Tornado (album)

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Tornado
File:TornadoLBT.jpg
Studio album by Little Big Town
Released September 11, 2012 (2012-09-11)
Genre Country
Length 38:09
Label Capitol Nashville
Producer Jay Joyce
Little Big Town chronology
The Reason Why
(2010)The Reason Why2010		 Tornado
(2012)		 Pain Killer
(2014)Pain Killer2014
Singles from Tornado
  1. "Pontoon"
    Released: April 30, 2012
  2. "Tornado"
    Released: October 1, 2012
  3. "Your Side of the Bed"
    Released: April 8, 2013
  4. "Sober"
    Released: September 30, 2013
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 75/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[3]

Tornado is the fifth studio album by American country music group Little Big Town. It was released on September 11, 2012 via Capitol Nashville.[4][5] "Pontoon," which was released in April 2012 as the album's lead-off single, has since become their first Number One hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and Little Big Town's fastest-rising single to date.[6][7] The album's second single, "Tornado," was released on October 1, 2012. It became their first album since 2005's The Road to Here to produce two top 10 singles and to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. "Pavement Ends"   Jason Saenz, Brent Cobb Westbrook 2:31
2. "Pontoon"   Barry Dean, Natalie Hemby, Luke Laird Fairchild 3:35
3. "Sober"   Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna Schlapman 3:15
4. "Front Porch Thing"   Chris Stapleton, Adam Hood Sweet 3:26
5. "Your Side of the Bed"   McKenna, Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet Fairchild, Westbrook 3:41
6. "Leavin' in Your Eyes"   Brett Warren, Brad Warren, Jay Joyce, Westbrook, Fairchild, Schlapman Westbrook 3:13
7. "Tornado"   Hemby, Delta Maid Fairchild 3:43
8. "On Fire Tonight"   Laird, Sweet, Westbrook, Fairchild, Schlapman Westbrook 3:12
9. "Can't Go Back"   Hemby, Kate York, Rosi Golan Schlapman 3:43
10. "Self Made"   Hemby, Jedd Hughes, Westbrook, Fairchild Fairchild, Westbrook 4:08
11. "Night Owl"   Hemby, Westbrook, Fairchild, Schlapman, Sweet Fairchild, Schlapman, Sweet, Westbrook 3:45

Personnel

Little Big Town

  • Karen Fairchild — vocals
  • Kimberly Schlapman — vocals
  • Phillip Sweet — vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Jimi Westbrook — vocals

Musicians

Chart performance

"Tornado" debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, selling 113,000 copies in its first week.[8] The album stayed atop the Billboard Country Albums charts for its first 5 weeks, their longest running number one album. As of December 2013, the album has sold 1,025,000 copies in the US.[9] It is the band's first album since The Road to Here to receive a certification from the RIAA. It is also their first album of their career to have two certified singles from the RIAA.

Weekly charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart[10] 16
US Billboard 200[10] 2
US Billboard Top Country Albums[10] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
US Billboard 200[11] 78
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[12] 19
Chart (2013) Position
US Billboard 200[13] 29
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[14] 7
Chart (2014) Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[15] 55

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
[16]		 US Country Airplay
[17]		 US
[18]		 CAN Country
[19]		 CAN
[20]
2012 "Pontoon" 1 — 22 — 39
"Tornado" 6 2 51 4 60
2013 "Your Side of the Bed" 29 27 96 — —
"Sober" 27 31 102 35 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Preceded by Top Country Albums number-one album
September 29–October 27, 2012		 Succeeded by
Night Train by Jason Aldean

Certifications

Region Certification
Canada (Music Canada)[21] Gold
United States (RIAA)[22] Platinum

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