document_title: List of Billboard Hot Country Songs chart achievements

question_text: who has the most number 1 hits in country music

question_tokens: who has the most number 1 hits in country music

text: List of Billboard Hot Country Songs chart achievements

text: Artist achievements[edit]

text: Most chart entries[edit]

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168 – George Jones[2]
146 – Eddy Arnold[3]
135 – Johnny Cash[4]
114 – George Strait[5]
111 – Dolly Parton[6]
109 – Ray Price[7]
108 – Hank Williams, Jr.[8]
105 – Merle Haggard[9]

text: Most Top 40 hits[edit]

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145 – George Jones
128 – Eddy Arnold
105 – Johnny Cash
98 – George Strait
93 – Merle Haggard

text: Most Top 10 singles[edit]

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92 – Eddy Arnold
86 – George Strait
78 – George Jones
75 – Conway Twitty
71 – Merle Haggard

text: Most consecutive top 10 hits from a career's start[edit]

text: BDS era (1990–present)[edit]

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37 – Keith Urban (2000–2017)
26 – Carrie Underwood (2006–2017)[10]
19 – Tracy Lawrence (1992–1997)

text: Most No. 1 hits[edit]

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44 — George Strait (last No. 1 on April 18, 2009)
40 – Conway Twitty (last No. 1 on September 6, 1986)
38 – Merle Haggard (last No. 1 on February 20, 1988)
35 – Ronnie Milsap (last No. 1 on December 23, 1989)
33 – Alabama (last No. 1 on June 4, 2011)
29 – Charley Pride (last No. 1 on September 17, 1983)
28 – Eddy Arnold (last No. 1 on October 19, 1968)
26 – Alan Jackson
26 – Tim McGraw
25 – Reba McEntire
25 – Dolly Parton

text: Most No. 1 hits – female[edit]

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25 – Reba McEntire[11]
25 – Dolly Parton
20 – Tammy Wynette
19 – Crystal Gayle
16 – Loretta Lynn
14 – Carrie Underwood
14 – The Judds
11 – Rosanne Cash

text: Most No. 1 hits in a calendar year[edit]

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5 – tie between two artists:

Eddy Arnold, 1948 with "Anytime," "Bouquet of Roses," "Texarkana Baby," "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)" and "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)."
Charlie Rich, 1974 with "There Won't Be Anymore," "A Very Special Love Song," "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore," "I Love My Friend" and "She Called Me Baby."

text: Note: Eddy Arnold's feat does not count "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Til I Can Hold You In My Arms)," which began its 21-week run at No. 1 in November 1947 and remained there well into 1948.

text: Most consecutive years charting a number-one single[edit]

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Number of
years
Artist
First number-one hit and week
Final number-one hit and final week

19

George Strait
"Fool Hearted Memory"
(August 28, 1982)
"The Best Day"
(May 6, 2000)

16

Ronnie Milsap
"Pure Love"
(June 8, 1974)
"A Woman in Love"
(December 23, 1989)

14

Alan Jackson
"I'd Love You All Over Again"
(March 9, 1991)
"Remember When"
(February 14, 2004)

Alabama
"Tennessee River"
(August 16, 1980)
"Reckless"
(November 27, 1993)

text: Most consecutive No. 1 hits[edit]

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Streak
Artist
First No. 1 and year
Last No. 1 and year
Streak-breaking song

21
Alabama
"Tennessee River"
(August 1980)
"'You've Got' The Touch"
(April 1987)
"Tar Top"
(No. 7 in November 1987)

16
Earl Thomas Conley
"Your Love's on the Line"
(August 1983)
"Love Out Loud"
(June 1989)
"You Must Not Be Drinking Enough"
(No. 26 in October 1989)

16
Sonny James
"Need You"
(May 1967)
"Here Comes Honey Again"
(November 1971)
"Only Love Can Break a Heart"
(No. 2 in March 1972)

15
Buck Owens
"Act Naturally"
(June 1963)
"Your Tender Loving Care"
(September 1967)
"It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)"
(No. 2 in January 1968)

text: Most weeks at No. 1[edit]

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145 – Eddy Arnold
111 – Webb Pierce
84 – George Strait
82 – Buck Owens
82 – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

text: Self-replacement at No. 1[edit]

text: Eddy Arnold holds the record, scoring five straight No. 1 songs in 1947–1948 without being replaced by another artist. The songs were:

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"I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)" (21 weeks)
"Anytime" (9 weeks)
"Bouquet of Roses" (18 weeks Jukebox, 19 weeks Best Seller)
"Texarkana Baby" (3 weeks Jukebox, 1 week Best Seller)
"Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)" (8 weeks Jukebox, 4 weeks Best Seller).

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Year
Artist
No. 1 song
Replaced by

1944
Al Dexter
"So Long Pal" (13 weeks)
"Too Late To Worry, Too Blue to Cry" (2 weeks)

1949
Jimmy Wakely
"One Has My Name" (11 weeks Best Seller)
"I Love You So Much It Hurts" (3 weeks Best Seller)

1950
Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
"I'm Moving On" (21 weeks Best Seller)
"The Golden Rocket" (2 weeks Best Seller)

1952
Carl Smith
"Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way" (6 weeks Best Seller)
"When You Feel Like You're in Love (Don't Just Stand There)" (5 weeks Best Seller)

1953
Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
"Kaw-Liga" (13 weeks best seller, 8 weeks Jockey and juke boxes)
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (6 weeks Jockey, 2 weeks Jukebox)

1954
Webb Pierce
"There Stands The Glass" (12 weeks Best Seller)
"Slowly" (17 weeks Best Seller)

1955
Webb Pierce
"In The Jailhouse Now" (20 weeks Best Seller)
"I Don't Care" (12 weeks Best Seller)

1956
Elvis Presley
"I Forgot To Remember to Forget" (5 weeks Jukebox, 2 weeks Best Seller)
"Heartbreak Hotel" (17 weeks Best Seller, 13 weeks Jukebox, 12 weeks Jockey)

1956
Elvis Presley
"Heartbreak Hotel" (17 weeks Best Seller)
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" (2 weeks Best Seller)

1964
Buck Owens
"My Heart Skips a Beat" (7 weeks)
"Together Again" (2 weeks)

1982
Willie Nelson
"Always on My Mind" (2 weeks)
"Just to Satisfy You" (duet with Waylon Jennings, 2 weeks)

2002
Tim McGraw
"The Cowboy in Me" (1 week)
"Bring on the Rain" (duet with Jo Dee Messina, 1 week)

2014
Luke Bryan
"This Is How We Roll" (duet with Florida Georgia Line, 6 weeks)
"Play It Again" (9 weeks)

text: Longest span between first and most recent No. 1 hits[edit]

text:
Span
Artist
First No. 1 song and date
Most recent No. 1 song and date

35 years, 1 month
Dolly Parton
"Joshua" (February 1971)
"When I Get Where I'm Going"
(March 2006, duet with Brad Paisley)

30 years, 9 months
Alabama
"Tennessee River" (August 1980)
"Old Alabama"
(June 2011, duet with Brad Paisley)

29 years, 1 month
Johnny Cash
"I Walk the Line" (July 1956)
"Highwayman"
(August 1985, as part of The Highwaymen)

28 years
Reba McEntire
"Can't Even Get the Blues" (January 1983)
"Turn on the Radio" (January 2011)

27 years, 9 months
Willie Nelson
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (October 1975)
"Beer for My Horses"
(June 2003, duet with Toby Keith)

26 years, 7 months
George Strait
"Fool Hearted Memory" (August 1982)
"River of Love" (April 2009)

text: Artists who have appeared in the Top 40 in at least five different decades[edit]

text:
Artists
Decades
Years

7 decades

George Jones
1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
1955–2013

6 decades

Dolly Parton
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
1967–2016

5 decades

Eddy Arnold
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
1945–1982

Hank Thompson
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
1948–1980

Ernest Tubb*
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
1944–1983

Johnny Cash
1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
1955–1990

Elvis Presley
1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s
1955–2009

Willie Nelson
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
1962–2003

Glen Campbell
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s
1962–2014

Kenny Rogers
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
1969–2006

Hank Williams Jr.
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
1964–2006

Reba McEntire
1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
1978–2017

Alabama
1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
1979–2011

text: Artists who have hit No. 1 posthumously[edit]

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Hank WilliamsA (d. January 1, 1953) – with His Drifting Cowboys, scored four of his 11 career No. 1 songs after his death: "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive," "Kaw-Liga," "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "Take These Chains From My Heart," all 1953; "Kaw-Liga" was the No. 1 song of 1953
Betty Jack Davis (d. August 2, 1953) – As a member of The Davis Sisters, went to No. 1 with "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" in late 1953.
Johnny Horton (d. November 5, 1960) – "North to Alaska" (1961).
Hawkshaw Hawkins (d. March 5, 1963) – "Lonesome 7-7203" (1963).
Jim ReevesA (d. July 31, 1964) – Had six No. 1 songs after his death: "I Guess I'm Crazy" (1964); "This Is It" and "Is It Really Over" (1965); "Distant Drums" and "Blue Side of Lonesome" (1966); and "I Won't Come In While He's Here" (1967).
Elvis PresleyA, B (d. August 16, 1977) – "Guitar Man" (1981).
Keith WhitleyA (d. May 9, 1989) – "I Wonder Do You Think of Me" (1989) and "It Ain't Nothin'" (1990).

text: Age records[edit]

text: Youngest male[edit]

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Artist with a top 40 hit — The youngest solo artist was Billy Gilman, who was 12 years, 3 months in September 2000 when he reached No. 20 with "One Voice." Overall, the youngest artist is Bobby Bare, Jr., who was 7 years, 6 months old in December 1973 when he charted with his father, Bobby Bare, on "Daddy What If?" (an eventual No. 2 hit).
Artist with a No. 1 hit – Phil Everly, who was 18 years, 6 months in July 1957 when, as a member of the Everly Brothers, reached the top with "Bye Bye Love." When solo acts are considered, Hunter Hayes was the youngest at 21 years old in September 2012 when he reached No. 1 with "Wanted."

text: Oldest male[edit]

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Artist with a top 40 hit – George Burns, who was 84 years old in March 1980 when he peaked in the Top 15 with "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again." When the entire chart is considered, Eddy Arnold is the oldest, at age 89, when he peaked at No. 49 in 2008 with "To Life."
Artist with a No. 1 hit – Willie Nelson, who was 70 years, 1 month and 2 weeks when he hit No. 1 with "Beer for My Horses", a duet with 41-year-old Toby Keith on June 14, 2003.

text: Youngest female[edit]

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Artist with a top 40 hit – Ashley Gearing, who was 7003442100000000000♠12 years, 38 days old (to become the youngest solo female vocalist) when she hit with "Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?", which peaked at No. 37 in 2003.[12] Overall, the honor goes to Tina Denise Byrd, who was 8 or 9 years old when her duet with stepfather George Jones "The Telephone Call" (credited as "Tina and Daddy") peaked at No. 25 in the spring of 1974.
Artist with a No. 1 hit – Marie Osmond, who was 7003514200000000000♠14 years, 28 days old when she hit with "Paper Roses" on November 10, 1973.

text: Oldest female[edit]

text: Artist with a No. 1 hit – Dolly Parton, who was 7004219590000000000♠60 years, 44 days old when she hit with "When I Get Where I'm Going". a duet with then-33-year-old Brad Paisley, on March 4, 2006. Reba McEntire has the distinction of being the oldest female to have a solo #1, being 7004203680000000000♠55 years, 279 days old when "Turn on the Radio" went No. 1 on January 1, 2011. Reba also became the oldest female artist with a top 40 hit when her song "Just Like Them Horses" debuted at No. 37 for the week of February 13, 2016[13] when she was 60 years, 10 months, and 14 days old. Dolly was 59 years, 8 months, and 27 days old when "When I Get Where I'm Going" cracked the Top 40 for the week of October 15, 2005.[14]

text: Other selected achievements[edit]

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The record for the longest wait from an artist's Hot Country Songs debut entry to its first No. 1 belongs to Jimmy Buffett, with 30 years the first time he entered the chart with "The Great Filling Station Holdup" on May 12, 1973, to his first No. 1 song with "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (a duet with Alan Jackson) on August 9, 2003, a period of 30 years and 3 months. Also, at age 56 years and 7 months, Buffett became the oldest artist to have his first No. 1 song with "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere."
At approximately 63 years, Eddy Arnold has the longest overall span of singles on the Hot Country Songs chart – from first to most recent – by a living artist. He first hit the charts in 1945 with "Each Night Seems Like a Million Years," while his last hit, "To Life," was on the charts shortly before his death in 2008.
The artist having the longest gap between two No. 1 songs on the Hot Country Singles chart was Elvis Presley. On December 2, 1957, Presley reached No. 1 for the seventh time with "Jailhouse Rock." He did not have his eighth No. 1 hit on the country chart until February 19, 1977, with "Moody Blue," a span of 19 years, two months and two weeks.

text: The songs[edit]

text: Most weeks at No. 1*[edit]

text: Overall[edit]

text:
Weeks
Song
Artist
Year

31
"Body Like a Back Road"
Sam Hunt
2017

24
"Cruise"
Florida Georgia Line
2013

21
"I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)"
Eddy Arnold
1947

21
"I'm Movin' On"
Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
1950

21
"In the Jailhouse Now"
Webb Pierce
1955

20
"I Don't Hurt Anymore"
Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
1954

20
"Crazy Arms"
Ray Price
1956

19
"Bouquet of Roses"
Eddy Arnold
1948

19
"Walk on By"
Leroy Van Dyke
1961

18
"H.O.L.Y."
Florida Georgia Line
2016

17
"Slippin' Around"
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
1949

17
"Slowly"
Webb Pierce
1954

17
"Heartbreak Hotel"
Elvis Presley
1956

17
"Die a Happy Man"
Thomas Rhett
2015–2016

text: By decade*[edit]

text:
Decade
Song
Artist
Weeks
Year

1940s
"I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)"
Eddy Arnold
21
1947

1950s
"I'm Movin' On"
Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
21
1950

"In the Jailhouse Now"
Webb Pierce
21
1955

1960s
"Walk on By"
Leroy Van Dyke
19
1961

1970s
"My Hang-Up Is You"
Freddie Hart
6
1972

"Convoy"
C.W. McCall
6
1976

"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)"
Waylon Jennings
6
1977

1980s
"Coward of the County"
Kenny Rogers
3
1980

"My Heart"
Ronnie Milsap
3
1980

"Lookin' for Love"
Johnny Lee
3
1980

"Forever and Ever, Amen"
Randy Travis
3
1987

1990s
"Amazed"
Lonestar
8
1999

2000s
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett
8
2003

2010s
"Body Like a Back Road"
Sam Hunt
31
2017

text: Most weeks at No. 2[edit]

text:
Weeks
Song
Artist
Year
Blocked To No. 1 By

17
"In Case You Didn't Know"
Brett Young
2017
Body Like a Back Road (Sam Hunt)

15
"Making Believe"
Kitty Wells
1955
In the Jailhouse Now (Webb Pierce)

11
"Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)"
Red Ingle and His Magnificent Seven
1947

11
"Break Up in a Small Town"
Sam Hunt
2015–2016
Die a Happy Man (Thomas Rhett)

10
"Cruise"
Florida Georgia Line
2012

10
"Take Your Time"
Sam Hunt
2014
Girl Crush (Little Big Town)

9
"Sioux City Sue"
Zeke Manners
1946

9
"I Ain't Never"
Webb Pierce
1959
The Three Bells (The Browns)

8
"Never Trust a Woman"
Tex Williams and His Western Caravan
1948
I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) (Eddy Arnold)

8
"One More Time"
Ray Price
1960
He'll Have to Go (Jim Reeves)

8
"Foolin' Around"
Buck Owens
1961
North to Alaska (Johnny Horton)

8
"Remember When"
Alan Jackson
2004

8
"Dirt"
Florida Georgia Line
2014

7
"Just Call Me Lonesome"
Eddy Arnold
1955
I Don't Care (Webb Pierce)

7
"Yes, I Know Why"
Webb Pierce
1956
Sixteen Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

7
"Lesson in Leavin'"
Jo Dee Messina
1999
Amazed (Lonestar)

7
"I Go Back"
Kenny Chesney
2004
Live Like You Were Dying (Tim McGraw)

7
"Wagon Wheel"
Darius Rucker
2013

7
"Boys 'Round Here"
Blake Shelton
2013
Cruise (Florida Georgia Line)

text: Most total charted weeks[edit]

text:
Weeks
Song
Artist
Years

66
"Cruise"
Florida Georgia Line
2012–2013

56
"Love Like Crazy"
Lee Brice
2009–2010

56
"Wanted"
Hunter Hayes
2012–2013

54
"Bouquet of Roses"
Eddy Arnold
1948–1949

53
"Voices"
Chris Young
2008, 2010–2011

52
"Fräulein"
Bobby Helms
1957–1958

52
"Hurricane"
Luke Combs
2016–2017

51
"Let It Rain"
David Nail featuring Sarah Buxton
2011–2012

51
"In Case You Didn't Know"
Brett Young
2016–2017

text: Songs that have hit No. 1 by multiple artists[edit]

text: Three times[edit]

text: "She (He) Thinks I Still Care" – George Jones (1962), Anne Murray (1974) and Elvis Presley (1977, flip side to "Moody Blue")

text: Two times[edit]

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"Pistol Packin' Mama" – Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, and Al Dexter (both 1944)
"Smoke on the Water" – Red Foley (1944) and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (1945)
"Shame on You" – Spade Cooley, and Lawrence Welk Orchestra with Red Foley (both 1945)
"Slippin' Around" – Ernest Tubb, and Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely (both 1949)
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" – Slim Willet and Skeets McDonald (both 1952)
"I Don't Care" – Webb Pierce (1955) and Ricky Skaggs (1982)
"Why Baby Why" – Webb Pierce and Red Sovine (1956), and Charley Pride (1983)
"Heartbreak Hotel" – Elvis Presley (1956), and Willie Nelson and Leon Russell (1979)
"City Lights" – Ray Price (1958) and Mickey Gilley (1975)
"She's Got You" – Patsy Cline (1962) and Loretta Lynn (1977)
"Together Again" – Buck Owens (1964) and Emmylou Harris (1976)
"It's Just a Matter of Time" – Sonny James (1970) and Randy Travis (1989)
"(Lost Her/His Love on Our) Last Date" – Conway Twitty (1972) and Emmylou Harris (1983)
"That's the Way Love Goes" – Johnny Rodriguez (1974) and Merle Haggard (1984)
"It Must Be Love" – Don Williams (1979) and Alan Jackson (2000)

text: In addition[edit]

text: Songs that reached No. 1 on both the country and all-genre charts[edit]

text:
Song
Artist
Date topped country chart/weeks at No. 1*
Date topped all-genre chart/weeks at No. 1*

"Pistol Packin' Mama"
Al Dexter
February 5, 1944
(3 weeks)
October 30, 1943
(8 weeks)

"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"
Tex Williams and His Western Caravan
July 19, 1947
(16 weeks)
August 9, 1947
(6 weeks)

"Slippin' Around"
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
October 8, 1949
(17 weeks)
November 12, 1949
(3 weeks)

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Gene Autry
January 7, 1950
(1 week)
January 7, 1950
(1 week)

"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"
Red Foley
January 20, 1950
(12 weeks)
February 16, 1950
(4 weeks)

"Slow Poke"
Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys (feat. Redd Stewart)
November 3, 1951
(15 weeks)
January 5, 1952
(3 weeks)

"Sixteen Tons"
Tennessee Ernie Ford
December 17, 1955
(10 weeks)
November 26, 1955
(8 weeks)

"Heartbreak Hotel"/"I Was The One"
Elvis Presley
March 17, 1956
(17 weeks)
April 21, 1956
(8 weeks)

"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"/"My Baby Left Me"
Elvis Presley
July 14, 1956
(2 weeks)
July 28, 1956
(1 week)

"Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog"
Elvis Presley
September 15, 1956
(10 weeks)
August 18, 1956
(11 weeks)

"Young Love"
Sonny James
February 2, 1957
(9 weeks)
February 16, 1957
(1 week)

"All Shook Up"
Elvis Presley
May 13, 1957
(1 week)
April 13, 1957
(9 weeks)

"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"
Elvis Presley
August 5, 1957 (1 week)
July 8, 1957
(7 weeks)

"Wake Up Little Susie"
Everly Brothers
October 14, 1957 (7 weeks)
October 14, 1957
(4 weeks)

"Jailhouse Rock"/"Treat Me Nice"
Elvis Presley
December 2, 1957 (1 week)
October 21, 1957
(7 weeks)

"All I Have to Do Is Dream"/"Claudette"
Everly Brothers
June 2, 1958
(3 weeks)
May 12, 1958
(4 weeks)

"Bird Dog/"Devoted To You"
Everly Brothers
September 8, 1958
(6 weeks)
August 25, 1958
(1 week)

"The Battle of New Orleans"
Johnny Horton
May 18, 1959
(10 weeks)
June 1, 1959
(6 weeks)

"The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)"
The Browns
August 31, 1959
(10 weeks)
August 24, 1959
(4 weeks)

"El Paso"
Marty Robbins
December 21, 1959
(7 weeks)
January 4, 1960
(2 weeks)

"Big Bad John"
Jimmy Dean
November 20, 1961
(2 weeks)
November 6, 1961
(5 weeks)

"Honey"
Bobby Goldsboro
May 25, 1968
(3 weeks)
April 13, 1968
(5 weeks)

"Harper Valley PTA"
Jeannie C. Riley
September 28, 1968
(3 weeks)
September 21, 1968
(1 week)

"The Most Beautiful Girl"
Charlie Rich
November 24, 1973
(3 weeks)
December 15, 1973
(2 weeks)

"I Can Help"
Billy Swan
December 14, 1974
(2 weeks)
November 23, 1974
(2 weeks)

"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song"
B.J. Thomas
May 17, 1975
(1 week)
April 26, 1975
(1 week)

"Before the Next Teardrop Falls"
Freddy Fender
March 15, 1975
(2 weeks)
May 31, 1975
(1 week)

"Thank God I'm a Country Boy"
John Denver
May 31, 1975
(1 week)
June 7, 1975
(1 week)

"Rhinestone Cowboy"
Glen Campbell
August 23, 1975
(3 weeks)
September 6, 1975
(2 weeks)

"I'm Sorry"
John Denver
November 8, 1975
(1 week)
September 27, 1975
(1 week)

"Convoy"
C.W. McCall
December 20, 1975
(6 weeks)
January 10, 1976
(1 week)

"Southern Nights"
Glen Campbell
March 19, 1977
(2 weeks)
April 30, 1977
(1 week)

"Lady"
Kenny Rogers
November 22, 1980
(1 week)
November 15, 1980
(6 weeks)

"I Love a Rainy Night"
Eddie Rabbitt
January 17, 1981
(1 week)
February 28, 1981
(2 weeks)

"9 to 5"
Dolly Parton
January 24, 1981
(1 week)
February 21, 1981
(2 weeks)

"Islands in the Stream"
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
October 29, 1983
(2 weeks)
October 29, 1983
(2 weeks)

"Amazed"
Lonestar
July 17, 1999
(8 weeks)
March 4, 2000
(2 weeks)

"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Taylor Swift
October 20, 2012
(10 weeks)
September 1, 2012
(3 weeks)

text: *Note: For pre-1958 songs, the most weeks spent atop any one of the component charts is considered

text: The charts[edit]

text: Most and fewest No. 1s in a given year[edit]

text:
Most: (tie) 1985 and 1986, when 51 different No. 1 songs peaked in each year.*
Fewest: 1960, when just four different songs (five, if "El Paso" by Marty Robbins is counted) topped the chart. Each of the new No. 1 songs that year spent 10 or more weeks atop the chart.[18]

text: Biggest jump to No. 1[edit]

text: Early Billboard Country Charts (1944–1958)[edit]

text:
"Guitar Polka" – Al Dexter – (1946) – debuted at No. 1
"Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy" – Red Foley – (1950) – debuted at No. 1
"Kaw Liga" – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys – (1953) – debuted at No. 1

text: Early Hot Country Singles era (1958–1973)[edit]

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text: 1973 to inception of BDS in 1990[edit]

text: 12 to 1 – "Convoy" – C.W. McCall (December 20, 1975)

text: BDS-era (1990–2012)[edit]

text: 9 to 1 – "Keep It Between the Lines" – Ricky Van Shelton (October 12, 1991)

text: Digital era (2012–present)[edit]

text: 42 to 1 – "Burnin' It Down" – Jason Aldean (August 9, 2014)

text: Biggest fall from No. 1[edit]

text: Billboard Country Charts (1944–present)[edit]

text:
1 to off the chart (tie)

"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" – Gene Autry (January 14, 1950).
"Blue Christmas" – Ernest Tubb (January 14, 1950).

text: Prior to inception of BDS in 1990[edit]

text:
1 to 43 (tie)

"Feels So Right" – Alabama (August 1, 1981)[19]
"Tight Fittin' Jeans" – Conway Twitty (October 3, 1981)[20]

1 to 47

"You Don't Know Me" – Mickey Gilley Billboard (Sept. 26, 1981)[21]

text: BDS era (1990–2012)[edit]

text: 1 to 16 – "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" – Pam Tillis (February 18, 1995)

text: Digital era (2012–present)[edit]

text: * 1 to off the chart: "My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face" – Craig Wayne Boyd (January 10, 2015).

text: Quickest climb to No. 1[edit]

text: Airplay/sales hybrid era (1958–1990)[edit]

text: 4 weeks – "Convoy" by C.W. McCall (December 20, 1975)

text: Airplay-only era (1990–2012)[edit]

text:
5 weeks (tie):

"Shameless" by Garth Brooks (November 16, 1991)
"It's Your Love" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (June 7, 1997)
"Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worley (April 5, 2003)

text: Note: These exclude Garth Brooks' "More Than a Memory" (see below), which debuted at #1.

text: Airplay/sales/streaming hybrid era (2012-present)[edit]

text:
2 weeks – "Dirt" by Florida Georgia Line (July 26, 2014)
2 weeks – "Burnin' It Down" by Jason Aldean (August 9, 2014)
3 weeks – "That's My Kind of Night" by Luke Bryan (August 31, 2013)

text: Slowest climb to No. 1[edit]

text: 51 weeks — "Voices" by Chris Young (February 19, 2011)

text: Highest chart debut[edit]

text: Since the introduction of the 100-position chart in 1973[edit]

text: Overall[edit]

text:
1 – "More Than a Memory" – Garth Brooks (September 15, 2007)
1 – "My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face" – Craig Wayne Boyd (January 3, 2015)
1 – "Forever Country" – Artists of Then, Now & Forever (October 8, 2016)
2 – "Red" – Taylor Swift (October 20, 2012)
2 – "Vice" – Miranda Lambert (August 6, 2016)
2 – "Body Like a Back Road" – Sam Hunt (February 18, 2017)

text: Male artists[edit]

text:
1 – "More Than a Memory" – Garth Brooks (September 15, 2007)
1 – "My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face" – Craig Wayne Boyd (January 3, 2015)
13 – "Feel Like a Rock Star" – Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw (April 21, 2012)
13 – "Highway Don't Care" – Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift (February 23, 2013)
16 – "Don't Blink" – Kenny Chesney (September 8, 2007)

text: Female artists[edit]

text:
2 – "Red" – Taylor Swift (October 20, 2012)
2 – "Vice" – Miranda Lambert (August 6, 2016)
3 – "Over You" – Cassadee Pope (December 8, 2012)
4 – "Stupid Boy" – Cassadee Pope (December 29, 2012)

text: Group artists[edit]

text:
9 – "Better Dig Two" – The Band Perry (November 17, 2012)
22 – "Day Drinking" – Little Big Town (June 21, 2014)
24 – "Take Me There" – Rascal Flatts (July 21, 2007)

text: Duo artists[edit]

text:
24 – "That's Why I Pray" – Big & Rich (June 9, 2012)
27 – "All I Want to Do" – Sugarland (June 7, 2008)
30 – "My Maria" – Brooks & Dunn (April 6, 1996)

text: Most year-end No. 1 songs of the year[edit]

text: 3 – Tim McGraw (1997, 1998, 2004)

text: 2 – Bill Anderson (1963, 1969)

text: Other selected achievements[edit]

text:
On the chart for November 4, 1957, the Nos. 1 and 2 songs on the country, Billboard Hot 100, and R&B charts are identical: Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie." In addition, the No. 6 hit on the Hot 100 and R&B charts – Jimmie Rodgers' "Honeycomb" – is also climbing the country chart.[22]
On the chart for the week of April 19, 1980, for the only time in history, the top 5 positions of the Hot Country Singles chart were held by female singers (or in one case, a female as part of a duet pairing). The Top 5 from that week was:

text:
"It's Like We Never Said Goodbye" by Crystal Gayle
"A Lesson in Leavin'" by Dottie West
"Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" by Debby Boone
"Beneath Still Waters" by Emmylou Harris
"Two Story House" by Tammy Wynette (duet with George Jones)[23]

text: The albums[edit]

text: Most songs from an album[edit]

text: From Come on Over by Shania Twain[24]

text:
"Love Gets Me Every Time" (#1)
"Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (#6)
"You're Still the One" (#1)
"From This Moment On" (#6)
"Honey, I'm Home" (#1)
"That Don't Impress Me Much" (#8)
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (#4)
"You've Got a Way" (#13)
"Come on Over" (#6)
"Rock This Country!" (#30)
"I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" (#17)

text: From Red by Taylor Swift

text:
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (#1)
"Begin Again" (#10)
"Red" (#2)
"I Almost Do" (#13)
"All Too Well" (#17)
"Stay Stay Stay" (#24)
"Treacherous" (#26)
"Starlight" (#28)
"Holy Ground" (#32)
"The Lucky One" (#33)
"Sad Beautiful Tragic" (#37)

text: From Here's to the Good Times by Florida Georgia Line

text:
"Cruise" (#1)
"Get Your Shine On" (#5)
"Here's to the Good Times" (#33)
"Round Here" (#3)
"Stay" (#1)
"Dayum, Baby" (#49)
"This Is How We Roll" (#1)
"Take It Out on Me" (#32)
"Hands on You" (#33)
"Headphones" (#39)
"People Back Home" (#42)

text: Most number one songs from an album[edit]

text: Male[edit]

text: From Diamonds & Dirt by Rodney Crowell

text:
"It's Such a Small World" (duet with Rosanne Cash)
"I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried"
"She's Crazy for Leavin'"
"After All This Time"
"Above and Beyond"

text: From 5th Gear by Brad Paisley

text:
"Ticks"
"Online"
"Letter to Me"
"I'm Still a Guy"
"Waitin' on a Woman" (on re-release only)

text: Female[edit]

text: From King's Record Shop by Rosanne Cash

text:
"The Way We Make a Broken Heart"
"If You Change Your Mind"
"Tennessee Flat Top Box"
"Runaway Train"

text: From The Woman in Me by Shania Twain

text:
"Any Man of Mine"
"(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!"
"You Win My Love"
"No One Needs to Know"

text: From Carnival Ride by Carrie Underwood

text:
"So Small"
"All-American Girl"
"Last Name"
"Just a Dream"

text: Group[edit]

text: From Roll On by Alabama:

text:
"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
"When We Make Love"
"If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)"
"(There's A) Fire in the Night"

text: From Southern Star by Alabama:

text:
"Song of the South"
"If I Had You"
"High Cotton"
"Southern Star"

text: From Lonely Grill by Lonestar:

text:
"Amazed"
"Smile"
"What About Now"
"Tell Her"

text: From The Foundation by Zac Brown Band:

text:
"Chicken Fried"
"Toes"
"Highway 20 Ride"
"Free"

text: From You Get What You Give by Zac Brown Band:

text:
"As She's Walking Away" (duet with Alan Jackson)
"Colder Weather"
"Knee Deep" (duet with Jimmy Buffett)
"Keep Me in Mind"

text: Duo[edit]

text: From Why Not Me by The Judds:

text:
"Mama He's Crazy"
"Why Not Me"
"Girls' Night Out"
"Love Is Alive"

text: From Rockin' with the Rhythm by The Judds:

text:
"Have Mercy"
"Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)"
"Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain"
"Cry Myself to Sleep"

text: From Brand New Man by Brooks & Dunn

text:
"Brand New Man"
"My Next Broken Heart"
"Neon Moon"
"Boot Scootin' Boogie"

text: Most year-end No. 1 albums[edit]

text: 4 – Garth Brooks (1991, 1992, 1995, 1998)

text:
3 – Willie Nelson (1976, 1978, 1982)
2 – Alabama (1983, 1985)


document_title: Candy Crush Saga

question_text: how many levels of candy crush soda are there

root

text: Candy Crush Saga

text: Gameplay[edit]

text: Candy Crush Saga is a "match three" game, where the core gameplay is based on swapping two adjacent candies among several on the gameboard as to make a row or column of at least 3 matching-colored candies. On this match, the matched candies are removed from the board, and candies above them fall into the empty spaces, with new candies appearing from the top of the board. This may create a new matched set of candies, which is automatically cleared in the same manner. The player scores points for these matches and gains progressively more points for chain reactions.[3] Additionally, creating matches of four or more candies will create a special candy that, when matched, can clear a row, column, or other section of the board.[3]

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text: The game is split among many levels, which must be completed in sequence. Each level poses a different challenge to the user, such as achieving a minimum score in a fixed number of moves or clearing candies in a fixed number of moves to bring special ingredients to the bottom of the board. Boards have a number of different configurations and may include special spaces that have their own unique rules, such as spaces covered with jelly that must be cleared by making a match on that space.[3] If the player meets the level's goal, they will be given from one to three stars based on their score and can proceed onto the next level. Otherwise, they will lose one life and must try again. If the player runs out of lives, they have to wait for some period of real-world time while their lives regenerate before attempting the level again.[3] Completed levels can be replayed if desired.

text: The game has been expanded with a number of episodes, adding a few dozen new levels per episode as well as new gameplay mechanics. In the game's first major expansion, the game added a separate set of levels in the Dreamworld, not accessible any more. While levels had the same goals, the players had to balance matches of candies of two randomly selected colors to avoid disrupting the sleeping Odus the Owl; if they did, the level was considered lost and the player had to try again. If they collected enough matched candies to fill a meter, the player actived the Moon Struck power: the board was cleared of all candies of those two colors, and the player gained a few turns of additional matches without having to balance colors. After this, Odus returned to sleeping and two new colors were randomly selected for the balance. This continued until the player completed the level or ran out of turns as in the main game. Dreamworld levels used a different set of lives from the main game, allowing the player to switch back and forth between these modes.[4]

text: In-app purchases[edit]

text: The game is primarily monetized through in-app purchases (through either a credit card, iTunes credits or Google Play credits); players begin with five "lives", lost whenever a level is failed. This applies to all of King's games. When they are exhausted, users can either send requests to their Facebook friends for more lives, wait for them to replenish themselves (a life is restored every half-hour), or purchase them. Initially when a player makes a purchase for new lives, he/she receives five new lives for a specific dollar amount. In a recent update, when a player makes a purchase for new lives, the player receives gold bars, the quantity depending on how much money he/she spends. Gold bars can be used for new lives, extra moves, boosters or to unlock a new episode. At certain points, primarily at the start of new "episodes", users must also either purchase or receive a request from at least three friends before they may access the next set of levels. An update meant players only waited for 3 days to unlock the next episode.

text: Boosters, to make the levels easier, can be bought using in-app purchases.[5] While the game includes freemium content, 97.7% of those playing the game do so for free, while only 2.3% pay.[6]

text: Characters[edit]

text: Throughout the game, the player solves puzzles so Tiffi (short for Toffette) can solve problems plaguing the residents of the Candy Kingdom. These include tutorial guide Mr. Toffee, whose voice was changed from an over-the-top French accent in the original version of the game into a more modest deep male voice,[7] the Easter Bunny, the shop owner Mr. Yeti, Odus the owl from Dreamworld levels, the villainous Bubblegum Troll, and many others.

text: In the Candy Crush Jelly Saga, the two main characters that the player plays against are the Jelly Queen and Cupcake Carl.

text: Development[edit]

text: Prior to the release of Candy Crush Saga, most of King's games were browser games offered through their website or partner portals such as Yahoo!. Several of their games featured tournament-style gameplay, where players could spend money to enter competitive tourneys for in-game boosts, which served as one of the main form of revenue for the company in addition to in-game item sale microtransactions and advertisements.[8] Around 2009, Facebook began to pull in developers, in particular Zynga, to offer social network games that could be built on its fundamental services; for King, this resulting in a large drop in players that they saw from their game portals within a year. At this point, King started to determine how it could enter the Facebook and the associated mobile game markets, breaking up its web development department to work on Facebook and mobile games in 2010, including bringing several of their existing browser games to those platforms.[9] Most of these existing games were introduced as beta versions to Facebook users, and the company used player counts and feedback to determine which of these titles had the most prospect for moving forward, allowing them to focus more intensive development on those titles while dropping the rest, in the style of a rapid prototyping approach.[10] The Facebook platform allowed them to explore expansion of their existing tournament-style games and the ability to include microtransactions within the game.[11]

text: In April 2011, King released its first cross-platform (Facebook and mobile) game, Miner Speed,[12] which had a simple match-3 concept that borrowed concepts from Bejeweled that helped the company figure out the transition between Facebook and mobile games for this new direction.[9] King's first major success in this area followed with Bubble Witch Saga, released in October 2011; by January 2012 it has attracted over 10 million players and was one of fastest rising Facebook games at that time.[13] Bubble Witch Saga introduced the "saga" approach in contrast to typical tile-matching games, where instead of having the game continue through a fixed amount of time or until the player reached an unplayable state, the game was divided into discrete levels that required the player to complete certain goals within a fixed set of moves, and where the next level could only be reached after completing the previous level. These saga elements allowed for the basics of social gameplay, but did not require the time investment that then-popular titles like Zynga's Farmville required; players could play just for a few minutes each day through the saga model.[14] The success of Bubble Witch Saga establishing King as a viable developer in this arena, becoming the second-largest developer by daily player count on the Facebook platform by April 2012, trailing only Zynga.[9][8]

text: Candy Crush Saga was selected as King's next Facebook game based on the popularity of the portal version of Candy Crush, first released in 2011 and which was one of the five most popular games by 2012.[15] The basic ideas from Miner Speed were used to craft the foundation of Candy Crush Saga, adding the "saga" elements from Bubble Witch Saga. Initial ideas for Candy Crush Saga were proposed by King's chief creative officer, Sebastian Knutsson, around 2011.[9] The game was first released for Facebook in April 2012, at the time featuring only 65 levels.[16] The game quickly gained popularity, gaining more than 4 million players within a few weeks of release.[17]

text: King later released mobile versions for iOS and Android that same year, adding a feature that allowed mobile users to synchronize their progress with the Facebook version. Knutsson stated that at that time, with Candy Crush Saga as popular as it was on Facebook, they knew that they "had to get it right" in the transition process.[9] King had previously discussed the nature of games that kept their state between a PC and mobile version with Fabrication Games, believing this was a necessary trend in the future of gaming, Both recognized several of the difficulties that would have to be addressed to provide both the progress synchronization and gameplay interface between mouse-driven PC computers and touch-driven mobile devices.[15] King found that one issue with transiting Bubble Witch Saga to mobile was that the gameplay elements were too small for mobile devices, and aimed to correct that for Candy Crush Saga on mobile. The mobile release delay for Candy Crush Saga was in part due to adding the ability to play the mobile version in an offline mode that would still synchronize once the player returned online.[15]

text: The mobile version helped to boost popularity of the game, attributed to the nature of the game being able to be played in a pick-up-and-go manner ideally suited for mobile devices. Tommy Palm, one of the four developers for Candy Crush Saga, stated that the first weekend numbers after the game's mobile release were over ten times greater than the estimates they expected.[15] By January 2013, Candy Crush Saga overtook Zynga's Farmville 2 as the top-played game on the Facebook platform.[18]

text: Candy Crush Saga was expanded over the years by adding new episodes, each containing a number of new levels. This enabled King to also introduce new gameplay features alongside other game improvements.[9] New features were first tested on King's own portal to see how players there responded and allowing them to tweak these as needed, then pushed these into the episodes on the Facebook/mobile version.[19] By September 2016, King released its 2000th level for the game to celebrate the milestone of over 1 trillion Candy Crush Saga games having been played.[20][21] More recently, with the game offered as a free-to-play model, King seeks to provide new content on weekly or biweekly basis, including time-limited content. Zacconi saw this approach as a means to keep players, who otherwise have not purchased anything, to keep coming back and playing the game.[22]

text: Reception[edit]

text: According to review aggregator website Metacritic, the game received an average review score of 79/100, indicating generally positive reviews.[23] Ellie Gibson of Eurogamer referred to Candy Crush Saga as 2013's "Game of the Year".[24]

text: Commercial[edit]

text: Candy Crush Saga had over ten million downloads in December 2012.[25] By 2013, Candy Crush Saga had been downloaded more than 500 million times across Facebook, iOS, and Android devices and considered the most downloaded app from the Apple App Store,[26][27] and had at least 6.7 million active users on a daily basis; the game had a daily revenue of $633,000 from the United States section of the iOS App Store alone.[28] By 2014, the game had over 245 million active player each month but has since dropped off, with that count falling to around 166 million by 2016.[29]

text: Though initially released with advertising to help with revenue, King removed the advertising in 2013, and solely has earned money from the game in the form of in-app purchases.[29] Only a small percentage of the player base has purchased in-game items, up to around 4%, but this has led to millions of dollars in monthly revenue for King.[29] In 2014, Candy Crush Saga players spent over $1.33 billion on in-app purchases which was a decline from the previous year, since in the second half of 2013 players spent over $1.04 billion.[6] By 2015, the monthly revenue was estimated at $120 million, but with declining players purchasing in-game items, down to 2% by 2016, that revenue has dropped to just over $53 million per month.[29]

text: Five years after its release on mobile, Candy Crush Saga has been downloaded over 2.7 billion times. Its revenue for the quarter ending September 2017 was $250 million, having gained significant improvement in year-to-year revenues from 2016.[22] It remains one of the top gross-revenue earnings app for mobile in the four years leading up to 2017.[22]

text: Candy Crush received particular mention in Hong Kong media, with reports that one in seven Hong Kong citizens plays the game.[30] The game is also featured in Psy's music video "Gentleman".[31] In December 2013, King entered the Japanese market with a series of television commercials in Japan, and by December 4 it had become the 23rd most downloaded game in Japan on Android devices and number 1 most downloaded from the App Store.[32]

text: Controversy[edit]

text: King filed for applications for trademarks on the word "candy" in January 2013 with the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office, which became publicly known in January 2014.[33] News of these pending trademarks raised concerns from other developers, fearing that King would use their trademark to intimidate smaller developers.[34] In response to this criticism, King decided not to pursue the trademark.[35]

text: The mobile game known as CandySwipe created in 2010, two years prior to the release of Candy Crush Saga, had many similarities that independent app developer Albert Ransom and maker of CandySwipe picked up on as Candy Crush Saga became more successful. Following news of the "candy" trademark, Ransom issued a statement in February 2014, claiming that King intentionally copied elements from his own game including the app icon, the art for the candy pieces, and sound effects like the level-completion "Sweet!".[36] While details were not given, Ransom stated that he "amicably" resolved the matter with King by April of that year.[37]

text: During this same period, it was discovered that King had successfully obtained trademark on the word "saga", and they had taken action against Stoic, the developers of The Banner Saga; King had attempted to block Stoic's registration of "The Banner Saga", and after the game released in January 2014, it issued a cease and desist letter to the developers.[38] Similar to the CandySwipe situation, Stoic announced in April 2014 that the situation with King had been resolved with both sides coming to an agreement allowing Stoic to continue to use their name.[39]

text: Candy Crush Saga also received mixed reactions when it was announced that King had struck a deal with Microsoft to automatically install the game on devices that have been upgraded to Windows 10 Home.[40]

text: The game was investigated by the UK Office of Fair Trading concerning exploitative game mechanics with regards to younger users.[41][42]

text: Sequels[edit]

text: In May 2014, a sequel titled Candy Crush Soda Saga was soft launched by King, with a similar design but new gameplay dynamics, such as a soda bottle piece that can shift gravity.[43][44] As of October 2016, there are over 1100 "Candy Crush Soda Saga" levels.[citation needed]

text: On October 20, 2014, the Facebook version of Candy Crush Soda Saga was released worldwide[45] and the mobile app was released in November on the Android and iOS platforms.[46][47][48] The app was subsequently made available for Windows 10 and Windows Phone in October 2015.

text: In September 2015, another sequel entitled Candy Crush Jelly Saga was soft-launched in various countries for the Android platform.[49] Candy Crush Jelly Saga was released worldwide in January 2016.[49] Initially it was not made available in Facebook unlike in previous titles, but is now available as a game app as of May 2016. The Facebook version appears to no longer require Adobe Flash to play.

text: Television[edit]

text: CBS produces a live-action Candy Crush game show in partnership with King that premiered on July 9, 2017.[50] It is an hour-long competition among several two-person teams using interactive games that are based on Candy Crush. The show is produced by Lionsgate with executive producer Matt Kunitz, and with collaboration by Sebastian Knutsson, the creative developer of the first Candy Crush game.[51] Mario Lopez hosts the show.[52]

text: Four teams play in each episode doing various challenges based on the Candy Crush game, with the winning team earning a guaranteed $100,000.

text: In popular culture[edit]

text: Part of The Emoji Movie takes place within Candy Crush Saga.[53]


document_title: Go Ask Alice

question_text: go ask alice where does it take place

question_tokens: go ask alice where does it take place

text: Go Ask Alice

text: Title[edit]

text: The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"[6][14] ("go ask Alice/when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, in which the title character Alice eats and drinks various things, including a mushroom, that makes her grow larger or smaller. Slick's song is understood as using Carroll's story as a metaphor for a drug experience.[15][16]

text: Plot summary[edit]

text: In 1968, a 14-year-old girl begins keeping a diary, in which she records her thoughts and concerns about issues such as crushes, weight loss, sexuality, social acceptance, and relating to her parents. The dates and locations mentioned in the book place its events as occurring between 1968 and 1970 in California, Colorado, Oregon, and New York City. The two towns in which the diarist's family reside during the story are not identified, and are only described as being college towns.

text: The diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a dean position at a new college, causing the family to relocate. The diarist has difficulty adjusting to her new school, but soon becomes best friends with a girl named Beth. When Beth leaves for summer camp, the diarist returns to her hometown to stay with her grandparents. She meets an old school acquaintance, who invites her to a party. There, glasses of cola—some of which are laced with LSD—are served. The diarist unwittingly ingests LSD and has an intense and pleasurable trip. Over the following days the diarist socializes with the other teens from the party, willingly uses more drugs, and loses her virginity while on LSD. She worries that she may be pregnant, and her grandfather has a minor heart attack. Overwhelmed by her worries, the diarist begins to take sleeping pills, first stolen from her grandparents, then later prescribed by her doctor upon returning home. Her friendship with Beth ends, as both girls have moved in new directions.

text: The diarist befriends a hip girl, Chris, with whom she continues to use drugs. They date college students Richie and Ted, who deal drugs and persuade the two girls to help them by selling drugs at schools. When the girls walk in on Richie and Ted stoned and having sex with each other, they realize their boyfriends were just using them to make money. The girls report Richie and Ted to the police and flee to San Francisco. Chris gets a job in a boutique with a glamorous older woman, Sheila. Sheila invites both girls to lavish parties, where they resume taking drugs. One night Sheila and her new boyfriend introduce the girls to heroin and brutally rape them while they are under the influence of the drug. Traumatized, the diarist and Chris move to Berkeley where they open a jewelry shop. Although the shop is a success, they quickly grow tired of it and miss their families; they return home for a happy Christmas.

text: Back at home, the diarist encounters social pressure from her drug scene friends, and has problems getting along with her parents. Chris and the diarist try to stay away from drugs, but their resolve lapses and they end up on probation after being caught in a police raid. The diarist gets high one night and runs away. She travels to several cities,  hitchhiking partway with a girl named Doris who is a victim of child sexual abuse. The diarist continues to use drugs, supporting her habit through prostitution, and experiences homelessness before a priest reunites her with her family. Now determined to avoid drugs, she faces hostility from her former friends, especially after she calls the parents of one girl who shows up high for a babysitting job. The diarist's former friends harass her at school and threaten her and her family. They eventually drug her against her will; she has a bad trip resulting in physical and mental damage, and is sent to a psychiatric hospital. There she bonds with a younger girl named Babbie, who has also been a drug addict and child prostitute.

text: Released from the hospital, the diarist returns home, finally free of drugs. She now gets along better with her family, makes new friends, and is romantically involved with Joel, a responsible student from her father's college. She is worried about starting school again, but feels stronger with the support of her new friends and Joel. In an optimistic mood, the diarist decides to stop keeping a diary and instead discuss her problems and thoughts with other people.

text: The epilogue states that the subject of the book died three weeks after the final entry. The diarist was found dead in her home by her parents when they returned from a movie. She died from a drug overdose, either accidental or premeditated.

text: Diarist's name[edit]

text: The anonymous diarist's name is never revealed in the book.[17] In an episode where the diarist describes having sex with a drug dealer, she quotes an onlooker's remark indicating that her name may be Carla.[18][19][20] Although a girl named Alice appears very briefly in the book, she is not the diarist, but a fellow runaway whom the diarist meets on the street in Coos Bay, Oregon.[19][20][21]

text: Despite the lack of any evidence in the book that the diarist's name is Alice, the covers of various editions have suggested that her name is Alice by including blurb text such as "This is Alice's true story"[22] and "You can't ask Alice anything anymore. But you can do something—read her diary." [23] Reviewers and commentators have also frequently referred to the anonymous diarist as "Alice",[1][8][11][14][17][24][25] sometimes for convenience.[10][26]

text: In the 1973 television film based on the book, the protagonist played by Jamie Smith-Jackson is named "Alice".[27] The protagonist is also named "Alice Aberdeen" in the 1976 stage play adaptation.[13]

text: Production[edit]

text: The manuscript that later became Go Ask Alice was initially prepared for publication by Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon therapist and youth counselor then in her early 50s, who had previously done various forms of writing. Sparks had reportedly noted that the general public at that time lacked knowledge about youth drug abuse, and she likely had both educational and moral motives for publishing the book.[10][26][28] Sparks later claimed that the book was based on a real diary she received from a real teenage girl,[28] although this claim was never substantiated[10] and the girl has never been identified[4] (see Authorship and veracity controversies).

text: With the help of Art Linkletter, a popular talk show host for whom Sparks had worked as a ghostwriter, the manuscript was passed on to Linkletter's literary agent, who sold it to Prentice Hall.[28] Linkletter, who had become a prominent anti-drug crusader after the 1969 suicide of his daughter Diane,[29] also helped publicize the book.[30][31][32] Even before its publication, Go Ask Alice had racked up large advance orders of 18,000 copies.[30]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Public reception[edit]

text: Upon its 1971 publication, Go Ask Alice quickly became a publishing sensation[33] and an international bestseller, being translated into 16 languages.[2] Its success has been attributed to the timing of its publication at the height of the psychedelic era, when the negative effects of drug use were becoming a public concern.[34] Alleen Pace Nilsen has called it "the book that came closest to being a YA phenomenon" of its time, although saying it was "never as famous as [the later] Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games series".[2] In addition to being very popular with its intended young adult audience, Go Ask Alice also attracted a significant number of adult readers.[33]

text: Libraries had difficulty obtaining and keeping enough copies of the book on the shelves to meet demand.[35][36][36] The 1973 television film based on the book heightened reader interest,[36] and librarians reported having to order additional copies of the book each time the film was broadcast.

text: By 1975, more than three million copies of the book had reportedly been sold,[31] and by 1979 the paperback edition had been reprinted 43 times. The book remained continuously in print over the ensuing decades, with reported sales of over four million copies by 1998,[1] and over five million copies by 2009.[3] The actual number of readers probably surpassed the sales figures, as library copies and even personal copies were likely circulated to more than one reader.[37] Go Ask Alice has been cited as establishing both the commercial potential of young adult fiction in general, and the genre of young adult anti-drug novels,[1] and has been called "one of the most famous anti-drug books ever published."[6]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Go Ask Alice received positive initial reviews, including praise from Webster Schott in The New York Times, who called it an "extraordinary work", a "superior work" and a "document of horrifying reality [that] possesses literary quality".[38] It was also recommended by Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and The Christian Science Monitor,[34] and ranked number 1 on the American Library Association's 1971 list of Best Books for Young Adults.[39] Some reviews focused on the realism of the book's material, without further addressing the literary merit of the book.[24][25][34][40] According to Nilsen and Lauren Adams, the book was not subjected to the regular forms of literary criticism because it was presumed to be the real diary of a dead teenager.[2][34] Lina Goldberg has suggested that the publishers were motivated to list the author as "Anonymous" partly to avoid such criticism.[26]

text: Years after its publication, Go Ask Alice continued to receive some good reviews, often in the context of defending the book against censors (see Censorship).[8] In a 1995 Village Voice column for Banned Books Week, Nat Hentoff described it as "an extraordinarily powerful account of what it's actually like to get hooked on drugs" that "doesn't preach".[41]

text: However, starting in the 1990s, the book began to draw criticism for its heavy-handedness, melodramatic style and inauthenticity, in view of the growing consciousness that it was fiction rather than a real teenager's diary (see Authorship and veracity controversies).[1][5][9][34][42] Reviewing the book again for The New York Times in 1998, Marc Oppenheimer called it "poorly written", "laughably written", and "incredible", although some other writers have pointed to the material as being plausible or even appealing to young readers.[34] The portrayal of the diarist's drug use, progressing from unwittingly ingesting LSD to injecting speed within a few days, and making a similar quick transition from her first use of marijuana to heroin, has been deemed unrealistic.[5][26][43] The book has been criticized for equating homosexuality with "degradation", illness, sin, and guilt.[43] More recent analyses have expressed ethical concerns with the book's presentation of fiction to young readers as a true story.[2][26][42] Despite all these criticisms, the book is frequently called a young adult classic.[5][37][44]

text: Educational use[edit]

text: Although school boards and committees reached varying conclusions about whether Go Ask Alice had literary value,[31][32] educators generally viewed it as a strong cautionary warning against drug use.[32] It was recommended to parents and assigned or distributed in some schools as an anti-drug teaching tool. However, some adults who read the book as teens or pre-teens have written that they paid little attention to the anti-drug message and instead related to the diarist's thoughts and emotions,[9][45] or vicariously experienced the thrills of her rebellious behavior.[5][34] Reading the book for such vicarious experience has been suggested as a positive alternative to actually doing drugs.[46] Go Ask Alice has also been used in curricula dealing with mood swings[47] and death.

text: Authorship and veracity controversies[edit]

text: Although Go Ask Alice has been credited to an anonymous author since its publication, and was originally promoted as the real, albeit edited, diary of a real teenage girl, over time the book has come to be regarded by researchers as a fake memoir written by Beatrice Sparks,[2][3][4][5][6][10][26] possibly with the help of one or more co-authors.[1] Despite significant evidence of Sparks' authorship, a percentage of readers and educators have continued to believe that the book is a true-life account of a teenage girl.[3][10][26]

text: Beatrice Sparks authorship controversy[edit]

text: Go Ask Alice was originally published by Prentice Hall in 1971 as the work of an unnamed author "Anonymous". The original edition contained a  note signed by "The Editors" that included the statements, "Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user....Names, dates, places and certain events have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those concerned."[3][48] The paperback edition first published in 1972 by Avon Books contained the words "A Real Diary" on the front cover just above the title,[49] and the same words were included on the front covers of some later editions.[34]

text: Upon its publication, almost all contemporary reviewers and the general public accepted it as primarily authored by an anonymous teenager. According to Lauren Adams, Publishers Weekly magazine was the only source to question the book's authenticity on the grounds that it "seem[ed] awfully well written".[34] Reviews described the book as either the authentic diary of a real teenage girl,[1][14][24] or as an edited or slightly fictionalized version of her authentic diary.[25][50] Some sources claimed that the girl's parents had arranged for her diary to be published after her death.[12][24][50] However, according to Alleen Pace Nilsen, a "reputable source in the publishing world" allegedly said that the book was published anonymously because the parents had initiated legal action and threatened to sue if the published book could be traced back to their daughter.[28]

text: Not long after Go Ask Alice's publication, Beatrice Sparks began making public appearances presenting herself as the book's editor.[5] (Ellen Roberts, who in the early 1970s was an editor at Prentice Hall,[51] was also credited at that time with having edited the book;[52] a later source refers to Roberts as having "consulted" on the book.)[53] According to Caitlin White, when Sparks' name became public, some researchers discovered that copyright records listed Sparks as the sole author—not editor—of the book, raising questions about whether she had written it herself.[5] Suspicions were heightened in 1979 after two newly published books about troubled teenagers (Voices and Jay's Journal) advertised Sparks' involvement by calling her "the author who brought you Go Ask Alice".[28][34][54]

text: In an article by Nilsen, based in part on interviews with Sparks and published in the October 1979 issue of School Library Journal, Sparks said that she had received the diaries that became Go Ask Alice from a girl she had befriended at a youth conference. The girl allegedly gave Sparks her diaries in order to help Sparks understand the experiences of young drug users and to prevent her parents from reading them. According to Sparks, the girl later died, although not of an overdose. Sparks said she had then transcribed the diaries, destroying parts of them in the process (with the remaining portions locked in the publisher's vault and unavailable for review by Nilsen or other investigators), and added various fictional elements, including the overdose death. Although Sparks did not confirm or deny the allegations that the diarist's parents had threatened a lawsuit, she did say that in order to get a release from the parents, she had only sought to use the diaries as a "basis to which she would add other incidents and thoughts gleaned from similar case studies," according to Nilsen.[28]

text: Nilsen wrote that Sparks now wanted to be seen as the author of the popular Go Ask Alice in order to promote additional books in the same vein that she had published or was planning to publish. (These books included Jay's Journal, another alleged diary of a real teenager that Sparks was later accused of mostly authoring herself.[55]) Nilsen concluded, "The question of how much of Go Ask Alice was written by the real Alice and how much by Beatrice Sparks can only be conjectured."[28] Journalist Melissa Katsoulis, in her 2009 history of literary hoaxes Telling Tales, wrote that Sparks was never able to substantiate her claim that Go Ask Alice was based on the real diary of a real girl and that copyright records continued to list her as the sole author of the work.[10]

text: Urban folklore expert Barbara Mikkelson of snopes.com has written that even before the authorship revelations, ample evidence indicated that Go Ask Alice was not an actual diary. According to Mikkelson, the writing style and content—including a lengthy description of an LSD trip but relatively little about "the loss of [the diarist's] one true love", school, gossip or ordinary "chit-chat"— seems uncharacteristic of a teenage girl's diary.[4] The sophisticated vocabulary of the diary suggested that it had been written by an adult rather than a teen.[4][56] Mikkelson also noted that in the decades since the book's publication, no one who knew the diarist had ever been tracked down by a reporter or otherwise spoken about or identified the diarist.[4]

text: In hindsight, commentators have suggested various motivations for the publishers to present Go Ask Alice as the work of an anonymous deceased teenager, such as avoiding literary criticism,[26] lending validity to an otherwise improbable story,[26] and stimulating young readers' interest by having the book's anti-drug advice come from a teenager rather than an adult. Sparks said that while there were "many reasons" for publishing the book anonymously, her main reason was to make it more credible to young readers.[28] Although the book has been classified as fiction (see Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction), the publisher has continued to list its author as "Anonymous".

text: Controversies involving other works by Sparks[edit]

text: Sparks was involved in a similar controversy regarding the veracity of her second diary project, the 1979 book Jay's Journal. It was allegedly the real diary, edited by Sparks, of a teenage boy who committed suicide after becoming involved with the occult.[26] The publisher's initial marketing of the book raised questions about whether Sparks had edited a real teenager's diary or written a fictional diary, and recalled the same controversy with respect to Go Ask Alice.[57] Later, the family of real-life teenage suicide Alden Barrett contended that Jay's Journal used 21 entries from Barrett's real diary that the family had given to Sparks, but that the other 191 entries in the published book had been fictionalized or fabricated by Sparks, and that Barrett had not been involved with the occult or "devil worship".[55]

text: Sparks went on to produce numerous other books presented as diaries of anonymous troubled teens (including Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager and It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager) or edited transcripts of therapy sessions with teens (including Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets). Some commentators have noted that these books use writing styles similar to Go Ask Alice[34] and contain similar themes, such as tragic consequences for spending time with bad companions, a protagonist who initially gets into trouble by accident or through someone else's actions, and portrayal of premarital sex and homosexuality as always wrong.[26] Although Sparks was typically listed on these books as editor or preparer, the number of similar books that Sparks published, making her "arguably the most prolific Anonymous author in publishing",[56] fueled suspicions that she wrote Go Ask Alice.[34][56]

text: Linda Glovach authorship claims[edit]

text: In a 1998 New York Times book review, Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Go Ask Alice had at least one author besides Sparks. He identified Linda Glovach, an author of young-adult novels, as "one of the 'preparers'—let's call them forgers—of Go Ask Alice", although he did not give his source for this claim.[1] Publishers Weekly, in a review of Glovach's 1998 novel Beauty Queen (which told the story, in diary form, of a 19-year-old girl addicted to heroin),[58] also stated that Glovach was "a co-author of Go Ask Alice".[7]

text: Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction[edit]

text: Following Sparks' statements that she had added fictional elements to Go Ask Alice, the book was classified by its publishers as fiction (and remains so classified as of 2016) and a disclaimer was added to the copyright page: "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."[3]

text: Despite the classification and the disclaimer, Go Ask Alice has frequently been taught as non-fiction in schools and sold as non-fiction in bookstores.[26] The publishers also continued to suggest that the book was true by including the "Editors' Note" stating that the book was based on an actual diary, and listing the author as "Anonymous", with no mention of Sparks.[3] As of 2011, a UK paperback edition published and marketed by Arrow Books contained the statement "This Is Alice's True Story" on the front cover.[22]

text: Censorship[edit]

text: Go Ask Alice has been a frequent target of censorship challenges due to its inclusion of profanity and references to runaways, drugs, sex and rape.[11] Alleen Pace Nilsen wrote that in 1973, Go Ask Alice was "the book that teens wanted to read and that adults wanted to censor" and that the censors "felt the book did more to glorify sex and drugs than to frighten kids away from them."[2] Challenges began in the early 1970s following the initial publication of the book, and continued at a high rate through the ensuing decades.[11]

text: Some challenges resulted in the removal of the book from libraries, or in parental permission being required for a student to check the book out of a library.[11] According to The New York Times, in the 1970s it became common practice for school libraries to keep Go Ask Alice off library shelves and make it available to students only upon request, a practice which was criticized as being a form of censorship.[35] A 1982 survey of school librarians across the United States, co-sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, found that Go Ask Alice was the most frequently censored book in high school libraries.[59][60]

text: Decades after its original publication, Go Ask Alice became one of the most challenged books of the 1990s and 2000s. On the American Library Association (ALA) list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, Go Ask Alice was ranked at number 25;[61] on the ALA list compiled for the 2000s, it rose to position 18.[62]

text: The likely authoring of the book by one or more adults rather than by an unnamed teenage girl has not been an issue in censorship disputes.[3][11] Nilsen and others have criticized this on the basis that the dishonesty of presenting a probable fake memoir to young readers as real should raise greater concerns than the content.[2][26][42]

text: Adaptations[edit]

text: The ABC television network broadcast a made-for-television movie, Go Ask Alice, based on the book. It starred Jamie Smith-Jackson, William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Wendell Burton, Julie Adams, and Andy Griffith.[12]  Also among the cast were Robert Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, and Charles Martin Smith.[63] The film was promoted as an anti-drug film based on a true story.[12]

text: The film was first aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on January 24, 1973.[12][64] It was subsequently rebroadcast on October 24, 1973 and the network also made screening copies available to school, church and civic groups upon request.[65] The film drew generally good reviews[12][27][66][67] (with one critic calling it "the finest anti-drug drama ever presented by TV"[67]), but was also criticized for lacking the complexity of the book[27] and for not offering any solutions to the problem of teen drug addiction.[68] The adaptation by Ellen Violett was nominated for an Emmy Award.[65]

text: In 1976, a stage play version of the book, adapted by Frank Shiras, was published by The Dramatic Publishing Company.[13] The play has been produced by various high school and community theatre groups.[69][70][71][72]

text: In popular culture[edit]

text: Stand-up comedian Paul F. Tompkins' 2009 comedy album Freak Wharf contains a track entitled "Go Ask Alice" in which he derides the book as "the phoniest of balonies" and jokingly suggests it was authored by the writing staff of the police drama series Dragnet. The album title itself comes from a passage in the book in which the diarist refers to a mental hospital as a "freak wharf".

text: American metalcore band Ice Nine Kills included a song related to the book, entitled "Alice", on their 2015 album Every Trick in the Book.


document_title: The Great Canadian Baking Show

question_text: where do they film great canadian baking show

text: The Great Canadian Baking Show

text: Premise[edit]

text: The show brings ten amateur baking contestants together in a bake-off competition of "themed culinary challenges" to find a best, over-all competitor.[3] Each episode features three rounds: the Signature Bake, the Technical Bake, and the Showstopper.[4] After the judges taste and critique the entries, they will decide which contestant is crowned each week's "Star Baker," and which contestant will go home. Pastry chef Bruno Feldeisen, a multiple James Beard Award nominee and the former executive pastry chef for Four Seasons Hotels in New York and Vancouver, and Quebec-born pastry chef Rochelle Adonis, the European-trained creator of a flagship high tea salon and eponymous confectionery brand in Australia, served as judges.[4]

text: Once pared down to the final three bakers, they will compete for the Great Canadian Baking Show title.[2]

text: Production[edit]

text: Produced by Proper Television in association with the CBC and Love Productions, the show's first season was filmed on the grounds of the Windfields Estate in Toronto starting mid-July 2017,[4] and the premiered November 1, 2017 on CBC.[3] Levy, a self proclaimed "huge fan" of the British series upon which the show is based, stated that he "actively pursued" the hosting role.[3][5]

text: The executive producer is Cathie James, and the series producer is Marike Emery.[4]

text: CBC Television announced on February 7, 2018 that the series was renewed for a second season, and all hosts and judges would be returning.[6]

text: Hosts and judges[edit]

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text: Reception[edit]

text: John Doyle, reviewing the first episode for The Globe and Mail, called the show boring and said that it lacked "the major ingredients of eccentric flair and idiosyncratic contestants [of the original]."[7] Doyle's criticism of host Dan Levy's "feyness" in the review was called homophobic by Levy and others.[8][9] Eater Montreal writer Tim Forster said the show's first episode is "like somebody left the sugar out of the recipe: it looks right, but the flavour is kind of bland" due to a lack of focus on the contestants' stories, he primarily blamed poor editing and a rushed pace due to a shorter running time than the British series.[10] Joanna Schneller called the judging by Bruno Feldeisen and Rochelle Adonis "consistently dull" in a review of the second episode for the Toronto Star. She suggested that, like the judges in the original series, they should be instructing on the significance of dishes as well as judging.[11]

text: Greg David of TV, eh? called the show "unapologetically entertaining" and "a calming oasis amid the noisy negativity we're besieged with," specifically praising the chemistry of hosts Levy and Chan.[12] Katherine DeClerq, reviewing the final episode in Women's Post, said she was "pleasantly surprised" by the series and "while the dry humour could be a bit dryer and the puns slightly less cheesy, I have to say I am in love with the Great Canadian Baking Show."[13]

text: Season overview[edit]

text:
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text: Season 1 (2017)[edit]

text: The inaugural season featured ten bakers from across Canada competing over eight weeks. The season was won by Sabrina Degni of Montreal, Quebec. Runners-up were Vandana Jain (Regina, Saskatchewan) and Linda Longson (High River, Alberta).

text: Season 2 (2018)[edit]

text: Auditions for the second season were announced by CBC Television on February 7, 2018.[6] The season began airing on September 19, 2018.[14]


document_title: Cash Cab (U.S. game show)

question_text: what kind of car is the cash cab

question_tokens: what kind of car is the cash cab

text: Cash Cab (U.S. game show)

text: Broadcast history[edit]

text: According to Variety, Discovery Channel initially ordered 40 episodes from Lion Television (with Executive Producers Tom Cohen, Allison Corn and Tony Tackaberry; with Ben Bailey being the most recent) and taping of the initial run was completed in November 2005 before the show premiered that December.[2] A new set of 40 episodes were taped and aired in 2006 and 2007. Another 80 episodes were taped in 2007 and aired through spring and summer. Another 40 episodes were taped and aired in 2008 and 2009. Another 40 episodes were taped for  airing in 2010 and 2011.

text: The sixth season premiered on February 14, 2011, at 6:00 pm E/P.  During a hiatus, Ben Bailey did a standup special recounting his time as host of the show.  He correctly stated in the special that the show has been cancelled for the last two years (taping for the then-current series wrapped in 2008); however, a renewal offer was made after the standup concert was taped during 2011 returning the show to the schedule.  The seventh season premiered Thursday, January 5, 2012, at 6:00 pm E/P with two half-hour episodes.

text: On April 18, 2012, it was announced that Cash Cab would end its 7-year run.[3]

text: On March 27, 2017, Discovery announced it was working on episodes that will feature "appearances from notables in comedy, film, and TV".[4] On June 5, 2017, original host Ben Bailey confirmed he would return for a new season.[5][6] Season 8, which also aired on Discovery, premiered on December 4, 2017.

text: Rules[edit]

text: When the potential contestants enter the cab and state their destination, they are made aware that they are in the Cash Cab as ceiling lights and a fanfare plays inside, accompanied by the host's greeting.  While the only rules given on-camera after the introduction and before asking "Do you want to play?" pertain to his or her driving and the "three strikes and you're out" rule, the contestants are also informed that once their traveling begins, the cab will not take detours of any kind unless directed by a police officer, stop sign, traffic light or other legal means of diverting traffic. Bailey or Melewski offers them the chance to get out of the cab if they do not wish to play, and contestants who choose to play the game must stay in the cab until they reach their destination or get three strikes.

text: For the first two seasons, the first four questions were worth $25 each, the next four questions were worth $50 each, and any question thereafter was worth $100. In Cash Cab: After Dark - and beginning with the regular episodes of Season 3 - all of the money values were doubled to $50, $100 and $200. Beginning in the fourth season, some games were designated as Double Ride games, making the question values $100, $200 and $400.

text: Each wrong answer earns the contestant(s) a strike. On the third strike, they forfeit all their winnings and Bailey or Melewski will immediately pull over and kick them out of the cab. Once players have exited the Cash Cab, a camera crew from the trailing production van is already on the street waiting to tape their departure.

text: Red Light Challenge[edit]

text: When a contestant has won at least $200 or $300 in a normal game or an After Dark game - or at least $600 on a Double Ride - and the cab is forced to stop at a traffic light, Bailey or Melewski will announce a Red Light Challenge. He or she reads a question that has multiple correct answers – usually four to seven – and the passenger(s) have 30 seconds to give those answers; they do not always have to give all of the answers. Since there is no penalty for an incorrect answer, giving all the correct answers in the allotted time is worth $250 – or $500 during Double Ride games – regardless of how many incorrect answers a contestant might also blurt out along the way. The contestant does not receive the extra $250 (or $500) if the 30-second time limit runs out; it is also not counted as a strike, and the contestant doesn't lose any accumulated money. While only one Red Light Challenge is usually played per game, beginning in Season 4 there are multiple Red Light Challenges during certain games – at least two per game – with the second for accumulating at least $1,000.

text: Shout-Outs[edit]

text: Contestants have two forms of help known as "Shout-Outs" at their disposal during the game; each can be used only once, and neither may be used on a Red Light Challenge or a Video Bonus. In the Mobile Shout-Out, the contestant makes a phone call to someone they choose by means of a cell phone - either provided by Bailey or Melewski - or one belonging to a contestant. The call can take up to a maximum of 15 seconds before the contestant has to give an answer, with the result being either additional money or a strike. The contestant may also elect to use a Street Shout-Out, in which Bailey or Melewski immediately pulls the cab to a curb so that anyone on the sidewalk can be asked for help, without any official time limit. A second Street Shout-Out is included on a Double Ride. In the revived Cash Cab, the Mobile Shout-Out was replaced by the Social Media Shout-Out, in which Ben activates Facebook Live so that those on the site may help the contestant.[7]

text: Video Bonus[edit]

text: Should the passenger(s) reach the destination without striking out, Bailey/Melewski offers a choice: the option of leaving the cab and keeping the prize money that they have won, or they can stay and try to double their money by risking it all on a Video Bonus question. Bailey/Melewski plays a video clip and asks the contestant(s) a single question based on its content. If the question is answered correctly, the contestant(s) win double what they have earned so far, but if they are wrong, they lose all of their money "at the very last moment", as Bailey says, and "leave with nothing but a cab ride".

text: Double Ride[edit]

text: Beginning in Season 4, this rarely occurring part of the show happens when randomly selected passengers are able to win double the amount of money of a normal game. The first four questions are worth $100, the second four are worth $200 and the rest until the end of the game are worth $400. The "Red Light Challenge" is worth $500.

text: Record payouts[edit]

text: The current record of $6,200 won on one ride is held by Sam Meyer (riding solo, on a Double Ride, taking and winning the Double-or-Nothing Video Bonus question) on the episode that aired May 18, 2009.[8] This topped the old record held by contestants Sean Devney and Steve Irolla, two New York City tour guides who won $4,100 after answering the "Video Bonus" question correctly. They reached their final destination with two strikes (both on $200 questions).

text: Special editions[edit]

text: One episode of the program was a special celebrity edition, featuring actor Thomas Haden Church of Spider-Man 3, NHL players Jed Ortmeyer and Ryan Hollweg of the New York Rangers and journalist Harry Smith, formerly of CBS' The Early Show. All played for a charity of their choice, and Discovery Channel matched the contestants' winnings. Another episode was a special in which the passengers were asked questions relating to the 2008 film Frost/Nixon. In this episode, the host of Cash Cab: Canada, Adam Growe, was driving the cab instead of Ben Bailey.

text: On April 21, 2009, Discovery aired a charity episode of Cash Cab for its 250th episode featuring two rides by boat crew members from Deadliest Catch. Time Bandit co-captain Andy Hillstrand and Josh Harris, son of Cornelia Marie captain Phil Harris, went against Sig Hansen (captain of the Northwestern) and his two brothers. All cash values were doubled from the Season 3 payouts, the passengers received a second Street Shout-Out, and all money earned was donated by the passengers to the charities of their choice.

text: In the Cash Cab: Las Vegas episodes, filmed in May 2010 and broadcast beginning in August of that year,[9] celebrities play for charity and civilians play for themselves. Guests have included Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, comedian David Brenner, the band Neon Trees and magicians Penn & Teller. The prizes are sometimes doubled in a "Double Down Ride", just like on the regular show. In the event they strike out or miss the Video Bonus question, their charities receive $500, though some celebrities decide to also chip in with the amount of money lost, out of their own pockets.[citation needed]

text: On December 4, 2017, Discovery aired a special Celebrity Edition, where as the unsuspecting passengers hailed the Cash Cab, they were joined by celebrities to help them, featuring NCIS: New Orleans actor Scott Bakula, actor & comedian Gilbert Gottfried, and Friends actor Matthew Perry.[10]

text: Taglines[edit]

text: The show's tagline in the first two seasons was: "There are 13,000 cabs in New York City, but there's only one that pays you!" Starting in season three, the tagline was modified: "There are 13,000 cabs in the streets of the Big Apple, but there's only one that pays you!" On Cash Cab: After Dark, the tagline is: "Every night, 13,000 cabs hit the streets of the city that never sleeps, but there's only one that pays you!"

text: Cash Cab: Chicago[edit]

text: During Season 6 of Cash Cab, a new spin-off series, Cash Cab: Chicago, hosted by comedian Beth Melewski and using the same rules as its New York counterpart, aired. The spin-off was cancelled after one season, but rerun episodes are aired along with Cash Cab episodes in syndication.[11] Ben Bailey stated that the show was created during contract renewal negotiations.[12]

text: Production[edit]

text: A support van tails the Cash Cab, containing producers and a camera crew for the various street shots. The staff provide logistical information and questions by way of a walkie-talkie and earpiece worn by the host. The Cash Cab is equipped with ten cameras: one on the host, three on the passengers, one pointing forward from the back window of the cab, and three (front, left and right) in the advertising shell on the roof of the cab showing the passing streetscape. The rear of the cab behind the seats contains ten recording decks and other production equipment.

text: The lighting and the music that go off when contestants enter the cab consist of a switchboard that is connected to an iPod and the car stereo. The Video Bonus monitor is a DVD player that is embedded to the back of the front passenger seat.

text: Some contestants are randomly picked as they walk along the sidewalk, while others are selected in advance. Even so, those picked in advance are told that the cab is supposed to take them to the show on which they will appear. The cab turns out to be the show itself.[13]

text: Near the end of the game at the player's destination Ben Bailey or Beth Melewski appears to present the cash won. In reality, this cash is a prop and used for on-air purposes only. The winnings, which must be taxed, are sent via check.[13]

text: The Cash Cab in New York is a Toyota Sienna minivan[14] with the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission call sign "1G12" in the first two seasons and during the After Dark shows. A new cab with the call sign of "7N78" has been used since, which also features new headliner lighting.[15]

text: Melewski's Cash Cab is also a Toyota Sienna minivan with the Yellow Taxi call sign "4472".

text: Broadcast and syndication[edit]

text: As of March 2017, reruns air on Cozi TV and on Game Show Network. The New York City version reruns air on the Quest network in the UK. On October 26, 2009, MGM Television announced that the reruns would begin airing on local stations in January 2011.[16] Stations are allowed the option to air the series as a daily strip or as a weekend series. GSN began airing the series starting on March 13, 2017.

text: On March 27, 2017, Discovery announced it was working on new episodes that will feature guest hosts from “the worlds of comedy, film and TV” as the drivers. Despite initial reports that he would not return,[17] Bailey did host the revival episodes.[18]

text: Accolades[edit]

text: Bailey has been nominated four times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host, winning the award in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Cash Cab won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.[19]

text: International versions[edit]

text:
Country
Name
Driver
Channel
Premiere

Asia-Pacific

Cash Cab Asia

Oli Pettigrew

AXN Asia

18 October 2011

 Arab World

كاش تاكسيCash Taxi

Hisham Abdel Rahman

MBC 1

2008

 Australia

Cash Cab

Charlie PickeringJames Kerley

Channel V

29 October 2007

 Austria

QUIZ TAXI

Max Schmiedl

Puls 4

16 October 2011

QUIZ TAXI eXtreme

23 October 2011

 Belgium

Taxi Vanoudenhoven

Rob Vanoudenhoven

Eén

10 June 2012

 Brazil

Taxi do Milão

Supla

RedeTV!

2010

 Canada

Cash Cab

Adam Growe

Discovery Channel Canada  ( Canada)

10 September 2008

Taxi Payant

Alexandre Barrette  (in French)

V  ( Quebec)

3 September 2009

 China

超级现金车Cash Cab[20]

Song Peng (宋鹏)

TVS3

17 December 2012

 Colombia

CityTV

 Czech Republic

Taxík

Aleš HámaTomáš MatonohaMonika Absolonová

Česká televize

2008

 France

Taxi Cash

Alexandre Devoise

W9

23 October 2010

 Denmark

Taxaquizzen

Sigurd Kongshøj Larsen

TV2

29 September 2011

 Egypt

كاش تاكسيCash Taxi

Nashwa Mustafa

MBC Masr

9 July 2013

 Germany

Quiz Taxi

Thomas Hackenberg

Kabel eins

18 April 2006

 Greece

Taxi Girl

Vicki Stavropoulou

Mega TV

2006

 Hungary

Tutifuvar - A taxiquiz

Gianni Annoni

Viasat 3

2007

 India

Airtel Cash Cab

Munish Mukhija

UTV Bindass

2007

 Indonesia

Taxi Selebritis

Farhan

antv

2009

 Italy

Cash Taxi

Marco Berry

Sky UnoCieloLA7

2009

 Israel

מונית הכסףMonit Hakesef

Ido Rozenblum

Channel 2 (Keshet)

19 May 2007

 Jamaica

Claro Cash Cab

Felisha LordWayne W. Whyte

Television Jamaica

15 November 2010

 Japan

キャッシュキャブKyasshukyabu

Shinya Ueda and Teppei Arita

Fuji TV

1 March 2008

 Kazakhstan

ТаксиTaxi

Murat Ospanov

NTK

2009

 Lithuania

Pinigų taksi

Karina Krysko

LNK

30 June 2008

 Malaysia

Teksi Tunai

Bob Lokman

Astro Prima

2007

 Mexico

Taxi Cash

Andrés Bustamante

Televisa

28 January 2008

 Netherlands

Cash Cab

Kurt RogiersEdo Brunner

BNN

2006

 Peru

Gana Taxi

Carlos Vílchez

Frecuencia Latina

2011

 Philippines

Cash Cab Philippines

Ryan Agoncillo

AXN Philippines

22 December 2015[21]

 Poland

TV4

 Romania

Taxi Maxi

Kanal D

 Russia

ТаксиTaxi

Alex KulichkovEugene Rybov

TNT

20 December 2005

 Serbia

Кеш таксиKeš taksi

Ivan Ivanović

Fox televizijareruns on Prva Plus

12 January 2007[22]

 Slovakia

Taxík

Peter Kočiš

Jednotka

2012

 Slovenia

Taksi: Kviz z Jožetom

Jože Robežnik

RTV SLO

2016

 Spain

Taxi, taxi

Joan Domínguez  ( Madrid)

Telemadrid

2006

¡Taxi!

Manolo Sarriá  ( Andalusia)

Canal Sur 2

18 January 2010

Taxi

Miki Nadal y Manolo Sarriá  ( Spain)

laSexta

2013

 Sweden

Fredrik Belfrage

Discovery Channel

 Taiwan

黃金計程車Gold Taxi

David Chao (趙正平)Vincent Liang (梁赫群)Gui Gui (鬼鬼)

ECT

22 April 2009

 Thailand

แท็กซีมหาเศรษฐีCash Cab Thailand

Ball Chernyim (บอล เชิญยิ้ม)Jeab Chernyim (เจี๊ยบ เชิญยิ้ม)Passakorn Ponlaboon (ใบเฟิร์น พัสกร พลบูรณ์)

Modernine TV

2 March 2015

 Ukraine

ТаксiTaxi

Gregory Herman

1+1

2006–2008

 Uganda

Cash Cab

John Moody

ITV

13 June 2005

 United States

Cash Cab

Ben Bailey

Discovery Channel

5 December 2005

Cash Cab: After Dark

9 August 2007

Cash Cab: Las Vegas

8 August 2010

Cash Cab: Chicago

Beth Melewski

14 February 2011

 Vietnam

Taxi May Mắn

Hiếu Hiền

HTV7

19 October 2012


document_title: Malchus

question_text: who got their ear cut off in the bible

question_tokens: who got their ear cut off in the bible

text: Malchus

text: This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

text: Malchus /ˈmælkəs/ is the servant of the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas who participated in the arrest of Jesus as written in the four gospels. According to the Bible, one of the disciples, Simon Peter, being armed with a sword, cut off the servant's ear in an attempt to prevent the arrest of Jesus.

text: Simon cutting off Malchus' ear is  related in all four canonical gospels, in Matthew 26:51, Mark 14:47, Luke 22:50-51, and John 18:10–11, but Simon and Malchus are named only in the Gospel of John. Also, Luke is the only gospel that says Jesus healed the servant. This was Jesus' last recorded miracle prior to his resurrection.

text: The relevant passage in the Gospel of John, KJV, reads:

text:
10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

text: Although rejecting biblical inerrancy, James F. McGrath suggests that this account reflects an event that did happen, in that early Christians would hardly have invented a story portraying themselves as violent.[1]

text: Later in Chapter 18, John records that a relative of Malchus witnessed Peter's assault in the Garden of Gethsemane, and identified Peter as a follower of Christ. Peter denied this.

text: Thornton Wilder wrote a short play entitled, "The Servant's Name Was Malchus".  It appeared in the collection The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.

text: Malchus was portrayed by Paul Brightwell in the 2013 TV miniseries The Bible.