It Won't Be the Last | ||||
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Released | June 22, 1993 | |||
Studio | Music Mill Recording Studio; Nashville, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 38:20 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
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Billy Ray Cyrus chronology | ||||
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Singles from It Won't Be the Last | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | C [2] |
Music Week | [3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
It Won't Be the Last is the second studio album by American country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Certified Platinum in just under a year after release by the RIAA, the album has sold over 1 million copies in the US and over 3 million copies worldwide. This album produced four singles for Cyrus on the Hot Country Songs charts: "In the Heart of a Woman", "Somebody New", "Words by Heart" and "Talk Some", which reached number #3, number #9, number #12, and number #63, respectively, on the charts. The first, third and fourth singles, plus two album cuts ("Ain't Your Dog No More" and "When I'm Gone") had accompanying music videos. "Somebody New" was covered in 2008 by Jill King, whose version was released as a single, however, it did not chart.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "In the Heart of a Woman" |
| 4:00 |
2. | "Talk Some" | Don Von Tress | 4:15 |
3. | "Somebody New" |
| 3:45 |
4. | "Only Time Will Tell" |
| 3:21 |
5. | "Ain't Your Dog No More" | Von Tress | 2:28 |
6. | "Words by Heart" | 3:07 | |
7. | "It Won't Be the Last" |
| 3:49 |
8. | "Throwin' Stones" | Cyrus | 3:40 |
9. | "Right Face Wrong Time" | Cyrus | 3:27 |
10. | "Dreamin' in Color, Livin' in Black and White" |
| 4:17 |
11. | "When I'm Gone" |
| 3:01 |
Adapted credits from the media notes of It Won't Be the Last. [5]
Sly Dog
Additional Musicians
Production
Artwork
Weekly charts
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Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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US Country | US | CAN Country | |||||||
1993 | "In the Heart of a Woman" | 3 | 76 | 1 | |||||
"Somebody New" | 9 | 104 | 14 | ||||||
1994 | "Words by Heart" | 12 | 119 | 14 | |||||
"Talk Some" | 63 | — | — | ||||||
"—" denotes releases that failed to chart | |||||||||
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [20] | 2× Platinum | 200,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [21] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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