"Consider Me Gone" is the title of a song written by Steve Diamond and Marv Green. It was recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...

 as her second release for the Valory label, a sister label of Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records is an Independent American record label specializing in country music artists. It was launched in 2005 by former DreamWorks Records executive Scott Borchetta. The label was part of a joint venture between Borchetta and country singer Toby Keith, although Keith dropped his...

. It is also the second single from her twenty-sixth studio album Keep On Loving You

Keep on Loving You (album)

Keep On Loving You is the twenty-fifth studio album and twenty-fourth solo album by American country artist, Reba McEntire. The album was released August 18, 2009 on Starstruck/Valory and on Humphead Records in the UK, and was produced by Tony Brown, Mark Bright, and McEntire.Keep On Loving You is...

, which was released on August 18, 2009. On the Billboard

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country singles charts dated for the week of January 2, 2010, the song became McEntire's thirty-fourth number-one single. It is also her longest-lasting number one at four weeks.

Content

"Consider Me Gone" is a moderate up-tempo, featuring electric guitar and steel guitar fills. The narrator describes her lover as not being satisfied with her, but she decides to carry on without him and tells him to "consider [her] gone."

Critical reception

Jim Malec of The 9513 gave the song a thumbs-down, saying that it "is a perfectly fine tune, unobjectionable but seemingly a better fit for a new artist who perhaps doesn’t have access to Music City’s best material. Reba, of course, could have the pick of the litter." Bobby Peacock, in his review of the album for Roughstock, compared the song's sound to McEntire's 1990s material, describing it as "an easy-going mid-tempo which focuses on the tail end of a fading relationship. The melody and production are a bit more stripped-down than most mainstream country radio, so this should do well as the second single."

Music video

The music video, which was directed by Trey Fanjoy

Trey Fanjoy

Trey Fanjoy is a country music and pop music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH-1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV.-Music videos:...

, premiered during CMT

Country Music Television

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's Big New Music Weekend, on October 2, 2009.

Promotion

McEntire debuted the song at CMT's Invitation Only event; the performance was included as bonus content on the album. Additionally, the song was included on a set of songs McEntire performed for the QVC home shopping network prior to the street date of the album. Since the album's release, Reba has performed the song on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

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, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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, Live with Regis and Kelly

Live with Regis and Kelly

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, America's Got Talent

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, Good Morning America

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, and several other nationally syndicated television and radio shows. For the international release of the song, she performed the song at the 2009 Canadian Country Music Awards on September 13, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chart performance

"Consider Me Gone" debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of August 16, 2009. It is her 58th Top 10 hit and her first solo Top 10 since "He Gets That From Me" in 2005. It became her 24th Number One hit on the chart week of January 2, 2010 and her first Number One in the United States since "Somebody

Somebody (Reba McEntire song)

"Somebody" is a country music song written by Dave Berg, Sam Tate, and Annie Tate. It was initially recorded by singer Mark Wills for his 2001 studio album Loving Every Minute. Reba McEntire later recorded the same song for her 2003 album Room to Breathe, releasing it as that album's second single...

" in August 2004. It also debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

on the week ending October 17, 2009 and peaked at number 38, becoming her 3rd top 40 hit on that chart. The song has become McEntire's longest-running number-one single with four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Chart (2009-2010)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	38
Canadian Hot 100	52