Musical Chairs (Hootie & the Blowfish album)

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Musical Chairs
Hootie & the Blowfish Musical Chairs CD cover.JPG
Studio album by
Hootie & the Blowfish
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998 (1998-09-15)
Recorded1998
StudioRoyaltone Studios, North Hollywood, California
Genre
Length49:30
Label Atlantic
Producer Don Gehman
Hootie & the Blowfish chronology
Fairweather Johnson
(1996)		Musical Chairs
(1998)		 Scattered, Smothered and Covered
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chicago Tribune (favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Musical Chairs is the third studio album by American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, released on September 15, 1998, by Atlantic Records. Three singles were released off the album: "I Will Wait", "Only Lonely", and "Wishing". Guest musicians on the album include Peter Holsapple, Susan Cowsill, David Immergluck, and Boyd Tinsley.

Contents

Track listing

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

  1. "I Will Wait" – 4:15
  2. "Wishing" – 2:48
  3. "Las Vegas Nights" – 4:05
  4. "Only Lonely" – 4:38
  5. "Answer Man" – 3:22
  6. "Michelle Post" – 2:20
  7. "Bluesy Revolution" – 4:46
  8. "Home Again" – 4:07
  9. "One By One" – 3:50
  10. "Desert Mountain Showdown" – 2:45
  11. "What's Going On Here" – 4:36
  12. "What Do You Want from Me Now" – 3:40

Hidden tracks

  2. silence – 0:30
  3. silence – 0:30
  4. "Closet Full of Fear" – 3:18

Personnel

Hootie & the Blowfish [7]

Additional musicians [7]

Production [7]

Chart positions

Chart (1998) [8] Peak
position
Canadian Albums chart [9] 27
German Albums72
New Zealand Albums20
Scottish Albums [10] 14
UK Albums chart15
US Billboard 2004

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [11] Silver60,000^
United States (RIAA) [12] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ Galipault, Gerry (September 13, 1998). "Hootie & the Blowfish spawn another hit album". Pause and Play. Retrieved February 6, 2022. Out Sept. 15, the album finds Bryan, Felber, lead singer-guitarist Darius Rucker and drummer Jim "Soni" Sonefeld marching to its familiar Hootie beat but also slightly stretching pop's boundaries with forays into country, bluegrass and even R.E.M.-ish alternative rock
  2. ↑ Musical Chairs at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Durchholz, Daniel (September 20, 1998). "Hootie and the Blowfish Musical Chairs (Atlantic)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Weingarten, Marc (September 14, 1998). "Musical Chairs Review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ DeCurtis, Anthony (September 4, 1998). "Hootie & the Blowfish: Musical Chairs : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ Gundersen, Edna (September 29, 1998). "Hootie's 'Musical Chairs' don't sit all that well; Gould plays Brahms in a slow, sure hand (Hootie & the Blowfish, Musical Chairs)". USA Today . Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 Musical Chairs (booklet). Atlantic. 1998.
  8. ↑ "Hootie & the Blowfish - Musical Chairs".
  9. ↑ "Canadian Album peak". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company". Official Charts .
  11. ↑ "British album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Musical Chairs". British Phonographic Industry.
  12. ↑ "American album certifications – Hootie & The Blowfish – Musical Chairs". Recording Industry Association of America.
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