Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

Infobox Single
Name = Honky Tonk Badonkadonk


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Artist = Trace Adkins
from Album = Songs About Me
Released = Start date|2005|10
Format = CD single
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:01 (album version)
3:36 (radio edit)
Label = Capitol Nashville
Writer = Dallas Davidson
Randy Houser
Jamey Johnson
Producer = Dann Huff
Certification = Gold (U.S.)
Last single = "Arlington"
(2005)
This single = "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"
(2005)
Next single = "Swing"
(2006)
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"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" is a single, released in late 2005 by country music artist Trace Adkins. The song was a crossover hit for Adkins, peaking at #2 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart, and reaching the Top 40 on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100 charts. It was also certified gold for more than 100,000 musical downloads from iTunes, and reached Number One on the iTunes country charts. [http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1522705/20060127/adkins_trace.jhtml CMT.com : Trace Adkins : Adkins' "Badonkadonk" Shaking Out as Real Moneymaker] ] Its ringtone also received more than 75,000 downloads. [ [http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061127/NEWS01/111270020&SearchID=73264951933518 MonroeNews.com] ]

A music video was also made, featuring an alternate, remixed version of the song. The video remix, along with two other remixes and a reprise of the original mix, are also featured on Adkins' 2007 album "Dangerous Man".

Content

According to Jamey Johnson, who co-wrote the song, the idea for "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" came when Johnson and two of his friends were watching a young woman dancing at a club. Randy Houser, one of the co-writers, saw the woman as well, and came up with the line "honky tonk badonkadonk", as "badonkadonk" is a popular urban slang for shapely female buttocks. Within an hour, the three had written the song. [ [http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1525579/20060307/akins_rhett.jhtml CMT.com : Jamey Johnson stirs fans with "The Dollar"] ]

Chart positions

"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" entered the Hot Country Songs charts in early 2005 at #58 based on unsolicited airplay. The song was officially released later in that same year, peaking at #2 on the country charts in early 2006 (having been blocked from Number One by "Jesus, Take the Wheel" by Carrie Underwood).

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