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Originally Posted by Raiderhater
I think it tends to be lost on people due to the sheer volume of hits and semi-hits he had in that rather short time. I always find it silly when artists release a greatest hits album fairly early in their careers but man, that Double Live album showed he had the catalog of hits at that time to pull it off.
One has to wonder what would have happened if that Chris grained fiasco hadn’t gone off the rails and the film actually got made making the album make sense if his trajectory would be significantly different today. Maybe not, maybe even if everything went according to plan his fans would have still rejected it. A fun little game of what if anyway.
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I think the Chris fiasco probably hurt him in a couple of ways...
Traditional country fans saw.him trying to cross over into mainstream and pop and that never goes well for any artists.
Second...it was his first time of not having great success with something he put out. It did ok by every other artists standard but not by what his normal standards were.