It's Like We Never Said Goodbye
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"It's Like We Never Said Goodbye" is a song made famous by 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 Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...

.

Historic week

The song was part of a historic week on 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 Singles
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 the week it reached number one. That week, all of the top five positions were held by female singers.

The Top 5 from that week was:
  1. "It's Like We Never Said Goodbye" by Crystal Gayle
  2. "A Lesson in Leavin'" by Dottie West
    Dottie West
    Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

  3. "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again
    Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again
    "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" is a 1980 single written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison and recorded by Debby Boone. The song was Debby Boone's most successful country hit and her only number one. The single stayed at number one for a week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country...

    " by Debby Boone
    Debby Boone
    Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer and stage actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year...

  4. "Beneath Still Waters
    Beneath Still Waters (song)
    "Beneath Still Waters" is a 1970 single written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by Diana Trask. "Beneath Still Waters" was Diana Trask second hit on the country chart, spending two weeks on the country chart, where it peaked at number thirty-eight ....

    " by Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

  5. "Two Story House" by Tammy Wynette
    Tammy Wynette
    Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....

     (duet with George Jones
    George Jones
    George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....

    )

Chart performance

Chart (1980) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 7
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks 17
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 63

See also

  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
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