Originally Posted by stevens119
Originally Posted by eb


Yeah, I wouldn't be much of a writer if all I got was records that got got someplace between 11 and 20 on the charts.


You could be a great writer, but you wouldn't be a hit writer. John Rich qualifies as a hit writer, but this does not qualify as a hit song. There's a big difference between having a song in the top ten and just having a song on the chart somewhere, even if it's eleven.


You are now making yourself look foolish. there is no difference between number 10 and number 11. that is simply some arbitrary cut off point that people use to make silly arguments like this one. I could just as easily say that a song is not a true hit unless it TOPS the charts. Or, alternatively, a hit song has to be in the top 25, 50, or 100.

You are going to harp on this over and over and over again, aren't you? Feel free to keep telling yourself that it was a commercial failure, but I will bet you anything that this song will have influenced more bands ten years from now than all ten of the songs that topped it in the country charts.

Let me ask you this. Do you think that Stairway to heaven is a hit song? It never charted because it was never released as a single. Zeppelin refused to chop it up for the sake of radio play ....... yet it is the most requested song on classic rock radio and has been played more than almost any other song, period.

The charts are for bored music fans and overpaid music media people. The true test of a great song is how well it holds up over the years.

Fisherman hook fish; songwriters fish for hooks

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