HOTDISC TOP 40
17 August 2014

 

This is a list of the Top 40 Most Popular Songs released on the Rush Released promotional CD. Each week DJs and media people who receive Rush Released send back their reaction sheets where they are given the chance to rate every song. This chart is exclusively for clients of the Rush Released CD.  The chart is published weekly here, and also in Country Music People, Country Music & Dance, Up Country and Southern Country magazines.

To watch the video for each song (where available) click on the titles.

01

01

How’s The World Treating You
JIM REEVES & BARBI FRANKLIN

02 03

Maybe There’s Love After You After All
DAVID FRIZZELL

03

07

It Ain’t All Good But It Ain’t Half Bad
TONY STAMPLEY

04

02

Cowboys Of The Caribbean
BERTIE HIGGINS

05

06

Who Left The Door To Heaven Open  
DAVID WOOD 

06

04

No More Lonely
THE ROYS

07

09

Never Really Left
BRIAN COLLINS

08 10

Let’s Start A Party
OWEN HOWELL

09 12

Everything Is Made In China
DAVID STARR

10

05

Distant Drums (2014 Version)
JIM REEVES

 

 

 

 

11

11

That’s The Sound
SARABETH

12 13

Wake Up Drunk
COREY COX

13

08

Let Your Country Out
JESSIE LEE CATES 

14

19

How I Only Wish That I Could Fly
CHARLIE BOSTON

15 20

Welcome Home
MIKE WARD

16 18

Good Day To Get Gone
KAYLEE RUTLAND

17

22

Something I Wrote
CODY RILEY

18

23

Put It In Your Pocket
SONIA LEIGH  

19

24

Southern Drawl
DAVID SHELBY

20

15

Walk Out Of The Rain
SAWYER BROWN

 

 

 

 

21

27

Seamus Finn
REG KEYWORTH BAND

22

17

Fresno Silver Mine
DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT

23

30

Ten Thousand Ways
LOST HOLLOW

24

29

Wrecking My World
M CALLAHAN

25 14

This Is Me
BRYAN MAYER  

26 16

Jezebel
GRACIA HARRISON

27

25

Baddest Gunslingin’ Man
ACE DIAMOND

28

26

15 Minutes
JAMIE LEE THURSTON

29

28

Train Wreck
JAMES HOUSE

30 21

Put That Country Song On  
TONY CLARKE

 

 

 

 

31

31

Catchin’ Fireflies
MADELINE SMITH 

32

37

Theme For Garth Brooks
DONNY RICHMOND 

33

39

Streets Of Loneliness 
JANEY KIRK with JERRY DONAHUE 

34

NE

Baby’s Got Her Boots On
BRUSHVILLE

35

32

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

36

NE

One More Time
NOEL BROOKE

37 34

Summer Love
MOORE & MOORE

38

35

Georgia For This
ERICA SUNSHINE LEE

39

33

The Ways Of Love
MIM GREY 

40

NE

Stomp
JARED BLAKE  

THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10

01

01

How I Only Wish That I Could Fly
CHARLIE BOSTON

02

02

Welcome Home
MIKE WARD

03

03

Put That Country Song On
TONY CLARKE

04

06

Streets Of Loneliness
JANEY KIRK with JERRY DONOHUE

05

04

As Good As It Gets!
ROB ALLEN

06

05

The Ways Of Love
Mim Grey

07

08

Do You Recall, The War To End All War
TONY RENNEY

08

09

Dreams Sometimes Come True
KEITH SHAW

09

07

You & Me
TONY CLARKE

10

RE

Crazy Love
GARY CURTIS

 

The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.

The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!

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