# Some Beach

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{{Infobox song
| name       = Some Beach
| cover      = Blake Shelton Single.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [Blake Shelton](/source/Blake_Shelton)
| album      = [Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill](/source/Blake_Shelton's_Barn_%26_Grill)
| released   = {{Start date|2004|07|26}}
| recorded   = 2004
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [Country](/source/Country_music)
| length     = 3:24
| label      = [Warner Bros. Nashville](/source/Warner_Bros._Records)
| writer     = [Rory Feek](/source/Rory_Feek)<br />[Paul Overstreet](/source/Paul_Overstreet)
| producer   = [Bobby Braddock](/source/Bobby_Braddock)
| prev_title = When Somebody Knows You That Well
| prev_year  = 2004
| next_title = [Goodbye Time](/source/Goodbye_Time)
| next_year  = 2005
}}
"'''Some Beach'''" is a song written by [Rory Feek](/source/Rory_Feek) and [Paul Overstreet](/source/Paul_Overstreet) and recorded by American [country music](/source/country_music) artist [Blake Shelton](/source/Blake_Shelton).  It was released in July 2004 as the second single from Shelton's 2004 album ''[Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill](/source/Blake_Shelton's_Barn_%26_Grill)''. The song became Shelton's third number one hit on the U.S. ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' [Hot Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) chart and spent four weeks at that position.

==Content==
The narrator deals with frustrations, such as being [flipped off](/source/The_finger) in traffic on the highway and having to wait all afternoon at the dentist's office, by wishing that he were "on some beach, somewhere." The song's title is a ''[double entendre](/source/double_entendre)'', playing on a [Southern United States](/source/Southern_United_States) dialectal form of the epithet "[son of a bitch](/source/bitch_(insult))" ("som' bitch").<ref>{{cite book|last=Golightly|first=Richard Kent|title=On Garbled English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihVbHy7uPeMC&q=%22blake+shelton%22+%22some+beach%22&pg=PA2|year=2008|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4343-2344-6|pages=2–3}}</ref>

According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, the song is composed and written in the key of [C major](/source/C_major) and is set in time signature of [common time](/source/common_time) with a tempo of 116 beats per minute. Shelton’s vocal range spans from the notes G{{Sup|3}} to E{{Sup|5}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Overstreet |first=Paul |last2=Feek |first2=Rory |last3=Shelton |first3=Blake |date=2010-02-01 |title=Some Beach |url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0080635 |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=Musicnotes.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Music video==
The music video was directed by [Peter Zavadil](/source/Peter_Zavadil), and features Shelton driving a pickup truck down a freeway, trying to park the truck, and going to the dentist. The video premiered on CMT on July 29, 2004, and featuring NASCAR driver [Elliott Sadler](/source/Elliott_Sadler).

==Chart performance==
"Some Beach" debuted at number 51 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs for the chart week of August 7, 2004.
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (2004–2005)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|Canada [Country](/source/Canada_Country) (''[Radio & Records](/source/Radio_%26_Records)'')<ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2004/RR-2004-12-17.pdf Radio & Records: December 17, 2004, page 44] worldradiohistory.com</ref>
|align="center"|3
|-
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|28|artist=Blake Shelton||accessdate=January 29, 2011}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Blake Shelton||accessdate=January 29, 2011}}
|-
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (2005)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
| US [Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) (''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'')<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2005/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2005: Country Songs | work=[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine)) | publisher=[Prometheus Global Media](/source/Prometheus_Global_Media) | date=2005| accessdate=June 16, 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" | 28
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|award=Platinum|artist=Blake Shelton|title=Some Beach|relyear=2004|certyear=2021|accessdate=October 10, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=true|noshipments=true}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{YouTube|JTT2LEyjdC4|Some Beach}}

{{Blake Shelton songs}}

Category:2004 singles
Category:Blake Shelton songs
Category:Warner Records Nashville singles
Category:Songs written by Paul Overstreet
Category:Songs written by Rory Feek
Category:Music videos directed by Peter Zavadil
Category:Songs about beaches
Category:2004 songs

{{2000s-country-song-stub}}

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