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I Called Mama - Wikipedia

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"I Called Mama"

Single by Tim McGraw

from the album Here on Earth

Released

May 8, 2020

Genre

Country

Length

3:31

Label

Big Machine

Songwriter(s)

Marv Green
Lance Miller
Jimmy Yeary

Producer(s)

Tim McGraw
Byron Gallimore

Tim McGraw singles chronology

"Thought About You"
(2019)

"I Called Mama"
(2020)

"Undivided"
(2021)

"I Called Mama" is a song recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in May 2020 as the lead-off single to his sixteenth studio album Here on Earth, and is his first single since returning to Big Machine Records earlier in the year.^[1]

Content

"I Called Mama" was written by Marv Green, Lance Miller, and Jimmy Yeary.^[2] Released just before Mother's Day, the song is described as "a gently ebbing ballad led by acoustic guitar and washes of pedal steel [...] about not putting things off until it's too late", which leads to a phone call home to the narrator's mother.^[1] McGraw originally expected the song to just remain an album cut, but in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, he felt the song took on a new meaning: "There was a lot of carrying a lot of weight along with it, and as you listen to it and you think about the personal level, but that's something that's sort of existential in a way that speaks to things that are going on outside of what the song is saying, and to have a personal song that's something that big when you look at it from a different perspective when the world changed, it was hard to ignore. It was hard to not want to pay attention to the song being, for me, a sort of catharsis during this time".^[2]

Music video

The music video premiered on May 27, 2020, and is "a tribute to mothers everywhere" with clips of McGraw's fans and their mothers, as well as appearances by his own mother, Betty Trimble, and wife, Faith Hill.^[3]

Chart performance

"I Called Mama" debuted on Billboard Country Airplay at No. 20 for the chart dated May 11, 2020, his third top 20 debut on the chart.^[4] It also debuted at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated July 11, 2020.^[5]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2020)	Peak position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[6]	77
Canada Country (Billboard)^[7]	2
US Billboard Hot 100^[8]	53
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[9]	23
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[10]	2
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[11]	8

Year-end charts

Chart (2020)	Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[12]	38
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[13]	39

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[14]	Gold	500,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

^ ^a ^b Jon Freeman (May 8, 2020). "Tim McGraw Returns With Gentle New Song 'I Called Mama'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Angela Stefano (May 8, 2020). "Story Behind the Song: Tim McGraw, 'I Called Mama'". The Boot. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ Lauren Jo Black (May 27, 2020). "Tim McGraw Debuts Heartwarming 'I Called Mama' Music Video". Country Now. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ "Billboard Country Update May 11, 2020" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ Billboard Hot 100: July 11, 2020
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard.
^ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Country Airplay Songs – Year-End 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
^ "American single certifications – Tim McGraw – I Called Mama". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 6, 2023.

Tim McGraw singles

Singles discography

1990s

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"

2000s

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"

2010s

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"

2020s

Here on Earth	"Neon Church" "Thought About You" "I Called Mama" "Undivided" "7500 OBO"
Standing Room Only	"Standing Room Only"
Poet's Resumé	"One Bad Habit"

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