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- ↑ "Sugarland Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ "Sugarland Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ↑ "Best of 2006: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- ↑ Twice the Speed of Life (Media notes). Sugarland. Mercury Records. 2004. -B0002172-02.
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