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| Released | September 13, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 36:14 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
| George Strait chronology | ||||
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Icon is a compilation album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on September 13, 2011. [2] The album is part of a series of similar Icon albums released by Universal Music Enterprises. As of December 2012, the album has sold 212,000 copies. [3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Amarillo by Morning" | Paul Fraser, Terry Stafford | 2:54 |
| 2. | "Ocean Front Property" | Dean Dillon, Hank Cochran, Royce Porter | 3:08 |
| 3. | "All My Ex's Live in Texas" | Sanger D. Shafer, Linda J. Shafer | 3:20 |
| 4. | "Love Without End, Amen" | Aaron Barker | 3:06 |
| 5. | "I Cross My Heart" | Steve Dorff, Eric Kaz | 3:31 |
| 6. | "Check Yes or No" | Danny Wells, Dana Hunt Black | 3:10 |
| 7. | "I Just Want to Dance with You" | Roger Cook, John Prine | 3:20 |
| 8. | "Living and Living Well" | Tony Martin, Mark Nesler, Tom Shapiro | 3:38 |
| 9. | "Give It Away" | Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson | 3:30 |
| 10. | "I Saw God Today" | Rodney Clawson, Monty Criswell, Wade Kirby | 3:24 |
| 11. | "River of Love" | Billy Burnette, Shawn Camp, Dennis Morgan | 3:13 |
| Total length: | 36:14 | ||
Weekly charts
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| Canada (Music Canada) [9] | Gold | 40,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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No Fences is the second studio album by the American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 27, 1990, and reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. The album also reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200. On the latter chart it stayed in the top 40 for 126 weeks. No Fences remains Brooks' best-selling studio album to date with 18 million copies shipped in the US, and is the album that made him an international star. It was his first album issued in Europe.
Jamey Johnson is an American country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar", the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar. Johnson was dropped from BNA in 2006 and signed to Mercury Nashville Records in March 2008, releasing his second album, the gold-certified That Lonesome Song. This album produced two singles, the Top 10 hit "In Color" and "High Cost of Living". Johnson has since released two more albums, The Guitar Song in 2010 and Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran in 2012. In 2014, he released a 5-song Christmas EP titled The Christmas Song. In addition to most of his own material, Johnson has co-written singles for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, Trace Adkins, George Strait, James Otto, Joe Nichols and Jessie James Decker.
Troubadour is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country music singer George Strait. It was released on April 1, 2008 on MCA Nashville Records. The album comprises twelve tracks, including two duets. The lead-off single, "I Saw God Today", was the highest-debuting single of Strait's career, and his forty-third Number One on the Billboard country charts. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA. At the 51st Grammy Awards, Troubadour earned the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, the first Grammy win of Strait's career. The album was intended to include the song "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven", but after Strait decided not to include it on the album, it was later recorded by Kenny Chesney, and was released as the first single from his album Lucky Old Sun. "It Was Me" was originally recorded by Jamey Johnson on his 2006 album, The Dollar.
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"Drinking Champagne" is a song written by Bill Mack. He released the first version of the song on Pike Records in the mid-sixties. The song grabbed nationwide attention when the version by Cal Smith reached #35 on the country music charts in 1968.
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Pistol Annies is an American country music group composed of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley. The trio gave its debut performance on April 4, 2011, on the CBS special Academy of Country Music's Girls' Night Out: Superstar Women of Country. The trio released its debut album Hell on Heels in 2011 on Columbia Records Nashville. Its title track was released as a single and a music video.
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The George Strait albums discography consists of 30 studio albums, three live albums, and 11 compilation albums by American country music singer George Strait. Of these albums, 36 have received a certification of at least Gold from the Recording Industry Association of America, and five reached No.1 on the Billboard 200. His highest-certified album is the 1992 release Pure Country, which is certified sextuple-platinum for U.S. shipments of six million copies; his highest overall is the 1995 box set Strait Out of the Box, which is certified octuple platinum. Of his studio albums, all but George Strait (2000), Twang (2009), Here for a Good Time (2011), Love Is Everything (2013), and Cold Beer Conversation (2015) are certified platinum or higher. As of June 2014, he has sold 45 million albums in the US since 1991 when SoundScan started tracking album sales, and has amassed more top 10 albums than any other artist in that time.
Here for a Good Time is the twenty-seventh studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on September 6, 2011 via MCA Nashville. Strait co-produced the album with his long-time producer Tony Brown. The title track and lead-off single, "Here for a Good Time", co-written with son Bubba and songwriter Dean Dillon, was released in June 2011. The album sold 91,414 copies in its first week. On November 30, 2011, the album received a nomination at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Country Album.
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