The American Idolization of The 9513 is beginning. While Brad Paisley managed to snag the top spot on the artists' chart this week with 18 listeners, Carrie Underwood was right behind him with 17 listeners. How did she do it? Well, her duet with Randy Travis, I Told You So was premiered on American Idol and became the second-most popular track with 8 plays, and her take on the country standard Home Sweet Home, the new Am-Idol farewell song, had 6 listeners. Among the top tracks for the week were Blame It On Your Heart and Wild Angels…

In a move that's sure to anger anyone over 21 years old, the Great "I Told You So" battle is over, and Carrie Underwood has defeated Randy Travis, 18 listeners to 17. While it was one of Travis' best showings on the charts, it wasn't enough to top the upstart. As far as the two different versions of ITYS, six people listened to Carrie's version, while only four listened to Randy's version. However, two people also checked out the single remix of Randy's song, whatever that is. Call it a tie on a technicality, maybe?

Last week was an…

Now that the coughing, chills and lack of energy have subsided, it's time for an update. Man, dontcha just LOVE winter? Apologies for an abbreviated update this week.

Apparently the news that George Strait and Reba McEntire were the co-headliners at the opening events for the new Dallas Cowboys stadium put folks in a mood, as the two tied with Lee Ann Womack for the most plays this week, with 17. The other LeAnn, LeAnn Rimes, is among the group of 6 with 16 plays. Some of the perennials in this list are at #10, so let's see if…

Once again, the #1 artist on the 9513 charts is a duo where the lead vocals are mainly handled by the one person with a superior, perfect-for-radio voice, and the other half is relegated to guitar duty. Nope, not Sugarland, though they're in the Top 3. Brooks & Dunn hold the top spot this week with 21 listeners. Actually, we've got a few new faces near the upper end of the chart, with Johnny Cash in 3rd place with 18 listeners and Gary Allan in 6th place with 16 listeners. I really hope that awful Remix reason isn't the…

Looks like the Grammys didn't affect anyone's listening habits drastically, as some of the big winners (Sugarland, George Strait, Carrie Underwood) are pretty much where they've always been. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss jumped up to 6 listeners, up from 3 last week and off the charts the week before.

Elsewhere, Rainbow listened to LeAnn Rimes, and 15 other people decided to humor him and add her to their playlists as well. Her 16 listeners kept her in the Top 10. Actually, it was apparently a rather down week for overall listens apparently, as Brad…

Last week was Dierks Bentley week, what with the release of the long-awaited Feel That Fire. This is the CD that Dierks Bentley says should be an Album of the Year nominee, though the reviews I've seen of it have been pretty cool on it. Still, between his promotion for it and the fact that Amazon was basically giving away the digital version of it last week, it comes as no surprise that Dierks Bentley dominates the charts this week.

Dierks Bentley has 16 listeners this week, with 10 of them considering Feel That Fire to be a week-one…

The 9513 hive mind must have been buzzing a bit louder than normal this week. Normally, I don't pay too much attention to the top tracks chart, because they generally don't show anything more than what you get from the top albums chart. And not surprisingly, two of the top songs for the week were Lee Ann Womack's Last Call and Sugarland's Love, which are current singles normally at or near the top of the charts. The Dixie Chicks are up there too, with Not Ready To Make Nice. But the Chicks have a lot of…

After many weeks where women dominated the top of the chart, the menfolk bullied their way to the front. Brad Paisley led the way with 19 listeners, and Toby Keith and George Strait shared second place with Trisha Yearwood and Sugarland. Garth Brooks, Dierks Bentley, Sara Evans and Tim McGraw help to round out the Top 10.

So while the 9513 group celebrated in all things Paisley this week, apparently nobody did it by listening to his new CD, Play. Sure, Time Well Wasted and 5th Gear were among the top albums with 10 listeners each,…

We're getting to the point that the three constants in life are death, taxes and Sugarland at or near the top of the 9513 charts. That's no different this week, as 17 listeners listened to the duo. Following them, it's a veritable who's who of neo-traditionalists, most notably Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood with 16 plays apiece.

Excavating down further into the charts, you get some interesting strata. A little further past the neo-trad layer, you start to see elements of pop-country appear, with Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift among the artists in 9th place. Beyond that, you get a…

Behold the power of the Brothers Vercher and cohorts! The 9513 names Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson's Rattlin' Bones as 2008's album of the year, and suddenly the Aussie duo vaults into the Top 10 artists played in our group, and their album is #1 on the top album charts. Let us hope that the 9513 writers will continue to use their powers of persuasion for good and not for evil.

I've been asking who can dethrone George Strait from the Top artist chart, and the answer apparently is a whole bunch of women. The 50% estrogen-based duo Sugarland…