Starting Now (Chuck Wicks album)
Starting Now is the debut studio album by American country music artist Chuck Wicks. It was released on January 22, 2008. The album debuted at number 24 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 20,000 copies in its first week.[4] Wicks co-wrote all but one of the songs.
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| Released | January 22, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | RCA Nashville | |||
| Producer | Dann Huff Monty Powell | |||
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| Singles from Starting Now | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Country Standard Time | mixed[2] |
| Engine 145 | [3] |
"Stealing Cinderella", which was released as the album's lead single in September 2007, was a top 5 hit on the Hot Country Songs chart. The album produced two more top 40 hits with "All I Ever Wanted" and "Man of the House".
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "All I Ever Wanted" | Chuck Wicks, Anna Wilson, Monty Powell | 3:26 |
| 2. | "Good Time Comin' On" | Wicks, Dave Berg, Powell | 3:33 |
| 3. | "Stealing Cinderella" | Wicks, Rivers Rutherford, George Teren | 4:03 |
| 4. | "If We Loved" | Jason Sellers, Patrick Jason Matthews | 3:42 |
| 5. | "When You're Single" | Wicks, Michael Mobley | 2:58 |
| 6. | "Starting Now" | Wicks, Wilson, Jeff Franzell | 4:21 |
| 7. | "The Easy Part" | Wicks, Blair Daly, Troy Verges | 3:39 |
| 8. | "What If You Stay" | Wicks, Daly, Verges | 3:55 |
| 9. | "She's Gonna Hurt Somebody" | Wicks, Jim Collins, Wendell Mobley | 3:31 |
| 10. | "Mine All Mine" | Wicks, Matthews, Jon C. Mabe | 3:31 |
| 11. | "Man of the House" | Wicks, M. Mobley | 4:03 |
Personnel
- Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
- Perry Coleman – background vocals
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Chip Davis – background vocals
- Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
- Shannon Forrest – drums
- Tony Harrell – keyboards
- Dann Huff – electric guitar
- Charles Judge – conductor, string arrangements, keyboards, Hammond organ, synthesizer strings
- Troy Lancaster – electric guitar
- Mitch Malloy – background vocals
- Michael Mobley – background vocals
- Nashville String Machine – string section
- Steve Nathan – piano
- Russ Pahl – steel guitar
- Monty Powell – electric guitar, background vocals
- Jason Sellers – background vocals
- Russell Terrell – background vocals
- Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Anna Wilson – background vocals
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar
- Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle, mandolin
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||
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| 2007 | "Stealing Cinderella" | 5 | 56 | 81 |
| 2008 | "All I Ever Wanted" | 14 | 86 | — |
| 2009 | "Man of the House" | 27 | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
References
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Starting Now review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- Bell, Rick. "Chuck Wicks - Starting Now". Country Standard Time. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- Vercher, Brady. "Album Review: Chuck Wicks – Starting Now". Engine 145. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- Katie Hasty, "'Juno' Unseats Keys From Atop Album Chart", Billboard.com, January 30, 2008.
- "Chuck Wicks Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- "Chuck Wicks Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
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