Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from

Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malamphi, Chart Analy, pop critic, and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?

On our last episode, I gave a brief history of late 20th century country music crossover on the pop charts, including

how the film Urban Cowboy spawned a boom for such artists as Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Eddie Rabbit, which was followed by a mid-80s bust that saw

country's presence on the pop charts greatly diminished.

And I talked about how the rising star Garth Brooks helped by new sound scan

technology on the Billboard charts staged a comeback for country in the early 90s. Garth took on guns and roses, Madonna, and

Mariah Carey on the charts and won. What would happen when he took on the Beatles? They'd been living in the California.

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Garth Brooks had let two years go by without a new studio album, an unprecedented gap for him.

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