Tip of My Tongue (Kenny Chesney song)

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"Tip of My Tongue"
Tip Of My Tongue Single Art.jpg
Single by Kenny Chesney
from the album Here and Now
ReleasedJuly 12, 2019 (2019-07-12)
Genre Country pop [1]
Length3:19
Label Blue Chair/Warner Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
[2]
Kenny Chesney singles chronology
"Better Boat"
(2018)		"Tip of My Tongue"
(2019)		"Here and Now"
(2020)

"Tip of My Tongue" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in July 2019 as the first single from his 2020 album Here and Now . [3] Chesney wrote this song with songwriter Ross Copperman and English singer Ed Sheeran, and co-produced it with Copperman. [2]

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History and content

Chesney announced the song's release in July 2019, as the lead single to an upcoming nineteenth studio album. He wrote the song with Ross Copperman and Ed Sheeran. Of the co-writing process, he told the blog Nash Country Daily that "You start talking, and words fall out, and anything can happen. When you go in and write on any given day, the chemistry is what it is. When the idea fell out, we all just laughed and went, ‘Well, what can we do with that?’" [4] He later added on to the song writing process by saying, "With all the great songs that have been written in this town, I think you always want to do something a little different, I think there’s this moment when you look at someone and you know they contain everything. You want to know everything, consume everything about them. It’s why we say ‘It’s a long way down,’ because you want to know it all. And the best part: We got a melody that feels like what's going on lyrically. The music matches the words, and you can just drift in it" [5]

Critical reception

Taste of Country writer Billy Dukes said that the song is a "mid-tempo, progressive-sounding track [that] places Chesney's familiar voice in a progressive new setting, creating a very contemporary track that has strong pop influences." [1] Jon Freeman of Rolling Stone Country said described the song as "a celebration of sensuality" and said, "Over a dreamy, percussion-free bed of guitar and synthesizer, Chesney sings of his appreciation for the little details — like the dimples in someone’s back — that make him fall a little more in love with someone." [6]

Commercial performance

The song has sold 85,000 copies in the United States as of December 2019. [7]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Tip of My Tongue
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [17] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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  2. 1 2 Here and Now (CD booklet). Kenny Chesney. Blue Chair Records/Warner Music Nashville. 2020. 093624892939.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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