Chart Performance
The single debuted at #27 on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart dated for May 28, 2005. It went on to become Hill's first Number One on the country music charts since "The Way You Love Me" in 2000. "Mississippi Girl" peaked at No. 1 September 3, and stayed at No. 1 for two weeks. It also reached at peak of No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also became Hill's first single to chart the Billboard Pop 100, peaking at No. 51 there.
"Mississippi Girl" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance but did not win; however it did win the SESAC Country Song of the Year award for its two writers.
Slant Magazine said the song had the "stench of desperation" about it, with "southern-fried production ape shamelessly the things that the women who supplanted her at the top of Nashville's pecking order have been doing."
Mississippi Girl was also the 500 millionth song download via the iTunes Store.
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