You Had Me from Hello

"You Had Me from Hello"
Single by Kenny Chesney
from the album Everywhere We Go
B-side	"Everywhere We Go"
Released	April 19, 1999
Recorded	1999
Genre	Country
Length	3:51
Label	BNA 65745
Songwriters	Kenny Chesney Skip Ewing
Producers	Buddy Cannon Norro Wilson
Kenny Chesney singles chronology
"How Forever Feels" (1998) "You Had Me from Hello" (1999) "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" (1999)

"You Had Me from Hello" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in April 1999 as the second single from his 1999 album Everywhere We Go . The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart in September 1999. It was also certified gold by the RIAA. ^[1] Chesney wrote this song with Skip Ewing.

Background and writing

In 1996, Chesney and Skip Ewing saw the movie Jerry Maguire . In one of the film's most memorable scenes at the end of the movie, Tom Cruise's title character gives out a heartfelt speech to Renée Zellweger's character, Dorothy Boyd; Zellweger stops Cruise and tearfully says "You had me at 'hello'." Chesney liked that line and decided to write a song based on it, mistranslating "at" to "from". Chesney and Zellweger were later married for four months in 2005. ^[2]

Chart performance

"You Had Me from Hello" debuted at number 71 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 17, 1999, while Chesney's previous single "How Forever Feels" was still at number one.

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3]	1
US Billboard Hot 100 [4]	34
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1999)	Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [6]	19
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7]	6

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [8]	Platinum	1,000,000‡
United States (RIAA) [8] Mastertone	Gold	500,000*
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 91. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
2. Thomas, W.D. (2007). Kenny Chesney. Gareth Stevens Publ. p. 25. ISBN   9780836881981.
3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 8440". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
4. "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard .
5. "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard .
6. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1999". RPM . December 13, 1999. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
7. "Best of 1999: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1999. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
8. "American single certifications – Kenny Chesney – You Had Me from Hello". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved November 18, 2022.