Some Gave All

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Some Gave All
Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All.jpg
Studio album by
Billy Ray Cyrus
ReleasedMay 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)
Recorded1991–1992
StudioMusic Mill Recording Studio; Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length35:42
Label Mercury
Producer
  • Joe Scaife
  • Jim Cotton
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
Some Gave All
(1992)		 It Won't Be the Last
(1993)
Singles from Some Gave All
  1. "Achy Breaky Heart"
    Released: March 23, 1992
  2. "Could've Been Me"
    Released: July 22, 1992
  3. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?"
    Released: October 17, 1992
  4. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore"
    Released: January 23, 1993

Some Gave All is the debut studio album by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. It was his first album for Mercury Records in 1992 and became the best selling album of that year in the United States, selling over 9 million copies in the first 12 months of release. It produced four hit singles on the Billboard country charts. The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the charts in several countries. In the US it was a five-week number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, as well as a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country. [1] [2] Thanks to the video of the song, there was an explosion of line dancing into the mainstream, becoming a craze. [3] [4] [5] [6] The song earned Grammy Award nominations for Cyrus in the categories Record of the Year and Best Country Vocal Performance, Male. That same year, Cyrus also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist. "Achy Breaky Heart" was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.

Contents

"Could've Been Me", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" were also released as singles, peaking at numbers 2, 23, and 6, respectively, on the country charts. The title track also reached number 52 based on unsolicited airplay and Cyrus' cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" charted only outside the United States.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Entertainment Weekly D+ [8]
Orlando Sentinel Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Village Voice C+ [11]

Reviewing for The Village Voice in December 1992, Robert Christgau was critical of Cyrus for "oversinging like Michael Bolton at a Perot rally" throughout the album and for celebrating warfare in the title song. However, he offered some approval of Cyrus's "nice macho self-mockery" on "Achy Breaky Heart", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?", and "I'm So Miserable", concluding that with time he may develop into a 21st-century version of Waylon Jennings. [11]

In 2006, Some Gave All ranked at number 33 in Q magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Albums Ever!" [12]

Commercial performance

Overall, the album is his most successful album to date, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era. [13] [14] It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the top-ranking debut album by a country artist. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks. [15] Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums chart. [16] The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide [17] and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo artist and remains one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Some Gave All was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4.7 million copies sold. [18] As of April 2019 the album has sold 7.5 million copies in United States according to Nielsen Music. [19]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Could've Been Me"
3:44
2."Achy Breaky Heart"Don Von Tress3:23
3."She's Not Cryin' Anymore"
3:25
4."Wher'm I Gonna Live?"
  • B.R. Cyrus
  • Cindy Cyrus
3:29
5."These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Lee Hazlewood 2:47
6."Someday, Somewhere, Somehow"B.R. Cyrus3:47
7."Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You"
  • Jim McKnight
  • Mike Murphy
3:41
8."Ain't No Good Goodbye"
  • Barton Stevens
  • B.R. Cyrus
  • Kevin White
3:22
9."I'm So Miserable"
  • B.R. Cyrus
  • Corky Holbrook
3:59
10."Some Gave All"
  • B.R. Cyrus
  • C. Cyrus
4:05
Total length:35:42

Personnel

Adapted credits from the media notes of Some Gave All. [20]

Sly Dog

Additional musicians

Production

Chart positions

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[33] 		US
[33] 		CAN Country CAN
[34] [35] 		AUS
[36] 		GER
[37] 		IRE
[38] 		NL
[39] 		NZ
[40] 		UK
[41]
1992"Achy Breaky Heart"141416222313
"Could've Been Me"27217243591528724
"Wher'm I Gonna Live?"23—16———————
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"———————274263
1993"She's Not Cryin' Anymore"6703———————
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other charted songs

YearSinglePeak chart positions
US Country
[33] 		CAN Country
1992"Some Gave All"5286

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [44] 3× Platinum210,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [45] Diamond1,000,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [46] Platinum80,000 [47]
New Zealand (RMNZ) [48] Platinum15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [49] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [50] 9× Platinum9,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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