It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
Single by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett
from the album Greatest Hits Volume II
B-side"That'd Be Alright"[1]
ReleasedJune 2, 2003
RecordedMay 2003
GenreCountry
Length3:49
LabelArista Nashville
Songwriter(s)Jim "Moose" Brown
Don Rollins
Producer(s)Keith Stegall
Alan Jackson singles chronology
"That'd Be Alright"
(2002)
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
(2003)
"Remember When"
(2003)
Jimmy Buffett singles chronology
"Far Side of the World"
(2002)
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
(2003)
"Hey, Good Lookin'"
(2004)

"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" is a song performed by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, and written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins. It was released in June 2003 as the lead single from Jackson's 2003 compilation album Greatest Hits Volume II. It spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in the summer of 2003, and ranked #4 on the year-end chart. In addition, the song peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September, and ranked #65 on the year-end Hot 100, making it the biggest pop hit for Jackson and the first top forty hit for Buffett since the 1970s.

On November 5, 2003, it won the Country Music Association (CMA) Award for Vocal Event of the Year. It was Buffett's first award in his 30-year career. The song became the #3 song of the decade on Hot Country Songs.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.

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