| "Running on Empty" | ||||
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| Single by Jackson Browne | ||||
| from the album Running on Empty | ||||
| B-side | "Nothing But Time" | |||
| Released | February 1978 | |||
| Recorded | August 27, 1977 | |||
| Venue | Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 5:20 (album version) 4:49 (7" version) | |||
| Label | Asylum Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jackson Browne | |||
| Producer(s) | Jackson Browne | |||
| Jackson Browne singles chronology | ||||
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"Running on Empty" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It is the title track of his 1977 live album of the same name, recorded at a concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on August 27, 1977. A number 11 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 when it was released as a single, it spent seventeen weeks on the chart after debuting on February 11, 1978 at position 72.[1][2][3] Rolling Stone ranked it at number 496 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2010 and number 492 in 2004 and it is one of Browne's signature songs.[4] "Running on Empty" was most popular in Canada, where it spent two weeks at number four.[5]
- ^ Paris, Russ. JACKSON BROWNE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Billboard.com Jackson Browne Chart History. Accessed July 10, 2012.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Hot 100 Charts - The Seventies. Wisconsin: Record Research, 1990.
- ^ Rolling Stone. "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
- ^ Canada, Library and Archives (2013-07-17). "Image : RPM Weekly". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-09.