****Was reading an article recently, which included these Strait career facts....grouped together like this its super impressive: George Strait…some career facts: • He is the first artist of any genre to notch 60 No. 1 singles in his career. • He has sold more than 70 million albums, made 13 multiplatinum (for sales of more than 2 million) albums, 33 platinum (1 million) albums and 38 gold albums (500,000 in sales). • Strait is the first artist in the history of Billboard magazine to have at least one single in the top 10 of a Billboard chart for 30 consecutive years. • He won the Country Music Associations entertainer of the year prize in 2013, making him the only artist ever to win that award in three different decades. His first CMA top entertainer prize came on Oct. 9, 1989, exactly 65 days before Taylor Swift was born. • Straits 23 career CMA Awards are more than any other artist. • His 19 career Academy of Country Music Awards are more than any other artist. • In 2010, Billboard named him the top country artist of the past quarter-century. • Hes the 12th-biggest-selling recording artist in United States history, ahead of The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Van Halen and every country singer not named Garth Brooks. Twenty-seven studio albums released, with no plans to stop. • He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 05:26:39 +0000
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