Events
- August — After 36 years of using the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart as the basis of its program, American Country Countdown begins using the Mediabase chart.
- August 10 — Brooks & Dunn announced that they are breaking up in 2010 after 20 years as a duo.
- August 25 — Jack Ingram sets Guinness Book of World Records mark for most consecutive radio interviews in 24 hours, having done 215 consecutive interviews for 5 minutes each.
- September 13 — Taylor Swift becomes the first country music artist to win an MTV Music Video award at the 2009 event, winning a Best Female Video for "You Belong with Me." Hip-hop artist and producer Kanye West interrupts Swift's acceptance speech, saying that another video should have won. This results in a media stir for several days; eventually, West apologizes — first on his blog, and then by personally contacting Swift.
- October 15 -- Garth Brooks announces that he is coming out of retirement to play concerts in Las Vegas. The concerts will be held approximately fifteen weekends per year until the year 2014. His first set of concerts has already sold out.
Read more about this topic: 2009 In Country Music
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)