On Oct. 6, 1995, Garth Brooks ran a full-page ad in USA Today with an unusual message: “You can’t see it. You can’t buy it. But you can hear it. New Garth Brooks music — only on country radio.”
Brooks’ new album at the time, Fresh Horses, would not be released until that Nov. 21, but the first single from the project, ballad “She’s Every Woman,” could indeed be heard on country stations as it burned through the competition. It moved 6-4 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart dated Oct. 7, and on Oct. 21, in just its seventh week on the list, it ascended to No. 1, becoming the 14th of his 19 chart-topping tracks.
Cowritten with Victoria Shaw (“The River,” Fath Hill’s “I Love The Way You Love Me”) and produced by Allen Reynolds (Crystal Gayle, Kathy Mattea), “She’s Every Woman” is unusual compositionally — its title appears only once in the lyrics, at the end of verse one.
Decades after its initial impact, the song’s title was referenced in another No. 1, on the Country Airplay chart in April 2020: Jordan Davis’ “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.”
Below is a recap of Brooks’ Hot Country Songs No. 1s.
- “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” one week at No. 1, Dec. 9, 1989
- “The Dance,” three weeks, beginning July 14, 1990
- “Friends in Low Places,” four, Oct. 6, 1990
- “Unanswered Prayers,” two, Jan. 12, 1991
- “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House,” one, April 6, 1991
- “The Thunder Rolls,” two, June 22, 1991
- “Shameless,” two, Nov. 16, 1991
- “What She’s Doing Now,” four, Feb. 15, 1992
- “The River,” one, July 25, 1992
- “Somewhere Other Than the Night,” one, Jan. 16, 1993
- “That Summer,” one, July 3, 1993
- “Ain’t Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up),” two, Sept. 18, 1993
- “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association,” one, Dec. 4, 1993
- “She’s Every Woman,” one, Oct. 21, 1995
- “The Beaches of Cheyenne,” one, March 16, 1996
- “Longneck Bottle,” three, Dec. 20, 1997
- “Two Pina Coladas,” one, May 9, 1998
- “To Make You Feel My Love,” one, Aug. 1, 1998
- “More Than a Memory,” one, Sept. 15, 2007
This story originally appeared on Billboard
