<P> Released in May 1975, "Rhinestone Cowboy" immediately caught on with both country and pop audiences . The song spent that summer climbing both the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts before peaking at number one by season's end - three nonconsecutive weeks on the country chart, two weeks on the Hot 100 . Billboard ranked it as the number - two for 1975 . It also went topped the charts in Canada and several other countries . </P> <P> During the week of September 13--the week the song returned to number one on the Billboard country chart, after having been nudged out for a week by "Feelins"' by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn--"Rhinestone Cowboy" topped both the country and Hot 100 charts simultaneously . This was the first time a song had accomplished the feat since November 1961, when "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean did so . </P> <P> "Rhinestone Cowboy" was one of six songs released in 1975 that topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts . The other songs were "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender, "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B.J. Thomas, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "I'm Sorry" / "Calypso," both by John Denver, and "Convoy" by C.W. McCall . </P> <P> The song was also the sole Glen Campbell track in a promotional - only compilation album issued by Capitol records titled The Greatest Music Ever Sold (Capitol SPRO - 8511 / 8512), that was distributed to record stores during the 1976 holiday season as part of Capitol's "Greatest Music Ever Sold" campaign, which promoted 15 "Best Of" albums released by the record label . </P>

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