What About Now (Lonestar song)

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"What About Now"
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Single by Lonestar
from the album Lonely Grill
B-side "Smile"
Released April 17, 2000
Format CD Single, 7" 45 RPM
Genre Country
Length 3:32
Label BNA 60212
Writer(s) Ron Harbin, Aaron Barker, Anthony L. Smith
Producer(s) Dann Huff
Lonestar singles chronology
"Smile"
(1999)
"What About Now"
(2000)
"Tell Her"
(2000)

"What About Now" is a song recorded by American country music group Lonestar. It was released in April 2000 as the fourth single from their album Lonely Grill, it spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart. It was written by Ron Harbin, Aaron Barker and Anthony L. Smith.[1]

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that what makes the single work is McDonald's "endearing style, made so apparent with the mega success of 'Amazed'." She says that McDonald "projects a sincerity that propels the lyrical content nicely" and that the "crisp production" highlights the playing.[2]

Chart positions

Peak positions

Chart (2000) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 30
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2000) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 3
US Hot 100 (Billboard)[7] 90
Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

August 12-September 2, 2000
Succeeded by
"It Must Be Love"
by Alan Jackson
Preceded by RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

July 24-August 14, 2000
Succeeded by
"That's the Way"
by Jo Dee Messina
Preceded by
"That's the Way"
by Jo Dee Messina
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

September 18, 2000

References

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  2. Billboard, April 15, 2000
  3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 7228." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 24, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  4. "Lonestar – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Lonestar.
  5. "Lonestar – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Lonestar.
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