Editing Tim McGraw (section)

===1990s===
====''Tim McGraw''====
[[File:Tim McGraw HWoF Star.jpg|right|thumb|Tim McGraw's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]]]
McGraw came to the attention of [[Curb Records]] in 1990. After cutting a demo single, McGraw gave a copy to his father. A man who was friends with Curb Records executives heard the demo while driving with Tug one day and recommended that Curb contact the young singer. Several weeks later, he was able to play his tape for Curb executives, after which they signed him to a recording contract.<ref name="larryking" /> McGraw made his debut with the single "[[What Room Was the Holiday In]]", which was released on March 29, 1991, and did not enter the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs]] chart upon its release.<ref name="jessen">{{cite magazine |last=Jessen |first=Wade |date=October 6, 2001 |title=A Record-Breaking Career |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |pages=28, 34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxEEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22what+room+was+the+holiday+in%22&pg=PA28}}</ref> In a 2001 retrospective on McGraw's career in ''Billboard'', a former program director for Nashville station [[WSM-FM]] said that he added the song to the station's playlist because it showed "undeniable promise",<ref name="jessen"/> while another former program director at [[WXTU]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], recalled that McGraw's debut single was "terrible" but that he booked the singer to make an appearance at the station due to his father's fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.today.com/id/17756431 |title=At 39, Tom McGraw looking beyond music |work=[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]] |date=March 23, 2007 |access-date=November 27, 2013}}</ref>

Two years later in April 1993, McGraw released his debut album ''[[Tim McGraw (album)|Tim McGraw]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1993/BB-1993-05-15.pdf |title=Album Reviews |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |page=54 |date=May 15, 1993}}</ref> which was commercially unsuccessful and did not sell well. This is his only studio album not to achieve a [[music recording sales certification]] or to enter the [[Top Country Albums]] charts. Three more singles were released from ''Tim McGraw'': "[[Welcome to the Club (Tim McGraw song)|Welcome to the Club]]", "[[Memory Lane (Tim McGraw song)|Memory Lane]]", and "[[Two Steppin' Mind]]". None made country Top 40 and the album itself did not chart.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tim-mcgraw-mn0000592954/biography |title=Tim McGraw biography |last=Huey |first=Steve |work=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> Both "Memory Lane" and "Tears in the Rain", another cut from the album, were co-written by [[Joe Diffie]].<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=album |id=r169755 |pure_url=yes}}|title=Tim McGraw - Tim McGraw|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|author2=Thom Jurek |work=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=March 8, 2010}}</ref> "Memory Lane" had originally appeared on [[Keith Palmer (singer)|Keith Palmer]]'s self-titled 1991 debut album.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Keith Palmer |others=Keith Palmer |year=1991 |type=CD insert |publisher=Epic Records |id=48611}}</ref>

====''Not a Moment Too Soon''====
McGraw's second album, entitled ''[[Not a Moment Too Soon]]'', was much more successful than his self-titled debut, and it was the best-selling country album of 1994. Its first single, "[[Indian Outlaw]]", sparked controversy, as critics argued that it presented [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in a patronizing way.<ref name="allmusic"/> Some radio stations even chose not to play it.<ref name="gerome">{{cite news |last=Gerome |first=John |title=Growing Strong – McGraw's reach encompasses country music, more |newspaper=San Angelo Standard Times |date=April 13, 2007 |url=http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/apr/13/growing-strong---mcgraws-reach-encompasses-country/ |access-date=April 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426100339/http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/apr/13/growing-strong---mcgraws-reach-encompasses-country/ |archive-date=April 26, 2007 }}</ref> However, the controversy helped spur sales, and the song became McGraw's first Top 10 entry on the U.S. country charts after getting as high as number 8.<ref name="Country Songs"/> The song also peaked at number 15 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="cmtcontroversy">{{cite web |title=Controversy: Episode "Indian Outlaw" |publisher=Country Music Television |year=2003 |url=http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/controversy/67940/episode_about.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616120307/http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/controversy/67940/episode_about.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 16, 2004 |access-date=April 23, 2007}}</ref>

The album's second single, "[[Don't Take the Girl]]", became McGraw's first number one on the U.S. country charts, in addition to peaking at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song also "helped cement his image as a ruggedly good-looking guy with a sensitive side."<ref name="gerome" /> By year's end, the third single from the album, "[[Down on the Farm (Tim McGraw song)|Down on the Farm]]" peaked at number 2; after that, the album's fourth single, also its [[Not a Moment Too Soon (song)|title track]], became the singer's second number one song in early 1995. The fifth and final single "[[Refried Dreams]]" reached number 5.<ref name="Country Songs">{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName |artist=tim mcgraw |chart=Country Songs}}|title=Tim McGraw Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=February 2, 2012}}</ref> The album sold over 6 million copies, topping the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and Top Country Album charts.<ref name="allmusic"/>  On the strength of this success, McGraw won [[Academy of Country Music]] awards for Album of the Year and Top New Male Vocalist in 1994.<ref name="cma">{{cite web |title=Tim McGraw Biography |publisher=CMT |url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mcgraw_tim/bio.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040229004726/http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/mcgraw_tim/bio.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 29, 2004 |access-date=March 15, 2007}}</ref> ''Billboard'' named ''Not a Moment Too Soon'' as the top country album of 1994 on [[Billboard Year-End]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1994/top-country-albums |title=Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - Top Country Albums |magazine=Billboard.com |access-date=2009-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211065135/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=Top+Country+Albums&g=Year-end+Albums&year=1994 |archive-date=2007-12-11}}</ref>

====''All I Want''====
McGraw's third studio album, ''[[All I Want (Tim McGraw album)|All I Want]]'', was released in 1995. Just like its predecessor, this album debuted at No.&nbsp;1 on the country charts. The album even sold over 2 million copies in the United States and reached the Top 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album's first single, "[[I Like It, I Love It]]", became McGraw's third number one on the American country charts<ref name="Country Songs"/> and it also peaked at number 25 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. This song also eventually became the goal song for the [[Nashville Predators]] once they began their [[1998-99 NHL season|inaugural season]] and since then has been left unchanged. The album's next two singles, "[[Can't Be Really Gone]]" and "[[All I Want Is a Life]]" (its partial title track) both made the top 5 at numbers 2 and 5, respectively. The fourth single, "[[She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart]]", gave McGraw his fourth number one on the U.S. country charts in 1996. Finishing off the singles was "[[Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It]]",<ref name="Country Songs"/> which peaked at number 4.

In 1996, McGraw headlined the most successful country tour of the year, The Spontaneous Combustion Tour, with [[Faith Hill]] as his supporting act. Hill broke off her engagement to her former producer [[Scott Hendricks]] so that she and McGraw could start dating each other; they then married on October 6, 1996.

====''Everywhere''====
The singer's fourth album, ''[[Everywhere (Tim McGraw album)|Everywhere]]'' was released in 1997. It topped the country charts as well and reached No.&nbsp;2 on the ''Billboard'' 200, selling 4 million copies.<ref name="allmusic"/>  The album spawned six singles. Four of those singles - "[[It's Your Love]]" (a duet with [[Faith Hill]]), the [[Everywhere (Tim McGraw song)|title track]], "[[Where the Green Grass Grows]]", and "[[Just to See You Smile]]" - reached number one on the country charts. The [[Country Music Association]] awarded ''Everywhere'' its Album of the Year award for 1997. At the 40th Grammy Awards, "It's Your Love" received two [[Grammy Award]] nominations for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals and Best Country Song.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/40/nominees.shtml |title=40th Annual Grammy Award Nominations |work=DigitalHit.com |access-date=March 31, 2013}}</ref> Both "It's Your Love" and "Just to See You Smile" were the number one country songs of 1997 and 1998 according to ''Billboard'' Year-End charts;<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1997/hot-country-songs |title=Year End Charts - Year-end Singles - Hot Country Songs |magazine=Billboard.com |access-date=2009-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211063528/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=Hot+Country+Songs&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1997 |archive-date=2007-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1998/hot-country-songs |title=Year End Charts - Year-end Singles - Hot Country Songs |magazine=Billboard.com |access-date=2009-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211063533/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=Hot+Country+Songs&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1998 |archive-date=2007-12-11}}</ref> "Just to See You Smile" also set a record for the longest run on the country charts at the time, at 42 weeks.<ref name="tmandthedd" /> The album's other two singles, "[[One of These Days (Marcus Hummon song)|One of These Days]]" and "[[For a Little While]]" both peaked at number 2.

====''A Place in the Sun''====
McGraw's fifth album, ''[[A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album)|A Place in the Sun]]'', continued his streak in 1999, debuting atop both the US country and pop album charts<ref name="cma" /> and selling 3 million copies. Over 251,000 of those copies were sold during its first week, making this the singer's first number 1 opener on the ''Billboard'' 200. It produced another four number one hits on the U.S. country charts with "[[Please Remember Me]]", "[[Something Like That]]", "[[My Best Friend (Tim McGraw song)|My Best Friend]]", and "[[My Next Thirty Years]]". "[[Some Things Never Change (Tim McGraw song)|Some Things Never Change]]" peaked at number 7 on the charts.<ref name="allmusic"/> McGraw also contributed a song for the Grammy-winning tribute album to [[Bob Wills]] entitled ''Ride With Bob''. A cover of "Milk Cow Blues", this song was recorded as a duet with [[Asleep at the Wheel]], whom he had met while performing together at the George Strait Country Music Festival.<ref name="cma" />

McGraw recorded two more duets with his wife in the late-1990s, both of which appeared on her albums. "[[Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me]]", from her multi-platinum-certified 1998 album ''[[Faith (Faith Hill album)|Faith]]'', reached the Top 5 of the US country charts.<ref name="allmusic"/> Her follow-up album, 1999's ''[[Breathe (Faith Hill album)|Breathe]]'', featured "[[Let's Make Love (song)|Let's Make Love]]", which won a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Best Country Vocal Collaboration]] in 2000.<ref name="cma" />