VOICE WITH 'LONESOME STANDARD TIME'". OrlandoSentinel. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  15. ↑ Mervis, Scott (2009-04-10). "Billy Ray Cyrus appeals to a whole new crowd". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  16. ↑ Grein, Paul. "Week Ending Nov. 8, 2009: The Host With The Most". Retrieved 2009-11-11.
  17. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus US Country Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  18. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  19. ↑ "Issue date April 7, 1992". RPM. 1992-04-07. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  20. ↑ "Issue date August 1, 1992". RPM. 1992-08-01. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  21. ↑ "UK charts archive". Everyhit. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  22. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus France charts". InfoDisc. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  23. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus German charts". Musicline: Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  24. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus - Dutch Albums Chart". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  25. ↑ Fernando Salaverri (2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959-2002. Fundación Autor-SGAE, 2005. ISBN 84-8048-639-2, ISBN 978-84-8048-639-2.
  26. ↑ "Some Gave All Oceanian and some European Charts". IFPI Switzerland. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  27. ↑ "Top Country Catalog Albums 1995-08-12". Billboard. August 12, 1995. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  28. ↑ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
  29. ↑ "Australian Albums Chart (2 May 1993)". Coca Cola - The ARIA Chart. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  30. ↑ "CRIA certification results". Canadian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 "BPI certification results". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  32. ↑ "RIAA certification database for Billy Ray Cyrus". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 "allmusic ((( Billy Ray Cyrus > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  34. ↑ "Issue date July 25, 1992". RPM. 1992-07-25. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  35. ↑ "Issue date October 31, 1992". RPM. 1992-10-31. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  36. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus - Australian Singles Chart". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  37. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus German charts". Musicline: Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  38. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus in the Irish Charts". The Irish Charts - All there is to know. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  39. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus - Dutch Top 40 Chart". top40.nl. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  40. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus - New Zealand Singles Chart". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  41. ↑ "Chart Stats - Billy Ray Cyrus". chartstats.com. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  42. ↑ "RIAA singles for "Achy Breaky Heart"". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
Preceded by
Totally Krossed Out by Kris Kross		 Billboard 200 number-one album
June 13 – October 9, 1992 		Succeeded by
The Chase by Garth Brooks
Preceded by
Jesus Christ Superstar by 1992 Australian Cast		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
October 11–24, 1992 		Succeeded by
Love Symbol by Prince and The New Power Generation
Preceded by
Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks
The Chase by Garth Brooks		 Top Country Albums number-one album
June 6 – October 9, 1992
January 30 – May 21, 1993 		Succeeded by
The Chase by Garth Brooks
It's Your Call by Reba McEntire
Preceded by
Wynonna by Wynonna
The Chase by Garth Brooks
Pure Country by George Strait
This Time by Dwight Yoakam		 RPM Country Albums number-one album
June 20 – October 9, 1992
November 7–27, 1992
January 16 – February 26, 1993
May 15–28, 1993 		Succeeded by
More Country Heat by Various Artists
The Chase by Garth Brooks
Big Iron Horses by Restless Heart
Fare Thee Well Love by The Rankin Family
Preceded by
Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks		 Top Country Albums number-one album of the year
1993 		Succeeded by
Not a Moment Too Soon by Tim McGraw
Preceded by
none		 RPM Country Albums number-one album of the year
1993 		Succeeded by
Kickin' It Up by John Michael Montgomery