You Don't Know Her Like I Do

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"You Don't Know Her Like I Do"
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Single by Brantley Gilbert
from the album Halfway to Heaven
ReleasedDecember 12, 2011 (2011-12-12)
Recorded2011
Genre Country
Length4:47(album version)
Label Valory
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Dann Huff
Brantley Gilbert singles chronology
"Country Must Be Country Wide"
(2011)
"You Don't Know Her Like I Do"
(2011)
"Kick It in the Sticks"
(2012)

"You Don't Know Her Like I Do" is a song recorded by American country rock singer Brantley Gilbert. It was released in December 2011 as the second single from the deluxe edition of his 2010 album Halfway to Heaven . The song was written by Gilbert and Jim McCormick and was the second most-played country song on radio in 2012. [1]

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Critical reception

Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song three and a half stars out of five, saying that it "allows the singer to show a dark vulnerability that is sure to make him a more appealing artist to country music fans who may be turned off by his brand of country rock." [2] Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song four stars out of five, calling it an "excellent single choice" and writing that "Brantley's gravelly voice is passionate, vulnerable and maybe just a little angered." [3]

Music video

The music video was directed by Justin Key and premiered in December 2011. [4] It is composed entirely of tour footage, showing Gilbert performing the song at a concert. Scenes also show him in a radio interview, signing autographs, and sitting in a chair against a blue backlit screen acting down and depressed, like he relates to the lyrics of the song.

Chart performance

"You Don't Know Her Like I Do" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of December 17, 2011. [5] It became his second consecutive number one single in July 2012. The song has sold 999,000 copies in the U.S. as of April 2014. [6]

Chart (2011–2012)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [7] 73
US Billboard Hot 100 [8] 49
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [9] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 2

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [11] Platinum1,000,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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