Baby Girl
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| “Baby Girl” | |||||
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| Single by Sugarland from the album Twice the Speed of Life |
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| Released | July 2004 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 4:13 | ||||
| Label | Mercury Nashville | ||||
| Writer(s) | Kristian Bush, Kristen Hall, Jennifer Nettles, Troy Bieser | ||||
| Producer | Garth Fundis | ||||
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"Baby Girl" is the debut single of American country music group Sugarland. Released in July of 2004, the single reached a peak position of #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in April of 2005. The song spent a total of forty-six weeks on the country music charts, setting a new record for the longest chart run since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan digital chart tabulation in 1990;[1] in addition, "Baby Girl" became the highest-peaking debut single for a country music group in fourteen years.[1]
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The song's narrator is a young female singer attempting to become a successful music artist. The lyrics take the form of a letter written to the singer's mother, describing the singer's attempts to make herself known:
- "Dear Mom and Dad, please send money
- I'm so broke that it ain't funny
- I don't need much, just enough to get me through
- Please don’t worry 'cause I'm all right
- I’m playin’ here at the bar tonight
- This time, I’m gonna make our dreams come true
- Well, I love you more than anything in the world
- Love, your baby girl".
By the end of the song, the narrator has achieved her dream, or believes she is on her way to that goal:
- "Dear Mom and Dad, I'll send money
- I'm so rich that it ain't funny
- Well, it ought to be more than enough to get you through
- Please don't worry 'cause I'm all right
- See, I'm staying here at the Ritz tonight
- What do ya know, it made our dreams come true..."
[edit] Chart performance
"Baby Girl" entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at #56 on the chart week of July 24, 2004. The single reached its peak position of #2 on the chart week of April 2, 2005, a position that it held for two weeks. Overall, "Baby Girl" spent a total of forty-six weeks on the country singles charts, setting a new record for the longest chart run since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. (This record has since been tied by Carrie Underwood's 2006 single "Before He Cheats".)
"Baby Girl" was also the seventh most-played country song of 2005, according to the Billboard year-end countdown.
| Chart (2004-2005) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 38 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 64 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 51 |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Lyrics at CowboyLyrics.com
