Someone Else's Star

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"Someone Else's Star"
Bryan White - Someone Elses Star.png
Single by Bryan White
from the album Bryan White
B-side "This Town" [1]
ReleasedMay 22, 1995
Recorded1994
Genre Country
Length3:21
Label Asylum
Songwriter(s) Skip Ewing, Jim Weatherly
Producer(s) Billy Joe Walker Jr.
Kyle Lehning
Bryan White singles chronology
"Look at Me Now"
(1995)
"Someone Else's Star"
(1995)
"Rebecca Lynn"
(1995)

"Someone Else's Star" is a country song co-written by Skip Ewing and Jim Weatherly , and first recorded by American country music singerBryan White who cut the song for his self-titled debut album, and released his version as a single. The third single from this album, it was also his first Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.

Contents

Content

The song's narrator is a male character who laments his inability to find someone with whom he can fall in love. He then assumes that others are getting what he is wishing for because he is "wishing on someone else's star".

Chart performance

White's version of the song debuted at number 60 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated May 27, 1995. It charted for twenty weeks on that chart, and reached Number One on the chart dated September 9, 1995, where it remained for one week, also giving White his first Number One single.

Charts

Chart (1995)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [2] 5
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [3] 12
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1995)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [5] 83
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 75

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