Released September 10, 2007 Genre Country Label BNA | Format CD single Length 4:18 | |
Writer(s) Casey Beathard
Chris Wallin | ||
"Don't Blink" is a # 1 Billboard country, top 40 hot 100 single written by Casey Beathard and Chris Wallin, recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in September 2007 as the second single from his album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. The song became Chesney's thirteenth Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
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The song debuted at #16 on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 8, 2007, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart since the inception of SoundScan in 1990, beating a record set by Keith Urban's "Once in a Lifetime", which debuted at #17 in 2006. Chesney's record was broken one week later by Garth Brooks' song "More Than a Memory", which debuted at Number One on the country charts, the first song to do so in the chart's history.
The song also matches the fastest rising single of his career set in August, 2007 with "Never Wanted Nothing More" taking eight weeks to reach Number 1.
On the Billboard Hot 100, "Don't Blink" debuted at number 79 on the chart dated September 22, 2007.
The song is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country.
Content
The song's lyrics tell of a younger man's encounter with a 102-year-old man who was being interviewed on the news. The interviewer wants to know the older man's "secret to life", and the older man responds with "don't blink".
Reception
Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it an A+ rating. He said that this song makes him "think about the greater truths and examine my own life from a new perspective. "
Chart performance
"Don't Blink" debuted at number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of September 8, 2007.