Someone Else's Star

{{Infobox song

| name = Someone Else's Star

| cover = Bryan White - Someone Elses Star.png

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Bryan White

| album = Bryan White

| B-side = "This Town"{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=457|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}

| released = May 22, 1995

| recorded = 1994

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 3:21

| label = Asylum

| writer = Skip Ewing, Jim Weatherly

| producer = Billy Joe Walker Jr.
Kyle Lehning

| prev_title = Look at Me Now

| prev_year = 1995

| next_title = Rebecca Lynn

| next_year = 1995

}}

"Someone Else's Star" is a song written by Skip Ewing and Jim Weatherly, and recorded by American country music singer Bryan White. It was released in May 1995 as the third single from his self-titled debut album. The song was White's first Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.

Content

The song's narrator is a male character who laments his inability to find someone with whom he can fall in love. He then assumes that others are getting what he is wishing for because he is "wishing on someone else's star".

Chart performance

White's version of the song debuted at number 60 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated May 27, 1995. It charted for twenty weeks on that chart, and reached Number One on the chart dated September 9, 1995, where it remained for one week, also giving White his first Number One single.

=Charts=

class="wikitable sortable"
align="left"|Chart (1995)

!align="center"|Peak
position

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{{singlechart|Billboardbubbling100|12|artist=Bryan White}}
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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable sortable"
scope="col"|Chart (1995)

!scope="col"|Position

Canada Country Tracks (RPM){{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.2838&type=1&interval=24|title=RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1995|work=RPM|date=December 18, 1995|accessdate=July 21, 2013}}

| align="center" | 83

US Country Songs (Billboard){{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1995/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 1995: Country Songs | work=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | date=1995| accessdate=July 21, 2013}}

| align="center" | 75

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