It Sure Is Monday

"It Sure Is Monday"
Single by Mark Chesnutt
from the album Almost Goodbye
B-side	"I'm Not Getting Any Better at Goodbyes"[2]
Released	May 18, 1993 (1993-05-18)[1]
Recorded	1993
Genre	Country
Length	2:56
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Dennis Linde
Producer(s)	Mark Wright
Mark Chesnutt singles chronology
"Ol' Country" (1993) "It Sure Is Monday" (1993) "Almost Goodbye" (1993)

"It Sure Is Monday" is a song written by Dennis Linde and recorded by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. It was released in May 1993 as the first single from his 1993 album Almost Goodbye. The song reached number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. It also peaked at number 19 on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.^[2]

Content

The song is an uptempo, the narrator is a young man who is complaining that he has to get busy again seeing that the weekend has passed and that "it sure is Monday".

Music video

The music video was directed by John Lloyd Miller and premiered in mid-1993.

Chart performance

"It Sure Is Monday" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 22, 1993.

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3]	1
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[4]	19
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[6]	39
US Country Songs (Billboard)[7]	8

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2219." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 28, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
4. "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.
5. "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
6. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
7. "Best of 1993: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.