Tim McGraw (song)
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| Single by Taylor Swift from the album Taylor Swift |
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| Released | November 2006 | ||||
| Recorded | 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:54 (Album Version) 3:34 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Big Machine | ||||
| Writer(s) | Taylor Swift, Liz Rose | ||||
| Producer | Nathan Chapman | ||||
| Certification | Gold[1] | ||||
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"Tim McGraw" is the debut single of American country music artist Taylor Swift. She was sixteen years old when she debuted with the song, which she co-wrote with Liz Rose. The song tells of Taylor's remembrance of a summer love, and how an un-named song by country music artist Tim McGraw (identified later on as "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" from his Live Like You Were Dying album) brings back memories of that love. Taylor was dating a boy that was about to go off to college, and was thinking of ways for him to remember her. That was how she started writing the song. Then she played the melody for Liz Rose on the piano, and the two wrote the debut hit.
[edit] Alternate versions
On the album version of the song, the first stanzas are sung a second time at the end; the radio edit ends after the last chorus.
The line "Someday you'll turn your radio on" was altered in some markets, with "your radio" being replaced with either the name of the radio station or some popular show or host featured on that station. A similar change was made for the song on Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, a radio countdown show; the line was altered to "And turn the Bob Kingsley Countdown on".
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (2006-2007) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 6 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 33 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 40 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 43 |
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