Feel Like a Rock Star

2012 single by Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw

"Feel Like a Rock Star"

Single by Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw

from the album Welcome to the Fishbowl

Released

April 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)

Recorded

2012

Genre

Country
country rock

Length

3:28

Label

BNA

Songwriter(s)

Rodney Clawson
Chris Tompkins

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

American parody musician 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.
^ ^a ^b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ "Chesney-McGraw collaboration, "Rockstar," gets played - a lot". Country Standard Time. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "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.

Kenny Chesney songs

In My Wildest Dreams

"The Tin Man"

All I Need to Know

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

Me and You

"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

Greatest Hits

"I Lost It"
"Don't Happen Twice"
"The Tin Man"

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

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

Lucky Old Sun

"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"
"Down the Road"

Greatest Hits II

"Out Last Night"
"I'm Alive"
"Ain't Back Yet"

Hemingway's Whiskey

"The Boys of Fall"
"Somewhere with You"
"Live a Little"
"You and Tequila"
"Reality"

Welcome to the Fishbowl

"Feel Like a Rock Star"
"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"
"Save It for a Rainy Day"

Cosmic Hallelujah

"Noise"
"Setting the World on Fire"
"Bar at the End of the World"
"All the Pretty Girls"

Songs for the Saints

"Get Along"
"Better Boat"

Here and Now

"Tip of My Tongue"
"Here and Now"
"Happy Does"
"Knowing You"
"Everyone She Knows"

Other songs

"Hey, Good Lookin'"
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
"Every Other Weekend"
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
"Half of My Hometown"
"Back Where I Come From"
"Baptism"
"Some People Change"

v t e Tim McGraw singles
Singles discography
Tim McGraw	"What Room Was the Holiday In" "Welcome to the Club" "Memory Lane" "Two Steppin' Mind"
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" "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" "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"
Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be"
Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" "Southern Girl"
Sundown Heaven Town	"Lookin' for That Girl" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" "Shotgun Rider" "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools"
Damn Country Music	"Top of the World" "Humble and Kind" "How I'll Always Be"
The Rest of Our Life	"Speak to a Girl" "The Rest of Our Life"
Here on Earth	"I Called Mama" "Undivided" "7500 OBO"
Standing Room Only	"Standing Room Only"

v t e CMA Musical Event of the Year
1988-1990	"Trio" (1988) "There's a Tear in My Beer" (1989) "'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" (1990)
1991-2000	"Restless" (1991) "This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time)" (1992) "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" (1993) "Does He Love You" (1994) "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" (1995) "I Will Always Love You" (1996) "It's Your Love" (1997) "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (1998) "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man" (1999) "Murder on Music Row" (2000)
2001-2010	"Too Country" (2001) "Mendocino County Line" (2002) "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (2003) "Whiskey Lullaby" (2004) "Good News, Bad News" (2005) "When I Get Where I'm Going" (2006) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (2007) "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" (2008) "Start a Band" (2009) "Hillbilly Bone" (2010)
2011-2020	"Don't You Wanna Stay" (2011) "Feel Like a Rock Star" (2012) "Highway Don't Care" (2013) "We Were Us" (2014) "Raise 'Em Up" (2015) "Different for Girls" (2016) "Funny How Time Slips Away" (2017) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (2018) "Old Town Road" (2019) "I Hope You're Happy Now" (2020)
2021-present	"Half of My Hometown" (2021) “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” (2022) "Wait in the Truck" (2023)