Achy Breaky Heart

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"Achy Breaky Heart"
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Single by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released 1992
Format Cassette and CD
Recorded 1991
Genre Country
Length 3:23
Label Mercury
Chart positions
Billy Ray Cyrus singles chronology
N/A "Achy Breaky Heart" "Some Gave All"

"Achy Breaky Heart" is a hit country music song from 1992 by Billy Ray Cyrus. The song, Cyrus' debut single, made him famous, but also proved to be a song whose success he could neither escape nor replicate.[1]

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"Achy Breaky Heart" spent five weeks at number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, from May 30 to June 27 of 1992. It also reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 23 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song was the the second-ranked country song of 1992 on American Country Countdown's Year-End Countdown.[2] Although Cyrus never landed another number-one on the Billboard Country Singles chart, the follow-up, "Could've Been Me", reached number one on Radio & Records Country chart.

  • The Chipmunks covered the song in 1992. Their version managed to reach number 71 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, becoming their first chart entry on any Billboard chart in 42 years.

  • The song renewed a popular interest in line dancing in the United States and Canada.
  • The song was featured in the South Park episode "You Got F'd in the A", after the boys get "served" by the Orange County kids, Stan Marsh's dad teaches him to "serve" back, by which he means to dance back. After the other kids come and do some moves he puts in a Billy Ray Cyrus tape and does a country like dance.
  • In the film Crank, Jason Statham's character headbangs to this song in the back of a taxi cab to keep his adrenaline up.
  • "Achy Breaky Heart" was rated number 89 in VH1's "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders".

  1. ^ http://billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=2309&cr=artist&or=ASCENDING&sf=length&kw=billy%20ray%20cyrus
  2. ^ http://acctop40.com/goout.asp?u=http://media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-92.html
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