  Country superstar Tim McGraw was
born May 1, 1967 in Louisiana. Tim is the son
of baseball player Tug McGraw and originally
pursued sports with scholarships to college
before heading toward country music. Tim
signed with Curb Records in 1990.
Tim released his first single
"Welcome To The Club."
 Tim released his debut LP - Tim
McGraw and hit the country charts with
"Memory Lane" and "Two
Steppin' Mind."
 # 116
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim released Not
A Moment Too Soon.
Tim hit the Top 40 with "Indian Outlaw."
 Not
A Moment Too Soon topped the Billboard
Country LP charts for 29 weeks.
The single "Indian Outlaw" was certified
gold.
Tim hit the pop charts with
"Don't Take The Girl."
Tim topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 2 weeks with "Don't Take The Girl."
Not
A Moment Too Soon topped the Billboard
LP charts for 2 weeks.
Not
A Moment Too Soon was certified 2x
platinum.
The single "Don't Take The Girl" was certified
gold.
Not
A Moment Too Soon was certified 3x
platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top New Country
Artist and Top Country Album (Not
A Moment Too Soon).
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 2 weeks with "Not A
Moment Too Soon."
Tim won an American Music
Awards for Favorite Country New Artist
and was nominated for Favorite Country Single
("Indian Outlaw").
Not
A Moment Too Soon was certified 4x
platinum.
 Tim released All
I Want.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 5 weeks and the Country
Singles Sales chart for 19 weeks with "I
Like It, I Love It."
All
I Want topped the Billboard Country LP
charts for 3 weeks.
All
I Want was certified 2x platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for 2 weeks with
"She Never Lets It Go To Her
Heart."
Tim married fellow country
superstar, Faith Hill.
 # 195
Singles Artist of the Year
Not
A Moment Too Soon was certified 5x
platinum.
Tim was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Hope:
Country Music's Quest For A Cure" with Faith Hill, Vince Gill,
, Trisha Yearwood, Lorrie
Morgan, Marty Stuart,
Little Texas, Tracy
Lawrence, Terri Clark,
Neal McCoy, Travis
Tritt & John Berry).
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles Sales chart for 12 weeks with Faith Hill on
"It's Your Love."
 Tim released Everywhere.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 6 weeks with Faith Hill on "It's Your
Love."
Everywhere topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart for 11 weeks.
"It's Your Love" hit
the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100.
 The single "It's Your
Love" was certified gold.
Tim won a Country Music
Association Award for Vocal Event of the Year
("It's Your Love" with Faith Hill).
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 2 weeks with
"Everywhere."
Everywhere was certified 2x
platinum.
McGraw topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Country
Singles & Tracks ("It's Your
Love").
 # 177
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles chart for 6 weeks
with "Just To See You Smile."
Tim was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Album (Everywhere).
Tim was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country
Collaboration and Best Country Song
(songwriter) ("It's Your Love" with
Faith Hill)
Tim took home some Academy of
Country Music Awards with his wife Faith Hill including
Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Video
of the Year, and Vocal Event of the Year
("It's Your Love").
Everywhere was certified 3x
platinum.
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles chart for 4 weeks
with "Where The Green Grass Grows."
Tim topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Country
Single & Track ("Just To See You
Smile").
 # 109
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite
Country Male Artist.
Tim was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration ("Just To Hear You Say
That You Love Me" with Faith Hill).
 Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 5 weeks with "Please
Remember Me."
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles Sales chart for 13 weeks with
"Please Remember Me / For A Little
While."
 Tim released Place
In The Sun.
Place
In The Sun topped the Billboard 200 Albums
chart for a week and the Country Albums chart
for 2 weeks.
Place
In The Sun was certified platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 5 weeks with
"Something Like That."
Tim won 2 Country Music
Association Awards for Male Vocalist of the
Year and Album of the Year (Place
In The Sun).
Place
In The Sun was certified 2x platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard
Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Country
Artist - Male (singles & albums), Top Hot
Country Singles & Tracks Artist, and Top
Hot Country Singles & Tracks Artist -
Male.
 # 111
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male
Artist.
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles chart for 2 weeks
with "My Best Friend."
Tim was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Please Remember
Me").
Everywhere was certified 4x
platinum.
Tim won an Academy of Country
Music Award for Male Vocalist of the Year.
Tim and Kenny Chesney were arrested after
the 'George Strait Country Music Festival' in
New York. Tim was arrested on assault charges
after Chesney asked to ride a sheriff's
horse, then allegedly refused to dismount,
resulting in a scuffle with Tim joining in.
Place
In The Sun was certified 3x platinum.
Tim started to tour with wife Faith Hill with their 'Soul 2
Soul 2000' tour.
Tim won a Country Music
Association Award for Male Vocalist of the
Year.
 Tim released Greatest
Hits.
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles chart for 5 weeks
with "My Next Thirty Years."
Greatest
Hits topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for 9 weeks.
Tim topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as Top Country Artist
- Male, Top Hot Country Singles & Tracks
Artist, and Top Hot Country Singles &
Tracks Artist - Male.
Greatest
Hits was certified platinum.
Tim had an
emergency appendectomy.
 # 152
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male
Artist.
Greatest
Hits was certified 2x platinum.
Tim won a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Let's Make
Love" with Faith Hill) and was nominated for
Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("My Best Friend").
 Tim released Set
This Circus Down.
Tim won a Blockbuster
Entertainment Award for Favorite Male Country
Artist.
Set
This Circus Down topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart for 6 weeks.
Tim was acquitted of assault
charges (along with Kenny Chesney) stemming from an
incident in June, 2000.
Set
This Circus Down was certified
platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for a week with "Grown Men
Don't Cry."
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles chart for 2 weeks with "Angry
All The Time."
Tim was named Entertainer of the
Year at the Country Music Association Awards.
Tim topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Country
Artist, the Top Country Artist - Male, the
Top Country Album Artist, the Top Country
Album Artist - Male, the Top Hot Country
Singles & Tracks Artist, and the Top Hot
Country Singles & Tracks Artist - Male.
Tim also had the Top Country Album (Greatest
Hits).
 # 107
Singles Artist of the Year
 Tim won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male
Artist and Favorite Country Album (Set
This Circus Down), and was nominated
for Internet Artist of the Year.
Tim was
nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Grown Men Don't
Cry"), Best Country Collaboration with
Vocals "(Bring On The Rain" with Jo
Dee Messina), and Best Country Album (Set
This Circus Down).
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles & Tracks chart
for a week helping out Jo Dee Messina
with "Bring On The Rain."
Tim topped the
Billboard Country Singles & Tracks chart
for a week with "The Cowboy In Me."
Greatest
Hits was certified 3x platinum.
Set
This Circus Down was certified
platinum.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for a week with
"Unbroken."
 Tim released Tim
McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors.
Tim had his own TV special on
NBC - Sing Me Home.
 # 137
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male
Artist and sang "Tiny Dancer" at
the ceremony with Elton John.
Tim
McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors was certified 2x
platinum.
Tim embarked on his
'Tim McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors' One
Band Show' tour.
The single "I Like It, I
Love It" from 1995 was certified gold.
Tim was nominated for 2 Country
Music Associations Awards for Entertainer of
the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and
Album of the Year (Tim
McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors).
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for 2 weeks with
"Real Good Man."
Tim could be heard on the
holiday compilation A
Very Special Acoustic Christmas with "Dear
Santa."
Tim won a Radio Music Awards for
Artist of the Year - Country Radio.
Tim won an American Music
Award for Favorite
Country Male Artist, and was also nominated
for Favorite Country Album and the Fan's
Choice Award.
 # 63
Singles Artist of the Year
Tim's father,
former baseball player Tug McGraw, died of
brain cancer.
Tim won a
People's Choice Award for Favorite Male
Performer.
Greatest
Hits was certified 4x platinum.
Tim was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("She's My Kind Of
Rain").
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for 2 weeks with
"Watch The Wind Blow By."
Tim
McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors was certified 3x
platinum
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for 7 weeks with
"Live Like You Were
Dying."
 Tim released his next LP Live
Like You Were Dying.
Live
Like You Were Dying topped the
Billboard 200 LP chart for 2 weeks, the Top
Internet Albums chart, and the Top Country
Albums chart for 3 weeks, selling over
766,000 copies its first week of release in
the US. The LP also topped the charts in
Canada.
Live
Like You Were Dying was certified 2x
platinum.
 Tim could be seen in his role of
Charlie Billingsley for the film Friday
Night Lights and received critical
praise for his performance.
Tim hit the Top 40 and Top 10 helping out Nelly with
"Over And Over."
Tim topped the Billboard Top 40
Tracks chart and Rhythmic Airplay chart
helping out Nelly with
"Over And Over."
Tim won 2 Country Music
Association Awards for Best Song (with
co-songwriter Craig Wiseman) and Best Single
("Live Like You Were
Dying").
Tim was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Tim hit #1 for 5 weeks helping
out Nelly with
"Over And Over."
Tim had his
second TV special on NBC on November 24th.
Tim topped the Billboard Country
Singles & Tracks chart for a week with
"Back When."
Live
Like You
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