Texas Plates (song)

"Texas Plates" is a song by American country music singer-songwriter Kellie Coffey. Coffey wrote the single with Brett James, while Dann Huff provided production. It was released on September 22, 2003, as the lead single to Coffey's second studio album for BNA Records titled A Little More Me. This album was never released and Coffey would get dropped from BNA in mid-2004.

It reached number 24 on the US Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Coffey's third and most recent top-forty hit on the chart to date.

Content
The narrator reminisces of a summer when she was 17 in which she and her two best friends from Oklahoma met a group of guys from Texas that they took a liking to and followed them around, chasing those "Texas plates".

Music video
Shaun Silva directed the video for "Texas Plates". Coffey regarded the music video as her best video she had ever done. The video was added to CMT and GAC-TV's playlists for the week of February 8, 2004.

Commercial performance
"Texas Plates" debuted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart the week of October 11, 2003, at number 53, becoming the "Hot Shot Debut" of the week. It reached the top-forty the week of November 8, 2003, at number 40. It reached a peak position of number 24 on the chart the week of February 14, 2004. It spent 22 weeks in total on the chart, becoming Coffey's third highest-charting single. It performed better on the Radio & Records Country Top 50, reaching as high as number 21.