2017 in country music
[nb 1]This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2017.
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Events
- April 3 — Luke Bryan's "Fast" reaches No. 1 on Country Airplay, making Bryan the first artist ever to achieve six No. 1 singles from the same album.[1]
- April 11 — Jeff Cook of Alabama announces he will stop touring with the band, after revealing he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease four years earlier.[2]
- April 23 — The Andrew Johnson Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Hank Williams stayed December 31, 1952, hours before his death, makes headlines after mayor Tim Burchett announces that Knox County would seek proposals to redevelop the building, sparking re-interest in the circumstances and events surrounding Williams' final hours.[3]
- May 4 — Country music legend Loretta Lynn suffers a stroke at her Hurricane Mills, Tennessee ranch weeks after celebrating her 85th birthday at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Lynn is said to make a full recovery but postpones numerous shows.
- August 12 — "Body Like a Back Road" by Sam Hunt breaks two Billboard Hot Country Songs chart records for No. 1 longevity within a month of each other. On July 22, upon spending its 22nd week at No. 1, "... Back Road" becomes the longest-running No. 1 song by a male solo artist since the start of the charts in 1944, bumping three songs that had been tied for first with 21 weeks: "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" by Eddy Arnold (1947), "I'm Movin' On" by Hank Snow with the Rainbow Ranch Boys (1950), and "In the Jailhouse Now" by Webb Pierce (1955). On August 12, the song's 25th week at No. 1, Hunt bumps Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" for lengthiest No. 1 run (previously 24 weeks) in chart history. The song's long-running popularity is attributed in part due to downloads and live streaming, and its No. 6 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, all without a music video for the track.
Top hits of the year
The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay or Canada Country charts in 2017:
Singles released by American artists
Singles released by Canadian artists
| Songs | Airplay | Canada | Single | Artist | References |
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| — | — | 9 | "All Alright" | Lindsay Ell | |
| — | — | 19 | "Barn Burner" | Dan Davidson | |
| — | — | 12 | "Be Country with Me"[A] | Meghan Patrick | |
| — | — | 9 | "Bonfire" | River Town Saints | |
| — | — | 1 | "Chills" | James Barker Band | |
| — | — | 7 | "Crazy About You" | The Road Hammers | |
| — | — | 3 | "Drive Me Away" | Jess Moskaluke | |
| — | — | 13 | "Fall in Love If You Want To" | Gord Bamford | |
| — | — | 19 | "Get While the Gettin's Good" | Bobby Wills | |
| — | — | 19 | "Head Over Heels" | The Washboard Union | |
| — | — | 17 | "Homemade" | Cold Creek Country | |
| — | — | 1 | "I Be You Be" | High Valley | |
| — | — | 7 | "Just Sayin'" | James Barker Band | |
| — | — | 10 | "Livin' on Summertime" | Gord Bamford | |
| — | — | 8 | "Lonely Drum" | Aaron Goodvin | |
| — | — | 20 | "Made for You" | Jojo Mason | |
| 21 | 17 | — | "Make You Mine" (U.S. release) | High Valley | [4] |
| — | — | 14 | "Might As Well Be Me" | Chad Brownlee | |
| — | — | 14 | "Motel Flamingo" | Madeline Merlo | |
| — | — | 13 | "Over and Over" | Madeline Merlo | |
| — | — | 1 | "Side Effects" | Dallas Smith | |
| — | — | 5 | "Sky Stays This Blue" | Dallas Smith | |
| — | — | 1 | "Slide Over" | Tim Hicks | |
| — | — | 9 | "Slow Burn" | Tim Hicks | |
| — | — | 11 | "Something to Wrap My Heart Around" | Jojo Mason | |
| — | — | 7 | "Something We Shouldn't Do" | Chad Brownlee | |
| — | — | 10 | "Still Loving You" | Meghan Patrick | |
| — | — | 2 | "Time" | Dean Brody | |
| — | — | 5 | "When a Momma's Boy Meets a Daddy's Girl" | Aaron Pritchett | |
Notes
- "—" denotes releases that did not chart
- A^ Current singles.
Top new album releases
The following albums placed on the Top Country Albums charts in 2017:
| US | Album | Artist | Record label | Release date |
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| 7 | Adiós | Glen Campbell | Universal Music | June 9 |
| 10 | American Rebelution | The Lacs | Backroad-Average Joe's | April 7 |
| 2 | Back to Us | Rascal Flatts | Big Machine | May 19 |
| 1 | The Breaker | Little Big Town | Capitol Nashville | February 24 |
| Brett Eldredge | Brett Eldredge | Atlantic Nashville | August 4 | |
| 2 | Brett Young | Brett Young | BMLG | February 10 |
| 1 | Deep South | Josh Turner | MCA Nashville | March 10 |
| 1 | The Devil Don't Sleep | Brantley Gilbert | Valory Music Group | January 27 |
| 5 | Dirty South | Lucas Hoge | Rebel Engine Entertainment | July 21 |
| 1 | From A Room: Volume 1 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville | May 5 |
| 1 | God's Problem Child | Willie Nelson | Legacy | April 28 |
| 5 | Gold | Jessie James Decker | Epic Records | February 17 |
| 1 | Heart Break | Lady Antebellum | Capitol Nashville | June 9 |
| 6 | If Not for You | Joey Feek | Farmhouse Recordings/Capitol Christian | April 7 |
| 1 | Love and War | Brad Paisley | Arista Nashville | April 21 |
| 7 | Love Hope Faith | Colt Ford | Average Joe's | May 5 |
| 1 | The Nashville Sound | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | June 16 |
| 3 | Now That's What I Call Country Volume 10 | Various Artists | Sony Music/Universal | June 9 |
| 10 | Ol' Wheeler | Wheeler Walker Jr. | Pepper Hill Records | June 2 |
| The Project | Lindsay Ell | Stoney Creek | August 11 | |
| 3 | Road Less Traveled | Lauren Alaina | Mercury Nashville/Interscope/19 | January 27 |
| 1 | Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope | Reba McEntire | Nash Icon/Capitol Christian | February 3 |
| 5 | Something's Going On | Trace Adkins | Wheelhouse | March 31 |
| 1 | This One's for You | Luke Combs | Columbia Nashville | June 2 |
| 2 | Vaquero | Aaron Watson | BIG Label | February 24 |
| 4 | The Voice: The Complete Season 12 Collection | Lauren Duski | Republic | May 19 |
| 1 | Welcome Home | Zac Brown Band | Elektra | May 12 |
| 1 | WildHorse | RaeLynn | Warner Bros. Nashville | March 24 |
| 1 | Windy City | Alison Krauss | Capitol | February 17 |
| 4 | Words | Sara Evans | Concord Music/Born to Fly | July 21 |
Other top albums
| US | Album | Artist | Record Label | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde | Old Crow Medicine Show | Columbia Nashville | April 28 |
| 22 | 27861 | Parmalee | Stoney Creek | July 21 |
| 45 | American Grandstand | Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary | Upper Management | July 7 |
| Anchors | Will Hoge | Thirty Tigers | August 11 | |
| 42 | The Blame (EP) | Sam Grow | Ole | May 19 |
| 13 | Backroads (EP) | Taylor Ray Holbrook | TaylorRayMade | April 21 |
| 19 | Baptized in Bourbon | Moonshine Bandits | Backroad-Average Joe's | March 3 |
| 43 | Black & White Night 30 | Roy Orbison | Legacy | February 24 |
| 31 | Brand New Day | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo | March 31 |
| 28 | Close Ties | Rodney Crowell | New West | March 31 |
| 50 | Colter Wall | Colter Wall | Young Mary's Record Co. | May 12 |
| 17 | Fingerprints | Eli Young Band | Valory Music Co. | June 16 |
| 41 | Highway Queen | Nikki Lane | New West | February 17 |
| 26 | Laws of Gravity | The Infamous Stringdusters | Compass | January 13 |
| 38 | Midland | Midland | Big Machine | May 26 |
| 12 | The Music of Nashville: Season 5, Volume 1 | Nashville Cast | Big Machine | March 10 |
| 15 | Never Gets Old | Joe Nichols | Red Bow Records | July 28 |
| 37 | Paving My Way | Hosier | Redneckin Records | April 14 |
| 31 | Puxico | Natalie Hemby | GetWrucke | January 13 |
| 15 | So You Wanna Be an Outlaw | Steve Earle | Warner Bros. Nashville | June 16 |
| 29 | Son of the South | Upchurch | RHEC Entertainment | May 5 |
| 33 | Summer Love (EP) | Ryan Upchurch | Redneck Nation | May 5 |
| 44 | Way Out West | Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives | Superlatone | March 10 |
| 28 | Worth the Wait (EP) | Lindsay Ell | Stoney Creek | March 24 |
Announced
| Album | Artist | Record Label | Release Date |
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| Not Dark Yet | Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer | Thirty Tigers/Silver Cross | August 18 |
| Happy Endings | Old Dominion | RCA Nashville | August 25 |
| Legacy | The Cadillac Three | Big Machine | August 25 |
| Before Breakfast | The Grascals | Mountain Home | September 1 |
| DCX MMXVI Live | Dixie Chicks | Columbia | September 1 |
| Whiskeytown Cryer | Erin Enderlin | Blue Slate | September 1 |
| Current Mood | Dustin Lynch | Broken Bow | September 8 |
| Life Changes | Thomas Rhett | Valory Music Group | September 8 |
| Slowheart | Kip Moore | MCA Nashville | September 8 |
| The Bus Songs | Toby Keith | Show Dog-Universal | September 8 |
| Did It for the Party | Big & Rich | Big & Rich/Thirty Tigers | September 15 |
| Everybody | Chris Janson | Warner Bros. Nashville | September 22 |
| On the Rocks | Midland | Big Machine | September 22 |
| Lambs & Lions | Chase Rice | Broken Bow | September 29 |
| Now | Shania Twain | Mercury Nashville | September 29 |
| This Ride | Jerrod Niemann | Curb | October 6 |
| Yours | Russell Dickerson | Sony Music | October 13 |
| When Was the Last Time | Darius Rucker | Capitol Nashville | October 20 |
| Unapologetically | Kelsea Ballerini | Black River | November 3 |
| I Don't Believe We've Met | Danielle Bradbery | BMLG | December 1 |
| From A Room: Volume 2 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville | TBD |
| The Lonely, the Lonesome and the Gone | Lee Ann Womack | Sugar Hill | TBD |
Deaths
- January 5 — Sam Lovullo, 88, co-creator and producer of Hee Haw.[5]
- January 25 — Butch Trucks, 69, founder and drummer of The Allman Brothers Band[6]
- March 11 — Don Warden, 87, best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton.
- April 20 — Tammy Sullivan, 53, bluegrass singer known as half of the Grammy nominated father-daughter duo Tammy and Jerry Sullivan.
- May 21 — Wendell Goodman, 81, manager and husband of Wanda Jackson who penned her 1961 hit "Right or Wrong".
- May 27 — Gregg Allman, 69, singer-songwriter and musician, founder of The Allman Brothers Band.
- June 8 — Norro Wilson, 79, singer-songwriter and producer (heart failure).
- July 13 — Kayton Roberts, 83, steel guitar player who has performed with Dolly Parton, Hank Snow, Marty Stuart and Alison Krauss among others (stroke).
- July 21 — Geoff Mack, 94, Australian singer-songwriter best known for writing "I've Been Everywhere", famously covered by Hank Snow and Johnny Cash among others
- July 25 — Billy Joe Walker Jr., 64, American musician, record producer, and songwriter.
- July 25 — Michael Johnson, 72, country and pop singer from the 1970s and 1980s.[7]
- July 27 — D. L. Menard, 85, Lousiana musician commonly known as the "Cajun Hank Williams".[8]
- August 8 — Glen Campbell, 81, country and pop singer and musician from the 1960s onwards, best known for songs such as "Gentle on My Mind", "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Southern Nights" (Alzheimer's Disease).
Hall of Fame inductees
Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Alan Jackson, singer-songwriter and leading figure in the neotraditionalist movement of the 1990s, songwriter (born 1958).
- Jerry Reed, singer-songwriter-guitarist best known for swamp rock style of music (1937-2008).
- Don Schlitz, songwriter (born 1952)
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Paul Brandt (born 1972)
- Harvey Gold
Major awards
Academy of Country Music
ACM Honors[9]
(to be presented in Nashville on August 23)
- Cliffie Stone Icon Award — George Strait
- Merle Haggard Spirit Award — Eric Church
- Mae Boren Axton Award — Reba McEntire and Bob Kingsley
- Poet's Award — Willie Nelson, Toby Keith and Shel Silverstein
- Gary Haber Lifting Lives Award — Dolly Parton
- Gene Weed Milestone Award — Kelsea Ballerini
- Songwriter of the Year — Lori McKenna
- Tex Ritter Film Award — Nashville
CMT Music Awards
Breakthrough Video Of The Year - Lauren Alaina
Notes
References
- ↑ Asker, Jim (April 3, 2017). "Luke Bryan Becomes First Artist to Earn 6 Country Airplay No. 1s From an Album". Billboard. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ Betts, Stephen L. (April 12, 2017). "Alabama's Jeff Cook Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ McElroy, Jack, "What happened at the Andrew Johnson Hotel that may have killed Hank Williams?," USA Today, April 23, 2017. Accessed 04-24-2017.
- ↑ "High Valley Album & Song Chart History - Canada Country". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
- ↑ "'Hee Haw' co-creator and producer Sam Lovullo passes away". 5 July 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via The Economic Times.
- ↑ "Allman Brothers Band Founding Member Butch Trucks Dead at 69". Taste of Country. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ↑ "'Bluer Than Blue' Singer Michael Johnson Dies at 72". Billboard. July 26, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/cajun-music-legend-dl-menard-dead-at-85-w495055
- ↑ "George Strait, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson & More to Be Feted at ACM Honors". billboard.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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