Fired Up (Randy Houser album)

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Fired Up
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 2016 (2016-03-11)
Genre
Length1:00:14
Label Stoney Creek
Producer Derek George
Randy Houser chronology
How Country Feels
(2013)
Fired Up
(2016)
Magnolia
(2019)
Singles from Fired Up
  1. "We Went"
    Released: May 18, 2015
  2. "Song Number 7"
    Released: March 28, 2016
  3. "Chasing Down a Good Time"
    Released: July 18, 2016

Fired Up is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Randy Houser. It was released on March 11, 2016 via Stoney Creek. [2] The lead single, "We Went", was released to radio on May 18, 2015 and became Houser's third Number One hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. "Song Number 7" and "Chasing Down a Good Time" were released as the album's second and third singles, respectively, in 2016.

Contents

Reception

Commercial

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 15, [3] and no 3 on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 21,000 in the first week. [4] The album has sold 53,400 copies in the US as of July 2016. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Back" Jeffrey Steele, Bridgette Tatum3:34
2."We Went"
3:00
3."Chasing Down a Good Time"3:33
4."Senior Year"Houser, Rob Hatch3:59
5."Mine Tonight"3:27
6."Lucky Me"
3:43
7."Song Number 7"
3:00
8."Before Midnight"3:15
9."True"
  • Houser
  • Hatch
3:50
10."Yesterday's Whiskey"
3:44
11."Fired Up"
  • Hatch
  • Davidson
3:34
12."A Little Bit Older"
2:49
13."Gotta Get You Home"3:43
14."Hot Beer and Cold Women"3:46
15."Same Ole Saturday Night"
  • Davidson
  • Hayslip
  • Martin Johnson
3:32
16."One Way" (bonus track)3:43
17."Whiskeysippi River" (bonus track)4:02

Personnel

Charts

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