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Girl (Maren Morris song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Girl
| artist = Maren Morris
| album = Girl
| type = single
| cover = Maren Morris - Girl (song).png
| released =
| recorded =
| genre = Country pop
| label = Columbia Nashville
| length =
| writer =
| producer = Greg Kurstin
| prev_title = Seeing Blind
| prev_year = 2018
| next_title = The Bones
| next_year = 2019
| misc =
}}
"'Girl'" is a song recorded by American country music singer Maren Morris for her second studio album of the same name. Morris co-wrote the song with Sarah Aarons and its producer Greg Kurstin. It was released to American country radio on January 18, 2019 through Columbia Nashville as the album's first single. The song has been certified platinum in the United States and Canada.
Music video
The music video was directed by Dave Meyers and premiered on CMT, GAC and Vevo in January 2019. It begins and ends with Morris giving a spoken-word monologue about what it means to be a girl, and is interspersed with footage of Morris performing on stage, and various anonymous women going through hardships in life, as well Morris being critiqued by male music executive.
Commercial performance
"Girl" reached a peak of Number One on the 'Billboard' Country Airplay chart dated August 3, 2019. It is the singer's third single to reach the top of the Country Airplay chart, and it was also the first solo female song to lead the chart in over a year, since Kelsea Ballerini's "Legends" in February 2018. The following week, it fell to number 13, making it the first song to fall out of the top 10 from Number One since Shania Twain's "You Win My Love" fell from number 1 to number 11 in 1996.
The song was certified Gold by the RIAA on July 17, 2019, and Platinum later the same year on October 10 for one million units in combined sales and streams. It has sold 155,000 copies in the United States as of December 2019.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
* Maren Morris vocals, backing vocals, songwriter
* Greg Kurstin producer, songwriter, drums
* Sarah Aarons songwriter
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Maren Morris|title=Girl|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2019|access-date=October 10, 2019| salesamount=1,000,000 / 155,000| salesref=|refname=RIAA}}
Release history
References
Category:2019 songs
Category:2019 singles
Category:Maren Morris songs
Category:Columbia Nashville Records singles
Category:Songs written by Greg Kurstin
Category:Songs written by Sarah Aarons
Category:Song recordings produced by Greg Kurstin
Category:Music videos directed by Dave Meyers (director)
Category:Songs written by Maren Morris
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