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''Cracked Rear View'' is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album to date. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint fifteenth [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|best selling album of all time in the United States]].<ref>[http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTop100 RIAA Top 100]</ref> ''Cracked Rear View'' reached number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] five times.
''Cracked Rear View'' is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album to date. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint fifteenth [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|best selling album of all time in the United States]].<ref>[http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTop100 RIAA Top 100]</ref> ''Cracked Rear View'' reached number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] five times.

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Cracked Rear View is the major-label debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert ChristgauB[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album to date. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint fifteenth best selling album of all time in the United States.[5] Cracked Rear View reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times.

Critical reviews of Cracked Rear View were mostly positive. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four and a half stars out of five, and said that it was "the success story of 1994/1995." He also said, "Although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of solid, rootsy folk-rock songs that have simple, powerful hooks."

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.

  1. "Hannah Jane" – 3:33
  2. "Hold My Hand" – 4:15
  3. "Let Her Cry" – 5:08
  4. "Only Wanna Be with You" – 3:46
  5. "Running from an Angel" – 3:37
  6. "I'm Goin' Home" – 4:11
  7. "Drowning" – 5:01
  8. "Time" – 4:53
  9. "Look Away" – 2:38
  10. "Not Even the Trees" – 4:37
  11. "Goodbye" – 4:05
Includes hidden track "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) – 0:54

Personnel

Hootie & the Blowfish
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Album
Chart (1994) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[6] 1
Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australia (Top 50)[7] 7
Canada (RPM100 Albums)[8] 1
Germany (Media Control Charts) [9] 45
New Zealand (RIANZ Top 50)[10] 1
UK (The Official Charts Company)[11] 12
End of decade charts
Chart (1990–1999) Position
U.S. Billboard 200[12] 7

Awards

Year Winner Category
1996 "Let Her Cry" Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Stephen Thomas Erlweine. "Cracked Rear View — Hootie & the Blowfish : Overview". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Cracked Rear View (Media notes). United States: Atlantic Records. 1994. {{cite AV media notes}}: |format= requires |url= (help); Unknown parameter |artist= ignored (|others= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |publisherid= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Hootie and the Blowfish". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved 2012-05-05.
  4. ^ Evans, Paul (1998-02-02). "Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2012-05-05. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ RIAA Top 100
  6. ^ "Hootie & the Blowfish — Billboard Albums". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  7. ^ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish" (ASP). australian-charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  8. ^ "RPM — Item Display : Top Albums/CDs — Volume 62, No. 3, August 21, 1995" (PHP). Library and Archives Canada. March 31, 2004.
  9. ^ Steffen Hung. "Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  10. ^ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish" (ASP). charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  11. ^ "Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish" (PHP). Chartstats. United Kingdom: The Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  12. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade — The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
Preceded by
Friday by various artists
P•U•L•S•E by Pink Floyd
Pocahontas by various artists
E 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Dangerous Minds by various artists
 Billboard 200 number-one album
May 27 – June 23, 1995
July 1–7, 1995
July 29 – August 4, 1995
August 26 – September 1, 1995
September 30 – October 6, 1995 		Succeeded by
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