"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" is a song written by
Nickelback frontman
Chad Kroeger and country musician
Brett James
Brett James Cornelius (born June 5, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer based in Nashville. James' compositions have been credited on 494 recordings by a wide variety of artists. Signed to Career Records ( ...
, and recorded by American
country music
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artist
Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released 16 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those album ...
. The song is the first single to his tenth studio album, ''
Southern Voice''. It is also McGraw's fifty-second chart entry on the ''Billboard'' country charts. The song was released to radio on June 29, 2009.
Content
The song's narrator is frustrated with buying items for his lover, telling her that "it's a business doing pleasure with
er. The song's title is an inversion of the phrase "It's a pleasure doing business with you."
Chart performance
"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" debuted at number 35 on the U.S. ''Billboard''
Hot Country Songs
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This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
chart in July 2009, and reached a peak of number 13 on the chart in September 2009.
References
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2009 singles
2009 songs
Tim McGraw songs
Songs written by Brett James
Songs written by Chad Kroeger
Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore
Song recordings produced by Tim McGraw
Curb Records singles