Country - ACC Top Women

ACC Top Women 1990-99 [Start][Men1][Men2][Groups]

1. Reba McEntire

Position, Year, Title:
003-1992 Is There Life Out There
016-1998 If You See Him/If You See Her
017-1991 Rumor Has It
021-1995 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
022-1997 How Was I To Know
023-1997 The Fear Of Being Alone
030-1997 I'd Rather Ride Around With You
031-1990 Walk On
033-1995 Till You Love Me
034-1993 The Heart Won't Lie
036-1991 Fallin' Out Of Love
040-1993 Does He Love You
042-1993 It's Your Call
048-1998 Forever Love
053-1995 And Still
057-1990 You Lie
057-1999 Wrong Night
058-1990 Little Girl
060-1999 One Honest Heart
070-1992 The Greatest Man I Never New
074-1993 Tack It Bacy
075-1997 What If It's You
078-1994 Why Haven't I Heard From You
081-1996 Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands
082-1992 For My Broken Heart
086-1991 Fancy
097-1994 They Asked About You
100-1992 The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

Bob Kingsley (1997):
Reba McEntire is the most successful female country singer of the past decade. Her three octave range and emotional believability earned her four consecutive "Female Vocalist of the Year" Awards of the CMA, and she ist the only female who has ever done that.

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2. Faith Hill

Bob Kingsley (1997): She is the first female country artist in history to sell an access of two million copies each of both her first and her second albums. That first album is called "It matters to me", the second is "Take me as I am" and while we're waiting for her to finish up her third album, we can listen to her most recent single. It's called "I can't do that anymore" and it's 71 for the year by - Haith Hill.

Position, Year, Title:
001-1997 It's Your Love
002-1998 This Kiss
004-1994 Wild One
004-1996 It Matters To Me
019-1995 Take Me As I Am
021-1994 Piece Of My Heart
026-1999 Let Me Let Go
034-1999 The Secret Of Life
037-1996 Someone Else's Drea m
041-1998 Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me
071-1997 I Can't Do That Anymore
071-1999 Love Ain't Like That
082-1995 Let's Go To Vegas
082-1996 You Can't Lose Me

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3. Trisha Yearwood

Bob Kingsley (1994): Here is a young woman who grew up with Elvis posters on her bedroom wall, got straight A's in school, carried water for the football team, sang in the school chorus, and was named "Outstanding Senior Girl" at the academy class of 1982. So, when the media refers to her as a "girl next door" type, she takes it as a compliment. She says: "I guess that means they feel like I'm a real person and if I can get that across on stage or in person, that I'm no better than anyone else, that I'm just normal, that really makes me feel good."

Position, Year, Title:
009-1994 XXX's And OOO's
011-1995 Thinkin' About You
013-1998 Perfect Love
018-1991 She's In Love With The Boy
021-1996 Believe Me Baby (I Lied)
025-1998 There Goes My Baby
033-1997 In Another's Eyes
036-1997 How Do I Live
045-1994 The Song Remembers When
046-1997 Everybody Knows
047-1999 I'll Still Love You More
049-1992 The Woman Before Me
053-1999 Powerful Thing
056-1993 Walkaway Joe
069-1992 The Wrong Side Of Memphis
075-1992 That's What I Like About You
094-1995 I Wanna Go Too Far

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4. Patty Loveless

Bob Kingsley (1995):
This young woman has slowly built herself a reputation as one of the most appendable and forceful artists of the past decade. In fact, she has celebrated her 10th anniversary as recording artist this year. And if her work remains as strong as it is been up to right now, then she could well become one of the few current country stars who'll get more recognition in her second decade than her first.

Position, Year, Title:
009-1990 Chains
012-1993 Blame It On Your Heart
012-1996 You Can Feel Bad
016-1996 Lonely Too Long
051-1994 I Try To Think About Elvis
052-1997 She Drew A Broken Heart
054-1990 On Down The Line
062-1991 I'm That Kind Of Girl
063-1995 Here I Am
066-1995 Halfway Down
071-1994 How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
072-1995 You Don't Even Know Who I Am
076-1994 You Will
079-1999 Can't Get Enough
082-1998 To Have You Back Again
090-1998 You Don't Seem To Miss Me
096-1998 High On Love
098-1997 The Trouble With The Truth

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5. Lorrie Morgan

Bob Kingsley (1997): Her success was a long time coming. She first recorded as a teenager in the late 70's, but she never had the breaks, the songs or a record company that really believed in her, that is, not until 1989. And after years of struggling to be recognized as more than just another girl singer, she's finally being taken seriously as a star in her own right. With survey song number 57 for the year called "Go away" here's - Lorrie Morgan.

Position, Year, Title:
014-1990 Five Minutes
025-1991 We Both Walk
026-1992 Except For Monday
028-1993 What Part Of No
029-1995 I Didn't Know My Own Strength
036-1990 Out Of Your Shoes
057-1997 Go Away
060-1996 Back In Your Arms Again
064-1990 He Talks To Me
070-1997 Good As I Was To You
077-1999 Maybe Not Tonight
085-1993 Half Enough
087-1991 A Picture Of Me (Without You)
088-1998 One Of Those Nights
090-1992 Watch Me
096-1990 'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose

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5. Shania Twain

Bob Kingsley (1995): Country Music's major success story of 1995 is that of a young woman from Canada who spent six consecutive weeks at number one on "Billboard's Country Album Chart" and six weeks in the top ten of the "Overall Billboard Album Chart". In doing so, she broke both Wynona's and Mary Chapin Carpenter's records for number of consecutive weeks on top of the "Country Album Chart" and Reba McEntire's record in the top ten of the "Overall Album Chart". She's also only the third Canadian artist to hit number one on "Billboard's Country Singles Chart". Anne Murray did it ten times, Hank Snow did it seven, and this past July Shania Twain scored her first number one song with a tune that finishes number seven of the year: "Any man of mine".

Position, Year, Title:
003-1997 Love Gets Me Every Time
006-1996 (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here
007-1995 Any Man Of Mine
013-1996 You Win My Love
015-1998 Honey, I'm Home
018-1996 No One Needs To Know
020-1998 You're Still The One
050-1999 Man I Feel Like A Woman
061-1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
066-1998 Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
068-1999 You've Got A Way
073-1998 From This Moment

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7. Wynonna

Bob Kingsley (1997): Our 1997-Top-100 continues now with a young woman who's been making records for the past fourteen years, but she remains fascinated by the recording experience. She says: "I'm an emotional battlefield and it's such a powerful thing that happens to me in the studio. I become part of this wonderful, special place, not found at my home or anywhere else on this earth. I go back to being so emotionally naked. The experience can be painful or joyful, and sometimes I drive home from the studio just right, other times I drive home laughing."

Position, Year, Title:
001-1992 I Saw The Light
018-1992 She Is His Only Need
019-1993 A Bad Good Bye
022-1996 To Be Loved By You
027-1993 Tell Me Why
031-1993 Only Love
036-1992 No One Else On Earth
062-1994 Rock Bottom
068-1993 My Strongest Weakness
068-1994 Is It Over Yet
080-1998 Come Some Rainy Day
093-1996 Heaven Help My Heart
094-1997 When Love Starts Talkin'

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8. Martina McBride

Bob Kingsley (1995): The song at 45 is by a young woman from Kansas. In 1991 she was running the t-shirt concession on the Garth Brooks tour. Today she's still in the t-shirt business, except that it is now her tour and her face on the t-shirt. Here's Martina McBride: "Save in the arms of love".

Position, Year, Title:
007-1999 I Love You
010-1998 A Broken Wing
016-1999 Wrong Again
022-1999 What Ever You Say
023-1996 Wild Angels
045-1995 Safe In The Arms Of Love
053-1998 Happy Girl
081-1994 Life 9
085-1998 Valentine
096-1997 Still Holding On
098-1994 My Baby Loves Me

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8. Pam Tillis

Bob Kingsley (1995): Our next song is by an unusually talented young women who describes herself as the recording equivalent of a character-actress. She says: I cast myself in different musical roles and try not to get typecast. My material is always changing and I'm just glad that an artist like me with all these feelings can make a career in Country Music.

Position, Year, Title:
012-1995 Mi Vida Loca
029-1992 Maybe It Was Memphis
035-1997 All The Good Ones Are Gone
051-1998 Land Of The Living
057-1996 Deep Down
059-1995 In Between Dances
061-1994 When You Walk In The Room
065-1991 Don't Tell Me What To Do
066-1991 One Of Those Things
069-1994 Spilled Perfume
078-1993 Let That Pony Run
078-1998 I Said A Prayer
085-1992 Shake The Sugar Tree
086-1996 The River And The Highway
098-1993 Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial

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10. Mary Chapin Carpenter Bob Kingsley (1989): The singer of this next song was born in Princeton, New Jersey. Now, this lady has a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University and she's a writer of unusual perception and depth. in 1989 she turned a failed relationship into her first top-ten-hit: "You never had it so good."	Position, Year, Title: 005-1994 Shut Up And Kiss Me 015-1992 I Feel Lucky 032-1994 He Thinks He'll Keep Her 047-1991 Down At The Twist And Shout 059-1994 I Take My Chances 067-1993 Passionate Kisses 070-1990 Quittin' Time 086-1997 Let Me Into Your Heart 090-1999 Almost Home 094-1993 The Hard Way 100-1993 The Bug 100-1995 Tender When I Want To Be
	Mary Chapin Links: Homepage Countrystars IMusic AllMusic

10. Tanya Tucker

Bob Kingsley (1997): Right now, a lady who's been a major star for over 25 years, even though she's younger than several other female artists in our end-of-the-year survey. She says: "It's the applause that keeps me going. I couldn't just quit and I guess it's just pure perseverance, just wanting to be the best I can be. I don't think I have done that yet, but I'll keep trying. The applause, that's my reward."

Position, Year, Title:
017-1990 My Arms Stay Open All Night
027-1991 Down To My Last Teardrop
041-1990 Walkin' Shoes
041-1992 Some Kind Of Trouble
042-1992 If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight
052-1993 Tell Me About It
055-1994 Soon
061-1993 It's A Little Too Late
069-1990 Don't Go Out
073-1991 It Won't Be Me
079-1992 (Without You) What Do I Do With Me
081-1997 Little Things
082-1994 Hangin' In
085-1991 Oh What It Did To Me

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12. Jo Dee Messina

Curb Records (1998):
Jo Dee Messina is a survivor. From the moment she decided to make music her career, she dug in her heels and got to work, never wavering from her goal. That determination has paid off time and again for the feisty redhead, most recently with the completion of "I'm Alright", her second Curb Records album. "It's been eighteen months in the making. It seemed like an eternity." Jo Dee laughs.

Position, Year, Title:
003-1998 Bye, Bye
004-1998 I'm Alright
005-1999 Lesson In Leavin'
008-1999 Stand Beside Me
058-1996 Heads Carolina, Tails California
084-1996 You're Not In Kansas Any More

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13. Deana Carter Bob Kingsley (1997): In the last years female acts have accounted for more and more commercial success. For example: One week last March the top three albums were all by women. So the women are clearly doing better than ever before, and one of the top female success stories of this or any year is that of the young woman with this year's number twenty song.....	Position, Year, Title: 010-1997 How Do I Get There 013-1997 We Danced Anyway 020-1997 Strawberry Wine 039-1997 Count Me In 088-1999 Absence Of The Heart
	Deana Links: Homepage Webring Countrystars AllMusic IMusic

13. Terri Clark

Bob Kingsley (1997): Ok! Get a pair of cowboy boots and a t-shirt, a cowboy hat, some Wranglers and a big shiny belt-buckel: That pretty much describes a good percentage of today's male country stars, right ? Well, one star who's embraced that time-honoured look happens to be a 5 foot 11 inch female who first appeared on the billboard chart in 1995 with a hit called "Better things to do".

Position, Year, Title:
012-1999 You're Easy On The Eyes
030-1998 Now That I Found You
048-1996 When Boy Meets Girl
063-1996 If I Were You
063-1999 Every Time I Cry
067-1995 Better Things To Do
083-1997 Poor Poor Pitiful Me
088-1997 Emotional Girl

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15. Leann Rimes

Position, Year, Title:
016-1997 One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
047-1997 The Light In Your Eyes
050-1998 Commitment
059-1998 On The Side Of Angels
077-1997 Unchained Melody
081-1998 Nothin' New Under The Moon
099-1996 Blue

Bob Kingsley (1997): Well, she won her first talent contest at age five. By the time she was ten, she was performing at least a hundred times a year. Today, at age fifteen, she's the centre of a multi-million-dollar corporation who's sole product is her own talent. She says: "I feel like Cinderella at the ball. I'm living the life I've wanted with all my heart since I was five years old: To share my music with others."

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15. Lee Ann Womack

Position, Year, Title:
032-1999 I'll Think Of A Reason Later
033-1998 A Little Past Little Rock
040-1998 You've Got To Talk To Me
056-1997 The Fool
062-1999 (Now You See Me) Now You Don't

Bob Kingsley (1997): We hear now from a young woman who proves that there is room in our countdown for two Texas singers named LeeAnn. Lee Ann Womack hales from Jacksonville, her dad was a country DJ. He often played his little girls favourate songs in the radio and nowadays Lee Ann is excited to be adding her own voice to country radio. She scored her first Top-10 with a tune that winds up at number 56 for the year, here Lee Ann Womack and "The Fool".

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17. Suzy Bogguss

Countrystars.com: Strong. Clear. Confident. Warm. The words have been used to describe Suzy Bogguss' voice, but they just as easily apply to the woman herself..By seeing the path she wants to take and resolutely following it. Suzy has become not only an award-winning performer, but a constantly progressing artist.

Position, Year, Title:
049-1993 Drive South
057-1993 Just Like The Weather
071-1992 Aces
073-1994 Hey Cinderella
080-1991 Hopelessly Yours
083-1992 Letting Go
086-1992 Outbound Plane

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18. Kathy Mattea

Bob Kingsley (1989): Steppin' into our year-end spotlight now is a young woman who has long been a favourate of music industry people. She was a singer's singer who's down-to-earth voice was heart on hundreds of music publishing demos long before she was ever signed to a record company. When the Nashville writers and publishers wanted a pro, a no nonsense singer with a unique voice and the ability to deliver any kind of song, she is the one they called. Now, during the last couple of years this singer's singer has been stealing the hearts of country fans around the world as well.

Position, Year, Title:
042-1990 She Came From Fort Worth
047-1994 Walking Away A Winner
055-1990 Where've You Been
077-1991 A Few Good Things Remain
083-1991 Time Passes By
084-1990 Battle Hymn Of Love

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18. Mindy McCready

Position, Year, Title:
027-1996 Guys Do It All The Time
059-1997 A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do)
070-1996 Ten Thousand Angels
095-1998 You'll Never Know
099-1997 Maybe He'll Notice Her Now

Bob Kingsley (1997):
In 1995, among the countless young singers arriving in Nashville, there was a 20-year old Floridean who showed up with nothing but her talent, a karaoke-tape for her demo and a self-imposed deadline of twelve month to get a record contract. And for Mindy McCready a year was all it took.

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