Don't Think I Don't Think About It

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"Don't Think I Don't Think About It"
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Single by Darius Rucker
from the album Learn to Live
ReleasedMay 27, 2008 (2008-05-27)
Genre Country
Length3:03
Label Capitol Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Frank Rogers [1]
Darius Rucker singles chronology
"Wild One"
(2003)
"Don't Think I Don't Think About It"
(2008)
"It Won't Be Like This for Long"
(2008)

"Don't Think I Don't Think About It" is a song recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker, lead singer of the band Hootie & the Blowfish. The song, co-written by Rucker and Clay Mills, was released in May 2008 as Rucker's first single from his album Learn to Live . The song made Rucker the first new individual black artist to chart a number one country hit since Charley Pride's "Night Games" reached the top of the charts in September 1983.

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Content

"Don't Think I Don't Think About It" is a mid-tempo, backed mainly by guitars. Its narrator describes a man who has left his former lover. He tells her that he thinks about what they could have been.

Music video

The music video was directed by Wayne Isham. [2]

Critical reception

The song received a positive review from Billboard reviewer Deborah Evans Price, who said that the single "is that perfect combination of solid production, a great vocal and finely crafted song that adds up to a hit." [1] Entertainment Weekly simple called the song "pretty great," [3] and People called it a "bittersweet ballad". [4]

Chart performance

"Don't Think I Don't Think About It" debuted at number 51 on the Hot Country Songs charts dated for May 3, 2008. The song reached a peak of number one on the chart week of October 4, making Rucker the first solo African-American artist to reach the top of the country charts since Charley Pride's "Night Games" in 1983. [5] The song remained on top of the chart for a second consecutive week. [6] It is also his first solo Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, at number 35. The song reached over a million copies in sales in May 2014. [7]

Chart (2008)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [8] 35
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [9] 1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [10] 47
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [11] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [12] 4

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [13] Platinum1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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