# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-diffie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:34.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-diffie"
name: "Joe Diffie"
slug: "joe-diffie"
description: "Joe Logan Diffie was an American country music singer and songwriter. After working as a demonstration singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one - his debut release \"Home\", \"If the Devil Danced \", \"Third Rock from the Sun\", \"Pickup Man\", and \"Bigger Than the Beatles\". In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and 10 more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart."
tagline: "American country singer (1958–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Diffie_10-14-17_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1958-12-28"
deathDate: "2020-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.83
  momentum:             1.03303862261517
  historical:           15.66860133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JoeDiffie"
    handle:    "JoeDiffie"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226441/"
    handle:    "nm0226441"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3THMgU4KdL7LlO5TEREs2g"
    handle:    "3THMgU4KdL7LlO5TEREs2g"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://joediffie.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%89"
    title: "چو ديفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0_%EB%94%94%ED%94%BC"
    title: "조 디피"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Диффи, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Diffie"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE_%D0%94%D1%96%D1%84%D1%84%D1%96"
    title: "Джо Діффі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/98b31574-fa4c-4cf1-bf32-681f7df45fe3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691384"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2691680"
    title: "Joe Diffie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump