"Right on the Money" is a song written by
Phil Vassar
Phillip George Vassar Jr. (born May 28, 1962) is an American country music artist. Vassar made his debut on the country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw ("For a Little While", ...
and
Charlie Black
Charles Frank Black (November 23, 1949 – April 23, 2021) was an American country music songwriter and record producer.
Biography
Black graduated from University of Maryland in 1970 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee the same year. His first c ...
, and recorded by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
singer
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds (for a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country"), as well as penning many o ...
. It was released in October 1998 as the second single from his CD ''
High Mileage
''High Mileage'' is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on September 1, 1998, and produced four hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts for Jackson: "I'll Go on Loving You" (#3), "Right on ...
''. The song became Jackson's sixteenth number-one single on the
Hot Country Singles & Tracks
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(now
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.
Composition
The song is in the key of
E-flat major
E-flat major (or the key of E-flat) is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats. Its relative minor is C minor, and its parallel minor is E minor, (or enharmonically ...
. Jackson's vocals range from B♭3 to E♭5.
The main chord progression in the verses is E♭-Edim-Fm7-B♭7 three times, followed by A♭ and B♭ for a measure each.
Chart positions
"Right on the Money" debuted at number 75 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 17, 1998.
Year-end charts
References
{{Alan Jackson singles
1998 singles
1998 songs
Alan Jackson songs
Songs written by Phil Vassar
Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall
Arista Nashville singles
Songs written by Charlie Black