Feel Like a Rock Star

"Feel Like a Rock Star" is a song written by Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson, and recorded by Kenny Chesney as a duet with Tim McGraw. The song is the first single from Chesney's 2012 album Welcome to the Fishbowl. It is his last single released by BNA Records.

History

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

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 charts dated 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 Broadcast Data Systems, 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 May 26, 2012 chart, becoming Chesney's first single to miss the Top Ten since "The Tin Man" peaked at number 19 in 2001. On the following chart, "Feel Like a Rock Star" fell to number 18 while 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
US Billboard Hot 100^[9]	40
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[10]	11

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[11]	75

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
United States (RIAA)^[12]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

Parodies

American parody artist Cledus T. Judd released a parody of "Feel Like A Rock Star" titled "Feel Like a Pawn Star" on his 2012 album "Parodyziac!!".

References

↑ "Chesney, McGraw duet, "Rockstar," sets record debut". Country Standard Time. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ Conaway, Alanna. "Kenny Chesney, 'Feel Like a Rock Star' (Feat. Tim McGraw) – Lyrics Uncovered". Taste of Country. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ Dukes, Billy. "Kenny Chesney, 'Feel Like a Rock Star' (Feat. Tim McGraw) – Song Review". Taste of Country. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ 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.
1 2 Trust, Gary (9 April 2012). "Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw's 'Rock Star' Roars Onto Country Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ "Billboard Country Update" (PDF). Billboard. 21 May 2012. p. 6. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
↑ "Chesney-McGraw collaboration, "Rockstar," gets played - a lot". Country Standard Time. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ Illegal name entered Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw/Kenny+Chesney+and+Tim+McGraw/chart?f=793 "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw.
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↑ "Best of 2012: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
↑ "American single certifications – Kenny Chesney – Feel Like a Rockstar". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 26, 2012. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH

Kenny Chesney singles

In My Wildest Dreams	"Whatever It Takes" "The Tin Man" "Somebody's Callin'"

All I Need to Know	"Fall in Love" "All I Need to Know" "Grandpa Told Me So"

Me and You	"Back in My Arms Again" "Me and You" "When I Close My Eyes"

I Will Stand	"She's Got It All" "A Chance" "That's Why I'm Here" "I Will Stand"

Everywhere We Go	"How Forever Feels" "You Had Me from Hello" "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" "What I Need to Do"

Greatest Hits	"I Lost It" "Don't Happen Twice" "The Tin Man" (re-release)

No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems	"Young" "The Good Stuff" "A Lot of Things Different" "Big Star" "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems"

When the Sun Goes Down	"There Goes My Life" "When the Sun Goes Down" (w/ Uncle Kracker) "I Go Back" "The Woman with You" "Anything but Mine" "Keg in the Closet"

The Road and the Radio	"Who You'd Be Today" "Living in Fast Forward" "Summertime" "You Save Me" "Beer in Mexico"

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates	"Never Wanted Nothing More" "Don't Blink" "Shiftwork" (w/ George Strait) "Better as a Memory"

Lucky Old Sun	"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (w/ The Wailers) "Down the Road" (w/ Mac McAnally)

Greatest Hits II	"Out Last Night" "I'm Alive" (w/ Dave Matthews) "Ain't Back Yet"

Hemingway's Whiskey	"The Boys of Fall" "Somewhere with You" "Live a Little" "You and Tequila" (w/ Grace Potter) "Reality"

Welcome to the Fishbowl	"Feel Like a Rock Star" (w/ Tim McGraw) "Come Over" "El Cerrito Place"

Life on a Rock	"Pirate Flag" "When I See This Bar"

The Big Revival	"American Kids" "Til It's Gone" "Wild Child" (w/ Grace Potter) "Save It for a Rainy Day"

Cosmic Hallelujah	"Noise" "Setting the World on Fire" (w/ Pink) "Bar at the End of the World"

Guest singles	"Hey, Good Lookin'" (w/ Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (w/ Tracy Lawrence and Tim McGraw) "Every Other Weekend" (w/ Reba McEntire)

See also	Discography "Back Where I Come From" "Baptism" "Some People Change" "Take Me There" "Turning Home"

Tim McGraw singles

Discography

Not a Moment Too Soon	"Indian Outlaw" "Don't Take the Girl" "Down on the Farm" "Not a Moment Too Soon" "Refried Dreams"

All I Want	"I Like It, I Love It" "Can't Be Really Gone" "All I Want Is a Life" "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"

Everywhere	"It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) "Everywhere" "Just to See You Smile" "One of These Days" "Where the Green Grass Grows" "For a Little While"

A Place in the Sun	"Please Remember Me" "Something Like That" "My Best Friend" "Some Things Never Change" "My Next Thirty Years"

Set This Circus Down	"Grown Men Don't Cry" "Angry All the Time" "The Cowboy in Me" "Unbroken"

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors	"Red Rag Top" "Tiny Dancer" "She's My Kind of Rain" "Real Good Man" "Watch the Wind Blow By"

Live Like You Were Dying	"Live Like You Were Dying" "Back When" "Drugs or Jesus" "Do You Want Fries with That" "My Old Friend"

Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"When the Stars Go Blue" "My Little Girl"

Let It Go	"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" "I Need You" (with Faith Hill) "If You're Reading This" "Suspicions" "Kristofferson" "Let It Go" "Nothin' to Die For"

Southern Voice	"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" "Southern Voice" "Still"

Number One Hits	"Felt Good on My Lips"

Country Strong	"Me and Tennessee" (with Gwyneth Paltrow)

Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be"

Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" (with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban) "Southern Girl"

Sundown Heaven Town	"Lookin' for That Girl" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" (with Faith Hill) "Shotgun Rider" "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools" (with Catherine Dunn)

Damn Country Music	"Top of the World" "Humble and Kind" "How I'll Always Be"

Guest singles	"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (with Faith Hill) "Let's Make Love" (with Faith Hill) "Bring On the Rain" (with Jo Dee Messina) "Over and Over" (with Nelly) "Like We Never Loved at All" (with Faith Hill) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney) "Nine Lives" (with Def Leppard) "Feel Like a Rock Star" (with Kenny Chesney) "Lovin' Lately" (with Big & Rich) "May We All" (with Florida Georgia Line)

Other songs	"City Lights" "The Ride"

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