Tornado (Little Big Town album)

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Tornado
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Studio album by
Little Big Town
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2012 (2012-09-11)
Genre Country
Length38:09
Label Capitol Nashville
Producer Jay Joyce
Little Big Town chronology
The Reason Why
(2010)		Tornado
(2012)		 Pain Killer
(2014)
Singles from Tornado
  1. "Pontoon"
    Released: April 30, 2012
  2. "Tornado"
    Released: October 1, 2012
  3. "Your Side of the Bed"
    Released: April 8, 2013
  4. "Sober"
    Released: September 30, 2013
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Tornado is the fifth studio album by American country music group Little Big Town. It was released on September 11, 2012 via Capitol Nashville. [4] [5] "Pontoon," which was released in April 2012 as the album's lead-off single, has since become their first number one song on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and Little Big Town's fastest-rising single to date. [6] [7] The album's second single, "Tornado," was released on October 1, 2012. It became their first album since 2005's The Road to Here to produce two top 10 singles and to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Contents

Commercial performance

"Tornado" debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 , selling 113,000 copies in its first week. [8] The album stayed atop the Billboard Country Albums charts for its first 5 weeks, making it their longest running number one album. As of December 2013, the album has sold 1,025,000 copies in the United States. [9] It is the band's first album since The Road to Here to receive a certification from the RIAA. It is also their first album of their career to have two certified singles from the RIAA.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Pavement Ends"Jason Saenz, Brent Cobb Westbrook2:31
2."Pontoon" Barry Dean, Natalie Hemby, Luke Laird Fairchild3:35
3."Sober" Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna Schlapman3:15
4."Front Porch Thing" Chris Stapleton, Adam Hood Sweet3:26
5."Your Side of the Bed"McKenna, Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip SweetFairchild, Westbrook3:41
6."Leavin' in Your Eyes" Brett Warren, Brad Warren, Jay Joyce, Westbrook, Fairchild, SchlapmanWestbrook3:13
7."Tornado"Hemby, Delta MaidFairchild3:43
8."On Fire Tonight"Laird, Sweet, Westbrook, Fairchild, SchlapmanWestbrook3:12
9."Can't Go Back"Hemby, Kate York, Rosi Golan Schlapman3:43
10."Self Made"Hemby, Jedd Hughes, Westbrook, FairchildFairchild, Westbrook4:08
11."Night Owl"Hemby, Westbrook, Fairchild, Schlapman, SweetFairchild, Schlapman, Sweet, Westbrook3:45

Personnel

Little Big Town

Musicians

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [17] Gold40,000^
United States (RIAA) [18] 2× Platinum1,025,000 [9]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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