"No Truck Song" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian
country
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artist
Tim Hicks
Tim Hicks (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. Since he released his debut single "Get By" in 2012, he has charted eighteen top ten hits on the Canada Country chart. Hicks’ catalog ...
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The track was co-written by Bruce Wallace and Jeff Coplan who produced the track. The track is the lead single off Hicks' EP ''Wreck This''.
Background
Hicks said: "On every album I usually add one or two songs that are a little tongue-in-cheek, designed to give fans (and me!) a chuckle, but we’ve never released one as a single before. We smiled and laughed a lot while we wrote it, so I hope fans hear that, and it makes them do the same".
Commercial performance
"No Truck Song" was certified Gold by
Music Canada
Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)) is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada. It a ...
on October 7, 2020, with over 40,000 sales, and later achieved a Platinum certification in 2023.
It reached a peak of #1 on the ''Billboard''
Canada Country chart dated July 4, 2020,
marking Hicks' second chart-topper.
[Tim Hicks peak positions on the Canada Country chart:
* "Get By", "Hell Raisin' Good Time", "Buzz, Buzz, Buzzing", "Here Comes the Thunder", "She Don't Drink Whiskey Anymore", "So Do I", "Stompin' Ground", "Slow Burn", "Slide Over", and "Forever Rebels":
* "Got a Feeling":
* "Young, Alive and In Love":
* "One Horse Town":
* "Loud":
* "The Worst Kind":
* "What a Song Should Do":
* "No Truck Song":
* "The Good, the Bad and the Pretty": ] It also reached a peak of #71 on the
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music industry record chart in Canada for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. The Canadian Hot 100 was launched on the issue dated March 31, 2007, and is currently the standard record chart in Canada; a n ...
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and #40 on the Australian ''
TMN''
Country Hot 50.
Music video
The official music video for "No Truck Song" premiered on March 4, 2020 and was directed by Adam Rothlein.
Charts
Certifications
References
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2020 songs
2020 singles
Tim Hicks songs
Open Road Recordings singles
Songs written by Tim Hicks