It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You

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"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You"
BusinessDoingPleasure.jpg
Single by Tim McGraw
from the album Southern Voice
ReleasedJune 29, 2009 [1]
Genre Country
Length3:07
Label Curb
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Tim McGraw singles chronology
"Nothin' to Die For"
(2009)
"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You"
(2009)
"Southern Voice"
(2009)

"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" is a song written by Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger and country musician Brett James, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw. The song is the first single to his tenth studio album, Southern Voice . It is also McGraw's fifty-second chart entry on the Billboard country charts. The song was released to radio on June 29, 2009.

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Content

The song's narrator is frustrated with buying items for his lover, telling her that "it's a business doing pleasure with [her]". The song's title is an inversion of the phrase "It's a pleasure doing business with you."

Chart performance

"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" debuted at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in July 2009, and reached a peak of number 13 on the chart in September 2009.

Chart (2009)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 13
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 59
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [4] 3
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [5] 53

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