It Ain't Nothin' Explained

It Ain't Nothin'
Type:single
Artist:Keith Whitley
Album:I Wonder Do You Think of Me
B-Side:Heartbreak Highway
Released:October 1989
Recorded:early 1989
Genre:Country
Length:4:03
Label:RCA
Producer:Garth Fundis
Keith Whitley
Prev Title:I Wonder Do You Think of Me
Prev Year:1989
Next Title:I'm Over You
Next Year:1990

"It Ain't Nothin'" is a song written by Tony Haselden, and recorded by American country music artist Keith Whitley. It was posthumously released in October 1989 as the second single from the album I Wonder Do You Think of Me. His fifth and last No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, the song was his second posthumous chart-topper, reaching the top of the chart seven months after his death.

The song spent one week at No. 1 and 17 weeks in the Hot Country Singles chart's top 40.[1]

Music video

A music video was released of the song, and has aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and Great American Country. The music video shows pictures a la Knots Landing fashion and are a montage of Whitley throughout his life, from early childhood through shortly before his death.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 28
US Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 40

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 382.
  2. Web site: RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1990. RPM. December 22, 1990. August 23, 2013.
  3. Best of 1990: Country Songs . . . 1990. August 23, 2013.