George Strait named as Top country artist
June 9th, 2010 - 8:53 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattCountry Music legend, George Strait has been named the number one country music artist of the last 25 years. Billboards compiled the list, and the results were released this week.
The list was compiled by going through Hot Country Songs and Top Country albums for the past 25 years. The study was done to determine that who was the most famous country music artist of the period.
The list was compiled in conjunction with Country Music Summit and at the end, George Strait was adjudged the best country music artist of the past quarter century.
George Strait has many successful and hit albums like “Twang”, “Blue Clear Sky” and “Honkytonkville” to his credit. Strait has sold a total of 68.5 million albums. That is quite a bit of success for the artist, who has had 82 songs in the top 10.
Other artists in the top ten were Brooks and Dunn, Alabama, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire and Garth Brooks.
George Harvey Strait was born on the 18th of May in 1952. He is a living legend and is well known for his characteristic style of western swing music, barroom ballads in the country music arena.
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