Carolyn Dawn Johnson
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Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canadian
Juno Award
winning country music
singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright
's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female
," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
chart in September 1999. In 2000, Johnson signed with Arista Nashville
and, in 2001, released her debut album, Room with a View
.
The album's first two singles ("Georgia" and "Complicated") were both No. 1 hits on the Canadian country music charts, and the latter was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
) charts. Although her next single ("I Don't Want You to Go") was also a Top Ten in the U.S., her chart success there would wane not long afterward, though she has had continued success in her native Canada. After a three year hiatus, Johnson returned with the single "Let Me Introduce Myself", the lead single to her fourth album, Love Rules, released in 2010.
to John Johnson, a farmer and operator of a seed-cleaning business, and Loretta Johnson, a supervisor of a home for senior citizens. Johnson was raised on a farm in Deadwood, Alberta
with two brothers, late older brother Derwin, who died due to an undisclosed illness on Christmas Eve in 1998, and brother Greg.
Johnson was passionate about music from a young age and even asked her mother how anyone could live without it. She sang at a church and started playing the piano at the age of five, learning from her pastor's wife, Evangeline Thiessan. Her parents played country music records by Jim Reeves
and Don Williams
at home and as she got older, her musical interests diversified as she listened to artists like ABBA
, Charley Pride
, Fleetwood Mac
and Marty Stuart
among others. The family later moved to Westlock, Alberta
and Johnson attended RF Staples High School there. During her high school years, she learned to play the clarinet, flute and saxophone. She kept up her piano lessons largely in part due to Thiessan sending books and encouraging letters to her. Her high school teachers were not as encouraging and caused her to turn away from music for a while and turn to science, a period in her life which she called "a stain in her heart".
After graduating high school, believing that she could not make a living as a musician, Johnson attended Trinity Western University
in Langley
, British Columbia
studying biology and a year later she was in Edmonton
, Alberta
studying education. During her college years, she frequently sat-in with local bands at night and encouragement from them caused her to think that maybe she could have a career in the music industry. At the age of 20, she taught herself to play the guitar
and realizing that her true calling was in music, she went to Vancouver
, British Columbia
and there she attended Columbia Academy and learned the technical aspects of the music industry. Johnson focussed on songwriting in her spare time and ordered a video featuring songwriters from Nashville
to learn more about songwriting and through this video, she joined the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
In 1994, Johnson headed to Nashville after calling her mother and saying, "I'm going big. I'm going for the big picture."
, Suzy Bogguss
, Kathy Mattea
, Mindy McCready
, Jo Dee Messina
, Linda Davis
and Chely Wright
. Johnson's breakthrough as a songwriter came in 1999 when "Single White Female
", a song she co-wrote with Shaye Smith and recorded by Wright, became a number one hit on country radio. This song became Johnson's first number one hit as a songwriter. Another one of her songs, "Downtime", recorded by Messina, also became a top five hit. In 2000, Johnson was named "Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year" by Music Row Magazine.
record label. Paul Worley
, a producer with whom Johnson was working, was also working with Martina McBride
at that time and asked Johnson to sing background vocals on McBride's songs. McBride subsequently invited Johnson to go on tour with her as a backup singer and guitarist. Johnson toured with McBride for over a year and during this time she was also hard at work writing songs for her debut album.
, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire
and Jamie O'Neal
. Later that year, Johnson released her debut album Room with a View
in Canada. She co-wrote all 13 songs and co-produced the album. An American release of the album followed a few months later, though only containing the first 11 songs due to differences in the contracts. The album was well-received as it sold a little less than 18,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #8 on the US country sales chart. It became Arista Nashville's highest debuting album by a new artist since SoundScan
was used to track record sales. The album went on to be certified gold in Canada in a few months.
The first two singles from the album, "Georgia" and "Complicated", were both hits in the United States, with the latter reaching #5 on the country charts. The year ended with Johnson receiving a record-breaking 10 nominations from the Canadian Country Music Association
, with "Georgia" and "Complicated" competing against each other for "Single of the Year", "Song of the Year" and "Video of the Year". Johnson went on to win five awards, including her first "Female Artist of the Year" award.
Johnson went on tour with Alan Jackson
and Kenny Chesney
in 2002. Her next single, "I Don't Want You to Go", was a top 10 hit in both Canada and the US. Subsequent singles did well on the Canadian charts but not on the American charts. Johnson was nominated for five CCMA awards that year and won three, including her second consecutive "Female Artist of the Year". She also won a Juno award
for "Best Country Artist" and an Academy of Country Music
award for
"Top New Female Artist" that year.
In 2003, Johnson went on her first co-headlining tour with Keith Urban
. While on tour, she was once again writing songs, this time for her second album. Urban provided his voice for a song on that album.
, in which she co-produced and wrote 11 of the 12 songs. The album debuted at number nine on Billboard's top country albums charts. The first single from the album, "Simple Life", did well on both the Canadian and the American country charts. This was the only song on the album that she did not write. The second single, "Die of a Broken Heart", also did well on the Canadian country charts but not on the American charts. Later that year, she received seven CCMA award nominations and won five awards.
Johnson left Arista Nashville in 2005 because "what they wanted her to do wasn't her."
, Johnson's 3rd album, was released in Canada under the Angeline Entertainment
label in 2006. As with her first album, she wrote all 12 songs, but this time she produced the entire album by herself. The album was originally scheduled to be released in the United States in mid-2007 by Equity Music Group
but was delayed and Johnson exited Equity in 2008. In September 2007, Johnson was named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2007 CCMA Awards. Love & Negotiation was eventually released in the United States
digitally through Dancing Lily Music on October 13, 2009 with different artwork.
, which was released digitally in the United States on July 21, 2010 and in Canada on August 10, 2010 via Dancing Lily Music. The album is produced by Johnson and Frank Rogers and features 12 new songs. 'Love Rules' was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards
^ "Georgia" reached number 6 on Canadian RPM Country Singles when RPM ceased publication.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
Juno Award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
winning country music
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...
singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright
Chely Wright
Richell Rene "Chely" Wright is an American country music artist and, starting in 2010, gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive"...
's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female
Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 American erotic thriller based on John Lutz's novel SWF Seeks Same. The film stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh and is directed by Barbet Schroeder.-Plot:...
," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
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...
chart in September 1999. In 2000, Johnson signed with Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division. Founded in 1989, the label specializes in country music artists, including Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood...
and, in 2001, released her debut album, Room with a View
Room with a View (album)
Room with a View is the debut album of Canadian country music artist Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on August 7, 2001 on Arista Nashville. Certified gold by the CRIA, it produced two consecutive Number One hits for Johnson on the Canadian country singles charts in "Georgia" and...
.
The album's first two singles ("Georgia" and "Complicated") were both No. 1 hits on the Canadian country music charts, and the latter was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. 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 Singles & Tracks (now 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. Although her next single ("I Don't Want You to Go") was also a Top Ten in the U.S., her chart success there would wane not long afterward, though she has had continued success in her native Canada. After a three year hiatus, Johnson returned with the single "Let Me Introduce Myself", the lead single to her fourth album, Love Rules, released in 2010.
Early life and music
Carolyn Dawn Johnson was born in Grande Prairie, AlbertaAlberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
to John Johnson, a farmer and operator of a seed-cleaning business, and Loretta Johnson, a supervisor of a home for senior citizens. Johnson was raised on a farm in Deadwood, Alberta
Deadwood, Alberta
Deadwood is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within the County of Northern Lights. It is located on Highway 690, approximately east of the Mackenzie Highway , north of Peace River and southeast of Manning.- History :...
with two brothers, late older brother Derwin, who died due to an undisclosed illness on Christmas Eve in 1998, and brother Greg.
Johnson was passionate about music from a young age and even asked her mother how anyone could live without it. She sang at a church and started playing the piano at the age of five, learning from her pastor's wife, Evangeline Thiessan. Her parents played country music records by Jim Reeves
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...
and Don Williams
Don Williams
Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...
at home and as she got older, her musical interests diversified as she listened to artists like ABBA
ABBA
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
, Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...
, Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...
and Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart
John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...
among others. The family later moved to Westlock, Alberta
Westlock, Alberta
Westlock is a town in central Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1913, the town is primarily an agricultural, business, and government administration centre serving communities and rural areas within surrounding Westlock County.- Geography :...
and Johnson attended RF Staples High School there. During her high school years, she learned to play the clarinet, flute and saxophone. She kept up her piano lessons largely in part due to Thiessan sending books and encouraging letters to her. Her high school teachers were not as encouraging and caused her to turn away from music for a while and turn to science, a period in her life which she called "a stain in her heart".
After graduating high school, believing that she could not make a living as a musician, Johnson attended Trinity Western University
Trinity Western University
Trinity Western University is a private, Christian liberal arts university located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.The school was founded in 1962 as Trinity Junior College, and now enrolls approximately 4000 students and sits on a campus....
in Langley
Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the U.S. border, and west of the City of Abbotsford...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
studying biology and a year later she was in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
studying education. During her college years, she frequently sat-in with local bands at night and encouragement from them caused her to think that maybe she could have a career in the music industry. At the age of 20, she taught herself to play the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and realizing that her true calling was in music, she went to Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
and there she attended Columbia Academy and learned the technical aspects of the music industry. Johnson focussed on songwriting in her spare time and ordered a video featuring songwriters from Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
to learn more about songwriting and through this video, she joined the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
In 1994, Johnson headed to Nashville after calling her mother and saying, "I'm going big. I'm going for the big picture."
Songwriting career
In Nashville, Johnson attended songwriting workshops and writer's night events. In 1997, Johnson moved permanently to Nashville after obtaining a work visa and later that year, she signed with Patrick Joseph Music as a songwriter. Her songwriting demos captured the attention of many record label executives and some of the songs she wrote were recorded by Patty LovelessPatty Loveless
Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...
, Suzy Bogguss
Suzy Bogguss
Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss is an American country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.After...
, Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
, Mindy McCready
Mindy McCready
Melinda Gayle "Mindy" McCready is an American country music singer. Active since 1996, she has recorded a total of five studio albums. Her debut album, 1996's Ten Thousand Angels, was released on BNA Records and was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, while 1997's If I Don't Stay the...
, Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two...
, Linda Davis
Linda Davis
Linda Kaye Davis is an American country music singer. Before beginning a career as a solo artist, she charted three minor country singles as one half of the duo Skip & Linda. In her solo career, Davis has recorded five major-label studio albums and more than 15 singles...
and Chely Wright
Chely Wright
Richell Rene "Chely" Wright is an American country music artist and, starting in 2010, gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive"...
. Johnson's breakthrough as a songwriter came in 1999 when "Single White Female
Single White Female (song)
"Single White Female" is the title of a song written by Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Shaye Smith, and recorded by American country music artist Chely Wright. The song is her highest-charting single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
", a song she co-wrote with Shaye Smith and recorded by Wright, became a number one hit on country radio. This song became Johnson's first number one hit as a songwriter. Another one of her songs, "Downtime", recorded by Messina, also became a top five hit. In 2000, Johnson was named "Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year" by Music Row Magazine.
Singing and recording career
In 1999, Johnson started her career as a solo artist. Her success as a songwriter led her to a record deal with the Arista NashvilleArista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
record label. Paul Worley
Paul Worley
Paul Worley is an American record producer and session guitarist, known primarily for his work in country music. Formerly a vice president at Sony BMG, he later joined the staff of Warner Bros. Records' Nashville division as chief creative officer...
, a producer with whom Johnson was working, was also working with Martina McBride
Martina McBride
Martina McBride is an American country music singer and songwriter. McBride has been called the "Céline Dion of Country Music" for her big-voiced ballads and soprano range....
at that time and asked Johnson to sing background vocals on McBride's songs. McBride subsequently invited Johnson to go on tour with her as a backup singer and guitarist. Johnson toured with McBride for over a year and during this time she was also hard at work writing songs for her debut album.
Room with a View
In 2001, Johnson went on the Girls Night Out Tour opening for high-profile stars Sara EvansSara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans is an American country singer and songwriter.Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has made five No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by...
, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
and Jamie O'Neal
Jamie O'Neal
Jamie O'Neal is a contemporary country singer and songwriter who has had success in the United States. She was born Jamie Murphy in Sydney, Australia, to parents Jimmy and Julie Murphy, who were also professional musicians...
. Later that year, Johnson released her debut album Room with a View
Room with a View (album)
Room with a View is the debut album of Canadian country music artist Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on August 7, 2001 on Arista Nashville. Certified gold by the CRIA, it produced two consecutive Number One hits for Johnson on the Canadian country singles charts in "Georgia" and...
in Canada. She co-wrote all 13 songs and co-produced the album. An American release of the album followed a few months later, though only containing the first 11 songs due to differences in the contracts. The album was well-received as it sold a little less than 18,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #8 on the US country sales chart. It became Arista Nashville's highest debuting album by a new artist since 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...
was used to track record sales. The album went on to be certified gold in Canada in a few months.
The first two singles from the album, "Georgia" and "Complicated", were both hits in the United States, with the latter reaching #5 on the country charts. The year ended with Johnson receiving a record-breaking 10 nominations from the Canadian Country Music Association
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The association changed its name to the Canadian Country Music Association in 1987.-Awards:The CCMA held the first Canadian...
, with "Georgia" and "Complicated" competing against each other for "Single of the Year", "Song of the Year" and "Video of the Year". Johnson went on to win five awards, including her first "Female Artist of the Year" award.
Johnson went on tour with Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...
and Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney
Kenneth "Kenny" Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 15 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S...
in 2002. Her next single, "I Don't Want You to Go", was a top 10 hit in both Canada and the US. Subsequent singles did well on the Canadian charts but not on the American charts. Johnson was nominated for five CCMA awards that year and won three, including her second consecutive "Female Artist of the Year". She also won a Juno award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
for "Best Country Artist" and an Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
award for
"Top New Female Artist" that year.
In 2003, Johnson went on her first co-headlining tour with Keith Urban
Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
. While on tour, she was once again writing songs, this time for her second album. Urban provided his voice for a song on that album.
Dress Rehearsal
In 2004, Johnson released her second album, Dress RehearsalDress Rehearsal (Carolyn Dawn Johnson album)
Dress Rehearsal is the second studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on May 4, 2004 on Arista Nashville. It produced the singles "Simple Life" and "Die of a Broken Heart" in the U.S., which respectively reached #13 and #52 on the Hot Country...
, in which she co-produced and wrote 11 of the 12 songs. The album debuted at number nine on Billboard's top country albums charts. The first single from the album, "Simple Life", did well on both the Canadian and the American country charts. This was the only song on the album that she did not write. The second single, "Die of a Broken Heart", also did well on the Canadian country charts but not on the American charts. Later that year, she received seven CCMA award nominations and won five awards.
Johnson left Arista Nashville in 2005 because "what they wanted her to do wasn't her."
Love & Negotiation
Love & NegotiationLove & Negotiation
Love & Negotiation is the third studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It was released on June 7, 2006 by Angeline Entertainment in Canada. In addition, it was originally scheduled to be released in the United States in mid-2007 by Equity Music Group but was...
, Johnson's 3rd album, was released in Canada under the Angeline Entertainment
Angeline Entertainment
Angeline Entertainment, in association with Universal Music Group, is a Canadian record label and marketing consultation company established in 2006 and distributed through Fontana Distribution. Angeline's founder is Jill Snell who has been in the Canadian label business since 1989...
label in 2006. As with her first album, she wrote all 12 songs, but this time she produced the entire album by herself. The album was originally scheduled to be released in the United States in mid-2007 by Equity Music Group
Equity Music Group
Equity Music Group was an American country music record label founded in 2003 by singer Clint Black. The label was distributed by Koch Entertainment ....
but was delayed and Johnson exited Equity in 2008. In September 2007, Johnson was named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2007 CCMA Awards. Love & Negotiation was eventually released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
digitally through Dancing Lily Music on October 13, 2009 with different artwork.
Love Rules
In 2010, Johnson released the first single from her upcoming studio album. The single, "Let Me Introduce Myself", is included on her fourth studio album, Love RulesLove Rules (album)
Love Rules is the fourth studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson. The album was released through iTunes in the United States on July 21, 2010...
, which was released digitally in the United States on July 21, 2010 and in Canada on August 10, 2010 via Dancing Lily Music. The album is produced by Johnson and Frank Rogers and features 12 new songs. 'Love Rules' was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards
Personal
Johnson has been married to Matt Fisher since 2003. The couple welcomed a daughter, Abigail Grace Fisher, on September 16, 2008. The couple's second child, son Bennett Derwin Fisher, was born February 3, 2010.Studio albums
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| Room with a View Room with a View (album) Room with a View is the debut album of Canadian country music artist Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on August 7, 2001 on Arista Nashville. Certified gold by the CRIA, it produced two consecutive Number One hits for Johnson on the Canadian country singles charts in "Georgia" and... |
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| Love & Negotiation Love & Negotiation Love & Negotiation is the third studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It was released on June 7, 2006 by Angeline Entertainment in Canada. In addition, it was originally scheduled to be released in the United States in mid-2007 by Equity Music Group but was... |
Angeline Entertainment Angeline Entertainment, in association with Universal Music Group, is a Canadian record label and marketing consultation company established in 2006 and distributed through Fontana Distribution. Angeline's founder is Jill Snell who has been in the Canadian label business since 1989... /Equity Music Group Equity Music Group Equity Music Group was an American country music record label founded in 2003 by singer Clint Black. The label was distributed by Koch Entertainment .... |
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| Love Rules Love Rules (album) Love Rules is the fourth studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson. The album was released through iTunes in the United States on July 21, 2010... |
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2000s
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| 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 AC |
US Adult |
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| 2000 | "Georgia Georgia (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song) "Georgia" is the debut single co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It was released in September 2000 as the lead single from her album Room with a View. The song peaked at number 25 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks and number 98 on the Billboard... "[A] |
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| 2001 | "Complicated Complicated (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song) "Complicated" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It was released in April 2001 the second single from her 2001 debut album Room with a View. The song was also her second entry on two U.S... " |
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| "I Don't Want You to Go I Don't Want You to Go "I Don't Want You to Go" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It is the third single from her 2001 debut album Room with a View. The song was also her third entry on two U.S... " |
7 | 54 | — | — | |||||
| 2002 | "You Are" | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "One Day Closer to You" | 24 | — | — | — | |||||
| 2003 | "Just Another Girl" | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Simple Life Simple Life (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song) "I Don't Want You to Go" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It is the third single from her second album Dress Rehearsal. The song was also her fifth entry on two U.S. singles charts, peaking at number 13 on Billboard Hot Country... " |
13 | 73 | — | — | Dress Rehearsal | ||||
| 2004 | "Die of a Broken Heart" | 52 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Head Over High Heels" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 2005 | "Dress Rehearsal" | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2006 | "Crybaby" | — | — | — | — | Love & Negotiation | |||
| "Love & Negotiation" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Taking Back My Brave" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 2007 | "Got a Good Day" | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Into You" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
2010s
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
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| 2010 | "Let Me Introduce Myself" | 98 | Love Rules | ||||||
| "The Whole Thing" | — | ||||||||
| 2011 | "Stop for Me" | — | |||||||
| "I'd Still Have You" | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Featured singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Peak 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... |
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| 2001 | "America the Beautiful America the Beautiful "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.... " |
Various | 58 | Non-album song |
^ "Georgia" reached number 6 on Canadian RPM Country Singles when RPM ceased publication.
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "Georgia" | Brent Hedgecock |
| 2001 | "Complicated" | Lisa Mann |
| 2002 | "I Don't Want You to Go" | |
| "You Are" | ||
| 2004 | "Simple Life" | Steven Goldmann Steven Goldmann Steven Goldmann is a Canadian music video and film director. He has directed over 200 music videos. Goldmann also directed the movies Broken Bridges and Trailer Park of Terror, and has additionally directed several television programs.-1990-1999:... |
| 2005 | "Dress Rehearsal" | Margaret Malandruccolo |
| 2006 | "Crybaby" | |
| 2007 | "Into You" | |
| "I Wouldn't Want Christmas (Any Other Way)" | ||
| 2010 | "The Whole Thing" | |
| 2011 | "Stop for Me" (from XM Sessions) | Steve J Murphy |
Singles written by Johnson
| Year | Title | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "I'm Yours" | Linda Davis Linda Davis Linda Kaye Davis is an American country music singer. Before beginning a career as a solo artist, she charted three minor country singles as one half of the duo Skip & Linda. In her solo career, Davis has recorded five major-label studio albums and more than 15 singles... |
| "Single White Female Single White Female (song) "Single White Female" is the title of a song written by Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Shaye Smith, and recorded by American country music artist Chely Wright. The song is her highest-charting single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts... " |
Chely Wright Chely Wright Richell Rene "Chely" Wright is an American country music artist and, starting in 2010, gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive"... |
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| "After a Kiss" | Pam Tillis Pam Tillis Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis.... |
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| "Squeezin' the Love Outta You" | Redmon and Vale | |
| 2001 | "Downtime" | Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two... |
Awards
| Year | Organization | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Canadian Country Music Association Canadian Country Music Association The Canadian Country Music Association was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The association changed its name to the Canadian Country Music Association in 1987.-Awards:The CCMA held the first Canadian... |
Female Artist of the Year |
| SOCAN Song of the Year ("Complicated") | ||
| Single of the Year ("Complicated") | ||
| Album of the Year (Room with a View) | ||
| Chevy Trucks Rising Star Award | ||
| 2002 | Academy of Country Music Academy of Country Music The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the... |
Top New Female Vocalist |
| Juno Award Juno Award The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music... |
Best Country Artist/Group | |
| Canadian Country Music Association | Female Artist of the Year | |
| Single of the Year ("I Don't Want You to Go") | ||
| CMT Video of the Year ("I Don't Want You to Go") | ||
| 2004 | SOCAN Song of the Year ("Die of a Broken Heart") | |
| Single of the Year ("Simple Life") | ||
| Album of the Year (Dress Rehearsal) | ||
| CMT Video of the Year ("Simple Life") | ||
| 2006 | Female Artist of the Year | |
| 2007 | Female Artist of the Year |
External links
- CarolynDawnJohnson.com – official website