Hootie and the Blowfish

Hootie and the Blowfish
Hootie & The Blowfish (1998)
General information
Genre (s)	alternative
founding	1986
Website	www.hootie.com
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar	Darius Rucker
guitar	Mark Bryan
bass	Dean Felber
Drums	Jim "Soni" Sonefeld

Darius Rucker

Hootie And The Blowfish , also spelled Hootie & The Blowfish , is an American alternative band that was founded at the University of South Carolina and plays a mainstream variant of blues rock .

history

The founding members were Darius Rucker , Dean Felber, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld and Mark Bryan. Her debut album Cracked Rear View (1994) was an instant success and has since reached 21 platinum status ( double diamond status ) in the US. This made it the best-selling album in 1995 and is still one of the 20 most successful albums in the US charts. Included on the album were the four hits Hold My Hand, Let Her Cry, Only Wanna Be with You and Time. In 1995 the band reached an out-of-court settlement with Bob Dylan over the unauthorized use of his lyrics to Only Wanna Be With You . In 1996 the band won a Grammy for "Best New Artist". In Europe, however, the band could not achieve comparable popularity.

In 1995, Hootie And The Blowfish contributed the song Hey Hey What Can I Do to Encomium , the tribute album for Led Zeppelin . Their cover version of the song I Go Blind , originally released as the soundtrack for the TV series Friends in 1995, was a surprise hit. This is all the more remarkable as this song was not included on either the Cracked Rear View album or the second album, Fairweather Johnson . Both songs, Hey Hey What Can I Do and I Go Blind were later released on the rarities / B-side collection Scattered, Smothered and Covered .

Already the second album could not match the success of the debut by a long way, but it sold over four million copies. The following three albums were increasingly unsuccessful, and there were no more hits. In August 2008 the band announced that Darius Rucker wanted to concentrate on his solo career. The band will no longer record albums and will only appear from time to time as part of their charity foundation. In fact, there have been occasional appearances since then, but for a long time no new material has been published. It wasn't until autumn 2019 that the band surprisingly released a new album called Imperfect Circle .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1994	Cracked rear view	DE45 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK12 gold (26 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double diamond + platinum (129 weeks)US	First published: July 5, 1994 Sales: + 21,000,000
1996	Fairweather Johnson	DE41 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH37 (5 weeks) CH	UK9 gold (19 weeks)UK	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (44 weeks)US	First published: April 23, 1996 Sales: + 2,540,000
1998	Musical chairs	DE72 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK15th silver (6 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (23 weeks)US	First published: September 15, 1998 Sales: + 1,250,000
2003	Hootie & the Blowfish	-	-	-	-	US46 (6 weeks) US	First published: March 4, 2003
2005	Looking for Lucky	-	-	-	-	US47 (6 weeks) US	First published: August 9, 2005
2019	Imperfect Circle	-	-	-	UK100 (1 week) UK	US26 (2 weeks) US	First published: November 1st, 2019

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Scattered, Smothered and Covered	-	-	-	-	US71 (3 weeks) US	First published: October 24, 2000
2004	The Best of: 1993-2003	-	-	-	-	US62 (7 weeks) US	First published: March 2, 2004

Live albums

year	title	Remarks
2006	Live in Charleston	First published: 2006

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1994	Hold My Hand Cracked Rear View	-	-	-	UK50 (3 weeks) UK	US10 (44 weeks) US	First published: July 18, 1994
	Let Her Cry Cracked Rear View	DE78 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK75 (2 weeks) UK	US9 (35 weeks) US	First published: December 17, 1994
1995	Only Wanna Be with You Cracked Rear View	DE65 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK85 (2 weeks) UK	US6 (32 weeks) US	First published: July 17, 1995
	Time cracked rear view	-	-	-	-	US14 (26 weeks) US	First published: October 24, 1995
1996	Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven) Fairweather Johnson	DE75 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK57 (1 week) UK	US13 (20 weeks) US	First published: April 2, 1996
	Tucker's Town Fairweather Johnson	-	-	-	UK77 (1 week) UK	US38 (20 weeks) US	First published: July 1, 1996
1998	I Will Wait Musical Chairs	-	-	-	UK57 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1998

Video albums

• 1995: Summer Camp With Trucks (US:gold)

Awards for music sales

Diamond record  Canada 1996: for the album Cracked Rear View

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	-	-	diamond1	1,000,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	5 × platinum5	2 × diamond2	25,050,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	2 × gold2	-	-	260,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	3 × gold3	5 × platinum5	3 × diamond3

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hootie & The Blowfish have to make an emergency landing . ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SWR3 Daily Pop, September 17, 1998 
2. ^ Darius Rucker - Hootie leaves the Blowfish . August 29, 2008
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE CH UK US