Fast Cars and Freedom

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"Fast Cars and Freedom"
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Single by Rascal Flatts
from the album Feels Like Today
ReleasedMarch 21, 2005
Genre Country
Length4:23(album version)
3:55 (single version)
Label Lyric Street
Songwriter(s) Gary LeVox
Wendell Mobley
Neil Thrasher [1]
Producer(s) Mark Bright
Rascal Flatts
Marty Williams [2]
Rascal Flatts singles chronology
"Bless the Broken Road"
(2004)
"Fast Cars and Freedom"
(2005)
"Skin (Sarabeth)"
(2005)

"Fast Cars and Freedom" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in March 2005 as the third single from the album Feels Like Today . It was the group's fourth Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Contents

The single was co-written by Rascal Flatts' lead singer Gary LeVox, along with Wendell Mobley and Neil Thrasher. Previously, the three writers had also written Rascal Flatts' 2003 single "I Melt". [1]

Chart performance

"Fast Cars and Freedom" debuted at number 56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of March 26, 2005.

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Radio & Records ) [3] 2
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 38
US Billboard Pop 100 70

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 5

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