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"Beer In Mexico" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in January 2007 as the fifth and final single from his 2005 album The Road and the Radio. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and is the first single solely written by Chesney to top the chart.
| "Beer in Mexico" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 The song's lyrics | ||||
| Single by Kenny Chesney | ||||
| from the album The Road and the Radio | ||||
| Released | January 8, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:33 (album version) 3:44 (radio version) | |||
| Label | BNA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kenny Chesney | |||
| Producer(s) | Buddy Cannon Kenny Chesney | |||
| Kenny Chesney singles chronology | ||||
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The liner notes for The Road and the Radio state that Chesney wrote the song while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for Sammy Hagar's birthday party.
This song talks about a guy who is at the "crossroads in [his] life" and doesn't know what decisions to make, so he decides to relax and have a “beer in Mexico.”
Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B+ grade, saying that it "is a cool, loud record" and that "[t]here’s almost too much going on, but just almost" and concluding with "[how] radio will be all over the song".[1] Dan Milliken of Country Universe rated the song number 108 on his list of the 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade. He stated that the song "was such a perfect encapsulation of Kenny Chesney’s musical identity from this decade that you could skip over most of the rest of his work and still get the basic idea."[2]
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"Beer in Mexico" debuted at number 60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 19, 2005 as an album cut. It re-entered Hot Country Songs at number 51 for the week of January 6, 2007.
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[4] | 61 |
| Canada Country (Billboard)[5] | 1 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2007) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] | 24 |
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA)[7] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
Mexican singer Thalía recorded a Castilian version of the song for her 2014 studio album Amore Mío.[8]
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