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few of some of the artists we'll just say in the

last 50, 60 years.

This is a quote by David Cloud, and I think

he's quoting from a particular magazine. It

says, "Country music has hit the big time. It has

become the most popular radio format in

America reaching 77.3 million adults, almost 40

percent of the adult population every week.

Since 1989 country record sales have nearly

doubled from 921 million to over 1.758 billion."

That's absolutely amazing. Again, you'd think

over the years as new music comes along — the

rock and the pop and the rap and all the other

stuff — some would fade out, but country

music has been here to stay, and it is very

popular. Some years ago I was on a mission trip

in Monterrey, Mexico, walking through a

market, and as we were walking through the

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