Don't Blink
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| “Don't Blink” | |||||
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| Single by Kenny Chesney from the album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates |
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| Released | August 2007 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Genre | Country music | ||||
| Label | BNA | ||||
| Writer(s) | Casey Beathard, Chris Wallin | ||||
| Kenny Chesney singles chronology | |||||
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"Don't Blink" is a single by country music artist Kenny Chesney. It is the second single from his 2007 album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, and Chesney's thirteenth Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
The song debuted at #16 on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 8, 2007, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart since the inception of SoundScan in 1990,[1] beating a record set by Keith Urban's "Once in a Lifetime", which debuted at #17 in 2006. Chesney's record was broken one week later by Garth Brooks' song "More Than a Memory", which debuted at Number One on the country charts, the first song to do so in the chart's history.[2]
The song also matches the fastest rising single of his career set in August, 2007 with "Never Wanted Nothing More" taking eight weeks to reach Number 1.
On the Billboard Hot 100, "Don't Blink" debuted at number 79 on the chart dated September 22, 2007.[3]
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The song's lyrics tell of a younger man's encounter with a 102-year-old man of whom he saw on the news. The younger man wants to know the older man's "secret to life", and here is what the old man had to say: "Don't blink / Just like that, you're six years old / And you take a nap / And you wake up and you're twenty-five / And your high school sweetheart becomes your wife / Don't blink / You just might miss your babies growing like mine did / Turning into moms and dads / Next thing you know your better half / Of fifty years is there in bed / And you're praying God takes you instead / Trust me, friend, a hundred years goes faster than you think / So don't blink."
[edit] Current chart positions
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 47 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 26 |
| Canadian Country Singles Chart | 1 |
| Billboard Canadian Hot 100 | 45 |
| Billboard Hot Canadian Digital Singles | 61 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Don't Blink" Is Billboard's Highest Chart Debut Ever! (html). Kenny Chesney.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
- ^ "Garth Brooks Makes History at Country Radio", CMT.com, September 5, 2007.
- ^ Katie Hasty, "Soulja Boy Remains No. 1 Amid Static Top Four", Billboard.com, September 13, 2007.
| Preceded by "Love Me If You Can" by Toby Keith |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single October 27 - November 17, 2007 |
Succeeded by "Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)" by Dierks Bentley |
