She's Got a Way with Words

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"She's Got a Way with Words"
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Single by Blake Shelton
from the album If I'm Honest
ReleasedJune 13, 2016 (2016-06-13) [1]
Genre Country
Length3:11
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Scott Hendricks
Blake Shelton singles chronology
"Savior's Shadow"
(2016)
"She's Got a Way with Words"
(2016)
"A Guy with a Girl"
(2016)

"She's Got a Way with Words" is a song recorded by American country music artist Blake Shelton for his tenth studio album If I'm Honest (2016) and would be used for Shelton's other album Fully Loaded: God's Country (2019). Released to radio as the album's third single on June 13, 2016, [1] the track was written by Wyatt Earp, Andy Albert and Marc Beeson, while production was handled by Scott Hendricks.

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Performance

The song debuted at number 28 on the Hot Country Songs chart on the release of the album If I'm Honest , [2] selling 26,000 copies for the week. [3] It debuted at number 54 on the Country Airplay chart the following week ahead of its official release to radio. [4] It became the most-added of the song on its official release. [5] Reaching a peak of number 7 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, "She's Got a Way with Words" became Shelton's first single to miss number one since "I'll Just Hold On" in 2009, ending a streak of seventeen consecutive number one hits for him. The song has sold 284,000 copies in the United States as of October 2016. [6] It was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 9, 2016. [7]

Music video

The music video was directed by Adam Rothlein and premiered in June 2016. [8]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [9] 76
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [10] 2
US Billboard Hot 100 [11] 61
US Country Airplay ( Billboard ) [12] 7
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [13] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (2016)Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [14] 40

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [15] Gold40,000
United States (RIAA) [7] Platinum1,000,000 / 284,000 [6]

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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