Hanginaround

"Hanginaround"
Single by Counting Crows
from the album This Desert Life
B-side"A Long December"
ReleasedOctober 18, 1999 (1999-10-18)
Length4:16
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)David Lowery, Dennis Herring
Counting Crows singles chronology
"Daylight Fading"
(1997)
"Hanginaround"
(1999)
"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
(2000)

"Hanginaround" is a song by American rock band Counting Crows. It is the first track on their third album, This Desert Life (1999).[1] Released on October 18, 1999, the song reached number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming their biggest hit on the chart from this album. It also reached number one on the Billboard Triple-A chart, their second number-one single on this listing.

Outside the United States, "Hanginaround" became the band's fifth top-10 single in Canada, reaching number three on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, and peaked within the top 50 in Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In April 2022, American Songwriter ranked the song at number nine on their list of "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs".[2]

  1. ^ "Counting Crows – This Desert Life". AllMusic. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  2. ^ Uitti, Jacob (April 29, 2022). "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs". American Songwriter. Retrieved April 30, 2022.