Joey (Concrete Blonde song)

"Joey"
Single by Concrete Blonde
from the album Bloodletting
B-side	"I Want You"
Released	May 21, 1990
Length	4:07
Label	I.R.S.
Songwriter(s)	Johnette Napolitano
Producer(s)	Chris Tsangarides Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde singles chronology
"Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" (1990) "Joey" (1990) "Everybody Knows" (1990)

"Joey" is the ninth track from American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde's third studio album, Bloodletting (1990). The song was released in 1990 and was written and sung by the band's frontwoman, Johnette Napolitano. The song was written in a cab on the way to a photo studio in Philadelphia; it was the last vocal recorded on the album due to Napolitano's reluctance to record the lyrics, which were hard for her to deal with.^[1]

The song became the group's biggest hit, spending four weeks atop the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and crossing over to pop radio, reaching number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100; it remains their only charting song on the latter listing. Worldwide, "Joey" reached number two in Australia, ending 1990 as the country's 16th-best-selling single, and peaked at number four on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, ranking in at number 53 on the magazine's year-end listing for 1990.