I Can't Win for Losin' You

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"I Can't Win for Losin' You"
Single by Earl Thomas Conley
from the album Too Many Times
B-side "Love's on the Move"
ReleasedNovember 24, 1986
Genre Country
Length4:06
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Robert Byrne
Rick Bowles
Producer(s) Earl Thomas Conley
Nelson Larkin
Mark Wright
Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology
"Too Many Times"
(1986)
"I Can't Win for Losin' You"
(1986)
"That Was a Close One"
(1987)

"I Can't Win for Losin' You' is a song written by Robert Byrne and Rick Bowles and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in November 1986 as the second single from the album Too Many Times . The song was Conley's twelfth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. [1]

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Critical reception

Kip Kirby of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Conley "slips into a breathy, soulful voice in this R&B-flavored lament; underneath a devil-may-care exterior, he's paying dues for a love that got away." [2]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1986–1987)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks3

Year-end charts

Chart (1987)Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [4] 38

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
  2. Billboard , November 22, 1986
  3. "Earl Thomas Conley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1987". Billboard. Retrieved June 26, 2021.