Starting Now | ||||
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Released | January 22, 2008 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Dann Huff Monty Powell | |||
Chuck Wicks chronology | ||||
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Singles from Starting Now | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Country Standard Time | mixed [2] |
Engine 145 | [3] |
Starting Now is the debut studio album by American country music artist Chuck Wicks. It was released on January 22, 2008. The album debuted at number 24 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 20,000 copies in its first week. [4] Wicks co-wrote all but one of the songs.
"Stealing Cinderella", which was released as the album's lead single in September 2007, was a top 5 hit on the Hot Country Songs chart. The album produced two more top 40 hits with "All I Ever Wanted" and "Man of the House".
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "All I Ever Wanted" | Chuck Wicks, Anna Wilson, Monty Powell | 3:26 |
2. | "Good Time Comin' On" | Wicks, Dave Berg, Powell | 3:33 |
3. | "Stealing Cinderella" | Wicks, Rivers Rutherford, George Teren | 4:03 |
4. | "If We Loved" | Jason Sellers, Patrick Jason Matthews | 3:42 |
5. | "When You're Single" | Wicks, Michael Mobley | 2:58 |
6. | "Starting Now" | Wicks, Wilson, Jeff Franzell | 4:21 |
7. | "The Easy Part" | Wicks, Blair Daly, Troy Verges | 3:39 |
8. | "What If You Stay" | Wicks, Daly, Verges | 3:55 |
9. | "She's Gonna Hurt Somebody" | Wicks, Jim Collins, Wendell Mobley | 3:31 |
10. | "Mine All Mine" | Wicks, Matthews, Jon C. Mabe | 3:31 |
11. | "Man of the House" | Wicks, M. Mobley | 4:03 |
Weekly charts
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Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||
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US Country | US | CAN | ||
2007 | "Stealing Cinderella" | 5 | 56 | 81 |
2008 | "All I Ever Wanted" | 14 | 86 | — |
2009 | "Man of the House" | 27 | — | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
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