Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has achieved historic success on the Billboard charts. It’s currently in its third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its 16th week at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs. Next, we’ll see how it fares at award shows. Nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards will be announced in early April. Nominations for the Country Music Association Awards are expected in September. Grammy nominations are due in November.
Langley has won four CMA Awards and four ACM Awards, but she has never even been nominated for a Grammy. This year, she could be nominated for several awards for “Choosin’ Texas” – record of the year, song of the year, best country solo performance and best country song.
While Langley would probably love to snare some high-profile Grammy nominations, the Grammys would also stand to benefit by recognizing her. The Grammys have come up short in recent years in recognizing country music in the marquee “Big Four” categories – album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. If they pass over “Choosin’ Texas” – an immaculately crafted, universally relatable song – in the Big Four categories, country fans might well ask, “What does it take for a country song to get major Grammy recognition?” It’s probably not an exaggeration at this point to say the Grammys need to nominate Langley more than she needs the Grammy nod.
Country used to regularly be in the mix in record of the year nominations. At the 1969 Grammy ceremony, three of the five record of the year nominees were No. 1 country hits: Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey,” Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley, P.T.A.” and Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman.”
But that was long ago. Of the 20 Hot Country Songs No. 1 hits that have landed record of the year nods, 11 were from Grammy ceremonies in the 1960s or 1970s.
Campbell, Kenny Rogers and Taylor Swift each released two songs that both topped Hot Country Songs and landed a Grammy record of the year nomination. Among producers, Billy Sherrill, who is often credited for popularizing the “countrypolitan” sound, achieved this double success with two hits – David Houston’s “Almost Persuaded” and Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors.”
Here is every song that made No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart that also landed a Grammy nod for record of the year. But first, a half-dozen near-misses – songs that made the top 10 on that chart that got record of the year nods: Campbell’s sublime “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (No. 2), Olivia Newton-John’s pop-leaning ballad “I Honestly Love You” (No. 6), the Eagles’ superbly harmonized midtempo ballad “Lyin’ Eyes” (No. 8), Linda Ronstadt’s immaculate cover of Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou” (No. 2), Debby Boone’s megahit cover of the Oscar-winning “You Light Up My Life” (No. 4) and Mary Chapin Carpenter’s spirited feminist anthem “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” (No. 2).
Now, here’s what you came for – every song that made No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (referred to henceforth as “the country chart,” just for simplicity’s sake) that also landed a Grammy nod for record of the year. The year shown in the header is the year of the Grammy ceremony.
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