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Cracked Rear View

Cracked Rear View
A collage of blurred photographs forms the album cover
Studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish
Released July 5, 1994 (1994-07-05)
Recorded 1994
Studio NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Genre Roots rock, pop rock,
alternative rock
Length 43:04
Label Atlantic
82613
Producer Don Gehman
Hootie & the Blowfish chronology
Kootchypop
(1993)		 Cracked Rear View
(1994)		 Fairweather Johnson
(1996)
Singles from Cracked Rear View
  1. "Hold My Hand"
    Released: July 18, 1994
  2. "Let Her Cry"
    Released: December 17, 1994
  3. "Only Wanna Be with You"
    Released: July 17, 1995
  4. "Time"
    Released: October 24, 1995
  5. "Drowning"
    Released: November 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau B
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars

Cracked Rear View is the debut studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records. The album became extremely popular and remains one of the best-selling albums in history.

Don Gehman was chosen by A&R man Tim Sommer as a producer because of his previous work with John Mellencamp and R.E.M..

Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint 16th-best-selling album of all time in the United States.Cracked Rear View reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times over the course of 1995. The album also reached number one in Canada and New Zealand. Three million copies were sold through the Columbia House mail-order system.

Critical reviews of Cracked Rear View were mostly positive. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four and a half stars out of five, and said that it was "the success story of 1994/1995." He also said, "Although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of solid, rootsy folk-rock songs that have simple, powerful hooks."

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.

In 2001, the album was re-released on DVD-Audio with the disc featuring a discography, photo gallery, and video of a live performance of "Drowning".


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