Music: Country Music USA: Top 20 Country Hits this week

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Great American Country (email newsletter) June14,2k11

GAC host Nan Kelley caught up with Carrie Underwood backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during their star-studded CMA Music Festival show on Tues. June 7, 2011. Photo courtesy of GAC Staff.

GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown went to the Grand Ole Opry with host Nan Kelley to catch up with Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Darius Rucker, Lady Antebellum, and Jerrod Niemann as the Opry kicks off this year’s CMA Music Festival. If you missed Friday’s premiere, check the schedule to catch a re-air throughout the weekend!

It’s a week of hellos and goodbyes on the countdown. We say hello to new videos from Brad Paisley, Jennette McCurdy and Dierks Bentley while we bid farewell to a few countdown mainstays likeSara Evans‘ “A Little Big Stronger,” Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson’s “Don’t You Wanna Stay” and Blake Shelton’s “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking.” Blake still has a video on the countdown, but “Honey Bee,” after a couple of weeks atop the charts, has fallen to No. 2 with Taylor Swift’s “Mean” taking the top spot.

This Week’s Chart:

1. Taylor Swift – “Mean”
2. Blake Shelton — “Honey Bee
3. The Band Perry – “You Lie”
4. Chris Young – “Tomorrow”
5. Keith Urban – “Without You”
6. Rascal Flatts – “I Won’t Let Go”
7. Brad Paisley – “Old Alabama”
8. Martina McBride – “Teenage Daughters”
9. Billy Currington — “Let Me Down Easy”
10. Luke Bryan – “Country Girl Shake It For Me”
11. Ronnie Dunn – “Bleed Red”
12. Justin Moore – “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away”
13. Sugarland – “Tonight”
14. Eric Church – “Homeboy”
15. Jennette McCurdy – “Generation Love”
16. Dierks Bentley – “Am I The Only One”
17. Brantley Gilbert – “Country Must Be Country Wide”
18. Darius Rucker – “This”
19. Due West – “When The Smoke Clears”
20. The Doobie Brothers – “World Gone Crazy”

GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown premieres every Friday night at 8/7c with re-airs throughout the weekend. Click here for a complete schedule.