"Feel Like a Rock Star"
Single by Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw
from the album Welcome to the Fishbowl
ReleasedApril 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)
Recorded2012
Genre
Length3:28
LabelBNA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Buddy Cannon
Kenny Chesney singles chronology
"Reality"
(2011) 		"Feel Like a Rock Star"
(2012) 		"Come Over"
(2012)
Tim McGraw singles chronology
"Better Than I Used to Be"
(2011) 		"Feel Like a Rock Star"
(2012) 		"Right Back Atcha Babe"
(2012)

"Feel Like a Rock Star" is a song written by Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson and recorded by American country music artists Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw. It was released in April 2012 as the first single from Chesney's 2012 album Welcome to the Fishbowl. It is also Chesney’s last single to be released by BNA Records, a label he had been with since 1995.

History

Chesney recorded the song as a duet with McGraw and premiered it at the Academy of Country Music Awards show, broadcast on April 1, 2012. The two toured together in mid-2012.[1]

Music video

The music video for the song depicting Chesney and McGraw performing at an airport. Rodney Clawson and Chris Tompkins wrote the song. Clawson told Taste of Country that Tompkins had begun the song with a bass guitar line, when the two observed that "everybody wants to feel like a rock star."[2]

Critical reception

Rating it four-and-a-half stars out of five, Billy Dukes of Taste of Country favorably compared it to "Young" and "Big Star".[3]

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 13 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week of April 21, 2012. It is Chesney's highest-debuting single, the previous record-holder being "Don't Blink", which debuted at number 16.[4] It is also the second highest-debuting single since January 1990, when the charts were first tabulated electronically by Nielsen SoundScan, and the highest-debuting duet on that chart in that same timespan.[5] Despite this high debut, the song peaked at number 11 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week of May 26, 2012, becoming Chesney's first single to miss the top ten since "The Tin Man" peaked at number 19 in 2001. On the following week, "Feel Like a Rock Star" fell to number 18 while the follow-up single "Come Over" debuted at number 24.[6]

This high debut was achieved mainly by the song receiving 979 plays by radio stations on Billboard's survey in the day after the broadcast,[7] most of which came from hourly airplay on stations owned by Clear Channel Communications.[5]

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[8] 33
Canada Country (Billboard)[9] 9
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 40
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[11] 11

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[12] 75

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[13] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Parodies

References

  1. ^ "Chesney, McGraw duet, "Rockstar," sets record debut". Country Standard Time. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  2. ^ Conaway, Alanna. "Kenny Chesney, 'Feel Like a Rock Star' (Feat. Tim McGraw) – Lyrics Uncovered". Taste of Country. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  3. ^ Dukes, Billy. "Kenny Chesney, 'Feel Like a Rock Star' (Feat. Tim McGraw) – Song Review". Taste of Country. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  4. ^ Darden, Beville (9 April 2012). "'Feel Like a Rock Star' Is Lucky No. 13 for Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw". The Boot. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  5. ^ a b Trust, Gary (9 April 2012). "Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw's 'Rock Star' Roars Onto Country Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Billboard Country Update" (PDF). Billboard. 21 May 2012. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Chesney-McGraw collaboration, "Rockstar," gets played - a lot". Country Standard Time. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  8. ^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
  9. ^ "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  10. ^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  11. ^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  12. ^ "Best of 2012: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
  13. ^ "American single certifications – Kenny Chesney – Feel Like a Rockstar". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
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