Bucky Covington photo courtesy of Lyric Street Records.

Bucky Covington begins the new decade with a hit on his hands, and he’ll discuss it with host Nan Kelley on the year’s first edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown this weekend.

Bucky remade the Nickelback hit “Gotta Be Somebody” for his latest single, and the video uses footage from a live performance in Rockingham, N.C., captured when Bucky performed there in September as the mayor declared Bucky Covington Day. The show is captured in the EP Live From Rockingham.

The remake comes at a time when Nickelback seems to be establishing some ties to country music. Lead singer Chad Kroeger co-wrote Tim McGraw’s 2009 hit “It’s A Business Doing Pleasure With You.” And the Canadian band’s original recording of “Gotta Be Somebody” was co-produced by someone who had his own impact on country: Robert John “Mutt” Lange, currently separated from his former co-writer, another Canadian named Shania Twain.

Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week on GACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.

Click here to preview each song on our Top 20 list and download the ones you want!

THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Carrie Underwood “Cowboy Casanova”
2. Kellie Pickler “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You”
3. Miranda Lambert “White Liar”
4. Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins “Hillbilly Bone”
5. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
6. Reba McEntire “Consider Me Gone”
7. Josh Turner “Why Don’t We Just Dance”
8. Toby Keith “Cryin’ For Me”
9. Jason Aldean “The Truth”
10. Taylor Swift “Fifteen”
11. Trace Adkins “All I Ask For Anymore”
12. Bucky Covington “Gotta Be Somebody”
13. Keith Urban “Only You Can Love Me This Way”
14. Chris Young “Gettin’ You Home”
15. Chris Young “The Man I Want To Be”
16. Luke Bryan “Do I”
17. Billy Currington “That’s How Country Boys Roll”
18. Tim McGraw “Southern Voice”
19. Gary Allan “Today”
20. Jimmy Wayne “Sara Smile”

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