Can’t Be Really Gone, All I Want is a Life, and Maybe We Should Just Sleep On It were all top 5 hits. I Like It, I Love It reached number one on the country charts as the leadoff single, while She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart also went to number one in 1996. The album sold over two million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. Although the album failed to make much of a dent on the charts, McGraw did have two other minor hits from it in 1993, Memory Lane and Two Steppin Mind.Īll I Want, released in 1995, continued his run of success, debuting at number one on the country charts.
Two years later, in 1992, he had his first minor hit Welcome to the Club off his self-titled debut album, Tim McGraw.
Several weeks after he was able to play his tape for Curb executives, they signed him to a recording contract. A man who was friends with Curb Records executives heard the demo while driving with Tug McGraw one day and recommended that Curb contact the young singer. After cutting a demo single, McGraw gave a copy to his father, Tug McGraw. McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1990. He is also a minority owner of the Arena Football League’s Nashville Kats. McGraw has ventured into acting, with a supporting role in the Billy Bob Thornton film, Friday Night Lights, a role in The Kingdom, a lead role in 2006’s Flicka and a supporting role in Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. Ranked as one of the top five in all genres of music, his Soul2Soul II tour with Faith Hill became the highest-grossing tour in country music history. McGraw had eleven consecutive albums to debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts Twenty-one singles to hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country 100 chart three singles named the #1 country song of the year (It’s Your Love, Just To See You Smile, and Live Like You Were Dying) Won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards and 3 People’s Choice Awards. His trademark hit songs include Indian Outlaw, Don’t Take the Girl, I Like It, I Love It, Something Like That, It’s Your Love (featuring his wife, Faith Hill), and Live Like You Were Dying. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw. With many of his albums and singles topping the country music charts, Tim has achieved total album sales in excess of 40 million units.
Samuel Timothy “Tim” McGraw (born in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American country singer and actor.
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