Starting Now is the debut album of American country music

Country music

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 artist Chuck Wicks

Chuck Wicks

Charles Elliott "Chuck" Wicks is an American country music artist. He was one of the participants on the American reality series Nashville, which aired on Fox Networks for two episodes before its cancellation in mid-2007...

. It was released on January 22, 2008. The album debuted at number 24 on the U.S. Billboard 200

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 chart, selling about 20,000 copies in its first week. Wicks co-wrote all but one of the songs.

"Stealing Cinderella

Stealing Cinderella

"Stealing Cinderella" is the debut single of American country music artist Chuck Wicks. Released in September of 2007, the single was co-written by Wicks along with songwriters George Teren and Rivers Rutherford...

", which was released as the album's lead-off single on in September 2007, was a Top 5 hit on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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 charts. The album produced two more Top 40 hits with "All I Ever Wanted" and "Man of the House".

Track listing

Personnel

• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
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• Perry Coleman – background vocals
• J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
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• Chip Davis – background vocals
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
• Shannon Forrest – drums
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• Tony Harrell – keyboards
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• Dann Huff
  Dann Huff
  Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...
  
   – electric guitar
• Charles Judge – string section
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  , conductor, string arrangements, keyboards, Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
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  , synthesizer
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   strings
• Troy Lancaster – electric guitar
• Mitch Malloy – background vocals
• Michael Mobley – background vocals
• Nashville String Machine
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   – string section
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Russ Pahl – steel guitar
• Monty Powell – electric guitar, background vocals
• Jason Sellers
  Jason Sellers
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   – background vocals
• Russell Terrell – background vocals
• Ilya Toshinsky – background vocals
• Anna Wilson – background vocals
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
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   – bass guitar
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• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle
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  , mandolin
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Album

Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	7
U.S. Billboard 200	24

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US 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...	CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
2007	"Stealing Cinderella Stealing Cinderella "Stealing Cinderella" is the debut single of American country music artist Chuck Wicks. Released in September of 2007, the single was co-written by Wicks along with songwriters George Teren and Rivers Rutherford... "	5	56	81
2008	"All I Ever Wanted"	14	86	—
2009	"Man of the House"	27	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart