{"id":35649,"date":"2026-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=35649"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:44:08","slug":"wanted-the-outlaws-marks-50-years-as-country-musics-first-platinum-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/wanted-the-outlaws-marks-50-years-as-country-musics-first-platinum-album\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wanted! The Outlaws\u2019 Marks 50 Years As Country Music\u2019s First Platinum Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boomsite.fm\/prep\/wanted-the-outlaws-marks-50-years-as-country-musics-first-platinum-album\/\"><\/a><em>Wanted! The Outlaws<\/em>\u00a0reached No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Country Albums chart on February 28, 1976, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/wanted-the-outlaws-50th-anniversary-legacy-1236196033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">becoming country music\u2019s first platinum-certified album<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The compilation featured\u00a0<strong>Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Tompall Glaser<\/strong>, and spent six weeks atop the charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCA division chief\u00a0<strong>Jerry Bradley<\/strong>\u00a0positioned the project as a cultural movement after\u00a0<strong>Hazel Smith<\/strong>\u00a0coined the \u201coutlaws\u201d phrase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album captured artists who fought industry conventions, with Jennings famously battling RCA over recording policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need a change,\u201d Jennings sang in his No. 1 hit \u201cAre You Sure Hank Done It This Way.\u201d\u00a0<strong>Ronnie Dunn<\/strong>\u00a0called it \u201cprobably the most significant wave in 50 years\u201d that \u201cturned everything around.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outlaw scene represented breaking music industry rules rather than partaking in actual criminal activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern artists like\u00a0<strong>Tyler Childers, Parker McCollum, Luke Combs,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Zach Bryan<\/strong>\u00a0continue country music\u2019s outlaw tradition today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wanted! The Outlaws\u00a0reached No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Country Albums chart on February 28, 1976, becoming country music\u2019s first platinum-certified album. The compilation featured\u00a0Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter,\u00a0and\u00a0Tompall Glaser, and spent six weeks atop the charts. RCA division chief\u00a0Jerry Bradley\u00a0positioned the project as a cultural movement after\u00a0Hazel Smith\u00a0coined the \u201coutlaws\u201d phrase. The album captured","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[10560,10561,10562,7716,3633],"class_list":["post-35649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jessi-colter","tag-tompall-glaser","tag-wanted-the-outlaws","tag-waylon-jennings","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 14:53:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/wanted-the-outlaws-marks-50-years-as-country-musics-first-platinum-album\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35675,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649\/revisions\/35675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}