"The Cowboy in Me" is a song performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...

. Released in December 2001, it was the third single from McGraw's Set This Circus Down

Set This Circus Down

Set This Circus Down is the seventh album by country music singer Tim McGraw. Certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for U.S. sales of three million copies, the album produced four singles for McGraw on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...

album. The song reached Number One on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

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...

) charts. It reached Number One one week after McGraw's duet with Jo Dee Messina

Jo Dee Messina

Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two...

, "Bring On the Rain".

Chart performance

"The Cowboy in Me" debuted at #48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of December 1, 2001.

Chart (2001-2002)	Peaqk position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	33