2017 "Body Like a Back Road" by Sam Hunt broke two Billboard Hot Country Songs chart records for #1 longevity within a month of each other. On July 22, upon spending its 22nd week at #1, "... Back Road" became the longest-running #1 song by a male artist since the start of the charts in 1944. On Aug...

1977 Born on this day was American singer-songwriter Hillary Lindsey. She has written and co-written songs for Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Tim McGraw and Luke Bryan. In 2006 and 2016, respectively, Lindsey won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song for Carrie Under...

2009 Brooks & Dunn announced that they were breaking up in 2010 after 20 years as a duo. Signed to Arista Records in 1991, the duo recorded ten studio albums, one Christmas album and three compilation albums for the label. They also released fifty singles, of which twenty went to #1 on the Hot Country Songs charts ...

1985 Alabama became the first country act to go quadruple-platinum, as their Mountain Music and Feels So Right albums were certified for shipments of 4 million copies.

1986 Singer Paul Davis (who scored 2 Country #1 hits with Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker), survived a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. He was leaving a hotel on Music Row with a female companion when an unidentified man walked up, demanded his wallet, and shot him in the abdomen.