When I Think About Angels

"When I Think About Angels"
Single by Jamie O'Neal
from the album Shiver
B-side	"The Only Thing Wrong"[1]
Released	March 19, 2001
Format	CD single, 7" single
Genre	Country
Length	3:03
Label	Mercury Nashville
Writer(s)	Jamie O'Neal Roxie Dean Sonny Tillis
Producer(s)	Keith Stegall
Jamie O'Neal singles chronology
"There Is No Arizona" (2000) "When I Think About Angels" (2001) "Shiver" (2001)

"When I Think About Angels" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Jamie O'Neal. It was released in March 2001 as the second single from O'Neal's Shiver album. The song reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. It also peaked at #35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by O'Neal, Roxie Dean and Sonny Tillis.

Content

The song is a mid-tempo in which the narrator confesses that everything reminds her of her significant other.

Music video

The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered in mid-2001.

Chart performance

"When I Think About Angels" debuted at number 45 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of March 31, 2001. Having peaked at number 1 on the chart dated for August 4, 2001, O'Neal became the first female country singer to send her first two singles to number 1 since Deana Carter did so in 1996–1997.^[2]

Chart (2001)	Peak position[1]
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3]	1
US Billboard Hot 100[4]	35

Year-end charts

Chart (2001)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5]	11

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 305. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
2. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 69. ISSN 0006-2510.
3. "Jamie O'Neal – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Jamie O'Neal.
4. "Jamie O'Neal – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Jamie O'Neal.
5. "Best of 2001: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2001. Retrieved 2012-08-14.