Feels Like Today (song)

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"Feels Like Today"
Rascal FLatts - Feels Like Today.jpg
Single by Rascal Flatts
from the album Feels Like Today
ReleasedJune 21, 2004
Recorded2004
Genre Country
Length3:26
Label Lyric Street
Songwriter(s) Wayne Hector
Steve Robson
Producer(s) Mark Bright
Rascal Flatts
Marty Williams [1]
Rascal Flatts singles chronology
"Mayberry"
(2003)
"Feels Like Today"
(2004)
"Bless the Broken Road"
(2004)

"Feels Like Today" is a song written by Wayne Hector and Steve Robson and recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in June 2004 as the first single and title track from the album of the same name. The song peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 2004. [2]

Contents

"Feels Like Today" was featured on the Smallville: The Metropolis Mix soundtrack. It was played during the Season 4 episode, "Run."

Music video

The music video was directed and produced by Deaton-Flanigen, and premiered on CMT on August 12, 2004. It was filmed in Asbury Park, NJ. It features the trio performing the song on the boardwalk, outside the Monmouth County Prison, and inside Boardwalk Hall accompanied by a string section. In between these scenes, shots of a photographer dressed in all black and a top hat is seen delivering pictures to several depressed people on the dried up, empty boardwalk. At the end of the video, the people open the photo envelopes, and see photos of them with their families, instantly cheering them up. The photographer then simply walks away.

The video won Group/Duo Video of the Year at the 2005 CMT Music Awards and was also nominated for Video of the Year.

Chart performance

Chart (2004)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Radio & Records ) [3] 10
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 9
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 56

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 45

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References

  1. Feels Like Today (CD booklet). Rascal Flatts. Lyric Street Records. 2004. 2061-65049-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. "Canada Country Top 30" (PDF). Radio & Records . October 15, 2004. p. 41. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  4. "Rascal Flatts Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  5. "Rascal Flatts Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
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