Steve Holy
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Steve Holy is an American country music
artist. Signed to Curb Records
since 1999, he has released three studio albums: 2000's Blue Moon 2006's Brand New Girlfriend and 2011's Love Don't Run
. Fifteen of his singles have entered the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts, including the Number One hits "Good Morning Beautiful" (which was featured in the movie Angel Eyes
) and "Brand New Girlfriend
".
as the youngest of eight children. He entered a local competition called the Mesquite Opry at age nineteen. While there, he caught the attention of Wilbur Rimes, the father of country singer LeAnn Rimes
. By 1999, Holy was signed to Curb Records
.
country charts in 2000. By October of that year, Holy's debut album, Blue Moon, was released. Its second and third singles, which were the title track and "The Hunger", respectively, both reached #24 on the country charts. The album sold poorly, and many record stores began returning copies to the label.
Late in 2001, Holy reached Number One for the first time with "Good Morning Beautiful," a selection from the soundtrack to the film Angel Eyes
. This song spent five weeks at Number One on the country charts and reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100
.
In 2005, Holy released "Brand New Girlfriend
," co-written by Jeffrey Steele
, Shane Minor
and Bart Allmand. This song became Holy's second Number One on the country charts, reaching the top of the charts in its thirty-sixth week and setting a record for the slowest climb to Number One on that chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan
in 1990. (This record was broken one year later by Tracy Lawrence
, whose "Find Out Who Your Friends Are
" reached Number One in its forty-first chart week.) "Brand New Girlfriend" was the lead-off single to Holy's second studio album, also entitled Brand New Girlfriend. This album also produced the lesser Top 40 country hits "Come On Rain" and "Men Buy the Drinks (Girls Call the Shots)" at #35 and #38. Also included on the album were a cover version
of Hank Williams, Jr.
's "All for the Love of Sunshine
" and a song co-written by United States Senator Orrin Hatch
.
A thirteenth single, "Might Have Been", was released in mid-2008 and on the chart week of December 27, 2008 debuted at #60 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
." The song becamse his first Top 20 hit on the country charts since "Brand New Girlfriend" in 2006. Holy's third studio album, also entitled Love Don't Run
, was released on September 13, 2011.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist. Signed to Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
since 1999, he has released three studio albums: 2000's Blue Moon 2006's Brand New Girlfriend and 2011's Love Don't Run
Love Don't Run
-Album:-Singles:*ATo be released December 5, 2011....
. Fifteen of his singles have entered the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts, including the Number One hits "Good Morning Beautiful" (which was featured in the movie Angel Eyes
Angel Eyes (film)
Angel Eyes is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. The original music score was composed by Marco Beltrami and features Jennifer Lopez, James Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto, and Terrence Howard. Lopez's performance in the film earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress.-Plot:The...
) and "Brand New Girlfriend
Brand New Girlfriend (song)
"Brand New Girlfriend" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Steve Holy. The song, which took 36 weeks to reach #1, set a record for the slowest climb to #1 by a country single since Billboard started using Nielsen SoundScan data in 1990. The record has since been broken...
".
Early life
Steve Holy was born February 23, 1972 in Dallas, TexasDallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
as the youngest of eight children. He entered a local competition called the Mesquite Opry at age nineteen. While there, he caught the attention of Wilbur Rimes, the father of country singer LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
. By 1999, Holy was signed to Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
.
2000–2001: Blue Moon
His first single for the label, "Don't Make Me Beg", peaked at #29 on the BillboardBillboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
country charts in 2000. By October of that year, Holy's debut album, Blue Moon, was released. Its second and third singles, which were the title track and "The Hunger", respectively, both reached #24 on the country charts. The album sold poorly, and many record stores began returning copies to the label.
Late in 2001, Holy reached Number One for the first time with "Good Morning Beautiful," a selection from the soundtrack to the film Angel Eyes
Angel Eyes (film)
Angel Eyes is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. The original music score was composed by Marco Beltrami and features Jennifer Lopez, James Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto, and Terrence Howard. Lopez's performance in the film earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress.-Plot:The...
. This song spent five weeks at Number One on the country charts and reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
.
2002–2010: Non-album singles and Brand New Girlfriend
Holy released his fifth single, "I'm Not Breakin'," in late 2002. This song peaked at #27 on the country music charts. This was followed by four more singles over the next two years: "Rock-a-Bye Heart" at #37 in 2003, "Put Your Best Dress On" at #26 in 2004, "Go Home" and "It's My Time (Waste It If I Want To)" at #49 and #59, respectively, in 2005. None of these five singles was included on a studio album.In 2005, Holy released "Brand New Girlfriend
Brand New Girlfriend (song)
"Brand New Girlfriend" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Steve Holy. The song, which took 36 weeks to reach #1, set a record for the slowest climb to #1 by a country single since Billboard started using Nielsen SoundScan data in 1990. The record has since been broken...
," co-written by Jeffrey Steele
Jeffrey Steele
Jeffrey LeVasseur is an American country music singer and songwriter, more commonly known by the name Jeffrey Steele...
, Shane Minor
Shane Minor
Shane Allen Minor is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999, Minor released his self-titled album that year, and it produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
and Bart Allmand. This song became Holy's second Number One on the country charts, reaching the top of the charts in its thirty-sixth week and setting a record for the slowest climb to Number One on that chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
in 1990. (This record was broken one year later by Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music...
, whose "Find Out Who Your Friends Are
Find out Who Your Friends Are
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are" is the title of a song written by Casey Beathard and Ed Hill, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was the lead-off single for his album For the Love, which was released in early 2007 on Rocky Comfort Records, a label which Lawrence owns...
" reached Number One in its forty-first chart week.) "Brand New Girlfriend" was the lead-off single to Holy's second studio album, also entitled Brand New Girlfriend. This album also produced the lesser Top 40 country hits "Come On Rain" and "Men Buy the Drinks (Girls Call the Shots)" at #35 and #38. Also included on the album were a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.
Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
's "All for the Love of Sunshine
All for the Love of Sunshine
"All for the Love of Sunshine" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams Jr.. Written by music executive Mike Curb , the song became Williams' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in September 1970. Williams was backed by the The...
" and a song co-written by United States Senator Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch is the senior United States Senator for Utah and is a member of the Republican Party. Hatch served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1993 to 2005...
.
A thirteenth single, "Might Have Been", was released in mid-2008 and on the chart week of December 27, 2008 debuted at #60 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
2011–present: Love Don't Run
In February 2011, Holy released "Love Don't RunLove Don't Run (song)
"Love Don't Run" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Steve Holy. It is the fifteenth single of his career, and was released in January 2011 as the first from his third studio album for Curb Records, also entitled Love Don't Run.-History:Rachel Thibodeau told Taste of...
." The song becamse his first Top 20 hit on the country charts since "Brand New Girlfriend" in 2006. Holy's third studio album, also entitled Love Don't Run
Love Don't Run
-Album:-Singles:*ATo be released December 5, 2011....
, was released on September 13, 2011.
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country |
US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
US Heat Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
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| Blue Moon |
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7 | 63 | 1 |
| Brand New Girlfriend |
Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
2 | 19 | — |
| Love Don't Run Love Don't Run -Album:-Singles:*ATo be released December 5, 2011.... |
|
30 | 135 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Pop Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
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| 1999 | "Don't Make Me Beg" | 29 | — | — | 36 | Blue Moon |
| 2000 | "Blue Moon" | 24 | 120 | — | 47 | |
| 2001 | "The Hunger" | 24 | — | — | * | |
| "Good Morning Beautiful" | 1 | 29 | — | * | ||
| 2002 | "I'm Not Breakin'" | 27 | — | — | * | non-album singles |
| 2003 | "Rock-a-Bye Heart" | 37 | — | — | * | |
| 2004 | "Put Your Best Dress On" | 26 | — | — | * | |
| 2005 | "Go Home" | 49 | — | — | * | |
| "It's My Time (Waste It If I Want To)" | 59 | — | — | * | ||
| 2006 | "Brand New Girlfriend Brand New Girlfriend (song) "Brand New Girlfriend" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Steve Holy. The song, which took 36 weeks to reach #1, set a record for the slowest climb to #1 by a country single since Billboard started using Nielsen SoundScan data in 1990. The record has since been broken... " |
1 | 40 | 60 | * | Brand New Girlfriend |
| "Come On Rain" | 35 | — | — | * | ||
| 2007 | "Men Buy the Drinks (Girls Call the Shots)" | 38 | — | — | * | |
| 2008 | "Might Have Been" | 56 | — | — | * | non-album singles |
| 2009 | "Baby Don't Go" | — | — | — | * | |
| 2011 | "Love Don't Run Love Don't Run (song) "Love Don't Run" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Steve Holy. It is the fifteenth single of his career, and was released in January 2011 as the first from his third studio album for Curb Records, also entitled Love Don't Run.-History:Rachel Thibodeau told Taste of... " |
19 | 78 | — | * | Love Don't Run |
| "Until the Rain Stops"A | — | * | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart * denotes unknown peak positions |
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- A To be released December 5, 2011.
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "Don't Make Me Beg" | Sherman Halsey Sherman Halsey Sherman Halsey is an American music video and television director, producer, and artist manager. Sherman Halsey has produced and directed hundreds of television shows and music videos for artists such as Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, BB King, Michael Bolton, Dwight Yoakam, and many... |
| 2000 | "Blue Moon" | |
| "The Hunger" | Chris Rogers | |
| 2001 | "Good Morning Beautiful" | David Abbott |
| 2003 | "Rock-a-Bye Heart" | |
| 2004 | "Put Your Best Dress On" | |
| 2006 | "Brand New Girlfriend" | Eric Welch |
| 2011 | "Love Don't Run" |