7500 OBO

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"7500 OBO"
7500 OBO Tim McGraw.jpg
Single by Tim McGraw
from the album Here on Earth
ReleasedAugust 2, 2021 (2021-08-02)
Genre Country
Length3:41
Label Big Machine
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Tim McGraw singles chronology
"Undivided"
(2021)		"7500 OBO"
(2021)		"Standing Room Only"
(2023)
Music video
"7500 OBO on YouTube

"7500 OBO" is a song by American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released on August 2, 2021, as the third single from his sixteenth studio album Here on Earth . The song was written by Nathan Spicer, Matt McGinn and Jennifer Schott, and produced by Byron Gallimore and McGraw. [1]

Contents

Background and content

"7500 OBO" is a song about McGraw's pickup truck that he wants to sell because it, according to Clayton Edwards of Outsider, "holds too many memories. All he can think about when he turns the key is his ex in the passenger seat." [2] Robin Palmer, a chief creative officer of SmackSongs, who passed the song to McGraw, told Billboard: "It tells a story, it's just a really good country song. It happens to have a modern cadence and sort of a modern approach to it." McGraw said that the song "feel[s] like your right wrist hanging over the steering wheel and your elbow hanging off the window kind of thing. It comes back to the car." 7500 refers to the truck's asking price, while the OBO stands for "or best offer". [3]

The song references several of McGraw's singles, more prominently the 1998 number one hit "Where the Green Grass Grows" (in which the fiddle riff of the song is sampled throughout portions of the single). The song also includes references to his other singles "Shotgun Rider" and "Let it Go." [4]

Music video

The music video was released on August 13, 2021, and directed by Alexa and Stephen Kinigopoulos. McGraw's youngest daughter Audrey has her first acting role in the video. [5] It depicts a relationship about "a young woman with a boyfriend who eventually leaves town". The couple's story is shown "from the truck's backseat: sometimes through the windshield, with the couple kissing, dining and even fighting in the front of the cab". [6]

Other versions

On October 8, 2021, McGraw released the track's acoustic version. [7]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "7500 OBO"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [15] Platinum80,000‡
United States (RIAA) [16] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history and versions for "7500 OBO"
RegionDateFormatLabelVersionRef.
VariousAugust 21, 2020
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 Big Machine Original [17]
United StatesAugust 2, 2021 Country radio [18]
VariousOctober 8, 2021
  • Digital download
  • streaming
Acoustic [19]

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References

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  2. ↑ Edwards, Clayton (August 9, 2021). "Tim McGraw Drops New Single About His Truck '7500 OBO' Shortly After Announcing 'Yellowstone' Spinoff Casting". Outsider. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ Roland, Tom (August 18, 2021). "Makin' Tracks: Tim McGraw Keeps Truckin' With Craigslist Clarity In '7500 OBO'". Billboard. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  4. ↑ MUSICVIDEOS·, Lacey West·COUNTRY. "Tim McGraw's "7500 OBO" Has The Same Fiddle Riff From "Where The Green Grass Grows"". Whiskey Riff. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  5. ↑ Jo Black, Lauren (August 13, 2021). "WATCH: Tim McGraw's Youngest Daughter, Audrey, Stars In His '7500 OBO' Music Video". Country Now. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
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