Recorded 1989–92 Producer Joe Scaife
Jim Cotton Release date 19 May 1992 Genre Country music | Length 35:42 Artist Billy Ray Cyrus Label Mercury Records | |
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Released May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19) Some Gave All
(1992) It Won't Be the Last
(1993) Nominations Juno Award for International Album of the Year Similar Billy Ray Cyrus albums, Country music albums | ||
Some Gave All is the debut album by American country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. It was his first album for Mercury Records in 1992, and it produced four hit singles on the Billboard country charts. The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the charts in several countries. In the US it was a five-week number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, as well as a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country. Thanks to the video of the song, there was an explosion of line dancing into the mainstream, becoming a craze. This song was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.
Contents
"Could've Been Me", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" were also released as singles, peaking at numbers 2, 23, and 6, respectively, on the country charts. The title track also reached number 52 based on unsolicited airplay and Cyrus' cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" charted only outside the United States.
Commercial performance
Overall, the album is his most successful album to date, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era. It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the top-ranking debut album by a country artist. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks. Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo artist. Some Gave All was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4.7 million copies sold.
Personnel
Sly Dog
Additional musicians
Production
Songs
1Could've Been Me3:46
2Achy Breaky Heart3:24
3She's Not Cryin' Any3:27