Blue Roses (Runaway June album)

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Blue Roses
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 28, 2019 (2019-06-28)
Genre Country
Length32:19
Label Wheelhouse
Producer
Runaway June chronology
Runaway June (EP)
(2018)
Blue Roses
(2019)
Singles from Blue Roses
  1. "Buy My Own Drinks"
    Released: August 20, 2018
  2. "Head over Heels"
    Released: October 28, 2019
  3. "We Were Rich"
    Released: June 29, 2020
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! 7/10 [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Blue Roses is the debut album of American country music group Runaway June. It was released June 28, 2019 via Wheelhouse. [4] "Buy My Own Drinks" was released as its debut single in August 2018 and reached the top 20 of the Billboard Country Airplay charts, [5] making it the first time a female group or trio had done so in 14 years. [6]

Contents

Content

Blue Roses was preceded by the release of three singles, though only "Buy My Own Drinks" ultimately made the tracklisting for the album. Three other songs originally featured on their self-titled EP were also reprised on the album, including a cover of Dwight Yoakam's "Fast as You." [5] Of the 10 tracks on the album, members of Runaway June have writing credits on six, and it was produced by Dann Huff.

The group promoted the album during the C2C: Country to Country festival in March 2019 and 2020 and as a supporting act for Carrie Underwood on her Cry Pretty Tour 360, which began on May 1, 2019, alongside Maddie & Tae. [7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 36 on Billboard' Top Country Albums, and No. 5 on Country Album Sales, with 3,000 copies sold, 5,000 in equivalent album units. [8] It has sold 7,600 copies in the United States as of October 2019. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Head over Heels"
  • Tommy Cecil
  • Naomi Cooke
  • Hannah Mulholland
  • Jared Mullins
  • Jennifer Wayne
3:09
2."Buy My Own Drinks"
3:26
3."We Were Rich"3:38
4."I Know the Way"
  • Cooke
  • Mulholland
  • Emily Shackelton
  • Wayne
  • Ben West
3:08
5."Trouble with This Town"
2:59
6."Got Me Where I Want You"
3:15
7."Fast as You"3:15
8."I Am Too"
3:02
9."Good, Bad & Ugly"
  • Jacob Attwooll
  • Cooke
  • Mulholland
  • Samuel Roman
  • Wayne
3:04
10."Blue Roses"
3:23

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic [10]

Runaway June

Additional Personnel

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [11] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [12] 10
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [13] 36
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [14] 44

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