Runaway (Love and Theft song)

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"Runaway"
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Single by Love and Theft
from the album World Wide Open
ReleasedMarch 16, 2009
Format Digital download
RecordedJanuary 2009
Genre Country pop
Length3:50
Label Carolwood
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Love and Theft singles chronology
"Runaway"
(2009)
"Dancing in Circles"
(2009)

"Runaway" is a debut song written by Stephen Barker Liles, Robert Blackledge and Canaan Smith and recorded by American country music group Love and Theft. It is the lead-off single from the band's debut album World Wide Open . The song debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart in March 2009.

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Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music and blues.

<i>World Wide Open</i> 2009 studio album by Love and Theft

World Wide Open is the debut album of the American country music band Love and Theft. It was released on August 25, 2009 via Carolwood Records, a sister label of Lyric Street Records. The album includes the single "Runaway", which is a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Contents

Content

The song's narrator wants to get from with his current life as it is not going well, and he decides to become a "runaway."

Critical reception

Dan Milliken of Country Universe.net gave the song a C rating, and said this in his review of the song that the band "is another three-piece boy band who sound like they paid a lot of attention to 80’s pop-rock and care deeply about the inner yearnings of suburban girls between the ages of 11 and 17." [1] Juli Thanki of Engine 145 gave it a thumbs-down, saying that the band "combine[s] the adult contemporary pop of 'Iris' era Goo Goo Dolls and the treacly sentiment featured in your average Rascal Flatts song with the nonthreatening cuteness of the Jonas Brothers." She also thought that the lead vocals lacked grit in comparison to the song's theme of running away. [2]

Goo Goo Dolls American rock band

The Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by guitarist/vocalist Johnny Rzeznik, bassist/vocalist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska. Mike Malinin was the band's drummer from December 1994 until December 27, 2013. The band are renowned for their commercially successful 1998 singles "Iris" and "Slide". Other notable singles include "Name" and "Naked" from 1995's A Boy Named Goo; "Black Balloon", "Dizzy", and "Broadway" from 1998's Dizzy Up the Girl; "Here Is Gone" from 2002's Gutterflower, "Better Days", "Give a Little Bit", and "Stay with You" from 2006's Let Love In, and "Home" from 2010's Something for the Rest of Us. The band have had 19 top ten singles on various charts, and have sold more than 12 million albums worldwide.

Rascal Flatts band

Rascal Flatts is a country vocal group formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1999. It is composed of lead vocalist Gary LeVox, his second cousin Jay DeMarcus on bass guitar, and Joe Don Rooney on guitar and banjo. DeMarcus is also a brother-in-law of country music singer James Otto, and formerly one-half of the Christian music duo East to West.

Jonas Brothers American pop rock band

The Jonas Brothers are an American pop rock band. Formed in 2005, they gained popularity from their appearances on the Disney Channel television network. They consist of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas. Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Jonas Brothers moved to Little Falls, New Jersey, in 2005, where they wrote their first record that made its Hollywood Records release. In the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock and its sequel, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. They also starred as Kevin, Joe, and Nick Lucas, the band Lucas in their own Disney Channel series Jonas, which was rebranded as Jonas L.A. after the first season and cancelled after the second. The band released five albums: It's About Time (2006), Jonas Brothers (2007), A Little Bit Longer (2008), Lines, Vines and Trying Times (2009), and Happiness Begins (2019).

Chart performance

"Runaway" debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of March 14, 2009. It debuted at number 65 on the Hot 100 for the chart dated September 12, 2009.

Hot Country Songs Weekly chart published by Billboard

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

Chart (2009)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 10
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 65

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 36

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