Hit Parade: Friends in Low Places, Part 2

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🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hit Parade is back for non-Slate Plus listeners! Upcoming episodes will be split into two parts, released two weeks apart. For the full episode right now, sign up for Slate Plus and you'll also get The Bridge, our Trivia show and bonus deep dive into our subjects. slate.com/hitparadeplus. Hit Parade continues the story of Garth Brooks. In the ’90s, he was country-authentic, ignored pop radio, and still utterly dominated the charts as the decade’s biggest multiplatinum megastar. Brooks took on chart competitors from Guns n’ Roses to Madonna to Mariah Carey and bested them all … until he tried taking on the Beatles. (And we’re still scratching our heads over that Chris Gaines thing.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from
0:09.6	Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malamphi, Chart Analy, pop critic, and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?
0:17.0	On our last episode, I gave a brief history of late 20th century country music crossover on the pop charts, including
0:26.1	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
0:37.4	country's presence on the pop charts greatly diminished.
0:41.6	And I talked about how the rising star Garth Brooks helped by new sound scan
0:46.7	technology on the Billboard charts staged a comeback for country in the early 90s. Garth took on guns and roses, Madonna, and
0:56.3	Mariah Carey on the charts and won. What would happen when he took on the Beatles? They'd been living in the Cal...
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1:55.0	Years went by, but then Crisps stopped doing it for her.
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