Love Like Crazy Explained

Love Like Crazy
Type:studio
Artist:Lee Brice
Cover:Lee Brice Love Like Crazy.jpg
Genre:Country
Length:43:59
Label:Curb Records
Next Title:Hard 2 Love
Next Year:2012

Love Like Crazy is the debut studio album by American country music artist Lee Brice. It was released on June 8, 2010 by Curb Records. Prior to the album's release, Brice charted three singles: "She Ain't Right," "Happy Endings" and "Upper Middle Class White Trash." The album's title track debuted in August 2009. The album's second single "Beautiful Every Time" released to radio on October 25, 2010.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album a two-and-a-half star rating out of five, criticizing the "pedestrian" production, but saying that Brice showed an "ability to seem like your own local boy made good." Giving it one-and-a-half stars out of five, Karlie Justus of Engine 145 thought that most of the songs were formulaic and the production "unpredictably jarring." Bobby Peacock of Roughstock was more positive, giving it four stars out of five. He thought that the songwriting was "cohesive" and that "Brice's irrefutable singing and songwriting talents come through clearly."

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[1]

Chart performance

Album

Love Like Crazy debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at No. 44 and at No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart. As of July 24, 2010, the album has sold 32,357 copies.[2]

Chart (2010)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 20044
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums9

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertifications
US Country
[4]
US
[5]
CAN
[6]
2009"Love Like Crazy"34577
  • US: Platinum
2010"Beautiful Every Time"30
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

  1. Love Like Crazy . Lee Brice . 2010 . CD booklet . Curb Records . 78977.
  2. Web site: Lady Antebellum Tops Charts Again. Bjorke. Matt. 14 July 2010. Roughstock. 21 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613163152/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/lady-antebellum-tops-charts-again. 13 June 2011. dead.
  3. Best of 2010 - Top Country Albums . . . 2010-12-31.
  4. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lee brice|chart=Country Songs}} Lee Brice Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. February 8, 2011.
  5. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lee brice|chart=all}} Lee Brice Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. February 8, 2011.
  6. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lee brice|chart=Billboard Canadian Hot 100}} Lee Brice Album & Song Chart History - Canadian Hot 100]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. February 8, 2011.