Vice (Miranda Lambert song)

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"Vice"
Miranda Lambert Vice.jpg
Single art cover
Single by Miranda Lambert
from the album The Weight of These Wings
ReleasedJuly 18, 2016
Genre
Length3:59
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Miranda Lambert singles chronology
"Smokin' and Drinkin'"
(2015)
"Vice"
(2016)
"We Should Be Friends"
(2016)
Music videos
"Vice" on YouTube

"Vice" is a song recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released to radio on July 18, 2016, as the lead single from Lambert's sixth studio album The Weight of These Wings (2016). [2] The song was written by Lambert, Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally. "Vice" debuted at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart in August 2016. [3] "Vice" was ranked at number 31 on Rolling Stone 's "50 Best Songs of 2016" list. [4]

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Commercial performance

In the United States, "Vice" had an opening week sales of 64,000 copies and 14.6 million audience impression, prompting it to debut at number 2 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her highest debuting single on that chart, beating the number five debut of "Somethin' Bad." It also debuted at number 18 on the Country Airplay chart, beating the number 26 debut of "Automatic" as her highest debut on that chart. Concurrently, it debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. It ultimately went on to peak at number 11 on the Country Airplay chart.

In Canada, the song debuted at number 35 on Canada Country chart and reached a peak of number 4 and debuted at number 99 on the Canadian Hot 100 and peaked at number 78.

As of March 2017, the song has sold 508,000 copies in the United States. [5]

Music video

The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered in September 2016. The video begins surveying a wrecked car which Lambert eventually stumbles out of. She is then shown walking down a country road away from the accident and eventually comes to a small town where she stops in a bar for a drink. She then continues to walk until she comes to a crossroads, where a car similar to the one from the beginning of the video pulls up without a driver behind the wheel. She gets into the backseat of the car and the video ends with it driving away. [6]

Accolades

YearAssociationCategoryResult
2017 Grammy Awards [7] Best Country Solo Performance Nominated
Best Country Song Nominated
ACM Awards [8] Video of the YearNominated
Single Record of the YearNominated
Song of the YearNominated
CMT Music Awards [9] Video of the YearNominated
Female Video of the YearNominated

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [17] Gold40,000
United States (RIAA) [18] 2× Platinum508,000 [5]

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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