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[ 2005 Singles ]

Dec. 19:

  • TOBY KEITH
    "Get Drunk And Be Somebody" (Show Dog)

    Dec. 12:

  • JOAQUIN PHOENIX with REESE WITHERSPOON
    "Jackson" (Wind-Up)
  • NEAL McCOY
    "The Last Of A Dying Breed" (903 Music)

    Dec. 5:

  • ANDY GRIGGS
    "I Never Had A Chance" (RCA)
  • JOEY DANIELS
    "Swinging Door" (Big3)
  • SUSAN HAYNES
    "Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress" (Epic)

    Nov. 28:

  • BON JOVI with JENNIFER NETTLES
    "Who Says You Can't Go Home" (Island)
  • KENNY ROGERS
    "I Can't Unlove You" (Capitol)
  • LeANN RIMES
    "Something's Gotta Give" (Asylum/Curb)
  • LONESTAR
    "I'll Die Tryin'" (BNA)
  • SHOOTER JENNINGS
    "Steady At The Wheel" (Universal South)
  • STEVE AZAR
    "Catfish Christmas" (Dang Records)

    Nov. 21:

  • BRICE LONG
    "Anywhere But Here" (Columbia)
  • CRAIG MORGAN
    "I Got You" (Broken Bow)
  • JEFF BATES
    "No Shame" (RCA)
  • JO DEE MESSINA
    "Not Goin' Down" (Curb)
  • KEITH URBAN
    "Tonight I Wanna Cry" (Capitol)
  • MARK McGUINN
    "Bring 'Em Back" (Quarterback)
  • NATALIE GRANT
    "What Are You Waiting For" (Curb)
  • RHETT AKINS
    "Kiss My Country Ass" (BNA)

    Nov. 14:

  • LEE ANN WOMACK
    "Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago" (MCA)

    Nov. 7:

  • DOLLY PARTON
    "Imagine" (Sugar Hill)
  • JAMIE O'NEAL
    "I Love My Life" (Capitol)
  • OAK RIDGE BOYS
    "Ordinary Days" (Spring Hill)
  • SHeDAISY
    "I'm Taking The Wheel" (Lyric Street)
  • TYLER DEAN
    "Somebody Who Would Die For You" (Curb)

    Oct. 31:

  • CLINT BLACK
    "Drinkin' Songs And Other Logic" (Equity)
  • TRACY LAWRENCE
    "If I Don't Make It Back" (Mercury)

    Oct. 24:

  • JACE EVERETT
    "Bad Things" (Epic)
  • JASON ALDEAN
    "Why" (Broken Bow)
  • TRISHA YEARWOOD
    "Trying To Love You" (MCA)

    Oct. 17:

  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD
    "Jesus Take The Wheel" (Arista)
  • JACK INGRAM
    "Wherever You Are" (Big Machine)
  • MERLE HAGGARD
    "America First" (Hag/Capitol)
  • MONTGOMERY GENTRY
    "She Didn't Tell Me To" (Columbia)
  • PAT GREEN
    "College" (Republic)
  • RYAN SHUPE & THE RUBBERBAND
    "Banjo Boy" (Capitol)
  • SARA EVANS
    "Cheatin'" (RCA)
  • TRENT TOMLINSON
    "Drunker Than Me" (Lyric Street)

    Oct. 10:

  • BERING STRAIT
    "You Make Lovin' Fun" (Universal South)
  • DIXIE CHICKS
    "I Hope" (Columbia)
  • GRETCHEN WILSON
    "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" (Epic)
  • ROCKIE LYNNE
    "Lipstick" (Universal South)
  • ZONA JONES
    "I'll Give It To You" (Quarterback)

    Oct. 6:

  • GARTH BROOKS
    "Good Ride Cowboy" (Lyric Street)

    Oct. 3:

  • 4 RUNNER
    "We Will Hope With You" (Fresh)
  • CAROLINA RAIN
    "Let's Get It On" (Equity)
  • COLLIN RAYE
    "I Know That's Right" (Aspirion)
  • HOT APPLE PIE
    "We're Makin' Up" (MCA)
  • TIM McGRAW
    "My Old Friend" (Curb)
  • WYNONNA
    "Attitude" (Asylum/Curb)

    Sept. 26:

  • BRAD PAISLEY with DOLLY PARTON
    "When I Get Where I'm Going" (Arista)
  • BROOKS & DUNN
    "Believe" (Arista)
  • CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED
    "Fightin' For" (Universal South)
  • RECKLESS KELLY
    "These Tears" (Sugar Hill)

    Sept. 19:

  • DERYL DODD
    "Stronger Proof" (DualTone)
  • KENNY CHESNEY
    "Who You'd Be Today" (BNA)
  • RODNEY CROWELL
    "Say You Love Me" (Columbia)
  • TRACE ADKINS
    "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" (Capitol)

    Sept. 12:

  • BIG & RICH
    "Comin' To Your City" (Warner)
  • DANIELLE PECK
    "I Don't" (Big Machine)
  • DOUG STONE
    "Everything" (Lofton Creek)
  • ERIKA JO
    "I'm Not Lisa" (Universal South)
  • KEITH BRYANT
    "Somebody" (Lofton Creek)
  • LILA McCANN with JIM BRICKMAN
    "I'm Amazed" (Broken Bow)
  • SHANNON BROWN
    "Corn Fed" (Warner)

    Sept. 5:

  • CHELY WRIGHT
    "C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)" (DualTone)
  • CLINT BLACK
    "Code Of The West" (Equity)
  • GEORGE STRAIT
    "She Let Herself Go" (MCA)
  • FORTY 5 SOUTH
    "I've Been There Too" (Tilo)
  • MIRANDA LAMBERT
    "Kerosene" (Columbia)
  • SHANIA TWAIN
    "Shoes" (Lyric Street)
  • SUGARLAND
    "Just Might (Make Me Believe)" (Mercury)
  • TOBY KEITH
    "Big Blue Note" (Show Dog)
  • VAN ZANT
    "Ain't Nobody Gonna Tell Me What To Do" (Columbia)

    Aug. 29:

  • FAITH HILL
    "Like We Never Loved At All" (Warner)
  • HANNA-McEUEN
    "Ocean" (DreamWorks)
  • RANDY ROGERS BAND
    "Down And Out" (Smith Music Group)
  • TRICK PONY
    "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey" (Curb)

    Aug. 22:

  • MICHAEL AFRICK
    "Heaven's A Small Town" (Northrup)
  • REBA McENTIRE
    "You're Gonna Be (Always Loved By Me)" (MCA)
  • TIM MURPHY
    "Wild Wild West" (Big 7)

    Aug. 15:

  • AMBER DOTSON
    "I Ain't Your Momma" (Capitol)
  • DWIGHT YOAKAM
    "Blame The Vain" (New West)
  • HOMETOWN NEWS
    "That's Country To Me" (Quarterback)
  • JAMEY JOHNSON
    "The Dollar" (BNA)
  • KEITH URBAN
    "Better Life" (Capitol)
  • PATTY LOVELESS
    "Keep Your Distance" (Epic)

    Aug. 8:

  • ALAN JACKSON
    "USA Today" (Arista)
  • BLAKE SHELTON
    "Nobody But Me" (Warner)
  • JOE NICHOLS
    "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off" (Universal South)
  • MARTINA McBRIDE
    "Rose Garden" (RCA)
  • RASCAL FLATTS
    "Skin" (Lyric Street)
  • STEVE HOLY
    "It's My Time (Waste It If I Want To)" (Curb)

    Aug. 1:

  • CHELY WRIGHT
    "The River" (DualTone)
  • DARRYL WORLEY
    "I Love Her, She Hates Me" (DreamWorks)
  • GRETCHEN WILSON
    "All Jacked Up" (Epic)

    July 25:

  • KEITH ANDERSON
    "XXL" (Arista)
  • LUKE STRICKLIN
    "American By God's Amazing Grace" (Pacific/Time)

    July 18:

  • BUDDY JEWELL
    "So Gone" (Columbia)
  • DIERKS BENTLEY
    "Come A Little Closer" (Capitol)
  • JON RANDALL
    "I Shouldn't Do This" (Epic)
  • JOSH TURNER
    "Just To Be Your Man" (MCA)
  • RAY SCOTT
    "My Kind Of Music" (Warner)

    July 11:

  • DERRYL PERRY
    "You Will" (Music City Records)
  • GREENCARDS
    "Time" (DualTone)
  • JENAI
    "Hallelujah" (Moraine)
  • TERRI CLARK
    "She Didn't Have Time" (Mercury)

    July 5:

  • BILLY DEAN
    "Race You To The Bottom" (Curb)
  • CATHERINE BRITT & ELTON JOHN
    "Where We Say Goodbye" (RCA)
  • KEVIN SHARP
    "I Think I'll Stay" (Cupit)
  • SEVEN
    "Drunk Chicks" (Independent)
  • SHANE OWENS
    "Bottom Of The Fifth" (Rust)
  • THE WARREN BROTHERS
    "Change" (BNA)

    June 27:

  • RANDY TRAVIS
    "Angels" (Word/Curb)
  • SHAWN KING
    "In My Own Backyard" (Lofton Creek)
  • SUSAN HAYNES
    "Crooked Little Heart" (Epic)

    June 20:

  • JESSICA ANDREWS
    "Summer Girls" (DreamWorks)
  • KEVIN FOWLER
    "Don't Touch My Willie" (Equity)
  • LISA BROKOP
    "Big Picture" (Asylum/Curb)

    June 13:

  • AARON LINES
    "It Takes A Man" (RCA)
  • AARON TIPPIN
    "Come Friday" (Lyric Street)
  • ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION
    "Goodbye Is All We Have" (Rounder)
  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD
    "Inside Your Heaven" (Arista)
  • COWBOY TROY
    "If You Don't Wanna Love Me" (RAYBAW/Warner)
  • JEFF BATES
    "Good People" (RCA)
  • JO DEE MESSINA
    "Delicious Surprise (I Believe)" (Curb)
  • JOEY MARTIN
    "Red" (Giantslayer)
  • PHIL VASSAR
    "Good Ole Days" (Arista)
  • TRACE ADKINS
    "Arlington" (Capitol)

    June 6:

  • CLINT BLACK
    "Rainbow In The Rain" (Equity)
  • KENI THOMAS
    "Gloryland" (Moraine)
  • MATT JENKINS
    "King Of The Castle" (Universal South)
  • TRACY LAWRENCE
    "Used To The Pain" (DreamWorks)

    May 31:

  • DOUG STONE
    "World Goes Round" (Lofton Creek)
  • JESSICA ANDREWS
    "The Marrying Kind" (DreamWorks)
  • LILA McCANN
    "I Can Do This" (Broken Bow)
  • SAWYER BROWN
    "They Don't Understand" (Curb)
  • SHELLY FAIRCHILD
    "Kiss Me" (Columbia)

    May 23:

  • BRICE LONG
    "It's Only Monday" (Columbia)
  • BROOKS & DUNN
    "Play Something Country" (Arista)
  • JEFFREY STEELE
    "She Must Be Happy" (Lofton Creek)
  • KERRY HARVICK
    "That's What Your Love Does" (Lyric Street)
  • LONESTAR
    "You're Like Comin' Home" (BNA)
  • TIM McGRAW
    "Do You Want Fries With That" (Curb)

    May 16:

  • ANDY GRIGGS
    "This I Gotta See" (RCA)
  • CHRIS CAGLE
    "Miss Me Baby" (Capitol)
  • GARY ALLAN
    "Best I Ever Had" (MCA)

    May 9:

  • BILLY CURRINGTON
    "Must Be Doin' Something Right" (Mercury)
  • DWIGHT YOAKAM
    "Intentional Heartache" (New West)
  • FAITH HILL
    "Mississippi Girl" (Warner)
  • JACE EVERETT
    "That's The Kind Of Love I'm In" (Epic)
  • LAUREN LUCAS
    "The Carolina Kind" (Warner)
  • TOBY KEITH
    "As Good As I Once Was" (DreamWorks)

    May 2:

  • BRAD PAISLEY
    "Alcohol" (Arista)
  • SHANIA TWAIN
    "I Ain't No Quitter" (Mercury)

    Apr. 27:

  • ERIKA JO
    "I Break Things" (Universal South)

    Apr. 25:

  • BLAINE LARSEN
    "The Best Man" (BNA)
  • CHRIS LeDOUX
    "The Ride" (Capitol)
  • CRAIG MORGAN
    "Redneck Yacht Club" (Broken Bow)
  • KENNY CHESNEY
    "Keg In The Closet" (BNA)
  • LITTLE BIG TOWN
    "Boondocks" (Equity)
  • MONTGOMERY GENTRY
    "Something To Be Proud Of" (Columbia)
  • NEAL McCOY
    "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" (903)
  • TORI BAXLEY
    "Half A Man" (DreamWorks)

    Apr. 18:

  • BILLY DEAN
    "This Is The Life" (Curb)
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
    "Devils & Dust" (Columbia)
  • SARA EVANS
    "A Real Fine Place To Start" (RCA)
  • TRISHA YEARWOOD
    "Georgia Rain" (MCA)

    Apr. 11:

  • BRET MICHAELS
    "Open Road" (BMB/Poorboy)
  • BRITTONJACK
    "Fallin'" (Lofton Creek)
  • CAROLINA RAIN
    "Louisiana Love" (Equity)
  • DREW DAVIS BAND
    "Back There All The Time" (Windswept/Quarterback)
  • HILLJACK
    "Texas 101" (Crop Circle)
  • LEE ANN WOMACK
    "He Oughta Know That By Now" (MCA)
  • RHONDA VINCENT AND THE RAGE
    "I've Forgotten You" (Rounder)
  • STEVE AZAR
    "Doin' It Right" (Mercury)
  • STEVE HOLY
    "Go Home" (Curb)

    Apr. 4:

  • DOUG STONE
    "Only You (And You Alone)" (Lofton Creek)
  • JOSH GRACIN
    "Stay With Me (Brass Bed)" (Lyric Street)
  • MARK CHESNUTT
    "A Hard Secret To Keep" (Vivaton)
  • RYAN SHUPE AND THE RUBBER BAND
    "Dream Big" (Capitol)
  • SUGARLAND
    "Something More" (Mercury)
  • THE GREAT DIVIDE
    "Crazy In California" (Time)

    Mar. 28:

  • COWBOY CRUSH
    "Nobody Ever Died Of A Broken Heart" (Asylum/Curb)
  • GEORGE STRAIT
    "You'll Be There" (MCA)
  • MIRANDA LAMBERT
    "Bring Me Down" (Epic)

    Mar. 21:

  • ALAN JACKSON
    "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues" (Arista)
  • CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED
    "Lonely Girl" (Universal South)
  • JAMIE O'NEAL
    "Somebody's Hero" (Capitol)
  • KEITH URBAN
    "Making Memories Of Us" (Capitol)
  • PAT GREEN
    "Somewhere Between Texas And Mexico" (Republic)
  • REBECCA LYNN HOWARD
    "No One Will Ever Love Me" (Arista)
  • SHOOTER JENNINGS
    "4th Of July" (Universal South)

    Mar. 14:

  • AMANDA WILKINSON
    "No More Me And You" (Universal South)
  • BLUE COUNTY
    "That Summer Song" (Asylum/Curb)
  • COWBOY TROY
    "I Play Chicken (With The Train)" (RAYBAW)
  • GLENN CUMMINGS
    "Good Old Days" (Gulf Coast)
  • HOT APPLE PIE
    "Hillbillies" (Dreamworks)
  • JASON ALDEAN
    "Hicktown" (BBR)
  • LEANN RIMES
    "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" (Curb/Asylum)
  • RASCAL FLATTS
    "Fast Cars And Freedom" (Lyric Street)
  • REBA McENTIRE
    "My Sister" (MCA)
  • THE WRIGHTS
    "Down This Road" (ACR/RCA)
  • VAN ZANT
    "Help Somebody" (Columbia)

    Mar. 7:

  • TRACY BYRD
    "Tiny Town" (RCA)

    Feb. 28:

  • DAVID BALL
    "Happy With The One I've Got" (Wildcatter/Quarterback)
  • DERYL DODD
    "Love Or Something Like It" (DualTone)
  • KEVIN SHARP
    "Your Love Reaches Me" (Cupit)
  • LAUREN LUCAS
    "What You Ain't Gonna Get" (Warner Bros.)

    Feb. 21:

  • BOBBY PINSON
    "Don't Ask Me How I Know" (RCA)
  • JON RANDALL
    "Baby Won't You Come Home" (Epic)
  • PAT GREEN
    "Baby Doll" (Republic)
  • TRICK PONY
    "It's A Heartache" (Asylum/Curb)

    Feb. 14:

  • AMBER DOTSON
    "I'll Try Anything" (Capitol)
  • BRIAN McCOMAS
    "The Middle Of Nowhere" (Lyric Street)
  • DEANA CARTER
    "One Day At A Time" (Capitol)
  • DIAMOND RIO
    "One Believer" (Arista)
  • GRETCHEN WILSON
    "Homewrecker" (Epic)
  • HANNA McEUEN
    "Something Like A Broken Heart" (MCA)
  • KEVIN FOWLER
    "Hard Man To Love" (Equity)

    Feb. 7:

  • BIG & RICH
    "Big Time" (Warner Bros.)
  • DARRYL WORLEY
    "If Something Should Happen" (DreamWorks)
  • JAY TETER
    "Until You Find Mr. Right" (Quarterback)
  • RICK TREVINO
    "Olivia" (Warner Bros.)
  • TIM McGRAW
    "Drugs Or Jesus" (Curb)
  • TOBY KEITH
    "Honky Tonk U" (DreamWorks)
  • TRAVIS TRITT
    "I See Me" (Columbia)
  • TRENT WILLMON
    "The Good Life" (Columbia)

    Jan. 31:

  • GEORGE CANYON
    "My Name" (Universal South)
  • KATRINA ELAM
    "I Want A Cowboy" (Universal South)
  • SHELLY FAIRCHILD
    "Tiny Town" (Columbia)

    Jan. 24:

  • BLAKE SHELTON
    "Goodbye Time" (Warner Bros.)
  • BUDDY JEWELL
    "If She Were Any Other Woman" (Columbia)
  • CHARLIE ROBISON
    "El Cerrito Place" (DualTone)
  • DIERKS BENTLEY
    "Lot Of Leavin' Left To Do" (Capitol)
  • JEFFREY STEELE
    "Just The Way We Do It" (Lofton Creek)
  • JULIE ROBERTS
    "Wake Up Older" (Mercury)
  • LILA McCANN
    "Go Easy On Me" (Broken Bow)
  • RANDY ROGERS BAND
    "Tonight's Not The Night" (Smith)

    Jan. 17:

  • AARON LINES
    "Waitin' On The Wonderful" (BNA)
  • JEDD HUGHES
    "Soldier For The Lonely" (MCA)
  • JESSI ALEXANDER
    "Canyon Prayer" (Columbia)
  • LONESTAR
    "Class Reunion (That Used To Be Us)" (BNA)
  • SAWYER BROWN feat. ROBERT RANDOLPH
    "Mission Temple Fireworks Stand" (Curb)
  • SHANIA TWAIN
    "Don't" (Mercury)
  • SHeDAISY
    "Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing" (Lyric Street)
  • TIFT MERRITT
    "Good Hearted Man" (Lost Highway/Dreamworks)

    Jan. 10:

  • DERYL DODD
    "Let Me Be" (DualTone)
  • JIMMY BUFFETT
    "Piece Of Work" (Mailboat/RCA)
  • JO DEE MESSINA
    "My Give A Damn's Busted" (Curb)
  • KENNY CHESNEY
    "Anything But Mine" (BNA)
  • REBECCA LYNN HOWARD
    "That's Why I Hate Pontiacs" (Arista)


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