It Don't Hurt Like It Used To

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"It Don't Hurt Like It Used To"
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Single by Billy Currington
from the album Summer Forever
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2016 (2016-02-08)
Recorded2015
Genre Country
Length3:05
Label Mercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Dann Huff
Billy Currington singles chronology
"Drinkin' Town with a Football Problem"
(2015)
"It Don't Hurt Like It Used To"
(2016)
"Do I Make You Wanna"
(2016)

"It Don't Hurt Like It Used To" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Billy Currington. It was released to radio on February 8, 2016 as the third single from his 2015 album, Summer Forever . Currington wrote this song with Cary Barlowe and Shy Carter.

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Background

"It Don't Hurt Like It Used To" is the only song that Currington co-wrote on his Summer Forever album. [1] According to Currington, he happened to visit his friends Barlowe and Carter: "Cary and I picked up guitars at the same time and played basically the same chord, and the next thing you know, we were writing the song." [2] He said, "I remember I just started saying all the words that you hear in the beginning of the song, they just started falling out. Shy was like, ‘What was that, man?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, it’s just coming out.’ So we wrote ’em down, and then I guess within an hour the song had basically written itself." [3]

The song is about the breakup of a relationship. According to Currington, the line "But you drug my heart through the Alabama dirt" was inspired by a past relationship. [2]

Commercial performance

The song first entered Country Airplay at No. 59 for the chart of February 20, 2016 on its radio release. [4] It entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 49 on chart dated April 16, 2016. [5] In October 2016, it reached No. 1 on Country Airplay, his tenth No. 1 on that chart, and it remained in that spot for two consecutive weeks. [6] It has sold 332,000 copies in the United States as of January 2017. [7]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [8] 77
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [9] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [10] 44
US Country Airplay ( Billboard ) [11] 1
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [12] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2016)Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard) [13] 16
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [14] 31

Certifications

Certifications for It Don't Hurt Like It Used To
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [15] Platinum1,000,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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