Trivia / Little Big Town

• Breakthrough Hit: "Pontoon", their first #1, also won them their first Grammy.
• Chart Displacement: "Boondocks" is still one of their most famous songs despite only getting to #9. Also, "Girl Crush" only got to #3 on the Country Airplay charts, but is their longest lasting #1 on Hot Country Songs.
• Colbert Bump: Heavy airplay on Bobby Bones' radio show was one of the factors in "Girl Crush"'s success, combined with a viral article about its themes, a performance on The Tonight Show, and a cover on The Voice.
• Creator Couple: Fairchild and Westbrook married in 2006, but kept it secret from the other two members until two months later. Also an example of Romance on the Set.
• Follow-Up Failure: They are practically the poster children for this trope in country music:
  • Off their fourth album The Reason Why, "Little White Church" got to #6, but the next two singles failed to make Top 40 entirely.
  • Tornado looked to avert this when lead single "Pontoon" became their first #1 and the title track went to #2. But then "Your Side of the Bed" and "Sober" both barely made the 30s.
  • Pain Killer also looked to avert this when both "Day Drinking" and "Girl Crush" were #1 hits, but the latter was followed by the title track, which stalled at #38.
  • Wanderlust was a failure of an album, producing only one single that made no impact whatsoever.
  • "Better Man", the lead to their eighth album The Breaker, was a #1 smash too. It was followed by "Happy People", which became their lowest peaking single to date (even underperforming their early singles for Monument in 2002).
• Missing Episode: Their 2018 single "Summer Fever" never made it onto an album.
• Network to the Rescue: Capitol Records attempted this with A Place to Land after Equity closed, but was unsuccessful in getting another hit out of it. However, the band's later albums for Capitol were more successful in comparison.
• One-Hit Wonder: Clearly not the band themselves, but Karen Fairchild is as the featured vocalist on Luke Bryan's "Home Alone Tonight"
• What Could Have Been: Gary LeVox and Joe Don Rooney auditioned to be in the group when they wanted a fourth member. LeVox and Rooney would later become two-thirds of Rascal Flatts.