Some Gave All

Some Gave All
Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released	May 19, 1992
Recorded	1989–91
Genre	Country
Length	35:42
Label	Mercury
Producer	Joe Scaife Jim Cotton
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
Some Gave All (1992) It Won't Be the Last (1993)
Singles from Some Gave All
"Achy Breaky Heart" Released: March 23, 1992 "Could've Been Me" Released: July 13, 1992 "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" Released: October 17, 1992 "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" Released: January 23, 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	D+[2]
Robert Christgau	C+[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Some Gave All is the debut album by American country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. It was his first album for Mercury Records in 1992, and it produced four hit singles on the Billboard country charts. The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the charts in several countries. In the US it was a five-week number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, as well as a top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country.^[5][6] Thanks to the video of the song, there was an explosion of line dancing into the mainstream, becoming a craze.^{[7][8][9][10]} This song was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.

"Could've Been Me", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" were also released as singles, peaking at numbers 2, 23, and 6, respectively, on the country charts. The title track also reached number 52 based on unsolicited airplay and Cyrus' cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" charted only outside the United States.

Album success

Overall, the album is his most successful album to date, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.^[11][12] It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the top-ranking debut album by a country artist. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks.^[13] Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums chart.^[14] The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo artist. Some Gave All was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies.^[15][16]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Could've Been Me"	Monty Powell Reed Nielsen	3:44
2.	"Achy Breaky Heart"	Don Von Tress	3:23
3.	"She's Not Cryin' Anymore"	Billy Ray Cyrus Buddy Cannon Terry Shelton	3:25
4.	"Wher'm I Gonna Live?"	B.R. Cyrus Cindy Cyrus	3:29
5.	"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"	Lee Hazlewood	2:47
6.	"Someday, Somewhere, Somehow"	B.R. Cyrus	3:47
7.	"Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You"	Jim McKnight Mike Murphy	3:41
8.	"Ain't No Good Goodbye"	Barton Stevens B.R. Cyrus Kevin White	3:22
9.	"I'm So Miserable"	B.R. Cyrus Corky Holbrook	3:59
10.	"Some Gave All"	B.R. Cyrus C. Cyrus	4:05

Chart performance

Album Chart (1992–93) [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Peak position Australian ARIA Albums 1 Austrian Albums 32 Canadian RPM Albums 1 Canadian RPM Top Country Albums 1 French SNEP Albums 33 German Media Control Albums 48 Netherlands Megachart Albums 58 New Zealand RIANZ Albums 2 Spanish AFYVE Albums 40 Swedish Fullprice Albums 42 Swiss Albums 34 U.K. Albums 9 U.S. Billboard 200 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1 Norwegian VG-lista Albums 5 Chart (1995) [27] Peak position U.S. Billboard Top Country Catalog Albums 5

End-of-decade charts Chart (1990–1999) Position U.S. Billboard 200[28] 23 Sales and certifications Country Certifications Certifications sales Australia 3× Platinum[29] 210,000 Canada Diamond[30] 1,000,000 United Kingdom Gold[31] 100,000 United States 9× Platinum[32] 9,000,000

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions										Certifications (sales threshold)
		US Country [33]	US [33]	CAN Country	CAN [34][35]	AUS [36]	GER [37]	IRE [38]	NL [39]	NZ [40]	UK [41]
1992	"Achy Breaky Heart"	1	4	1	4	1	62	2	23	1	3	US: Platinum[42] UK: Silver[31] AUS: 3× Platinum[5]
	"Could've Been Me"	2	72	1	72	43	59	15	28	7	24
	"Wher'm I Gonna Live?"	23	—	16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	27	42	63
1993	"She's Not Cryin' Anymore"	6	70	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other charted songs

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country [33]	CAN Country
1992	"Some Gave All"	52	86

Personnel

Sly Dog

• Billy Ray Cyrus – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
• Greg Fletcher – drums, percussion
• Corky Holbrook – bass guitar, background vocals
• Michael J. Sagraves – steel guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, background vocals
• Terry Shelton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, fiddle, background vocals
• Barton Stevens – keyboards, piano, background vocals

Additional musicians

• Clyde Carr – background vocals
• Costo Davis – synthesizer
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• Keith D. Hinton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Joe Scaife – background vocals

Production

• Co-producers – Joe Scaife, Jim Cotton
• Assistant engineers – Grahame Snith, Clyde Carr
• Mixing – Jim Cotton, Joe Scaife
• Mastering – Hank Williams
• Art direction – Virginia Team
• Design – Jerry Joyner
• Photography – Peter Nash
• Make-up – Mary Beth Felts
• Executive art direction – Kim Markovchick

See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States
• List of number-one albums of 1992 (U.S.)

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2. Entertainment Weekly review
3. Robert Christgau review
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