Chicken Fried
"Chicken Fried" is a song by American country music group Zac Brown Band, which frontman Zac Brown co-wrote with Wyatt Durrette. The song was first recorded in 2003 for the 2005 album Home Grown. The Lost Trailers, another country group, released their version in 2006 as a single, but it was withdrawn from radio. Two years later, the Zac Brown Band re-recorded the song and released it as the first single from their album The Foundation.
This article is about the 2008 song. For fried chicken in the cuisine of the Southern United States, see Fried chicken."Chicken Fried"
June 16, 2008
- 3:58 (album version)
- 3:38 (radio edit)
- Live Nation
- Home Grown
- Atlantic
- Zac Brown
- Keith Stegall
In late 2008, "Chicken Fried" became the band's first chart single, as well as their first number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song has also been placed at number 39 for the Taste of Country's "Top 100 Country Songs of All Time" chart. The song was featured in the 2008 comedy film Witless Protection.
Commercial performance[edit]
The Lost Trailers' version of the song reached as high as #52 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2006 before being withdrawn as a single. The Zac Brown Band's version made its debut at #59 on the same chart for the week of June 28, 2008, peaking at #1 on the chart week of December 6. This song also made the Zac Brown Band the first country music group to reach Number One with a debut single since Heartland's 2006 Number One hit "I Loved Her First".[6] The song reached 4 million in sales in the United States by October 2013.[7] As of July 2017, the song has sold 4,913,000 copies in the United States.[8]
An Applebee's TV advertisement featuring this song was aired in CNN while covering Russia’s military deployment across the border of Ukraine the night of February 24, causing controversy. Applebee's eventually pulled its advertising from CNN in response to the incident.[9][10]