Billy Ray Cyrus

William Billy Ray Cyrus born August 25 1961 is an American country music singer songwriter and actor who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon He has released eleven studio albums since 1992 released 38 singles best known for his Number One single Achy Breaky Heart that became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and the 1992s best selling single in the same country Thanks to the video of this hit there was the explosion of the linedance into the mainstream becoming a worldwide craze Cyrus a multiplatinum selling recording artist has scored a total of eight topten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart His most successful album to date is the debut of Some Gave All which has been certified 9 MultiPlatinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at Number One on the Billboard 200 17 consecutive weeks and most consecutive charttopping weeks in the SoundScan era Its the only album from any genre in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at Number One and is also the topranking debut album by a male country artist It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10 a total topped by only one country album in history Ropin The Wind by Garth Brooks Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the Best selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist Some Gave All was also the best selling album of the 1992 in the US with 4832000 copies In his career he has released 29 charted singles of which 15 charted in the Top 40 From 2001 to 2004 Cyrus starred in the television show Doc The show was about a country doctor who moved from Montana to New York City In late 2005 he began to costar in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana with his daughter Miley Cyrus The series finale aired on January 16 2011 In 2010 it was announced that he and his son Trace Cyrus would take part in a new Syfy reality series called UFO Unbelievably Freakin Obvious Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Ray Cyrus licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia