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Jan 1, 1990
RCA Records halts production of vinyl 45 rpm records, while Mercury drops vinyl altogether. The last Mercury album released in the format: The Kentucky HeadHunters' "Pickin' On Nashville"
Jan 23, 1990
Johnny Cash and Larry Boone albums hit stores, the first Mercury albums not released on vinyl
Jan 24, 1990
Capitol Records announces it will stop shipping albums on vinyl, beginning with Dan Seals' "Love On Arrival"
Oct 18, 1990
Prince tells Rolling Stone that renegotiating a recording contract is easy: "You just go in and say, 'You know, I think my next project will be a country and western album'"
Mar 1, 1991
Arista Records, which represents Alan Jackson, Exile and Pam Tillis, among others, stops servicing country radio stations with vinyl singles
Mar 4, 1992
The Country Radio Seminar begins at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. During the event, Trisha Yearwood meets The Mavericks' bass player, Robert Reynolds, who she marries two years later
Jul 5, 1993
Advertising Age names Mercury Records executive Steve Miller among the nation's top 100 marketers for overseeing the campaign that launched Billy Ray Cyrus. Miller says he wanted to make Cyrus "look like the best-kept secret in the U.S."
Jul 9, 1993
Reacting to Garth Brooks' public stance against the sale of used CDs, Portland, Oregon, record store owner Terry Currier holds a Garth Brooks Bar-B-Q, cooking Brooks CDs over an open flame. He later repeats the bake-off in other cities
Dec 14, 1993
Shelia Shipley becomes the first female head of a major country label, when she's appointed to oversee Decca Records
Feb 2, 1994
The Country Music Hall Of Fame announces plans to move from Music Row to downtown in 1996. The relocation doesn't actually occur until May 2001
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