The Cheap Seats (song)

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"The Cheap Seats"
Single by Alabama
from the album Cheap Seats
B-side"This Love's on Me"
ReleasedApril 11, 1994 (1994-04-11)
GenreCountry
Length3:54
LabelRCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Alabama singles chronology
"T.L.C. A.S.A.P."
(1993) 		"The Cheap Seats"
(1994) 		"We Can't Love Like This Anymore"
(1994)

"The Cheap Seats" is a song by American country music group Alabama, released on April 4, 1994, as the third and final single from their album Cheap Seats. "The Cheap Seats" was written by Marcus Hummon and Randy Sharp, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in mid-1994.[1] It also peaked at number 6 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks. The song was used as the theme song for Minor League Baseball games broadcast on ESPN in August and September 1994 during the 1994-95 MLB strike.

Critical reception

Dan Cooper of

Allmusic called the song "way cute" in his review of the album.[2] Tom Roland of New Country magazine praised the song for "avoiding the now-stale Dixie tributes" that were present in the band's other songs.[3]

Music video

The music video was directed by

Southern League at the time. It was also filmed in the band's hometown of Fort Payne, Alabama
.

Chart performance

"The Cheap Seats" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 16, 1994. It ended their streak of 41 straight Top 10 singles on the Hot Country Songs Chart.

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 6
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 13

Year-end charts

Chart (1994) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[6] 77

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
  2. Allmusic
    . Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  3. ISSN 1074-536X
    .
  4. ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2521." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 4, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  5. ^ "Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  6. ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1994". RPM. December 12, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.

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