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Reply #30 posted 08/28/19 12:56pm

Cinny

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He was wearing a red suit at the MTV VMAs too, but it was decorated more.


What song knocked him out of #1 finally?

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Reply #31 posted 08/28/19 5:08pm

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Cinny said:

What song knocked him out of #1 finally?

Old Town Road made it to 19 weeks before it was replaced by Billie Eilish's bad guy.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #32 posted 09/22/19 12:30pm

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Inside the 'Old Town Road' Charts Decision

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #33 posted 09/23/19 7:39am

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Just goes to show how close the labels and radio stations are. "We checked with Sony Nashville to see if they were involved" lol like they don't have ears themselves to see beat heavy country already in their playlists.

Basically, "hey is this part of our payola agreement". They can't just listen to a record and decide to get behind it on their own.

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