50 Number Ones
50 Number Ones is a 2004 compilation album by American country music singer George Strait. It is a compilation of his first 50 number-one country music singles, starting with 1982's "Fool Hearted Memory" and presented in chronological order. A new track, "I Hate Everything", was also included and became his 51st overall number one in 2004. The figure of "50 Number Ones" includes not just songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart but also those that topped the Radio & Records and Gavin Report charts.
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| Released | October 5, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 154:48 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
| Producer | Ray Baker Jimmy Bowen Tony Brown Blake Mevis George Strait | |||
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| Singles from 50 Number Ones | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
| The Village Voice | (average)[2] |
Commercial performance
The album was certified 7× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA on December 13, 2007 for 3.5 million copies shipped.[3] It has sold 3,791,500 copies in the US as of April 2015,[4] and 5,531,000 units including tracks and streams as of January 2020.[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "I Hate Everything" | Gary Harrison, Keith Stegall | Previously unreleased | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Fool Hearted Memory" | Byron Hill, Alan R. Mevis | Strait from the Heart (1982) | 2:12 |
| 3. | "A Fire I Can't Put Out" | Darryl Staedtler | Strait from the Heart | 2:57 |
| 4. | "You Look So Good in Love" | Rory Bourke, Glen Ballard, Kerry Chater | Right or Wrong (1983) | 2:57 |
| 5. | "Right or Wrong" | Arthur L. Sizemore, Haven Gillespie, Paul Biese | Right or Wrong | 2:03 |
| 6. | "Let's Fall to Pieces Together" | Dickey Lee, Tommy Rocco, Johnny Russell | Right or Wrong | 2:21 |
| 7. | "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" | Sanger D. Shafer, Darlene Shafer | Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (1984) | 3:05 |
| 8. | "The Chair" | Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon | Something Special (1985) | 2:48 |
| 9. | "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" | Dean Dillon | 7 (1986) | 2:49 |
| 10. | "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You" | Dean Dillon, Royce Porter | 7 | 2:38 |
| 11. | "Ocean Front Property" | Dean Dillon, Hank Cochran, Royce Porter | Ocean Front Property (1987) | 2:40 |
| 12. | "All My Ex's Live in Texas" | Sanger D. Shafer, Lyndia J. Shafer | Ocean Front Property | 3:17 |
| 13. | "Am I Blue" | David Chamberlain | Ocean Front Property | 3:04 |
| 14. | "Famous Last Words of a Fool" | Dean Dillon, Rex Huston | If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin' (1988) | 3:19 |
| 15. | "Baby Blue" | Aaron Barker | If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin' | 3:29 |
| 16. | "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" | Tommy Collins | If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin' | 2:17 |
| 17. | "Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye" | Tony Martin, Troy Martin | Beyond the Blue Neon (1989) | 2:55 |
| 18. | "What's Going On in Your World" | David Chamberlain, Royce Porter | Beyond the Blue Neon | 3:26 |
| 19. | "Ace in the Hole" | Dennis Adkins | Beyond the Blue Neon | 2:34 |
| 20. | "Love Without End, Amen" | Aaron Barker | Livin' It Up (1990) | 3:05 |
| 21. | "I've Come to Expect It from You" | Dean Dillon, Buddy Cannon | Livin' It Up | 3:42 |
| 22. | "If I Know Me" | Dean Dillon, Pam Belford | Chill of an Early Fall (1991) | 2:41 |
| 23. | "You Know Me Better Than That" | Tony Haselden, Anna Lisa Graham | Chill of an Early Fall | 3:00 |
| 24. | "The Chill of an Early Fall" | Green Daniel, Gretchen Peters | Chill of an Early Fall | 3:16 |
| 25. | "So Much Like My Dad" | Chips Moman, Bobby Emmon | Holding My Own (1992) | 3:19 |
| 26. | "I Cross My Heart" | Steve Dorff, Eric Kaz | Pure Country (1992) | 3:29 |
| Total length: | 77:18 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Heartland" | Steve Dorff, John Bettis | Pure Country | 2:16 |
| 2. | "Easy Come, Easy Go" | Aaron Barker, Dean Dillon | Easy Come, Easy Go (1993) | 2:35 |
| 3. | "I'd Like to Have That One Back" | Bill Shore, Rick West, Aaron Barker | Easy Come, Easy Go | 3:48 |
| 4. | "The Man in Love with You" | Steve Dorff, Gary Harju | Easy Come, Easy Go | 3:18 |
| 5. | "The Big One" | Gerry House, Devon O'Day | Lead On (1994) | 2:05 |
| 6. | "You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody" | Steve Clark, Johnny MacRae | Lead On | 2:48 |
| 7. | "Lead On" | Dean Dillon, Teddy Gentry | Lead On | 3:21 |
| 8. | "Check Yes or No" | Danny M. Wells, Dana Hunt Oglesby | Strait Out of the Box (1995) | 3:10 |
| 9. | "I Know She Still Loves Me" | Aaron Barker, Monty Holmes | Strait Out of the Box | 3:04 |
| 10. | "Blue Clear Sky" | Mark D. Sanders, John Jarrard, Bob DiPiero | Blue Clear Sky (1996) | 2:34 |
| 11. | "Carried Away" | Steve Bogard, Jeff Stevens | Blue Clear Sky | 2:58 |
| 12. | "I Can Still Make Cheyenne" | Aaron Barker, Erv Woolsey | Blue Clear Sky | 4:11 |
| 13. | "One Night at a Time" | Roger Cook, Eddie Kilgallon, Earl Bud Lee | Carrying Your Love With Me (1997) | 3:19 |
| 14. | "Carrying Your Love with Me" | Steve Bogard, Jeff Stevens | Carrying Your Love With Me | 3:07 |
| 15. | "Today My World Slipped Away" | Mark Wright, Vern Gosdin | Carrying Your Love With Me | 3:05 |
| 16. | "Round About Way" | Steve Dean, Wil Nance | Carrying Your Love With Me | 2:50 |
| 17. | "I Just Want to Dance with You" | Roger Cook, John Prine | One Step at a Time (1998) | 3:18 |
| 18. | "True" | Marv Green, Jeff Stevens | One Step at a Time | 3:12 |
| 19. | "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" | Jim Lauderdale | One Step at a Time | 2:23 |
| 20. | "Write This Down" | Dana Hunt, Kent Robbins | Always Never the Same (1999) | 3:33 |
| 21. | "The Best Day" | Carson Chamberlain, Dean Dillon | Latest Greatest Straitest Hits (2000) | 3:18 |
| 22. | "Go On" | Tony Martin, Mark Nesler | George Strait (2000) | 3:21 |
| 23. | "Run" | Tony Lane, Anthony Smith | The Road Less Traveled (2001) | 3:46 |
| 24. | "Living and Living Well" | Tony Martin, Mark Nesler, Tom Shapiro | The Road Less Traveled | 3:26 |
| 25. | "She'll Leave You with a Smile" | Odie Blackmon, Jay Knowles | The Road Less Traveled | 2:44 |
| Total length: | 77:30 | |||
Charts
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
| Canadian Albums Chart | 8 |
References
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "George Strait: 50 Number Ones". AllMusic.
- "Recyclables". Robert Christgau. August 9, 2005.
- "American album certifications – George Strait – 50 #1's". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
- Bjorke, Matt (April 1, 2015). "Country Album Chart Report For April 1, 2015". Roughstock. Sales figure given here
- Bjorke, Matt (January 25, 2020). "Country Music's Most-Consumed Albums Chart: January 23, 2020". Roughstock. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
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