"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" | ||||
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Single by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett | ||||
from the album Greatest Hits Volume II | ||||
B-side | "That'd Be Alright"[1] | |||
Released | June 2, 2003 | |||
Recorded | May 2003 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:49 | |||
Label | Arista Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jim "Moose" Brown Don Rollins | |||
Producer(s) | Keith Stegall | |||
Alan Jackson singles chronology | ||||
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Jimmy Buffett singles chronology | ||||
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"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" is a song performed by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, and written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins. It was released in June 2003 as the lead single from Jackson's 2003 compilation album Greatest Hits Volume II. It spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in the summer of 2003, and ranked #4 on the year-end chart. In addition, the song peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September, and ranked #65 on the year-end Hot 100, making it the biggest pop hit for Jackson and the first top forty hit for Buffett since the 1970s.
On November 5, 2003, it won the Country Music Association (CMA) Award for Vocal Event of the Year. It was Buffett's first award in his 30-year career. The song became the #3 song of the decade on Hot Country Songs.