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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Jukebox
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A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patrons selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, coin-operated music boxes and player pianos were the first forms of automated coin-operated musical devices. These instruments used paper rolls, metal disks, or metal cylinders to play a selection on the instrument, or instruments. In the 1890s these devices were joined by machines which used actual recordings instead of physical instruments, in 1890, Louis Glass and William S. The music was heard via one of four listening tubes, Some machines even contained carousels and other mechanisms for playing multiple records. Most machines were capable of holding only one selection, the automation coming from the ability to play that one selection at will. In 1928, Justus P. Seeburg, who was manufacturing player pianos, combined an electrostatic loudspeaker with a player that was coin-operated. This Audiophone machine was wide and bulky, and had eight separate turntables mounted on a rotating Ferris wheel-like device, later versions of the jukebox included Seeburgs Selectophone, with 10 turntables mounted vertically on a spindle. By maneuvering the tone arm up and down, the customer could select from 10 different records, greater levels of automation were gradually introduced. As electrical recording and amplification improved there was increased demand for coin-operated phonographs, as it applies to the use of a jukebox, the terms juking and juker are the correct expressions. Song-popularity counters told the owner of the machine the number of each record was played, with the result that popular records remained. Wallboxes were an important, and profitable, part of any jukebox installation, serving as a remote control, they enabled patrons to select tunes from their table or booth. One example is the Seeburg 3W1, introduced in 1949 as companion to the 100-selection Model M100A jukebox, stereo sound became popular in the early 1960s, and wallboxes of the era were designed with built-in speakers to provide patrons a sample of this latest technology. Initially playing music recorded on wax cylinders, the shellac 78 rpm record dominated jukeboxes in the part of the 20th century. C. D. s, and videos on DVDs were all introduced and used in the last decades of the century, MP3 downloads, and Internet-connected media players came in at the start of the 21st century. The jukeboxs history has followed the wave of technological improvements in music reproduction and distribution, Jukeboxes were most popular from the 1940s through the mid-1960s, particularly during the 1950s. By the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters of the records produced in America went into jukeboxes, while often associated with early rock and roll music, their popularity extends back much earlier, including classical music, opera and the swing music era. In 1977, The Kinks recorded a song called Jukebox Music for their album Sleepwalker, styling progressed from the plain wooden boxes in the early thirties to beautiful light shows with marbelized plastic and color animation in the Wurlitzer 850 Peacock of 1941
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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for songs about her personal life. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music and she signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her eponymous debut album in 2006 peaked at five on Billboard 200. The albums third single, Our Song, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write, Swifts second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop success of the singles Love Story and You Belong with Me. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner, Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at one in the United States and the single Mean won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red, yielded the successful singles We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, with her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. Its singles Shake It Off, Blank Space and Bad Blood reached number one in the US, Australia, the album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade, as a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift is one of the artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums—including 27.1 million in the US—and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Times 100 most influential people in the world, Forbes top-earning women in music, Forbes 100 most powerful women and she was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989, in Reading and her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive. She has a brother named Austin. Swift spent the years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, the family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and she also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Hank Williams
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Hiram King Hank Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Born in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama, Williams moved to Georgiana, where he met Rufus Payne, Payne had a major influence on Williams later musical style, along with Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb. During this time, Williams informally changed his name to Hank and he moved to Montgomery, where he began his music career in 1937, when producers at radio station WSFA hired him to perform and host a 15-minute program. He formed as backup the Drifting Cowboys band, which was managed by his mother, Williams eventually married Audrey Sheppard, who was his manager for nearly a decade. After recording Never Again and Honky Tonkin with Sterling Records, he signed a contract with MGM Records, in 1947 he released Move It on Over, which became a hit, and also joined the Louisiana Hayride radio program. One year later, he released a cover of Lovesick Blues, after an initial rejection, Williams joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was unable to read or notate music to any significant degree, among the hits he wrote were Your Cheatin Heart, Hey, Good Lookin, and Im So Lonesome I Could Cry. Several years of pain, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse severely damaged Williams health. He divorced Sheppard and was dismissed by the Grand Ole Opry because of his unreliability, Williams died on New Years Day of 1953 at the age of 29, from heart failure exacerbated by pills and alcohol. Despite his short life, Williams had a influence on 20th-century popular music. The songs he wrote and recorded have been covered by artists and have been hits in various genres. He has been inducted into multiple halls of fame, such as the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Williams was born in Butler County, Alabama, the son of Jessie Lillybelle Lillie and his parents married on November 12,1916. Hank Williams was of English ancestry, Elonzo Williams worked as an engineer for the railroads of the W. T. Smith lumber company. He was drafted during World War I, serving from July 1918 until June 1919 and he was severely injured after falling from a truck, breaking his collarbone and suffering a severe blow to the head. After his return, the familys first child, Irene, was born on August 8,1922, another son of theirs died shortly after birth. Their third child, Hiram, was born on September 17,1923, in Mount Olive. Since Elonzo Williams was a Mason, and his wife was a member of Order of the Eastern Star the child was named after Hiram I of Tyre, as a child, he was nicknamed Harm by his family and Herky or Poots by his friends
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George Strait
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George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. He is known as the King of Country and is considered one of the most influential, Straits success began when his first single Unwound was a hit in 1981. During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on the country charts. In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989,1990 and 2013 and he has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist. In 2009, he broke Conway Twittys previous record for the most number-one hits on Billboards Hot Country Songs chart when his 45 number one singles surpassed Twittys 40, Strait is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360- degree configuration and introduced festival style tours. For example, the Strait Tours earned $99 million in three years and his concert at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX in June 2014 drew 104,793 people, marking a new record for largest indoor concert in North America. Strait was successful innovating country music and in aspects of being a part of popular music. Strait has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the music artists of all time. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum,33 platinum and his best-selling album is Pure Country, which sold 6 million. His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box, which sold 2 million copies, according to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist in the United States overall. George Harvey Strait was born on May 18,1952, in Poteet, Texas, to John Byron Strait, Sr. and Doris Jean Couser. He grew up in nearby Pearsall, in Frio County, where his father was a high school mathematics teacher. The family worked at the ranch on the weekends and in the summers, when George was in the fourth grade, his father and mother were divorced, and his mother moved away with his sister, Pency. George and his brother John, Jr. or Buddy, were raised by their father, Strait began his musical interest while attending Pearsall High School, where he played in a rock and roll garage band. The Beatles were popular when Strait was in high school, the Beatles were big, Strait confirmed. I listened to them a lot and that bunch of groups that were popular then. His musical preference soon turned to country with singers Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Strait did not tune to the country music radio often as a youth, usually listening to the news and the farmers report
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Ray Price (musician)
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Noble Ray Price was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide ranging baritone has often praised as among the best male voices of country music. Some of his recordings include Release Me, Crazy Arms, Heartaches by the Number, For the Good Times, Night Life. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, Price continued to record and tour well into his mid-eighties. Ray Price was born on a farm near the small, now gone, community of Peach, near Perryville in Wood County, Texas He was the son of Walter Clifton Price and his grandfather James M. M. Price was an early settler of the area. Price was three years old when his parents divorced and his moved to Dallas, Texas. For the rest of his childhood he split time between Dallas and on the farm, where his father had remained. Prices mother and step-father were successful fashion designers and wanted him to take up that line of work, Ray Price began singing and playing guitar as a teenager but at first chose a career in veterinary medicine. He was attending North Texas Agricultural College in preparation for that career when his studies were interrupted by Americas entry into World War II, Price was drafted in 1944 and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. He returned to the college after the war, and many years later was honored as a distinguished alumnus, after the war and college, Price rethought his decision to continue schooling to be a veterinarian. For one thing he was considered too small to work with cattle and horses. While helping around his fathers ranch he began singing at various functions around the Abilene. This eventually led him to singing on the radio program Hillbilly Circus broadcast on Abilenes KRBC in 1948. It was around this time Ray Price became friends with Lefty Frizzell, the two first met at Beck Recording Studio in Dallas, and Price ended up writing the song Give Me More, More, More Of Your Kisses for Frizzells use. A few demos recorded by Price at Becks caught the attention of Bullet Records in Nashville, Tennessee, however, his first single released on Bullet, Jealous Lies failed to become a chart hit. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys and he was the first artist to have a success with the song Release Me, a top five popular music hit for Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys, miller wrote one of Ray Prices classics in 1958, Invitation to the Blues, and sang harmony on the recording
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Lovesick Blues
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Lovesick Blues is a show tune written by Cliff Friend and Irving Mills. The song first appeared in the 1922 musical Oh, Ernest and it was recorded by Emmett Miller in 1928 and later by country music singer Rex Griffin. The recordings by Griffin and Miller inspired Hank Williams to perform the song during his first appearances on the Louisiana Hayride in 1948, receiving an enthusiastic reception from the audience, Williams decided to record his own version despite initial push back from his producer Fred Rose and his band. MGM Records released Lovesick Blues in February 1949, and it became a success, quickly reaching number one on Billboards Top C&W singles. The publication named it the top country and western record of the year, several cover versions of the song have been recorded. The most popular, Frank Ifields 1962 version, topped the UK Singles Chart, in 2004, Williams version was added to the National Recording Registry. Lovesick Blues was originally entitled Ive Got the Lovesick Blues and published by Jack Mills, Inc. in 1922, Irving Mills authored the lyrics and it was first performed by Anna Chandler in the Tin Pan Alley musical Oh. Ernest and first recorded by Elsie Clark on March 21,1922 with Okeh Records, following the recording, Cliff and Friend copyrighted the song on April 3,1922. It was featured in a show at the Boardwalk Club in New York City in June 1922, on September 1,1925, OKeh Records sent scout Ralph Peer and a recording crew to Asheville, North Carolina. Among the aspiring artists recorded by Peer was Emmett Miller, accompanied by Walter Rothrock on the piano, Miller cut four sides for the label, including Lovesick Blues. The single was paired with Big Bad Bill and released in November 1925, on June 12,1928 accompanied by the Georgia Crackers, Miller re-recorded the song, which was subsequently released to weak sales. Millers version was covered by country music singer Rex Griffin in December 1939 on Decca Records. Griffin rearranged the song by using the original chorus - I got a called the blues—as a verse and turning the verse Im in love, Im in love. Hank Williams, who heard both the Miller and Griffin versions, started performing the song on the Louisiana Hayride shortly after joining in August 1948. Horace Logan, the producer and programming director for KWKH. In light of the audiences strong positive reaction, Williams decided to record the song. His decision was questioned by his musicians and also his producer, Fred Rose, for this recording, Williams replaced the jazz musicians with a modern country music band, using a rhythm guitar, mandolin, string bass, drums and a steel guitar. Williams session band was composed of Clyde Baum, Zeke Turner, Jerry Byrd, Louis Innis, Tommy Jackson, with little time left, Byrd and Turner replicated the musical arrangement they previously used on an Ernest Tubb session for a cover of Jimmie Rodgers Waiting for a Train
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her fourth studio album, Red. Swift co-wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback, the song was released as the lead single from Red on August 13,2012, by Big Machine Records. Its lyrics depict Swifts frustrations at an ex-lover who wants to re-kindle their relationship, Rolling Stone magazine named the song the second best song of 2012 while it took the fourth spot in Times end-of-year poll. It has received a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and it also received a Peoples Choice Awards nomination for Favorite Song of the Year. A music video for the song was released in August 2012 and it was the first music video to be presented in 4K resolution and received positive reviews from critics. A CD single was released in September 2012 by Swifts official store, Amazon. com, the single has been certified Quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song is one of the singles worldwide, with worldwide sales reaching 7 million copies to date. After writing Speak Now entirely solo, Swift opted to collaborate with different songwriters and producers for Red, thus, she called Max Martin and Shellback, two songwriters and producers whose work she admired, to discuss a possible collaboration. When Martin suggested that they write about the incident, Swift began playing the guitar and singing, We are never ever. And the song flowed rapidly afterwards and she described the process as one of the most humorous experiences she had while recording, and said the musical partners matched her expectations. An audio clip of her sarcastically speaking about breakups can be heard before the final chorus, the song is reportedly about Swifts ex, Jake Gyllenhaal, as the two had broken up in January 2011 but had been seen on a date a few days later. A lyric video premiered on Swifts official Vevo that same day. The song was released to Adult Contemporary radio stations on August 13,2012 with it being released to radio stations the next day. The song was released to country radio on August 21,2012. The music video for the song premiered on August 30,2012, a limited edition individually numbered CD single was released to Swifts official store and Amazon. com on September 4,2012. The limited edition CD single was packaged with a We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together T-shirt, the CD single was also able to be bought individually. The CD single was released exclusively to US Walmart stores the same day. The three-minute-and-twelve-second song features heavy production and a pop music vocal styling
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Bebe Rexha
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Bleta Bebe Rexha is an American/Albanian singer-songwriter and record producer. She is best known as a featured guest vocalist on several Billboard Hot 100 charting songs, such as G-Eazys Me, Myself & I, David Guettas Hey Mama and she also co-wrote the chart-topping Eminem and Rihanna single The Monster, among others. In March 2016, she released the single, No Broken Hearts featuring Nicki Minaj, I Got You was released as the lead single from her EP All Your Fault, Pt.1, becoming her first Hot 100 entry as a lead artist. The EP was released on February 17,2017 and her father is from Debar and her mother is from Gostivar. Her first name, Bleta, means honey bee in Albanian, when Rexha was six years old, she and her family moved to Staten Island. At her elementary school, Rexha played trumpet for over nine years, while teaching herself to play guitar, Rexha attended Tottenville High School on Staten Island, where she took part in a variety of musicals. She also joined the choir, while still in high school, after joining the choir, she discovered that her voice was a coloratura soprano. As a teenager, Rexha submitted a song to be performed at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences annual Grammy Day event, Rexha earned the Best Teen Songwriter award, beating around 700 other entrants. As a result, she signed a contract with the talent scout Samantha Cox, in 2010 Rexha met Fall Out Boys bassist Pete Wentz with whom she began working at a recording studio at New York City. She would eventually become a member and a lead vocalist of Wentzs new experimental project of a band, the band played a variety of live shows and released several singles and remixes. However, in January 2012, Wentz announced that Rexha left the band to other endeavors. In 2013, Rexha signed with Warner Bros. Records as a solo artist, Rexha had begun writing several songs, including Selena Gomez Like a Champion and Nikki Williams Glowing. Her most prominent songwriting effort of 2013 was Eminem and Rihannas song The Monster, the song went on to top the charts for the US Billboard Hot 100 and Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. That same year, Rexha also wrote and was featured on Cash Cashs single Take Me Home, on March 21,2014, Rexha released her debut single, I Cant Stop Drinking About You. The song peaked at number 22 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart, the music video was released on August 12,2014. The video was inspired by imagery from such as Girl, Interrupted. In November 2014, Rexha was featured on rapper Pitbulls song This Is Not a Drill, in December 2014, Rexha released two more singles, Im Gonna Show You Crazy and Gone. On May 12,2015, she released her debut EP and she also co-wrote and was featured on David Guettas single Hey Mama, alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack
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Florida Georgia Line
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Florida Georgia Line is an American country duo consisting of vocalists Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard. They have achieved major success since their inception and are one of the most successful music acts of the 2010s. The young band quickly emerged after several years starting their careers by making covers and their music has been tagged as bro-country, transitioning from the traditional country feel to their hybrid sounds and their lyrical focus about backroads, girls, drinking and trucks. Their 2012 single Cruise is the best-selling digital country song of all time in the United States as of January 2014 and it is the only country song to ever receive the Diamond Award - over 10 million copies sold. Florida Georgia Line was formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee, in December 2011, they signed a publishing/ production/ management deal with Big Loud Mountain, Craig Wisemans, Joey Mois, and Kevin Chief Zaruks partnership. Their second EP, Itz Just What We Do, charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and they played on the 2012 Country Throwdown Tour, along with acts such as Josh Thompson, Corey Smith, Gary Allan, Justin Moore, and Rodney Atkins. They have also opened for Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Colt Ford, on July 16,2012, they signed with Republic Nashville, part of the Big Machine Label Group. They released their album, Anything Goes on October 14,2014. Both members of Florida Georgia Line grew up and first gained interest in music through church worship services and he began learning to play guitar then began writing music inspired by Christian rock group Casting Crowns. Tyler Hubbard, a native of Monroe, Georgia, was a worship leader who formed a hip hop group, Ingenious Circuit. The two had a myriad of musical interests growing up, Me and my friends rode trucks, listened to Garth Brooks, Alabama, Lil Wayne and Eminem, said Kelley. The duo met at Belmont University in 2008 through a worship group. They moved in one another and began several odd jobs to pay bills. While independent, they recorded and digitally distributed their first EP and they were discovered by Nickelback producer Joey Moi at a county fair, and the three began entering the studio together. Unlike typical country music sessions, the group spent days polishing songs, in terms of production, the band modeled their sound on bands such as Nickelback, Shinedown, and Three Days Grace, while Moi aimed for each song to resemble hair metal group Def Leppard in structure. Kelley likes to think of his career not as a career, Country music is always evolving and will continue to evolve, he told FORBES magazine. Florida Georgia Lines first EP, released December 14,2010, is a 6-song EP produced with Wesley Walker, all of the songs were written by either Hubbard or Hubbard and Kelley. The EP consists of the songs Youre Country, Now That Shes Gone, Man I Am Today, Never Let Her Go, Black Tears, the song Black Tears was also on Jason Aldeans 2012 album Night Train
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Cruise (song)
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Cruise is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It was released in August 2012 as the first single from their extended play Itz Just What We Do and it was written by group members Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard with Joey Moi, Chase Rice, and Jesse Rice. It is included on their first album for Republic Nashville, Heres to the Good Times, Cruise is the best-selling country digital song of all time in the United States as of January 2014. The song is considered the foremost example of the genre of music termed bro-country. The recording by Florida Georgia Line reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on its initial release, a couple of months later, a remix by rapper Nelly was released, and the song then re-entered the top 10. The song reached a peak of No.4 on the Hot 100 chart in its 34th week, the song also logged 24 weeks at No.1 on Hot Country Songs, longer than any other song in the charts 70-year history. The Nelly remix, produced by Jason Nevins, was released to iTunes on April 2,2013 and to pop radio on April 16,2013. The remix was played at the end of Nellys music video for Hey Porsche, in total, all versions of the songs have sold over 7 million in the US by September 2014. The song was written by the two member of Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, together with Joey Moi, Chase Rice and Jesse Rice. According to Chase Rice, they were writing a different song, when Kelley started to strum a chord and hummed another melody and they decided to drop the song they were writing to write Cruise instead, which they finished in 45 minutes. The song is a mid-tempo in the key of B-flat major with a chord pattern of B♭-F-Gm7-E♭. It is about a woman that the male narrator wants to cruise with in his pick-up truck. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the four stars out of five. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock also gave the song a favorable review, however, lyrically, he thought that the song is ass-backwards. Cruise is credited with the rise of bro-country, a trend in country music starting in 2013 that entails rock- and rap-influenced country by male artists. To Rosen, it exemplifies the genre of bro-country, music by and of the tatted, gym-toned and its themes of women and driving are noted by critics to typical of the genre of bro-country, with its perceived objectification of women the target of criticism. Some country purists also thought it too influenced by hip-hop, pop and rock to be country music, the music video was directed by Brian Lazzaro and premiered in August 2012. It was filmed outside Nashville, and featured the duo driving and performing against an American flag backdrop at a colorful paint party, Cruise debuted at No.54 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of August 11,2012
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achieved their runs on the Most Played in Juke Boxes chart (published 1944-58). Songs marked 
achieved their runs on the Best Sellers on Stores chart (published 1948-58). Songs marked 
achieved their runs on the Most Played by Jockeys chart (published 1949-58). All songs listed for the period when multiple charts were in operation also had shorter runs at number one on the other charts not indicated. The three charts were merged to create Hot C&W Sides (now Hot Country Songs) in 1958.
