"Temporary Home"
Single by Carrie Underwood
from the album Play On
Released	October 20, 2009 (2009-10-20) (download) December 14, 2009 (2009-12-14) (CD single)
Format	CD single, digital download
Genre	Country
Length	4:28 (album version)
Label	Arista Nashville
Writer(s)	Carrie Underwood, Zac Maloy, Luke Laird
Producer	Mark Bright
Carrie Underwood singles chronology
"Cowboy Casanova" (2009) "Temporary Home" (2009)

"Temporary Home" is the title of a song written by Zac Maloy, Luke Laird and co-written and recorded by American country artist Carrie Underwood. It is the second official single from her third studio album, Play On, and is set to be released to country radio starting the week of December 14, 2009. Before being released as a single, the song was made available to iTunes on October 20, 2009. A music video for the song was released in November.^[1]

Contents 1 Background 2 Music video 3 Chart performance 4 Sales 5 References

[edit] Background

Maloy, Laird and Underwood spent a two-day writing session together and on the second day Underwood came in with the idea for this song, which the trio developed. ^[2]

On November 16, 2009, Underwood performed the song on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.^[3]

[edit] Music video

A music video to promote the single was made when Underwood performed the song on CMT's Invitation Only.

[edit] Chart performance

"Temporary Home" debuted at #92 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at #66 on the Canadian Hot 100 on the week ending November 7, 2009. It also debuted at #48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on the week ending December 12, 2009.

Chart (2009)	Peak position
As digital download
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	92
Canadian Hot 100	66
Chart (2009)	Peak position
As single
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	36

[edit] Sales

United States: 31,000^[4]

[edit] References

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