Boomtown (Toby Keith album)

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Boomtown
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 1994
StudioAlpine, Scruggs (Nashville)
Genre Country
Length36:17
Label Mercury Records
Producer Nelson Larkin
Harold Shedd
Toby Keith chronology
Toby Keith
(1993)
Boomtown
(1994)
Christmas to Christmas
(1995)
Singles from Boomtown
  1. "Who's That Man"
    Released: July 19, 1994
  2. "Upstairs Downtown"
    Released: November 22, 1994
  3. "You Ain't Much Fun"
    Released: March 14, 1995
  4. "Big Ol' Truck"
    Released: July 10, 1995
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Boomtown is the second studio album by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released on September 27, 1994, by Mercury Records. The album produced four hit singles for Keith on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 1994 and 1995 with "Who's That Man" (#1), "Upstairs Downtown" (#10), "You Ain't Much Fun" (#2) and "Big Ol' Truck" (#15). The album was also certified platinum by the RIAA for U.S. sales of one million copies.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Who's That Man" Toby Keith 4:54
2."Big Ol' Truck"Keith3:42
3."Victoria's Secret"Keith, Wayne Perry 3:42
4."No Honor Among Thieves"Crow, David Wills 3:11
5."Upstairs Downtown"Keith, Carl Goff Jr.4:26
6."You Ain't Much Fun"Keith, Goff2:26
7."In Other Words"Tony Haselden, Tim Mensy 3:34
8."Woman Behind the Man"Keith, Perry3:09
9."Life Was a Play (The World a Stage)"Johnny McCollum, Pal Rakes, Nelson Larkin3:29
10."Boomtown"Keith3:44

Personnel

Charts

Notes

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Toby Keith Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  3. "Toby Keith Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  4. "RPM Top 50 Country Albums of 1995 - December 18, 1995" (PDF).
  5. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1995". Billboard. Retrieved February 23, 2021.

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