Cash leads country chart
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 – Johnny Cash may have died 11 years ago, but he still knows how to rule the charts. Cash was third on the overall top 200 chart on Billboard with "Out Among the Stars." The release, of course, will top the country chart when Billboard releases the charts on Thursday.
The disc contains recently discovered material recorded about 30 years ago and sold 54,000 units.
The "Frozen" soundtrack continues ruling the charts. The animated movie soundtrack sold 161,000 units for a total of 1.8 million units.
Cash had the only country release in the top 10.
More news for Johnny Cash
- 06/28/24: Cash, Butts, Snell release. new music
- 06/24/21: Live from the Carousel Ballroom 53 years later, the Man in Black
- 09/25/20: Cash drummer dies at 85
- 09/19/19: Dylan, Cash recordings resurface
- 11/17/16: Cash property goes on market
- 08/17/15: Cash, Dylan producer Bob Johnston dies
- 03/25/14: Cash (yes, Johnny Cash), Niemann release new music
- 07/09/12: Nelson, Bentley head Cash Music Fest line-up
CD reviews for Johnny Cash
This is a treasure trove of Johnny Cash-penned songs, written over the years, but never recorded or released. Then in the early '90's, after parting with Sony Records, but before meeting Rick Rubin, Cash recorded his songs. Those early 90's recordings didn't see the light of day back then as he and Rubin began working on his American Recording career, helping to revitalize his career.
Years after his passing, his son, John Carter Cash, re-discovered these ...
Johnny Cash's live set was released on vinyl in Czechoslovakia in 1983. U.S. fans became aware of "Koncert v Praze (In Prague-Live)" when it was issued in the U.S. as part of the deluxe box set "Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection" in 2012. This marks the first time it was released as a single CD
Recorded on-stage in Czechoslovakia in April 1978,
- one of two recent reissues by the label of foreign concerts (the other was a Denmark show in December ...
Like many icons who have since departed the planet, Johnny Cash left behind a legacy that continues to flourish - in the songs he left behind, in their interpretation by others and in the man's own recordings, which still sound as fresh and vital as they were when first released.
This vintage concert offers a case in point. Recorded at the peak of his prowess, it finds him replaying his classic hits - "A Boy Named Sue," "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line" ...
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