Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(64/100)
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com
AbsolutePunk	80%
Allmusic
American Songwriter
Entertainment Weekly	B–
Omaha World-Herald
Rolling Stone
Roughstock
Taste of Country
USA Today

Welcome to the Fishbowl is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Kenny Chesney, released on June 19, 2012 by Blue Chair and Columbia Records. The album includes a live version of "You and Tequila" with Grace Potter.

The first single from this album "Feel Like a Rock Star", which is duet with Tim McGraw, was released in April 2012. Its second single, "Come Over", was released on May 14, 2012 This song reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart. "El Cerrito Place", the album's third single, was originally recorded by Charlie Robison on his 2004 album Good Times. Chesney's version includes a backing vocal from Grace Potter.

The album's title came from a conversation Chesney had with his football-playing friends. Chesney told USA Today that when one said, "I didn't realize your life was like this," he replied, "Hey, man, welcome to the fishbowl."

The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 193,000 copies in the US, behind Justin Bieber's Believe. As of January 2013, the album has sold 592,286 copies in the US.

Upon its release, Welcome to the Fishbowl received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 64, based on 7 reviews.

The album has garnered positive reviews from AbsolutePunk, American Songwriter, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Roughstock, Taste of Country and the USA Today. At AbsolutePunk, Gregory Robson gave the album an 80%, and wrote that "Kenny Chesney's fifteenth studio album is nowhere near his best and nowhere near his worst. What it is though is occasionally pleasing, horribly derivative and way too self-indulgent." Robson went on to state that "Welcome to the Fishbowl is anything but first-rate. More albums like this though, and Chesney himself just might become a caricature of himself." Grady Smith at Entertainment Weekly graded the album to be a B- effort, and added that "Chesney's albums have always been considerably more wistful than his radio persona, but Welcome to the Fishbowl's tunes, while well wrought, can be downright dour. The tonal shift is fine — the problem is that these weepies often come off less like authentic autobiography than downbeat Nashville role-playing. (The too-sleek production and ponderous, stretched-out tempos don't help.)" In addition, Smith wrote that "Fishbowl reveals less about the star's true interior life than ever."

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