Sevens (album)

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Sevens
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Studio album by
Garth Brooks
ReleasedNovember 25, 1997
Studio Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre
Length46:01
Label Capitol Nashville
Producer Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
Fresh Horses
(1995)		Sevens
(1997)		 The Limited Series
(1998)
Singles from Sevens
  1. "Longneck Bottle"
    Released: November 22, 1997
  2. "She's Gonna Make It"
    Released: January 15, 1998
  3. "Two Piña Coladas"
    Released: March 16, 1998
  4. "You Move Me"
    Released: August 24, 1998
  5. "Do What You Gotta Do"
    Released: January 3, 2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide B [3]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Sevens is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 25, 1997, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and on the Top Country Albums chart. To date, it is Brooks' last studio album to be certified diamond by the RIAA. The album also topped the Country album charts in Britain for several months and crossed over into the mainstream pop charts. His duet with Trisha Yearwood, "In Another's Eyes", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the Grammy Awards of 1998. Sevens was nominated for the Best Country Album Grammy the following year.

Contents

Background

Brooks commented on the album by saying:

"I'm proud, I'm excited, I'm nervous, and it feels good to be back in the game again. This is a very personal album. I only wrote six of the songs, but there are many that are so 'me' that people I work with every day thought I wrote them." [6]

Track listings

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Longneck Bottle"Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner 2:17
2."How You Ever Gonna Know" Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks 3:36
3."She's Gonna Make It"Blazy, Brooks, Kim Williams 2:46
4."I Don't Have to Wonder" Shawn Camp, Taylor Dunn3:05
5."Two Piña Coladas"Camp, Benita Hill, Sandy Mason 3:35
6."Cowboy Cadillac"Brooks, Brian Kennedy2:48
7."Fit for a King" Carl Jackson, Jim Rushing3:59
8."Do What You Gotta Do" Pat Flynn 2:58
9."You Move Me"Gordon Kennedy, Pierce Pettis4:33
10."In Another's Eyes" (featuring Trisha Yearwood)Brooks, John Peppard, Bobby Wood3:34
11."When There's No One Around" Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott 3:33
12."A Friend to Me"Brooks, Victoria Shaw 3:06
13."Take the Keys to My Heart"Hill, Tommy Smith, Pam Wolfe2:32
14."Belleau Wood"Brooks, Joe Henry3:28
Total length:45:46

Personnel

The following credits are sourced from liner notes. [7]

Crowd vocals on "Two Piña Coladas": Dorothy "The Birthday Girl" Robinson, Charles Green, Mat Lindsey, Sandy Mason, Shawn Camp, Big Al, "Double D", Sam "The Man" Duczer, Garth Brooks

Chart performance

Sevens debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming his fifth, and number one on the Top Country Albums, becoming his seventh Country number-one album. In November 2006, Sevens was certified 10× Platinum by the RIAA.

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [22] Platinum70,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [23] 5× Platinum500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [24] Silver60,000^
United States (RIAA) [25] Diamond10,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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