History Trivia / RebaMcEntire

* ExecutiveMeddling: After a number of stations played "Somebody" incessantly during overnights to help force the song to #1 on ''Billboard'' (and likewise with Terri Clark's "Girls Lie Too" a few weeks later), that publication altered its tabulation methodologies to help thwart manipulation.

* ExecutiveMeddling: After a number of stations spammed "Somebody" late at night to get it to #1, ''Billboard'' changed its chart methodology to lessen the chances of chart manipulation.

** The #2 "Because of You" with Music/KellyClarkson was followed up by "The Only Promise That Remains", a Music/JustinTimberlake duet that became her first single since 1978 not to make the country charts at all. It was quickly pulled for "Every Other Weekend".

** Reba did a song called "Little Rock" that went to #1 in 1986. Collin Raye recorded a different song called "Little Rock" 8 years later; that song topped out at #2.

* UncreditedRole: "Every Other Weekend". The album version had Music/KennyChesney as a duet partner, but since her label couldn't reach an agreement with his, the single version [[FakeShemp had Skip Ewing singing his part instead]]. Most stations played the Chesney version anyway, even before it was confirmed as a single. As a result, it was credited to Reba and Kenny for the first few weeks it was on the chart before its release, then to "Reba [=McEntire=] with Kenny Chesney or Skip Ewing" for one week, then just Reba for the rest of its chart run.

** The video for "Is There Life Out There?," where Maggie panics because she her daughter spills coffee on a paper she wrote for a college class. Why does she panic? Because she wrote it on a typewriter. Her husband dries it out with a hairdryer so she can still hand it in. This conflict is entirely irrelevant with the advent of computers.

** "Does He Love You". Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s. When she finally got to cut it, she wanted to make it a duet with Linda Davis, who was between failed record deals at the time and working as both a demo singer and one of Reba's backing vocalists. However, label executives wanted her to sing it with someone more established and on the same label as her, such as Music/WynonnaJudd or Music/TrishaYearwood. After not hearing back from Wynonna, she ended up cutting it with Linda Davis as she had intended.
** "The Heart Won't Lie" was originally supposed to be a duet with Music/KennyRogers, but their singing ranges were too far apart for it to work.

** The video for "Is There Life Out There?," where Maggie panics because she her daughter spills coffee on a paper she wrote for a college class. Why does she panic? Because she wrote it on a typewriter. Her husband gets a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for drying it out with a hairdryer so she can still hand it in. This conflict is entirely irrelevant with the advent of computers.

** "Does He Love You". Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s. When she finally got to cut it, she wanted to make it a duet with Linda Davis, who was between failed record deals at the time and working as both a demo singer and one of Reba's backing vocalists. However, label executives wanted her to sing it with someone more established and on the same label as her, such as Wynonna or Music/TrishaYearwood. Fortunately for fans, Reba ultimately got her way.

* ActorAllusion: The video for "Every Other Weekend" stars Steve Howey and Joanna Garcia as the divorced couple being sung about. They played Reba's son-in-law and daughter in ''{{Reba}}''.

* UncreditedRole: "Every Other Weekend". The album version had Music/KennyChesney as a duet partner, but since her label couldn't reach an agreement with his, the single version had Skip Ewing singing duet vocals. Most stations played the Chesney version anyway, even before it was confirmed as a single. As a result, it was credited to Reba and Kenny for the first few weeks it was on the chart before its release, then to "Reba [=McEntire=] with Kenny Chesney or Skip Ewing" for one week, then just Reba for the rest of its chart run.

** "Does He Love You". Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s. She wanted to make it a duet with Linda Davis, who was between failed record deals at the time and working as both a demo singer and one of Reba's backing vocalists, but label executives wanted her to sing it with either Wynonna or Music/TrishaYearwood, since they were both more established and on the same label. Reba ultimately got her way.

** She was originally tapped to record "Goodbye Time", but she felt the lyrics too closely paralleled her own then-recent divorce, so it went to Music/ConwayTwitty instead.

** "Does He Love You". Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s, but her producer didn't like it. Then when she got a new producer, she wanted to make it a duet with Linda Davis, but label executives wanted her to sing it with either Wynonna or Music/TrishaYearwood, since they were both more established and on the same label. Reba ultimately got her way.

* CreatorCouple: She is married to her longtime producer, Narvel Blackstock.

* NamesTheSame: Both she and John Michael Montgomery released different songs titled "How Was I to Know" in 1997. Both even went to #1 on ''Radio & Records''.

* BreakthroughHit: 1980's "You Lift Me Up to Heaven," if you consider her solo releases. But of the countless artists she's recorded with through the years (ranging from Vince Gill to KellyClarkson), it was a Texas-based country singer and 1970s hit-maker named Jacky Ward who, two years earlier, got her into the top 20 of the Hot Country Singles chart for the first time, with a duet ditty called "Three Sheets in the Wind." Ward is largely forgotten today; [=McEntire=] would go on to her Hall of Fame career and become an influence to countless female artists in nearly every genre.

** One of said band members was Chris Austin, who released a few singles for Warner Bros. in the late 1990s and co-wrote Ricky Skaggs' 1991 hit "Same Ol' Love".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "The Heart Won't Lie" was supposed to be a duet with Music/KennyRogers, but their singing ranges were too far apart for it to work.

* NamesTheSame: Both she and John Michael Montgomery released different songs titled "How Was I to Know" in 1997. Both even went to #1 on ''Radio & Records''.

* TheDanza: In both ''{{Reba}}'' and ''{{Malibu Country}}'', she takes Reba as a first name (last name Hart in the former, Gallagher in the latter).