I Loved Her First ( song ) - wikipedia I Loved Her First ( song ) `` I Loved Her First '' Single by Heartland from the album I Loved Her First Released June 5, 2006 Format CD single Genre Country Length 3 : 32 Label Lofton Creek Songwriter ( s ) Walt Aldridge Elliott Park Producer ( s ) Walt Aldridge Heartland singles chronology `` I Loved Her First '' ( 2006 ) `` Built to Last '' ( 2007 ) `` I Loved Her First '' ( 2006 ) `` Built to Last '' ( 2007 ) `` I Loved Her First '' is a debut song recorded by American country music band Heartland. It was released in June 2006 as the first single title track from their debut studio album I Loved Her First ( 2006 ). The song reached Number One on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in late 2006. The song was written by Walt Aldridge and Elliott Park. Contents 1 Content 2 Critical reception 3 Music video 4 Chart performance 5 Charts 5.1 Weekly charts 5.2 Year - end charts 6 References Content The song is a mid-tempo ballad in triple meter. In it, the male narrator is talking to the man who is about to marry his daughter, telling him that he is having difficulty giving her away because he `` loved her first. '' Critical reception Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a `` beautifully written tearjerker that will hit home with dads everywhere who ca n't believe their little girls have grown up so soon. '' She calls Albert 's performance `` wonderful '' and says that it `` wrings every drop of emotion from the tender lyric. '' Music video The music video was directed by Todd Schaffer and premiered in mid-2006. It features the group singing and a family at a wedding reception. Chart performance `` I Loved Her First '' debuted at number 57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 8, 2006. Driven by a viral video of a father singing the ballad at his daughter 's wedding, it reappeared on the chart almost nine years later at number 7 on the chart dated February 21, 2015. The song has sold over one million copies. Charts Weekly charts Chart ( 2006 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) US Billboard Hot 100 34 US Billboard Pop 100 56 Chart ( 2015 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) 7 Year - end charts Chart ( 2006 ) Position US Country Songs ( Billboard ) 30 Preceded by `` Would You Go with Me '' by Josh Turner Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one single October 28, 2006 Succeeded by `` Every Mile a Memory '' by Dierks Bentley References Jump up ^ Morris, Edward ( 2006 - 11 - 13 ). `` Heartland Scores a No. 1 Its First Time Out ''. CMT.com. Retrieved 2008 - 02 - 07. Jump up ^ Billboard, July 29, 2006 ^ Jump up to : Jessen, Wade ( February 12, 2015 ). `` Sam Hunt Scores Second No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, Heartland Returns ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 13, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Heartland Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) '' Billboard. Jump up ^ `` Heartland Chart History ( Hot 100 ) '' Billboard. Jump up ^ `` Best of 2006 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2012. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Loved_Her_First_(song)&oldid=803181617 '' Categories : 2006 singles Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles Debut singles Songs written by Walt Aldridge Heartland ( band ) songs Lofton Creek Records singles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Billboardhot100 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Հայերեն Edit links This page was last edited on 1 October 2017, at 00 : 19. About Wikipedia

Question: who sings the country song i loved her first
Answer: Heartland