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1. Billy Gilman -- Voice
   In the past two and a half years, Billy Gilman has been a participant in his own reality series - the reality of surviving in his own skin and a life away from music. It was a forced reality for the young artist who was sidelined at the height of his multi-platinum selling career by a really normal and typical development for a boy his age. His voice changed. At 14, just as quickly as Billy Gilman made his explosive debut in the country music scene, mother-nature removed him--immediately and entirely from the spotlight.
2. Joe Nichols -- Country Music
   September 29, 2006--When Joe Nichols steps on stage each night he belts out his own brand of traditional country music. However, X Radio reports Joe has been hanging out lately with one of rock’s biggest names, Steven Tyler, who Joe says isn’t just about rock and roll.
3. George Jones -- Country Music
   Jones has won numerous awards throughout his career beginning in 1956 as Billboard Magazine's "Most Promising New Country Vocalist" to country music's ultimate recognition: his 1992 induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He ... received the prestigious 2002 National Medal of Arts Honor from President George W. Bush. This Medal "honors individuals for the singular distinction of their artistic careers." The National Medal of Arts is the nation's highest honor for artistic excellence.
4. Dixie Chicks -- Music
   Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Phil Vassar, Martina McBride and the Dixie Chicks are fighting illegal music downloads. They are among the country artists who have signed on to support a brief that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by a lower court that provides relief from copyright-infringement prosecution to several unauthorized file-sharing networks.
5. Violence -- Violence Hotline
   The National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH) is a project of the Texas Council on Family Violence in Austin, Texas. NDVH provides empowerment-based crisis intervention, information and referral to victims of domestic violence and their friends and families. The Hotline serves as the only center in the nation with access to more than 5,200 sources of help including 2,000 battered women's shelters in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NDVH and ndvh.org operates 24 hours each day, 365 days every year, in over 150 different languages, with a TTY line available for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing. All calls to NDVH are anonymous.
6. Britney Spears -- Months
   Britney Spears married her boyfriend Adnan Ghalib during their trip to Mexico last month, it’s been claimed. Spears and Ghalib ditched the paparazzi with a false report she was in New York, before later seen in Rosarito Beach. ‘Star’ magazine reports the reason behind their secret trip was a quickie marriage.
7. Anne Murray -- New Brunswick
   Anne Murray's sales began to decline in the latter half of the '80s, primarily due to the shifting tastes of the country audience, who was beginning to seek out harder-edged, new traditionalist performers. Nevertheless, she maintained a dedicated following during the late '80s and '90s through her occasional recordings ("Feed This Fire" became a surprise Top Ten hit in the summer of 1990) and her concerts. ~ Tom Roland, All Music Guide
8. Reba Mcentire -- Albums
   Reba McEntire is one of the best selling country music artists of all time. She is a Grammy award winning singer and is notable for her country music with a tinge of pop. She has had 22 number one hits and has had 29 albums with more than 45 million copies sold as of 2006.
9. Grand Ole Opry -- Radio
   In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry, an American institution and the longest radio show in the country, began broadcasting on WSM, radio station of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. The idea was to broadcast a radio show of old-time music performed by amateur musicians as a way of promoting the insurance company in and around Nashville. The show, still broadcast today on WSM, grew to become the radio home of some of the most prominent and influential artists in the country music genre and an important and enduring chapter of radio history. Grand Ole Opry, opening [opening date] at [your institution], is an exhibition featuring sixty photographs taken by Gordon Gillingham, a commercial photographer hired to photograph the Opry between 1952 and 1960.
10. Sugarland -- Everyday America
    Sugarland performed the song "Stay" at the 2007 CMT Awards on April 16. They performed "Everyday America" at the 2007 ACM awards, as well as on the television show The Tonight Show. "Everyday America" is currently the theme song for the show Good Morning America, which hosted the duo on July 27th, 2007 where they performed the Good Morning America version live. In the fall of 2007, Sugarland headlined their first concert tour: the Change for Change Tour along with opening acts Little Big Town and Jake Owen.

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