"You Had Me from Hello" | ||||
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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 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kenny Chesney Skip Ewing | |||
Producer(s) | Buddy Cannon Norro Wilson | |||
Kenny Chesney singles chronology | ||||
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"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.
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]
"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 |
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Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] | 34 |
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] | 1 |
Chart (1999) | Position |
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Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [6] | 19 |
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7] | 6 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [8] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [8] Mastertone | Gold | 500,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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