Billy Ray Cyrus isn’t even “the biggest country signer around”. That’s probably Tim McGraw, who she had a single titled after on her debut as a way to draft some cheap buzz.

Billy Ray Cyrus had like one big album (and people got the next one on inertia) in the early 90s that was significant for representing a country mainstreaming, that just like the NASCAR and evangelical booms of the time was really about the rise of a southern white middle class, and a generic southernness becoming the default culture of the exurban white middle class nationwide.