Delicious Surprise (song)

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"Delicious Surprise"
Single by Beth Hart
from the album Screamin' for My Supper
ReleasedAugust 22, 2000 (2000-08-22)
Genre Rock
Length3:48
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Beth Hart
  • Tal Herzberg
  • Oliver Leiber
Beth Hart singles chronology
"LA Song (Out of This Town)"
(1999)		"Delicious Surprise"
(2000)		"Leave the Light On"
(2004)

"Delicious Surprise" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Beth Hart for her second studio album Screamin' for My Supper (1999). [1] It was released on August 22, 2000 as the second single from the album by Atlantic Records. The song was written by Hart and Glen Burtnik and produced by the two and Tal Herzberg. The song was also her final single for Atlantic Records before leaving the label in 2001. It was later covered in 2005 by Jo Dee Messina for her album Delicious Surprise .

Contents

Track list (Beth Hart version)

German maxi-CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Delicious Surprise (Album Version)"3:48
2."Jackie's Song (Live Non-LP Bonus Track)"4:32
3."Mama (Live Acoustic)"5:00
4."LA Song (Live Bonus Track)"4:28
Total length:17:48
US promotional single
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Delicious Surprise (I Believe) (Radio Edit)"
  • Hart
  • Burtnik
3:25
Total length:3:25

Jo Dee Messina version

"Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)"
Single by Jo Dee Messina
from the album Delicious Surprise
ReleasedJune 20, 2005 (2005-06-20)
Genre Country
Length3:48
Label Curb
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Jo Dee Messina singles chronology
"My Give a Damn's Busted"
(2005)		"Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)"
(2005)		"Not Going Down"
(2005)

"Delicious Surprise" was later recorded by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina. It was released as the second single from her fifth studio album of the same name, re-titled as "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)" by Curb Records on June 20, 2005. Messina's version was produced by Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw.

Compared to the lead single "My Give a Damn's Busted", the song did underperform, only peaking at number 23 on the Hot Country Songs chart, but it did spend 20 weeks in total. [2]

Chart performance

Messina's version debuted on June 25, 2005 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs at number 57. The song then rose up to number 47 the following week. "Delicious Surprise" then rose to the top forty on July 16 at number 40. The song would later rise to its peak position of number 23 the week of September 24, 2005, spending one week in the position and spending twenty weeks overall. "Delicious Surprise" marked Messina's first single to miss the country top-20 since "Was That My Life" from her 2003 Greatest Hits compilation only reached number 21. It performed better on the Radio & Records Country Top 50, rising as high as number 18. [3]

In Canada, the song performed moderately. "Delicious Surprise" debuted on the Radio & Records Canada Country Top 30 the week of August 5, 2005, at number 27 with 235 total plays, the highest debut of the week. The song then fell to number 29 the next week before rising again to number 28. "Delicious Surprise" rose to a peak of number 24 the week of September 23, 2005. The song overall spent 10 weeks in the country.

Music video

A music video for "Delicious Surprise" was released, with it being filmed by Peter Zavadil. It premiered to CMT on August 4, 2005. [4]

Charts

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Radio & Records ) [5] 24
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 23
US Country Top 50 ( Radio & Records ) [3] 18

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)Position
US Country Top 50 ( Radio & Records ) [7] 85

Release history

Release dates and format(s) for "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)"
RegionDateFormatLabel(s)Ref.
United StatesJune 20, 2005 Country radio Curb Records [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Demalon, Tom. Delicious Surprise at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2012). Hot Country Songs: 1944–2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 222.
  3. 1 2 "Country Top 50" (PDF). Radio & Records . September 23, 2005. p. 55.
  4. ↑ "Adkins, Lonestar, Messina Debut New Videos". CMT. August 2, 2005. Archived from the original on January 8, 2006. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Canada Country Top 30" (PDF). Radio & Records . September 23, 2005.
  6. ↑ "Jo Dee Messina Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  7. ↑ "Most Heard - Country" (PDF). Radio & Records . December 9, 2005.
  8. ↑ "Going for Adds - Country" (PDF). Radio & Records : 21. June 17, 2005.


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