"All Things Considered" is the title of a song written by lead vocalist Tim Hunt and recorded by the American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 group Yankee Grey

Yankee Grey

Yankee Grey was an American country music group originally composed of six members: David Buchanan , Matthew Basford , Joe Caverlee , Kevin Griffin , Jerry Hughes , and Tim Hunt , all of whom met in Cincinnati, Ohio.Founded in 1986, the band toured throughout the state of Ohio before being signed...

. It was released in June 1999 as the leadoff single from the group's first album, Untamed

Untamed (Yankee Grey album)

Untamed is the debut album of the American country music band Yankee Grey. It was released in 1999 on Monument Records Nashville. The album produced three chart singles on the Billboard country charts. In order of release, these were "All Things Considered" at #8, "Another Nine Minutes" at #15,...

. The song reached #8 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart.

Content

The song is an uptempo, that paints the picture of a man who is hanging on, despite relationship, automobile, and job related problems. He states that even though all of these negative things are occurring in his life, he is surviving.

Critical reception

Chuck Taylor, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

magazine gave the song a favorable review, saying that the song "grabs the listener by the ears from the first word and doesn't let go till the final note."

Chart positions

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	54
Canadian RPM Country Singles	16