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"Stealing Cinderella" is a debut song recorded by American country music artist Chuck Wicks. It was released in September 2007 as the first single from the album Starting Now. The song was co-written by Wicks along with songwriters George Teren and Rivers Rutherford. The single produced the biggest debut for any new country artist in all of 2007, with fifty-two Billboard-monitored stations in the United States adding the song in its first official week of airplay.[1][2] Overall, the song peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

"Stealing Cinderella"
Single by Chuck Wicks
from the album Starting Now
Released	September 10, 2007 (2007-09-10)
Genre	Country
Length	4:04
Label	RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)	Chuck Wicks George Teren Rivers Rutherford
Producer(s)	Dann Huff Monty Powell
Chuck Wicks singles chronology
"Stealing Cinderella" (2007) "All I Ever Wanted" (2008)

On August 25, 2007, Wicks performed the song at his Grand Ole Opry debut.[3] In October 2007, Wicks was invited by University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer to perform "Stealing Cinderella" at the wedding of Fulmer's daughter Courtney.[1]

Content

"Stealing Cinderella" is a ballad which, through allusions to the fairy tale of Cinderella, the narrator tells of a conversation with his girlfriend's father, asking for the father's permission to marry his daughter.[1][4]

Critical reception

Engine 145 reviewer Brady Vercher gave the song a "thumbs up" review. Although he thought that it was unusual to use Cinderella for a comparison (as Cinderella's father died in the fairy tale), and that the song's verses "gloss[ed] over" the allusions to the fairy tale, he nonetheless said that he could identify with the sentiment of the song's central character.[4]

Chart performance

"Stealing Cinderella" debuted at number 53 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 8, 2007.[5] Fifty-two of the country music stations on Billboard's panel added the song in its first official week of airplay, boosting it to number 42 that week.[2]

Chart (2007–2008)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[6]	5
US Billboard Hot 100[7]	56
US Billboard Pop 100	99
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[8]	81

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[9]	32

References

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