First Female Country Artist To Have Three Consecutive Multiple-Week #1s
"Stand Beside Me" Tops Billboard's Country Singles For 2nd Week

Nashville (01/28/99) - Jo Dee Messina has done it again! With "Stand Beside Me" spending its second week atop the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, Messina has scored her third consecutive multiple week #1 - and becomes the first woman in country music to ever achieve this feat. "Stand Beside Me" joins "Bye, Bye" and the title track from her nearly-platinum I'm Alright (two and three weeks at #1 respectively) to give the fiery redheaded singer another first!

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"Stand Beside Me" Goes To #1 in Billboard
Moves 9* to 4* to 1* To Become I'm Alright's 3rd Chart-Topper

Nashville (01/15/99) - The girl's on a roll! Country sensation Jo Dee Messina scores the third #1 in-a-row from her nearly-platinum I'm Alright as "Stand Beside Me" leaps from #4 with a bullet to the top of Billboard's Country Singles chart.

Having closed out the year with two of the Top 5 Songs of 1998 - "Bye, Bye" was #2 most played, "I'm Alright" was #4 - according to Billboard, and having set and tied her own record for most weeks in the Top 30, Messina continues connecting with country music fans in a meaningful way.

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By Wade Jessen

Leavin’ on your mind: Her sassy kiss-off song “Bye, Bye” has Jo Dee Messina knee-deep in bullets on five Billboard charts, including Top Country Albums, where I’m Alright bows at No. 8 as Hot Shot Debut with more than 15,000 scans, while entering The Billboard 200 at No. 79. Up more than 4,000 unites, the aforementioned lead single from that set also has the heftiest increase on Top Country Singles Sales, where it bullets at No. 3.

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