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<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/Toby_Keith_-_I_Love_This_Bar.jpg/220px-Toby_Keith_-_I_Love_This_Bar.jpg" height="217" width="220"></p><p><br></p><p>This article is about the song. For the restaurant chain, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Keith%27s_I_Love_This_Bar_%26_Grill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toby Keith's I Love This Bar &amp; Grill</a>.</p><p><strong>"I Love This Bar"</strong> is a song co-written and recorded by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country music</a> artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Keith" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toby Keith</a>. It was released in August 2003 as the first single from his 2003 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock%27n_Y%27all" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Shock'n Y'all</em></a>. The song reached number one on the US <em>Billboard</em> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Singles_%26_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot Country Singles &amp; Tracks</a> chart, keeping the top spot for five weeks. Keith wrote this song with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_Emerick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scotty Emerick</a>.</p><p>The song's title inspired a chain of restaurants owned by Keith named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Keith%27s_I_Love_This_Bar_%26_Grill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toby Keith's I Love This Bar &amp; Grill</a>.</p><h2>Content</h2><p>The narrator describes his favorite bar and the people who frequent it.</p><h2>Critical reception</h2><p>Ray Waddell, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a> magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "beer-joint staple for years to come.""<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_This_Bar#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a></p><h2>Music video</h2><p>The video for this song was filmed at a bar in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth,_California" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chatsworth, California</a> called The Cowboy Palace Saloon. It was directed by Michael Salomon, and premiered on CMT on August 21, 2003.</p><h2>Chart performance</h2><p>"I Love This Bar" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. <em>Billboard</em> Hot Country Singles &amp; Tracks for the week of August 30, 2003. The song has sold 1,033,000 copies in the U.S. as of April 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_This_Bar#cite_note-USSales-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p>