2013, George Jones’ “16 Biggest Hits” is certified platinum, 2012, Ricky Skaggs is added to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Hendersonville, Tennessee, along with Aretha Franklin and four other acts, 1995, Garth Brooks’ “The Hits” becomes the first best-of album by a country-based artist certified for shipments of 7 million units on the same day Shania Twain is certified double-platinum for the first time in her career, with “The Woman In Me”, 1978, The cover of Newsweek recognizes Willie Nelson–not Roy Acuff–as the “King of Country Music.” “The playing is the fun,” Nelson tells