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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; a few stations momentarily pulled the song after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but the impact was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Hank" was withdrawn due to negative reception, and thus never put on an album.

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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which Somethin'". As the song references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; disaster, a few stations momentarily pulled the song it after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but 2003. However, the impact dip in airplay was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.
#1 on ''Billboard''. (It did fall to #2 for one week on ''Radio & Records'', allowing Terri Clark's "I Just Wanna Be Mad" to get the top spot, but even on that chart "19 Somethin'" returned to the top the following week.)
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: His 2006 single "Hank" was withdrawn after only a few weeks (supposedly due to negative reception, reception), and thus never put on an album.

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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; a few stations momentarily pulled the song after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but the impact was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.



* NetworkToTheRescue: Wills was on Music/ClintBlack's Equity label when it closed, and was partway into making his album ''Familiar Stranger''.
* TooSoon: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; a few stations momentarily pulled the song after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but the impact was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.

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* NetworkToTheRescue: Wills was on Music/ClintBlack's Equity label when it closed, and was partway into making his album ''Familiar Stranger''. \n* TooSoon: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; a few stations momentarily pulled the song after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but the impact was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Hank" was withdrawn due to negative reception, and thus never put on an album.
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* LifeImitatesArt: In a 1998 interview with ''Radio/AmericanCountryCountdown'', Wills said that he actually passed by a homeless man on a street corner when listening to the demo of "Don't Laugh at Me" in his car.
* NetworkToTheRescue: Wills was on Music/ClintBlack's Equity label when it closed, and was partway into making his album ''Familiar Stranger''.
* TooSoon: Downplayed with "19 Somethin'", which references the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster; a few stations momentarily pulled the song after the similar ''Columbia'' disaster in February 2003, but the impact was so negligible that the song didn't even fall from #1.

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