The song was released on June 19, 2006 by Big Machine Records as Swift's debut single and the lead single from Swift's eponymous debut album.
Swift wrote "Tim McGraw" during her freshman year of high school, knowing that she and her senior boyfriend would break up at the end of the year when he left for college.
The song was written about all the different things that would remind the subject of Swift and their time spent together, once he departed.
"Tim McGraw" is a musical interconnection of traditional and modern country music.
The track spent numbers of weeks upon both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs in the United States.