| I'm Already There | |
| Cover: | Lonestar - I'm Already There.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lonestar |
| Album: | I'm Already There |
| B-Side: | "Tell Her" (US) "Amazed" (Australia) |
| Genre: | Country pop |
| Length: | 4:13 |
| Label: | BNA 69083 |
| Producer: | Dann Huff |
| Prev Title: | Tell Her |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | With Me |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
"I'm Already There" is a song by American country music band Lonestar, written by lead singer Richie McDonald along with Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers. It was released on April 16, 2001 as the lead-off single to their fourth studio album of the same name. It spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was the band's fifth consecutive Number One, and their seventh overall.[1]
In the song, McDonald narrates about a man who is on the road, and the lyric explains how the man feels and how his family is responding to his absence. This also explains how much the man loves his family, and how much they mean to him. He then says that he will always be there for them in spirit, even though he is separated from them physically. The song became associated with the September 11 attacks (even though it was released before the attacks) along with family members being deployed and returning from deployment, and has been heard many times on Good Morning America. Due to its tone and subject matter, "I’m Already There" is considered one of Lonestar’s darker songs, alongside "Not a Day Goes By", their 2002 single revolving around breakups.
On their 2003 greatest-hits package , Lonestar included a "Message from Home" version which included dubbed-in telephone calls placed by family members of soldiers. This version also lacks the line "And I'll gently kiss your lips / Touch you with my fingertips" from the second verse.
The music video premiered to CMT on June 7, 2001 and was directed by Michael Salomon. On April 21, 2003, they released another version of the music video to recast the song as a tribute to the military. This version is the one that is most-played on TV. The band's performance was shot at Nashville's Union Station Hotel.
Andrea Dresdale of Rolling Stone cited the song as a standout track on the album, calling it "a finely detailed snapshot of everyday life that'll have anyone in a long distance relationship reaching for the Kleenex."[2]
| Position | ||
| Canada Radio (Nielsen BDS)[3] | 51 | |
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 5 | |
| Chart (2002) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[5] | 5 |
| United States | April 16, 2001 | Country radio | BNA | [6] [7] |
| September 3, 2001 | Adult contemporary radio | [8] | ||
| September 10, 2001 | Hot adult contemporary radio | [9] | ||
| late September 2001 | Contemporary hit radio | [10] | ||
| Australia | October 29, 2001 | CD single | [11] |
| I'm Already There | |
| Artist: | Westlife |
| Album: | Back Home |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 4:18 |
| Label: | Sony BMG |
| Producer: | Quiz & Larossi |
A cover of the song is the fourth track on the ninth studio album of Westlife, Back Home. It entered the UK download chart at #74 after "The Westlife Show" in December 2007. The song was not released as a single but peaked at #62 on the Official UK Singles Chart.
In 2008 on Series 5 of X Factor in the United Kingdom, JLS performed the Westlife version and it re-entered the UK charts at #106 and peaked at #63. It entered the Official Irish Singles Chart at #47.
The song has been performed on 4 tours: The Back Home Tour (2008), The Where We Are Tour (2010), The Gravity Tour (2011) and The Wild Dreams Tour (2022).
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart | 62 |
| UK Download Chart | 74 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 47 |