"The World Is Ours Tonight" is a song recorded by 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...

 group Gloriana

Gloriana (band)

Gloriana is an American country music group founded in 2008. It is composed of brothers Tom Gossin and Mike Gossin , as well as Rachel Reinert and, until July 2011, Cheyenne Kimball . Before the band's foundation, Kimball was the 2002 winner of the competition America's Most Talented Kid and a...

 for the 2010 Winter Olympics

AT&T Team USA Soundtrack (2010)

"AT&T Team USA Soundtrack" is a compilation album of various artists, put together for the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada. It features 12 tracks from artists such as Rascal Flatts, 3 Doors Down, Sugarland and Train, among others...

. Written by Jess Cates

Jess Cates

Jess Cates is a Los Angeles based songwriter who has co-written multi-platinum selling songs such as Nick Lachey's "What’s Left Of Me", and the Backstreet Boys hit of 2006 "Incomplete". In recent years, Cates has worked in a commercially successful songwriting team with Lindy Robbins and Emanuel...

, Lindy Robbins

Lindy Robbins

Lindy Robbins is a songwriter from Los Angeles. She has contributed many recognizable songs to popular culture.-Career:She started singing with her late, gifted musician father Walter Wissman when she was three-years-old, and was an acclaimed performer in NYC and LA before becoming a full-time...

 and the band's producer, Matt Serletic

Matt Serletic

Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, Rob Thomas, and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with...

, it was issued as a single in March 2010. All proceeds from the single went to Team USA.

The song debuted on the country music charts in March 2010, peaking at #37. It was also added to a March 2010 reissue of the band's self-titled

Gloriana (album)

-Critical reception:The album has received mixed reviews, with the main point of criticism being over-production. Chris Neal of Country Weekly magazine gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five...

 debut album.

Critical reception

Blake Boldt of the 9513 gave the song a "thumbs-down" rating, saying that Matt Serletic

Matt Serletic

Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, Rob Thomas, and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with...

's production "do[es] them few favors." Laurie Petricka of Roughstock stated the song "allows the group to showcase their unique blend of classic country with just the right touch of modern style."

Music video

Shawn Robbins directed the song's music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

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Chart performance

"The World Is Ours Tonight" debuted at number 51 on the Billboard 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...

chart in March 2010. It spent nine weeks on the chart, it was a minor Top 40 peaking at number 37 becoming their third Top 40.
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Chart (2010)	Peak position