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"This One's For The Girls" - Martina McBride

from the album Martina (2003)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #39 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 2

 

Today's song comes from country music's vocal powerhouse Martina McBride, whose Greatest Hits album in 2001 had spun off four genre radio hits, with one of them, "Blessed", crossing over to the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in the spring of 2002. A year later, the singer returned with her seventh studio album on RCA Nashville Records, Martina. The lead single from the set was the female-only party "This One's For The Girls". Written by Aimee Mayo, Hilary Lindsey, and Chris Lindsey, the song has Martina spending a verse on a different age group, though starting off with the high school girls lauding them for chastity is a little off but on brand for her. Moving on to "girls" in their twenties and forties, the message gets more universal, and her positive energy shows in her delivery of saying even heartbreak makes one stronger. The production from long-time collaborator Paul Worley with McBride is driving and more adult-pop than country, but still in her wheelhouse without offending those Faith Hill apparently drove off. McBride's own daughters Delaney and Emma sing backup on the song. The result was another multi-format hit for Martina, who always put song over image...

"This One's For The Girls" became Martina's fifth single to reach the top-40 on Billboard's Hot 100 in October of 2003. On the radio, the song spent two weeks at #3 on the Country Songs airplay chart, and made the older-skewing Adult Top-40 list at #32. But it's biggest success was on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format, where it spent nine weeks at #1 in 2004. The Martina album, released in September of that year, came in at #7 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and topped the Country Albums list for a week, spending two years on the latter and going on to sell over two million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, "This One's For The Girls" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which went to sentimental favorite June Carter Cash as a posthumous nod for her "Keep On The Sunny Side"

Both Martina and the album will be back to the series.

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Martina performed the song on Katie Couric's sendoff on The Today Show...

She also rolled it out for a Fourth Of July broadcast with the Boston Pops....

and lastly for a Soundstage episode...

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