Nothing I Can Do About It Now

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"Nothing I Can Do About It Now"
Single by Willie Nelson
from the album A Horse Called Music
B-side "If I Were a Painting"
ReleasedApril 1989
Genre Country
Length3:17
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Beth Nielsen Chapman
Producer(s) Fred Foster
Willie Nelson singles chronology
"Twilight Time"
(1988)
"Nothing I Can Do About It Now"
(1989)
"There You Are"
(1989)

"Nothing I Can Do About It Now" is a song written by Beth Nielsen Chapman, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in April 1989 as the first single from the album A Horse Called Music . It was Nelson's fourteenth number one single on the U.S. Country Singles chart. The single spent one week at number one and a total of fifteen weeks on the chart. [1]

Contents

Chart performance

Chart (1989)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [2] 1
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 18
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 10

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