Billy Currington Dives in on "Top 20"

Billy Currington photo by Danny Clinch, courtesy of UMG Nashville.

Nov. 7, 2008 — Suzanne Alexander will host this week’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown from the PBR World Finals in Las Vegas, and one of the young bucks with a video on the list is Billy Currington, who turned a coffee run into a fear-inducing film stunt.

The video for "Don’t" has Billy showing how far he’s willing to go just to get a cup of hot caffeine for his woman, and he did all of his own stunts for the piece. On face value, that doesn’t sound like much — how dangerous can it be to carry a beverage? — but one of those stunts involved jumping out of an apartment building window.

"I've done a lot of cliff divin', cliff jumpin' off of Center Hill Lake in Tennessee and other places like that, but to be jumpin' onto concrete into a pile of trash was a weird thought in my head," he told Dial-Global. "I couldn't get past it and if I really wanted to do it or not. They had a stunt guy there. I kept lookin', goin', 'Do I want him to do this or do I want to keep it real? And do I want to do it?' And so I did it — and actually did it twice before we finally got the [shot] that we wanted to keep. After the first time it was a piece of cake, you know, lots of fun."

The "Don’t" video checks in at No. 17 in its third week on the countdown, which also sees the debut of Toby Keith’s latest piece, for "God Love Her."

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.

THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Trace Adkins "Muddy Water"
2. Carrie Underwood "Just A Dream"
3. Kellie Pickler "Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful"
4. Blake Shelton "She Wouldn’t Be Gone"
5. Sugarland "Already Gone"
6. Lady Antebellum "Lookin’ For A Good Time"
7. Little Big Town "Fine Line"
8. Miranda Lambert "More Like Her"
9. Taylor Swift "Love Story"
10. George Strait "Troubadour"
11. Luke Bryan "Country Man"
12. Patty Loveless "Crazy Arms"
13. Brad Paisley "Waitin’ On A Woman"
14. Keni Thomas "Shreveport 2 LA"
15. Jimmy Wayne "Do You Believe Me Now"
16. Toby Keith "God Love Her"
17. Billy Currington "Don’t"
18. Whitney Duncan "When I Said I Would"
19. Darius Rucker "Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It"
20. Kenny Chesney "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven"