"I Just Wanted You to Know" is the title of a song written by Tim Mensy

Tim Mensy

Timmie Menzies is an American country music artist known as Tim Mensy. Initially, he was a member of the band Bandana, in which he charted several singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the 1980s...

 and Gary Harrison, and recorded by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 country music singer Mark Chesnutt

Mark Chesnutt

Mark Nelson Chesnutt is an American country music singer. Chesnutt recorded and released his first album, Doing My Country Thing, in the late-1980s on private independent record label, Axbar Records, with the vinyl album version now a collector's item...

. It was released in December 1993 as the third single from his album, Almost Goodbye

Almost Goodbye

Almost Goodbye is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. His third album for MCA Records, it was also the third consecutive album to receive RIAA platinum certification in the United States...

. The song reached number-one on the U.S. Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

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 and on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Chart performance

The song debuted at #53 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated December 18, 1993. It charted for 19 weeks on that chart, and reached Number One on the chart dated March 5, 1994. It remaining there for one week, becoming Chesnutt's fifth Number One single, and his third consecutive Number One single on the Country Music chart.

Charts

Chart (1993-1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1