Shane Minor
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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. Although he was dropped from Mercury's roster in 2000, he has continued to write songs for other artists, including two Number One singles in Diamond Rio
's "Beautiful Mess
" (2002) and Steve Holy
's "Brand New Girlfriend
" (2006).
in the Los Angeles Police Department
, as well as a rodeo
bull rider
. After leaving the police force in 1994, Minor became a singer, working small gigs throughout California, eventually recording a demo tape which was sent to producer Dann Huff
.
Shane was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999. His debut single, "Slave to the Habit" (co-written by Kostas
, Toby Keith
, and Chuck Cannon
), reached number 20 on the Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that same year. In addition, he was signed as an opening act for country pop singer Shania Twain
. The album also produced the top 30 hit "Ordinary Love" and "I Think You're Beautiful". Despite the success of its first two singles, however, the album did not chart on Top Country Albums at all.
Minor left Mercury Nashville in 2000, and has not recorded any albums since. In the 2000s, he found success as a songwriter when Diamond Rio
reached Number One in 2002 with "Beautiful Mess
", a song he co-wrote. Minor also co-wrote several hits for other artists. Among the other hits that Minor co-wrote are "You're in My Head" by Brian McComas
, "She Thinks She Needs Me
" by Andy Griggs
, "Brand New Girlfriend
" by Steve Holy
(also a Number One), "International Harvester
" by Craig Morgan, "Fall" by Clay Walker
(which was also released by Kimberley Locke
), "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)" by Eric Church
and "Live a Little
" by Kenny Chesney
.
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 Mercury Nashville Records in 1999, Minor released his self-titled album
Shane Minor (album)
Shane Minor is the self-titled debut album by country music artist Shane Minor. It contains the singles "Slave to the Habit", "Ordinary Love", and "I Think You're Beautiful", all of which entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts between 1999 and 2000...
that year, and it produced three hit singles 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 & Tracks charts. Although he was dropped from Mercury's roster in 2000, he has continued to write songs for other artists, including two Number One singles in Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson , Jimmy Olander , Brian Prout , Marty Roe , Dan Truman , and Dana Williams...
's "Beautiful Mess
Beautiful Mess
"Beautiful Mess" is the title of a song recorded by the American country music band Diamond Rio. It was co-written by Shane Minor, Clay Mills, and former Exile member Sonny LeMaire, and was the first single from Diamond Rio's 2002 studio album Completely...
" (2002) and Steve Holy
Steve Holy
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...
's "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...
" (2006).
Career
Before his recording career began, Minor was a police officerPolice officer
A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...
in the Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
, as well as a rodeo
Rodeo
Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
bull rider
Bull riding
Bull riding refers to rodeo sports that involve a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck off the rider....
. After leaving the police force in 1994, Minor became a singer, working small gigs throughout California, eventually recording a demo tape which was sent to producer Dann Huff
Dann Huff
Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...
.
Shane was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999. His debut single, "Slave to the Habit" (co-written by Kostas
Kostas
Kostas Lazarides is a Greek-born American country music songwriter, known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists, including Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Travis Tritt, and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated...
, Toby Keith
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
, and Chuck Cannon
Chuck Cannon
Charles Marion "Chuck" Cannon, Jr. is an American country music songwriter. His compositions include hit singles for Toby Keith and John Michael Montgomery. Cannon has also received awards for Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as an Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year...
), reached number 20 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 & Tracks charts that same year. In addition, he was signed as an opening act for country pop singer Shania Twain
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...
. The album also produced the top 30 hit "Ordinary Love" and "I Think You're Beautiful". Despite the success of its first two singles, however, the album did not chart on Top Country Albums at all.
Minor left Mercury Nashville in 2000, and has not recorded any albums since. In the 2000s, he found success as a songwriter when Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson , Jimmy Olander , Brian Prout , Marty Roe , Dan Truman , and Dana Williams...
reached Number One in 2002 with "Beautiful Mess
Beautiful Mess
"Beautiful Mess" is the title of a song recorded by the American country music band Diamond Rio. It was co-written by Shane Minor, Clay Mills, and former Exile member Sonny LeMaire, and was the first single from Diamond Rio's 2002 studio album Completely...
", a song he co-wrote. Minor also co-wrote several hits for other artists. Among the other hits that Minor co-wrote are "You're in My Head" by Brian McComas
Brian McComas
Brian McComas is an American country music artist. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2001, McComas charted two minor singles in 2001 and 2002. A year later, he switched to Lyric Street Records, charting the Top Ten single "99.9% Sure " on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks...
, "She Thinks She Needs Me
She Thinks She Needs Me
"She Thinks She Needs Me" is a song written by Shane Minor, Sonny LeMaire and Clay Mills, and recorded by American country music artist Andy Griggs...
" by Andy Griggs
Andy Griggs
Andrew Tyler "Andy" Griggs is an American country music artist. He has released three albums for RCA Records Nashville and a fourth for Montage Music Group...
, "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...
" by Steve Holy
Steve Holy
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...
(also a Number One), "International Harvester
International Harvester (song)
"International Harvester" is the title of a country music song written by Jeffrey Steele, Shane Minor, and Danny Myrick . The song was recorded by American singer Craig Morgan on his album Little Bit of Life, which was released in 2006 on Broken Bow Records...
" by Craig Morgan, "Fall" by Clay Walker
Clay Walker
Ernest Clayton "Clay" Walker Jr. is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single "What's It to You," which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, as did its follow-up, 1994's "Live Until I Die." Both singles were included on...
(which was also released by Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....
), "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)" by Eric Church
Eric Church
Kenneth Eric Church is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year...
and "Live a Little
Live a Little (song)
"Live a Little" is the title of a song written by David Lee Murphy and Shane Minor, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney. It is the third single from his 2010 album Hemingway's Whiskey, and it was released to radio in March 2011....
" by 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...
.
Studio albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Shane Minor Shane Minor (album) Shane Minor is the self-titled debut album by country music artist Shane Minor. It contains the singles "Slave to the Habit", "Ordinary Love", and "I Think You're Beautiful", all of which entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts between 1999 and 2000... |
|
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... |
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 | "Slave to the Habit Slave to the Habit "Slave to the Habit" is the debut title of a song recorded by American country music artist Shane Minor. It was released in March 1999 as the first single from the album Shane Minor. The song reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 8 on the RPM... " |
20 | 82 | 8 | Shane Minor |
| "Ordinary Love Ordinary Love (Shane Minor song) "Ordinary Love" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist Shane Minor. It was released in 1999 as the second single from the album Shane Minor. The song reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 8 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada... " |
24 | 111 | 8 | ||
| 2000 | "I Think You're Beautiful" | 44 | — | 43 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "Slave to the Habit" | 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:... |
| "Ordinary Love" |