Criminal (Lindsay Ell song)

"Criminal"
Single by Lindsay Ell
from the album The Project
ReleasedDecember 11, 2017 (2017-12-11)
Recorded2016
GenreCountry rock[1]
Length3:22
LabelStoney Creek
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Kristian Bush
Lindsay Ell singles chronology
"Waiting on You"
(2017)
"Criminal"
(2017)
"The Worst Kind"
(2018)

"Criminal" is a song recorded by Canadian country music singer Lindsay Ell for her third studio album, The Project (2017). Ell co-wrote the song with Fred Wilhelm and Chris Stevens, while Kristian Bush of Sugarland produced the track. It was released to American country radio on December 11, 2017 through Stoney Creek Records as the album's second single.[2]

"Criminal" peaked at numbers 19 and 28 on the Billboard Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts, respectively, marking Ell's first top 40 single on the former and first charting entry on the latter. In Canada, the song also peaked at number one on the Canada Country chart, becoming the first single by a Canadian solo female artist to do so since 2008.[3]

  1. ^ Dukes, Billy (December 13, 2017). "Sound Off: Is Lindsay Ell's 'Criminal' a Hit? [Listen]". Taste of Country. Townsquare Media. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  2. ^ "Single Releases : MusicRow". MusicRow. Archived from the original on November 29, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Parton, Chris (April 9, 2018). "Lindsay Ell's 'Criminal': See Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 11, 2018.