Songoftheday 7/23/22 - I had a hundred dollar ring in my hand, so weak and tired I can barely stand...
"I Lost It" - Kenny Chesney
from the album Greatest Hits (2000)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3
Today's song comes from country music singer Kenny Chesney, whose fifth studio album Everywhere We Go in 1999 had landed (thanks to chart rules changes) two top-40 crossover hits on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart with "How Forever Feels" and "You Had Me From Hello". The following year, Kenny released his first Greatest Hits collection, with four new songs included. One of those, "I Lost It", was promoted as the lead single from the set in the summer of 2000. Written by Jimmy Olander and Neil Thrasher, the song tells a story about a man first proposing to his wife in the first verse, then by the second almost losing her to indifference, to a seemingly forced immediate reunion where everything turns out right. If you pay attention you'll catch the awkwardness of the plot, but Chesney's soothing voice sands these problems down better than most could. The bridge into the chorus is simply divine, and makes this much better than the lyrical resolution...
"I Lost It" became Kenny's third top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in December of 2000. The song spent one week at #3 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. Internationally, the single made it to #21 on the Canadian Country Singles list before RPM closed shop at the end of that year. The Greatest Hits album, released in September of 2000, was Chesney's first to make the top-40 on the Billboard 200 sales tally at #13, spending two years on the chart, as well as topping their Country Albums list for two weeks, going on to sell over four million copies. Both Kenny and the Greatest Hits album will return to the series.
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Up tomorrow: Disneytown-assembled boyband have some saturated slumber.
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