This is a hard decision!

Its hard to say, I have only heard 2 songs in full other than HHPOL but I cant decide on songs I only heard a short clip of. But based off the clips I would need to hear more but "Nothin Bout Memphis" sounds like a excellent choice. But for now due to I have heard it in full I am going with "Let the Wind Chase You"

I love Let the Wind Chase You, it's my favorite as of right now. It sounds to me very radio friendy, plus add Keith Urban, sounds like a hit to me!

i also chose let the wind chase you...many people at radio have said that trisha is better known for the slower songs so maybe going slow would be a good idea for the second single...i was tempted to pick Cowboys Are My Weakness...im imaging a video with a special appearance by garth but i couldnt pick it without hearing the full song

While I think Let The Wind Chase You is a strong choice, I chose This Is Me You're Talking To. This song is powerful, breath taking, and frankly I think it would be Trisha's biggest and most successful song. I do want to also see Let The Wind Chase You maybe as a 3rd single, but This Is Me will pull in strong sales numbers for the album as well, I really believe it.

The thing is... when she released slow songs/ballads off of Jasper County, no one played them. And now radio is saying she's known for that? I mean, she is, but does that mean they'll play them, when they haven't before? I don't understand.

Hopefully Big Machine will be the force that makes them.

Georgia Rain didnt do bad for a female artist who has been outta the spot light for 4 years. Patty Loveless,Wynonna,Pam Tillis, and many many others didnt have that type of success. But "Trying to Love You" just was 100% unradio friendly. I would have never expected them to release that. "Love Will Always Win" I dont think had the label support it needed. But I think if you find the right ballad it can get the "I Would've Loved You Anyway" type affect. Then again its country radio so NOTHING is for sure

i wouldn't call it "country" radio....its supposed to be country radio but half the stuff that i hear on the stations around here def don't sound like country

Radio is not receptive to any females over 30 years old. So Trisha automatically has a strike against her. Also, she isn't Carrie Underwood - so there is another strke against her. They only like Carrie, with a little Taylor sprinkled on top. Just look at the charts from the past year. It's a VERY VERY hard time for women - as a group - for country radio. Ironic, considering Carrie Underwood is the biggest star in the states - in ANY genre - period. And they call her music "country." (While it may not be country, they still play it on "country" radio, so that's who Trisha is competing with.)

I think Trisha needs to just pick the stuff that she does well with on the charts. Up-temp. She's in Love With the Boy, Thinkin' About You, XXX's and OOO's, Perfect Love, Believe Me Baby - ALL were number ones and ALL were up-tempo. In fact, has Trisha ever had a ballad number one besides "How Do I Live?" If she did, I am missing/forgetting it.

Clearly, her radio success is in the up-tempo/mid-tempo stuff. Radio can shut-up. This is just evidence that they (radio) don't even know what THEY like. How, then, could they possibly pick a hit for Trisha? Radio is dumb. If they say Trisha is well known for their ballads, they don't even know their OWN radio history of Trisha hits. Where are their heads in this process? Trisha is known for being a phenomenal vocalist who can sing anything. She doesn't have to release only ballads solely because some radio programmer said it. She can come out with up-tempos even if radio programmers say only Carrie can have up-tempos. (Because, let's face it, that's what the programmers said about HHPOL - "This is a good track, but not for Trisha. I could hear Carrie singing it.") Ignorance.

"Country" radio - right now - is in a BAD BAD place. We can only hope Trisha can get a hit on it - but I won't be surprised if she doesn't get played. The benefit of being on radio is increased sales. But it says NOTHING about what kind of artist you are. Just look at the people getting played right now. They aren't country. They can't sing. They are "safe." Boring. If Trisha makes it back on contemporary radio I will be thrilled - but also shocked. She is too good for it.

I'll not hazard to take an actual guess on what the next single should be just yet, since "HH&POL" is in heavy radio rotation. It's a tad bit early to be considering it, in my humble opinion.


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Trisha's role model Linda Ronstadt wouldn't call what is being played on country radio "country" either. In fact, she says it's all "mall crawler" music.

Anyway, I don't think Trisha was really ever considering what would have made for a great radio single when she was in the process of putting this album together. Nor should she have been. Her first, and really only, priority is to make the best album she possibly can, and do it with the utmost honesty. She doesn't try to second-guess what the audience wants, which is better than what a lot of other people try to do.

Hi everybody!
I agree, that it's almost impossible to foresee, what will do good on the radio.
Doesn't matter too much to me anyways, since they won't play it on German radio (we do not even have such a thing as country radio, and only very very view "countryish" songs make it to our stations). You might enjoy the information, that Carrie Underwood - who seems to be THE in-girl at the moment - is not played on German radio either. The only country ladies most German radio people seem to have heard of are Dolly parton, Tammy Wynette, Shania Twain and Faith Hill (from when she wasn't country at all).
The irony is that Trisha's had lots of good songs that would have fit into more pop-oriented radio programmes. Problem is: with the label "country" hanging round your neck like a millstone, you just can't lift off on any radio programme. I know that some of you guys will hate me for this , but I still wish Trisha would release a pop-version of her album(s) for the non-American market and do some promotion over here. Her last time in Germany was ... 1996? If they don't appreciate her on American Radio, why not go for the rest of the world? It worked for Shania - why not give it a try?
I can also not vote for a new single, since so far I haven't been able to find the bits and pieces of the yet unreleased material. maybe someone could post a link? Or even better: why don't the homepage folks upgrade the music-section with the new album and song snippets? It's still on Jasper county mode - maybe someone forgot to update it with all the HHPOL-advertising? It would seem to be one of the first places where I'd make the songs available.

Here's waiting for the European release of HH&POL
erwin

The label killed Trying To Love You. One minute the promote it next the drop it.

I was torn between Nothin' Bout Memphis and This is Me. Since I've heard 'Me' in full, I'll go with it. I really want to see a Trisha power ballad hit the airwaves.

True but that wasnt radio material AT ALL. They could have went with "Gimme the Good Stuff" "Standing Out In A Crowd" both which would have done better and required less of a push for radio. "Trying to Love You" is a awseome song but awful radio single

Can't comment on the songs until I hear them all. (waiting patiently) As far as HHPOL, country radio in the Boston area has been spinning that single in a large way over the last 4 weeks. This album is going to jump out of the gate in a big way! I hear it at least 3 times a day on 2 different stations, and I don't listen when I'm at work, so this is just in the car! Awesome!
Stay well,
Carrie

I would like to change my vote to "Nothing Bout Memphis"

I, with my inscrutable wisdom (now you know why I don't work in radio ), voted "They Call It Falling For A Reason"--not because of Trisha's little crack down in San Diego about Linda having written it (I know, it was written by Matraca Berg), but because Trisha's vocal inflections on that song somehow are very reminiscent of Linda at her late 70s peak.

Ok I just want to clear up what Trisha said at Humphreys about this song as best as I can remember. She did not say Linda wrote the song. It was something to the effect that if this song was written during Linda's time, it sounded like a song she would sing. Something like that. Sorry I don't remember exactly. But just to set the record straight, Trisha did not say Linda wrote the song.

I would have to choose either between Cowboys are my Weakness or They Call it fallin for a reason. I've seen her perform these twice....... both awesome!!!

maybe later this week after everyone has listened to the album about 500 times we could repost a new poll on the new single!