Winner at a Losing Game
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| “Winner at a Losing Game” | |||||
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| Single by Rascal Flatts from the album Still Feels Good |
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| Released | October 2007 | ||||
| Format | CD Single | ||||
| Recorded | 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 4:48 | ||||
| Label | Lyric Street | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jay DeMarcus, Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney | ||||
| Producer | Dann Huff, Rascal Flatts | ||||
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"Winner at a Losing Game" is a single by country music group Rascal Flatts. It is the second single released from their album Still Feels Good, as well as their nineteenth chart single over all. Released in late 2007, the song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in February 2008.
[edit] Writing the song
Rascal Flatts' three members -- Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney, wrote the song on their tour bus after a show late one night.[1] According to DeMarcus, the trio began a conversation about their musical influences, when the Eagles, a popular soft rock band, was mentioned. Inspired by the fact that they would be performing with the Eagles at the 2007 Grammy Awards, they decided to write a song that was similar in style to the Eagles' music.[2]
All three of Rascal Flatts' members then began to write the song that night; they came up with a verse and chorus that, according to Country Weekly, "achingly express[es] a feeling we have all experienced -- loving someone who just doesn't love you the same way".[2] The next day, DeMarcus added the hook "If love is really forever, then I'm a winner at a losing game", and the song was finished.
LeVox, the lead singer of Rascal Flatts, considers the song special because it is the first single to be written entirely by the band's three members.[2]
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (2007-2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 52 |
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