"More Than a Memory" is a song written by Lee Brice, Billy Montana, and Kyle Jacobs and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks.
"More Than a Memory" is a mid-tempo ballad, featuring accompaniment primarily from piano, pedal steel guitar, and a string section.
In it, the male narrator describes his attempts to forget about a lover who has left him, by destroying anything that reminds him of her and drinking heavily.
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for September 15, 2007, "More Than a Memory" became the first song to debut at number one in the entire history of that chart, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart, and beating the previous record set only one week earlier by Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink", which debuted at number 16.
Since airplay usually builds at a more gradual rate than record sales do, very high debuts are less likely to occur on airplay-only charts such as Hot Country Songs.