Trivia / Martina McBride

• Chart Displacement: On the country charts, she's had five #1 hits: "Wild Angels", "A Broken Wing", "Wrong Again", "I Love You", and "Blessed". While "A Broken Wing" remained popular in the long run, the other four are nowhere near as famous as the likes of "My Baby Loves Me" (#2), "Independence Day" (#12), "Safe in the Arms of Love (#4), "Concrete Angel" (#5), "This One's for the Girls" (#3), or "In My Daughter's Eyes" (#4). This is justified in the case of "Independence Day", as some stations refused to play it. "I Love You" goes double, as it's her longest-lasting #1 at six weeks and her highest Hot 100 entry at #25 despite not maintaining anywhere close to the longevity of any of the above.
• Creator Backlash: In the liner notes of her Greatest Hits Album, she and producer Paul Worley make notes on every song. Both of them claim that they hated her 1993 hit "Life #9": McBride because she didn't think it fit her style, and Worley because he thought it sounded like a disco song. Worley was also embarrassed by his slide guitar solos on "My Baby Loves Me", saying that they "somehow never got erased".
• Throw It In!: McBride based her vocal delivery on "I Love You" on the woman who sang the demo.
• What Could Have Been: The aforementioned Greatest Hits album includes an album track called "Strangers" which remained a fan favorite for years despite never being issued as a single. McBride feels that she would've had more chart momentum if it were a single after "Independence Day" instead of "Heart Trouble" and "Where I Used to Have a Heart", both of which flopped.

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