The Best Day

Infobox Single
Name = The Best Day


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Artist = George Strait
from Album = Latest Greatest Straitest Hits
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B-side =
Released = January 5, 2000
Format = CD Single
Recorded = August 31, 1999
Genre = Country
Length = 3:24
Label = MCA Nashville
Writer = Dean Dillon, Carson Chamberlain
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Certification =
Last single = "What Do You Say To That"
(1999)
This single = "The Best Day"
(2000)
Next single = "Murder on Music Row"
(w/Alan Jackson)
(2000)
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"The Best Day" is a single by country music singer George Strait that reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was the first single released from his CD, "Latest Greatest Straitest Hits".

Content

The song describes a young man who enjoys spending time with his father, thus stating it "the best day of [his] life".

Chart performance

The song entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 48 on the chart dated January 1, 2000, and spent 29 weeks on the chart. The song also climbed to #1 after spending 17 weeks on the chart, where it held #1 for three weeks on the chart dated April 22, 2000. In addition, this song became Strait's 36th "Billboard" Number One as a solo artist, breaking a record for most solo No. 1 hits, also breaking a tie held by Conway Twitty and Merle Haggard.Fact|date=June 2008

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