Some Gave All

Some Gave All
Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)
Recorded 1989–92
Genre Country
Length 35:42
Label Mercury
Producer
  • Joe Scaife
  • Jim Cotton
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
Some Gave All
(1992)		 It Won't Be the Last
(1993)It Won't Be the Last1993
Singles from Some Gave All
  1. "Achy Breaky Heart"
    Released: March 23, 1992
  2. "Could've Been Me"
    Released: July 13, 1992
  3. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?"
    Released: October 17, 1992
  4. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore"
    Released: January 23, 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyD+[2]
Robert ChristgauC+[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Some Gave All is the debut album by American country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. It was his first album for Mercury Records in 1992, and 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.[5][6] Thanks to the video of the song, there was an explosion of line dancing into the mainstream, becoming a craze.[7][8][9][10] This song was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.

"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.

Some Gave All was placed at number 33 in Q magazine's 2006 list, "The 50 Worst Albums Ever!"[11]

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.[12][13] 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.[14] Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums chart.[15] The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide 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.[16]

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 Hazlewood2:47
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

Personnel

Sly Dog

Additional musicians

  • Clyde Carr – backing vocals
  • Costo Davis – synthesizer
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
  • Keith D. Hinton – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Joe Scaife – backing vocals

Production

  • Joe Scaife – co-producer, mixing
  • Jim Cotton – co-producer, mixing
  • Grahame Snith – assistant engineer
  • Clyde Carr – assistant engineer
  • Hank Williams – mastering

Chart positions

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[29]		 US
[29]		 CAN Country CAN
[30][31]		 AUS
[32]		 GER
[33]		 IRE
[34]		 NL
[35]		 NZ
[36]		 UK
[37]
1992 "Achy Breaky Heart" 1 4 1 4 1 62 2 23 1 3
"Could've Been Me" 2 72 1 72 43 59 15 28 7 24
"Wher'm I Gonna Live?" 23 — 16 — — — — — — —
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" — — — — — — — 27 42 63
1993 "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" 6 70 3 — — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other charted songs

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
[29]		 CAN Country
1992 "Some Gave All" 52 86

Certifications

Country Certifications Certifications sales
Australia 3× Platinum[40] 210,000
Canada Diamond[41] 1,000,000
United Kingdom Gold[39] 100,000
United States 9× Platinum[42] 9,000,000

See also

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ↑ Robert Christgau review
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  5. 1 2 Hurst, Jack (1993-07-04). "ACHY BREAKY START BRUISED BY THE CRITICS, BILLY RAY CYRUS IS COMING BACK FOR MORE". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  6. ↑ "ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Singles 1992". ARIA. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  7. ↑ "Line dancing refuses to go out of style". Star-News. 1992-10-30. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Stepping to country fun". The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City). 1993-04-17. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  9. ↑ "Cyrus sets off dance craze". The Daily Courier. 1994-07-25. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  10. ↑ "This time around, the country craze proves to have some staying power". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1995-06-13. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  11. ↑ "The 50 Worst Albums Ever!". Q. Bauer Media Group (238). May 2006.
  12. ↑ Billy Ray Cyrus Explores His Gospel 'Side'. Billboard Magazine. 2003-10-18. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  13. ↑ "Mariah Carey Can't Stop Taylor Swift". Yahoo!. 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  14. ↑ "Chart Watch Extra: Ropin' The Biggest Country Hits". Yahoo!. 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  15. ↑ Hurst, Jack (1992-10-16). "COUNTRIFIED KATHY MATTEA IS BACK IN VOICE WITH 'LONESOME STANDARD TIME'". OrlandoSentinel. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  16. ↑ Philips, Chuck (January 5, 1993). "Cyrus, Brooks Give Their All to Record Sales". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus US Country Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  18. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  19. ↑ "Issue date April 7, 1992". RPM. 1992-04-07. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  20. ↑ "Issue date August 1, 1992". RPM. 1992-08-01. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  21. ↑ "UK charts archive". Everyhit. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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  27. ↑ "Top Country Catalog Albums 1995-08-12". Billboard. August 12, 1995. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  28. ↑ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade – The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
  29. 1 2 3 "allmusic ((( Billy Ray Cyrus > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
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  31. ↑ "Issue date October 31, 1992". RPM. 1992-10-31. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
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  34. ↑ "Billy Ray Cyrus in the Irish Charts". The Irish Charts – All there is to know. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
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