'Consider Me Gone' Spends Third Week At #1, Longest In Reba's Career
MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER FIRST CHART APPEARANCE, REBA SCORES LONGEST NO. 1 RUN ON HOT COUNTRY SONGS
Almost 34 years after her first Billboard chart debut, Reba McEntire posts her longest No. 1 stand, as "Consider Me Gone" (Starstruck/Valory) spends a third week atop Billboard's Hot Country Songs. She hasn't seen two weeks at No. 1 since "If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Brooks & Dunn) in June 1998, and her most recent solo track to hold that long happened when "Is There Life Out There" claimed two weeks at the summit in March 1992.
Five of McEntire's 23 chart toppers have stayed at No. 1 more than one week -- a total that doesn't include her featured billing on Hank Williams Jr.'s "Mind Your Own Business," which topped the list for two weeks in December 1986. Williams' collaborators on the remake of his father's 1949 hit also included Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and Reverend Ike.
McEntire made her Billboard chart debut when "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand" spent five weeks on the list starting in May 1976, and logged her first No. 1 with "Can't Even Get the Blues" in January 1983. Her first multi-week No. 1 as a lead artist came when "For My Broken Heart" held for two weeks in December 1991. Besides Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, McEntire is the only solo female act to lead the Hot Country Songs since Sara Evans, Faith Hill and Jo Dee Messina each scored No. 1 songs during 2005.
McEntire's new track marks No. 1 songs in three decades with Valory chief, Scott Borchetta. As part of the MCA Nashville team, he was associated with McEntire's No. 1 songs in the 1990s, her No. 1 single "Somebody" in 2004, and "Consider Me Gone," which bridges the '00's with the new decade that began last Friday.
Almost 34 years after her first Billboard chart debut, Reba McEntire posts her longest No. 1 stand, as "Consider Me Gone" (Starstruck/Valory) spends a third week atop Billboard's Hot Country Songs. She hasn't seen two weeks at No. 1 since "If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Brooks & Dunn) in June 1998, and her most recent solo track to hold that long happened when "Is There Life Out There" claimed two weeks at the summit in March 1992.
Five of McEntire's 23 chart toppers have stayed at No. 1 more than one week -- a total that doesn't include her featured billing on Hank Williams Jr.'s "Mind Your Own Business," which topped the list for two weeks in December 1986. Williams' collaborators on the remake of his father's 1949 hit also included Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and Reverend Ike.
McEntire made her Billboard chart debut when "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand" spent five weeks on the list starting in May 1976, and logged her first No. 1 with "Can't Even Get the Blues" in January 1983. Her first multi-week No. 1 as a lead artist came when "For My Broken Heart" held for two weeks in December 1991. Besides Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, McEntire is the only solo female act to lead the Hot Country Songs since Sara Evans, Faith Hill and Jo Dee Messina each scored No. 1 songs during 2005.
McEntire's new track marks No. 1 songs in three decades with Valory chief, Scott Borchetta. As part of the MCA Nashville team, he was associated with McEntire's No. 1 songs in the 1990s, her No. 1 single "Somebody" in 2004, and "Consider Me Gone," which bridges the '00's with the new decade that began last Friday.
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