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1* BreakawayPopHit: Both "Heartland" and "I Cross My Heart" off the ''Pure Country'' soundtrack went to number 1. The movie? Not so much.
2* ChartDisplacement:
3** Despite his massive catalog of #1 hits (44 on ''Billboard'', 60 on all industry charts), many keystone songs didn't make the summit anywhere, such as "The Fireman", "Marina del Rey", "Amarillo by Morning", or the Music/AlanJackson duet "Murder on Music Row" (although the latter is justified in that it was never a single).
4** He's also had three #1 hits that have held on for five weeks: the first is the well-known "Love Without End, Amen", and the other two are "I've Come to Expect It from You" and "One Night at a Time", which are nowhere near as popular as "I Cross My Heart", "Heartland", "Check Yes or No", "Write This Down", "Give It Away" etc.
5** "Troubadour" remains one of his most popular songs from the 2000s, but only reached #7 on the country charts.
6** "The Cowboy Rides Away" is one of his most popular songs, serving as the name for what was going to be his final tour, only reached #5 in the US and #3 in Canada.
7* CreatorsOddball: By and large, averted; rarely has George recorded in the pop-country vein. One early exception was his 1982 ballad, "Marina Del Rey," which he pulled off very well and is every bit a part of his playlist today. "El Rey", a mariachi song from ''Twang'' which Strait performed entirely in Spanish, is another rare exception.
8* FollowTheLeader: In the 1990s, there was [[FountainOfExpies an insurgence of "hat acts"]] who, like Strait, were just good ol' clean-cut young men (and even a couple women!) in cowboy hats. Over time, "hat act" became a derogatory term due to so many of them flooding the market and becoming indistinguishable.
9* OldShame:
10** Strait reportedly hates his second single "Down and Out" (a No. 16 song in the fall of 1981), which he has stated was not one of his favorite songs and noted he would never consider releasing, much less recording, today. Indeed, the only places to find "Down and Out" are on his debut album, ''Strait Country'', and his first greatest hits album; it does not appear on any other of his greatest hits albums or his 1995 box set ''Strait Out of the Box''.
11** He hated his first music video, for "You Look So Good in Love", so much that he asked that it be withdrawn from rotation. He has very rarely done a music video since, and the few he's done since are largely {{Performance Video}}s.
12** Strait also has since said his hit "You Know Me Better Than That" is not a song he would record today; alas, he hasn't played it live since it was an active single.
13* OneBookAuthor: ''Pure Country'' is his only acting role to date.
14* ProductionPosse: He has had nearly the same batch of session musicians (including bassist Glenn Worf, drummer Eddie Bayers, steel guitarist Paul Franklin, guitarists Steve Gibson and Brent Mason, fiddler Stuart Duncan, and backing vocalists Curtis Young and Liana Manis) and the same producer (Tony Brown) on every album between ''Pure Country'' in 1992 and ''Love Is Everything'' in 2013. In addition, nearly every album dating back to his first has had at least one song written by Dean Dillon.
15* ReclusiveArtist: Throughout his career, Strait has notably avoided the media spotlight, preferring to let his music speak for itself rather than promoting himself as a celebrity. Strait doesn’t give extensive interviews, he rarely discusses his personal life beyond generally known information, and he doesn’t attract media attention through gossip or scandal. Strait rarely even released music videos to promote his work. Unusually for a popular musician, Strait’s preference to remain a private person has never really affected his long popularity with enthusiastic fans.
16* UncreditedRole: Subverted with his duet vocal on Music/KennyChesney's "Shiftwork". He was originally uncredited, but their labels reached an agreement halfway through the chart's run.
17* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
18** His debut single "Unwound" was originally written for Johnny Paycheck, who could not record it as he was in jail at the time.

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