Robbed hit of the week 4/25/22 - Collin Raye's "Couldn't Last A Moment"...

 

 

"Couldn't Last A Moment" - Collin Raye

from the album Tracks (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43 

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from country music singer Collin Raye, who after racking up a string of 18 top ten hits through the 1990's finally crossed over to Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart (thanks to a changing of rules) with two singles from his 1998 album The Walls Came Down: "Someone That You Used To Know" and "Anyone Else". Raye started the new millennium with an album of covers songs geared for children, Counting Sheep, and a few months later in the spring of 2000 followed with his next country studio album, Tracks. The lead single from the set was the uptempo love song "Couldn't Last A Moment". Written by Jeffrey Steele and Danny Wells, the song has Raye second guessing breaking up with his woman, and pleading on all the ways his life won't go on without her. Produced by Raye with Dann Huff, the result was more Adult Pop than Nashville, which Keith Urban would make bank on...

While "Couldn't Last A Moment" spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard's Country Singles chart, the song stalled a few notches short of the crossover pop Top-40 in June of 2000. Internationally, the single topped the Canadian Country Chart. The Tracks album, released in May of that year, got to #81 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, his last set to make that chart, and #9 on the Country Albums list. 

Three other singles were released from Tracks, but none of them even made the country radio top-40. "Tired Of Loving This Way", a duet with newcomer Bobbie Eakes, a soap opera actress, stopped at #50. That was followed by "She's All That", a boisterous line-dance friendly rocker that deserved better than its #43 peak. Finally, the nostalgic love ballad "You Still Take Me There" crested at #47. 

(6/10)