Music video

The video for "When the Stars Go Blue" is pieced together from the "Live" session at VH1.

Charts

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Adult Top 40	18
Spanish Airplay Chart PROMUSICAE Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry...	1

Tim McGraw cover

In 2006, the song was released by 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...

 as the first single from his album Tim McGraw Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2, with added country

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...

-style and more instrumental aid.

Music video

The video was directed by Sherman Halsey

Sherman Halsey

Sherman Halsey is an American music video and television director, producer, and artist manager. Sherman Halsey has produced and directed hundreds of television shows and music videos for artists such as Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, BB King, Michael Bolton, Dwight Yoakam, and many...

. It features McGraw performing in a snowy background surrounded by clusters of pine trees. It was shot in Crivitz, Wisconsin

Crivitz, Wisconsin

Crivitz is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 998 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:Crivitz was surveyed and plotted in the summer of 1883...

. The video was shot in black-and-white. Throughout the video, several reflections of people can be seen in the trees. In the end of the clip, McGraw starts to walk backwards, turns around, starts to run, then disappears, leaving only a trail of footprints behind. The version of the song in the video is edited to fit into the time of 3:19. It was released in April 2006.

Chart performance

"When the Stars Go Blue" debuted at #35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of March 18, 2006.

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	37
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	50
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	12

Venke Knutson and Kurt Nilsen cover

The Norwegian

Norway

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 artists Venke Knutson

Venke Knutson

Venke Knutson is a Norwegian singer. Since 2003, she has had six top 10 hits in Norway.-Life and career:Venke Knutson was born in Birkeland, in 1978. She was the youngest of three sisters, in a musical family, and she got inspired to sing by her elder sisters.Early in her life she lived with her...

 and World Idol

World Idol

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Kurt Nilsen

Kurt Nilsen

The following is a discography of albums and singles released by Norwegian music artist Kurt Nilsen.-Albums:-Singles:-Other releases:*1998 Shoe...

 made a duo that appears in Venke Knutson's album 2005 Places I Have Been. The song was released as a single in Norway in February 2006 reaching #14 in the Norwegian Singles Chart.

Chart (2006)	Peak position

Other versions

Irish

Irish people

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/British

United Kingdom

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 girlband Wonderland

Wonderland (band)

Wonderland were an Irish/British girlband, formed by Louis Walsh and Westlife band-member Kian Egan. The band were put together after auditions were held for five females in July 2008. Its five members were Jodi Albert, Sharon Condon, Corrina Durran, Leigh Learmont and Kasey Smith...

 performed the track for their debut performance on television in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. Both live and studio version is available on Youtube

YouTube

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. The recorded studio version was be included the band's debut album Wonderland

Wonderland (Wonderland album)

Wonderland is the self-titled debut studio album by Irish/British girlband Wonderland.- Background, composition, concept, and development:...

released in United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 June 2011.

It was also featured in One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill (TV series)

One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...

as a hit song by fictional characters Haley James Scott and Chris Keller (real life singers Bethany Joy Lenz and Tyler Hilton

Tyler Hilton

Tyler James Hilton is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Hilton began his professional career in music in 2000. Rolling Stone Magazine compared him to his contemporary, Howie Day, while others have compared Hilton to Elton John, both vocally and instrumentally...

) and features on the One Tree Hill Soundtrack.