Just to See you Smile - wikipedia Just to See you Smile `` Just to See You Smile '' Single by Tim McGraw from the album Everywhere B - side `` One of These Days '' Released August 9, 1997 ( 1997 - 08 - 09 ) Format CD single Recorded Genre Country Length 3 : 35 Label Curb Songwriter ( s ) Mark Nesler Tony Martin Producer ( s ) Byron Gallimore James Stroud Tim McGraw singles chronology `` Everywhere '' ( 1997 ) `` Just to See You Smile '' ( 1997 ) `` One of These Days '' ( 1998 ) `` Everywhere '' ( 1997 ) `` Just to See You Smile '' ( 1997 ) `` One of These Days '' ( 1998 ) `` Just to See You Smile '' is a song written by Mark Nesler and Tony Martin, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in August 1997 as the third single from McGraw 's fourth studio album Everywhere. Having spent 42 weeks on the Billboard chart, it set what was then a record for being the longest - running single on the Billboard country chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. It was also the longest chart run for any country single in the 1990s. Contents 1 Critical reception 2 Track listing 3 Chart performance 4 Chart positions 4.1 Year - end charts 5 Certifications 6 References 7 External links Critical reception Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, saying McGraw `` plays his cards so close to his chest that upon first listen, you may only pick up on his unconditional love and selflessness toward the girl who 's been stringing him along for all these years. '' Track listing Single Just To See You Smile 3 : 34 Everywhere 4 : 50 Chart performance `` Just to See You Smile '' debuted in August 1997 and surged in November. It became McGraw 's third consecutive No. 1 single from Everywhere, spending six weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in January and February 1998. It was also McGraw 's second single to be declared by Billboard as the Number One country single of the year. No music video was made for this song. Chart positions Chart ( 1997 -- 98 ) Peak position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) Year - end charts Chart ( 1998 ) Position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) 28 US Country Songs ( Billboard ) Preceded by `` A Broken Wing '' by Martina McBride Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number - one single January 17 - February 21, 1998 Succeeded by `` What If I Said '' by Anita Cochran with Steve Wariner Preceded by `` The Kind of Heart That Breaks '' by Chris Cummings RPM Country Tracks number - one single February 9, 1998 Succeeded by `` Walk This Road '' by Bruce Guthro Preceded by `` It 's Your Love '' by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number - one single of the year 1998 Succeeded by `` Amazed '' by Lonestar Certifications Region Certification Certified units / Sales United States ( RIAA ) Gold 500,000 sales figures based on certification alone shipments figures based on certification alone References Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors - Bio '' ( html ). About.com. Retrieved 2007 - 08 - 01. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2008 ). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 644. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 177 - 2. Jump up ^ CountryUniverse.net Song review Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Country Tracks : Issue 3449. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. February 9, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1998 ''. RPM. December 14, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Best of 1998 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013. Jump up ^ `` American single certifications -- Tim McGraw -- Just to See You Smile ''. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 31, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Tim McGraw singles Discography Not a Moment Too Soon `` Indian Outlaw '' `` Do n't Take the Girl '' `` Down on the Farm '' `` Not a Moment Too Soon '' `` Refried Dreams '' All I Want `` I Like It, I Love It '' `` Ca n't Be Really Gone '' `` All I Want Is a Life '' `` She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart '' `` Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It '' Everywhere `` It 's Your Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Everywhere '' `` Just to See You Smile '' `` One of These Days '' `` Where the Green Grass Grows '' `` For a Little While '' A Place in the Sun `` Please Remember Me '' `` Something Like That '' `` My Best Friend '' `` Some Things Never Change '' `` My Next Thirty Years '' Set This Circus Down `` Grown Men Do n't Cry '' `` Angry All the Time '' `` The Cowboy in Me '' `` Unbroken '' Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors `` Red Rag Top '' `` Tiny Dancer '' `` She 's My Kind of Rain '' `` Real Good Man '' `` Watch the Wind Blow By '' Live Like You Were Dying `` Live Like You Were Dying '' `` Back When '' `` Drugs or Jesus '' `` Do You Want Fries with That '' `` My Old Friend '' Reflected : Greatest Hits Vol. 2 `` When the Stars Go Blue '' `` My Little Girl '' Let It Go `` Last Dollar ( Fly Away ) '' `` I Need You '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` If You 're Reading This '' `` Suspicions '' `` Kristofferson '' `` Let It Go '' `` Nothin ' to Die For '' Southern Voice `` It 's a Business Doing Pleasure with You '' `` Southern Voice '' `` Still '' Number One Hits `` Felt Good on My Lips '' Country Strong `` Me and Tennessee '' ( with Gwyneth Paltrow ) Emotional Traffic `` Better Than I Used to Be '' Two Lanes of Freedom `` Truck Yeah '' `` One of Those Nights '' `` Highway Do n't Care '' ( with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ) `` Southern Girl '' Sundown Heaven Town `` Lookin ' for That Girl '' `` Meanwhile Back at Mama 's '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Shotgun Rider '' `` Diamond Rings and Old Barstools '' ( with Catherine Dunn ) Damn Country Music `` Top of the World '' `` Humble and Kind '' `` How I 'll Always Be '' The Rest of Our Life ( with Faith Hill ) `` Speak to a Girl '' `` The Rest of Our Life '' Guest singles `` Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Let 's Make Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Bring On the Rain '' ( with Jo Dee Messina ) `` Over and Over '' ( with Nelly ) `` Like We Never Loved at All '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Find Out Who Your Friends Are '' ( with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney ) `` Nine Lives '' ( with Def Leppard ) `` Feel Like a Rock Star '' ( with Kenny Chesney ) `` Lovin ' Lately '' ( with Big & Rich ) `` May We All '' ( with Florida Georgia Line ) Other songs `` City Lights '' `` The Ride '' `` California '' Billboard Year - End Hot Country Songs number one single of the year 1980 -- 1989 1980 : `` My Heart '' -- Ronnie Milsap 1981 : `` Fire and Smoke '' -- Earl Thomas Conley 1982 : `` Always on My Mind '' -- Willie Nelson 1983 : `` José Cuervo '' -- Shelly West 1984 : `` To All the Girls I 've Loved Before '' -- Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson 1985 : `` Lost in the Fifties Tonight ( In the Still of the Night ) '' -- Ronnie Milsap 1986 : `` Never Be You '' -- Rosanne Cash 1987 : `` Give Me Wings '' -- Michael Johnson 1988 : `` Do n't Close Your Eyes '' -- Keith Whitley 1989 : `` A Better Man '' -- Clint Black 1990 -- 1999 1990 : `` Nobody 's Home '' -- Clint Black 1991 : `` Do n't Rock the Jukebox '' -- Alan Jackson 1992 : `` I Saw the Light '' -- Wynonna Judd 1993 : `` Chattahoochee '' -- Alan Jackson 1994 : `` I Swear '' -- John Michael Montgomery 1995 : `` Sold ( The Grundy County Auction Incident ) '' -- John Michael Montgomery 1996 : `` My Maria '' -- Brooks & Dunn 1997 : `` It 's Your Love '' -- Tim McGraw and Faith Hill 1998 : `` Just to See You Smile '' -- Tim McGraw 1999 : `` Amazed '' -- Lonestar 2000 -- 2009 2000 : `` How Do You Like Me Now ? ! '' -- Toby Keith 2001 : `` Ai n't Nothing ' bout You '' -- Brooks & Dunn 2002 : `` The Good Stuff '' -- Kenny Chesney 2003 : `` My Front Porch Looking In '' -- Lonestar 2004 : `` Live Like You Were Dying '' -- Tim McGraw 2005 : `` That 's What I Love About Sunday '' -- Craig Morgan 2006 : `` If You 're Going Through Hell ( Before The Devil Even Knows ) '' -- Rodney Atkins 2007 : `` Watching You '' -- Rodney Atkins 2008 : `` Just Got Started Lovin ' You '' -- James Otto 2009 : `` I Run to You '' -- Lady Antebellum 2010 -- 2019 2010 : `` Love Like Crazy '' -- Lee Brice 2011 : `` Crazy Girl '' -- Eli Young Band 2012 : `` Time Is Love '' -- Josh Turner 2013 : `` Cruise '' -- Florida Georgia Line 2014 : `` This Is How We Roll '' -- Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan 2015 : `` Take Your Time '' -- Sam Hunt 2016 : `` H.O.L.Y. 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Question: who sings the country song just to see you smile
Answer: Tim McGraw