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Country music>country}}| length = 46:01Capitol Records Nashville>Capitol Nashville| producer = Allen ReynoldsFresh Horses (album)>Fresh Horses| prev_year = 1995The Limited Series (1998 album)>The Limited Series| next_year = 1998| misc = {hide}Singles {edih}}}{{Album ratings|rev1 = AllMusic2.5class=albumpure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]|rev2 = Christgau's Consumer GuidePUBLISHER=ROBERTCHRISTGAU.COM ACCESS-DATE=2013-07-08, |rev3 = Entertainment WeeklyTITLE=ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW DATE=1997-11-28, 2013-07-08, |rev4 = Rolling Stone3TITLE=ROLLING STONE REVIEW ROLLING STONE >DATE=1998-01-22 URL-STATUS=DEAD ARCHIVE-DATE=NOVEMBER 14, 2007, }}Sevens is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 25, 1997, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and on the Top Country Albums chart. To date, it is Brooks' last studio album to be certified diamond by the RIAA. The album also topped the Country album charts in Britain for several months and crossed over into the mainstream pop charts. His duet with Trisha Yearwood, "In Another's Eyes", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the Grammy Awards of 1998. Sevens was nominated for the Best Country Album Grammy the following year.

Background

Brooks commented on the album by saying:"I'm proud, I'm excited, I'm nervous, and it feels good to be back in the game again. This is a very personal album. I only wrote six of the songs, but there are many that are so 'me' that people I work with every day thought I wrote them."WEB,weblink PlanetGarth.com: Song Database: Albums: Sevens, www.planetgarth.com, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20020124173747weblink">weblink 2002-01-24,

Track listings

{{Track listing| all_writing = | title1 = Longneck Bottle| length1 = 2:17| title2 = How You Ever Gonna Know| length2 = 3:36| title3 = She's Gonna Make It| length3 = 2:46| title4 = I Don't Have to Wonder| length4 = 3:05| title5 = Two Piña Coladas| length5 = 3:35| title6 = Cowboy Cadillac| length6 = 2:48| title7 = Fit for a King| length7 = 3:59| title8 = Do What You Gotta Do| length8 = 2:58| title9 = You Move Me| length9 = 4:33| title10 = In Another's Eyes| note10 = featuring Trisha Yearwood| length10 = 3:34| total_length = 45:46| writer1 = Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner| writer2 = Kent Blazy, Garth BrooksKim Williams (songwriter)>Kim WilliamsShawn Camp (singer)>Shawn Camp, Taylor Dunn| writer5 = Camp, Benita Hill, Sandy Mason| writer6 = Brooks, Brian Kennedy| writer7 = Carl Jackson, Jim RushingPat Flynn (musician)>Pat Flynn| writer9 = Gordon Kennedy, Pierce Pettis| writer10 = Brooks, John Peppard, Bobby WoodTim O'Brien (musician)>Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott| title11 = When There's No One Around| length11 = 3:33| title12 = A Friend to Me| length12 = 3:06Victoria Shaw (singer)>Victoria Shaw| title13 = Take the Keys to My Heart| length13 = 2:32| writer13 = Hill, Tommy Smith, Pam Wolfe| title14 = Belleau Wood| writer14 = Brooks, Joe Henry| length14 = 3:28}}

• A music video was made for "I Don't Have to Wonder", even though it was not released as a single. It was directed by Jon Small and Garth Brooks.

Personnel

The following credits are sourced from liner notes.AV MEDIA NOTES, Sevens, Garth Brooks, 1997, CD, Capitol Records, 329519, {{div col}}

• Susan Ashton – backing vocals on "She's Gonna Make It" and "You Move Me"
• Sam Bacco – percussion on "You Move Me" and "Belleau Wood"; congas on "She's Gonna Make It"
• Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar
• Garth Brooks – lead and backing vocals
• Sam Bush – backing vocals on "Do What You Gotta Do"; mandolin on "Do What You Gotta Do" and "When There's No One Around"
• Shawn Camp – acoustic guitar on "Two Piña Coladas"
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar except "Fit For a King"
• Mike Chapman – bass guitar
• John Cowan – backing vocals on "Do What You Gotta Do"
• Béla Fleck – banjo on "Do What You Gotta Do"
• Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar on "Do What You Gotta Do"
• Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar on "Fit for a King"
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Randy Hardison – drums on "Fit for a King"
• Lona Heid – backing vocals on "Fit for a King"
• Randy Howard – fiddle on "Fit for a King"
• Carl Jackson – acoustic guitar and backing vocals on "Fit for a King"
• Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar
• Edgar Meyer – double bass on "Belleau Wood"
• Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements and conductor on "In Another's Eyes" and "A Friend to Me"
• Al Perkins – resonator guitar on "Fit for a King"
• Allen Reynolds – backing vocals on "How You Ever Gonna Know"; producer
• Milton Sledge – drums except "Fit For a King"; percussion on "How You Ever Gonna Know", "When There's No One Around" and "Belleau Wood"
• Catherine Styron – piano on "Fit for a King"
• Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar on "Longneck Bottle"
• Bobby Wood – keyboards; piano on "Longneck Bottle"; electric piano on "Cowboy Cadillac"; backing vocals on "How You Ever Gonna Know"
• Trisha Yearwood – duet vocals on "In Another's Eyes"
• Nashville String Machine – string section on "In Another's Eyes" and "A Friend to Me"

{{div col end}}Crowd vocals on "Two Piña Coladas": Dorothy "The Birthday Girl" Robinson, Charles Green, Mat Lindsey, Sandy Mason, Shawn Camp, Big Al, "Double D", Sam "The Man" Duczer, Garth Brooks

Chart performance

Sevens debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming his fifth, and number one on the Top Country Albums, becoming his seventh Country number-one album. In November 2006, Sevens was certified 10× Platinum by the RIAA.{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}

Weekly charts{|class"wikitable sortable"

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Year-end charts{|class"wikitable sortable"

!Chart (1998)!PositionBillboard 200HTTPS://WWW.BILLBOARD.COM/CHARTS/YEAR-END/1998/TOP-BILLBOARD-200-ALBUMSMAGAZINE=BILLBOARD, May 16, 2021, 3Billboard)HTTP://WWW.BILLBOARD.COM/CHARTS/YEAR-END/1998/TOP-COUNTRY-ALBUMSMAGAZINE=BILLBOARD, May 16, 2021, 1{|class="wikitable"!Chart (1999)!PositionBillboard)HTTP://WWW.BILLBOARD.COM/CHARTS/YEAR-END/1999/TOP-COUNTRY-ALBUMSMAGAZINE=BILLBOARD, May 16, 2021, 31">

Decade-end charts{| class"wikitable"

!Chart (1990–1999)!PositionBillboard 200GEOFF MAYFIELD TITLE = 1999 THE YEAR IN MUSIC TOTALLY '90S: DIARY OF A DECADE - THE LISTING OF TOP POP ALBUMS OF THE '90S & HOT 100 SINGLES OF THE '90S BILLBOARD (MAGAZINE)>BILLBOARD ACCESS-DATE = OCTOBER 15, 2010, 42{{col-end}}

Certifications

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References

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