Genre Country Label Capitol Nashville | Length 42:44 Lady Antebellum
(2008) Need You Now
(2010) | |
Released April 15, 2008 (2008-04-15) Producer Victoria Shaw
Paul Worley | ||
Lady Antebellum is the self-titled debut album by the American country music trio Lady Antebellum. It was released on April 15, 2008. Its lead-off single, "Love Don't Live Here", was released in late 2007 and entered the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in May 2008. A second single, "Lookin' for a Good Time", was issued in June 2008, and peaked at number 11. "I Run to You" followed as the third single from the album in January 2009, and became the group's first number-one single on the Hot Country Songs chart in July 2009.
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The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the first debut by a country group to achieve this. It also reached number 4 on the overall Billboard Top 200 charts. It also received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Chart performance
The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 and at number 1 on the Top Country Albums Chart, after selling 47,000 copies during its first official week of release, and making Lady Antebellum the first country group to have their debut album enter the Top Country Albums at number 1. It has been certified double platinum by the RIAA for U.S. shipments of 2,000,000 copies. As of the chart dated January 8, 2011, the album has sold 1,826,368 copies in the US.
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Lady Antebellum
Additional musicians
Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine; conducted and arranged by Kris Wilkinson.