Robbed hit of the week 4/3/23 - Rascal Flatts' "I'm Movin' On"...
"I'm Movin' On" - Rascal Flatts
from the album Rascal Flatts (2000)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #41
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the country music trio Rascal Flatts, whose debut single "Praying For Daylight" reached Billboard magazine's Country Songs top ten while crossing over to the Hot 100 top-40 in the summer of 2000. Their follow-up, the upbeat adult pop of "This Everyday Love", peaked at #9 on the Country Songs list and stopped at #56 on the Hot 100. Another album cut, "Long Slow Beautiful Dance", wasn't promoted to radio but got enough airplay to spend a couple weeks on the Country Songs chart at #73. The "proper" third single from the debut, the ballad "While You Loved Me", brought the group back into the country top ten at #7.
For the fourth and final single from the record, Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney continued down the downtempo route with the mournful breakup ballad "I'm Movin' On". Written by Phillip White and D. Vincent Williams, the waltz-timed song always had the meaning for me of moving on from an ended relationship, but the lyrics themselves are much broader, in taking a new path of life and casting oneself forward. Yes, there's a sad nostalgia of the past, but a realization that you've worn out your welcome in this town and needs to find somewhere new to thrive. Gary's vocals really put the emotion into this, and no matter how you read it the tears always flow when I hear this song from them. The sparse production with violins and piano by Mark Bright and Marty Williams, as well as the harmonies and asides from DeMarcus and Rooney, makes the finished result even more powerful.
"I'm Movin' On" climbed to #4 on Billboard's Country Songs radio chart, while stopping one notch short of the top-40 on the Hot 100 in April of 2002.
(10/10)
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Here's the trio in concert...
Finally, I'll leave with Kelly Clarkson doing a nice cover of it for her show...
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