Wherever You Are (song)

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“Wherever You Are”
Single by Jack Ingram
from the album Live: Wherever You Are
Released 2005
Format CD single
Recorded 2005
Genre Country
Length 3:37
Label Big Machine
Writer(s) Steve Bogard, Jeremy Stover
Jack Ingram singles chronology
"One Thing"
(2003)
"Wherever You Are"
(2005)
"Love You"
(2006)

"Wherever You Are" is a song by American country music artist Jack Ingram. The song was Ingram's first Top 40 single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts; it was also his first Number One single on that chart. "Wherever You Are" served the lead-off single to Live: Wherever You Are, Ingram's first album for Big Machine Records.

[edit] About the song

"Wherever You Are" was originally slated to be recorded by Canadian country music artist Deric Ruttan, as well as the band Rushlow.[1] In 2005, Scott Borchetta, who had just founded the Big Machine label, discovered the song, and recommended it to Ingram, one of the acts signed to his label. Ingram recorded it as one of two studio tracks for his otherwise-live album Live: Wherever You Are, from which it was released as a single in late 2005.

The song became not only Jack's first Top 40 chart entry, but also his first Number One single. It was also the first Number One single for Big Machine Records, the record label to which Ingram is signed. In addition, it is the first Number One for Jeremy Stover, one of the song's co-writers.[1][2]

[edit] Succession

Preceded by
"Who Says You Can't Go Home"
by Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles
Billboard Hot Country Songs
number one single by Jack Ingram

May 20, 2006
Succeeded by
"Why"
by Jason Aldean

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Neal, Chris (2006-06-19). "Story Behind the Song: "Wherever You Are"". Country Weekly 13 (13): 64. 
  2. ^ Jack Ingram, Big Machine Records Score First No. 1 Single