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The big stars are out for awards season. New songs on the radio for April 2013 made their debut at the ACM Awards on April 7. Hunter Hayes and Luke Bryan were two singers to introduce new music, while Blake Shelton played his new one for the first time at the Las Vegas awards show.

On this day in 1981, legendary recording artist Mel Tillis scored his sixth No.1 song with “Southern Rains.”  It stayed in the top spot for one week but remained on the chart for eleven weeks.

On this day in 1993, Travis Tritt landed at the No.1 position with the song “Can I Trust You with My Heart.”  Tritt was also a co-writer of the song which was the second single released from his album T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

On this day in 1984, Merle Haggard scored his thirtieth No.1 song with his version of Lefty Frizzell’s ‘That’s the Way Love Goes.’  The song spent 21 weeks on the charts and earned Haggard a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance—Male.

Tracy Lawrence had a string of hits through the Nineties, but his first No.1 came on this day in 1992 with ‘Sticks and Stones.’

Office workers in America claimed ‘9 to 5’ by Dolly Parton as their unofficial theme song in 1980.  The song was recorded for the movie of the same name, in which Parton made her film debut, but was also part of her 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album.

Randy Travis released Volume 2 of his Greatest Hits in 1992. Included on that album was a new song called ‘Look Heart, No Hands,’ which shot to No.1 on this day in 1993.

On this day in 1976, C.W. McCall (Bill Fries) hit the top of the charts with his trucker saga ‘Convoy.’

Arguably the biggest name in country music scored his fifteenth No.1 song on this day in 1993.