"He's a Heartache" is a name of a 1983 popular 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...

 song by country artist

Artist

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 Janie Fricke

Janie Fricke

Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....

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"He's a Heartache" was Janie Fricke's third number one on the country chart. Overall in her career, she scored 8 No. 1 hits. The song was introduced to the public in 1983, along with a couple other hits that went to #1, like the song "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy

It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy

"It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy" is a 1982 single written by Mark Gray, Les Taylor, and Shawna Harrington-Burkhart and recorded by Janie Fricke. "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy" was Janie Fricke's second number one on the country chart as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a...

". Soon after it was released, "He's a Heartache" went to the #1 spot. The song was one of many Countrypolitan songs Fricke recorded and became successful with during her career.

The book Country Music: The Rough Guide quoted Fricke singing "He's a Heartache" as sounding like "an annoyingly peppy arobics instructor."

Chart performance

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1