Editing Cracked Rear View (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name = Cracked Rear View
| type = studio
| artist = [[Hootie & the Blowfish]]
| cover = Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View.jpg
| alt = A collage of blurred photographs forms the album cover
| released = {{Start date|1994|07|05}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=#3 Most Added |journal=The Hard Report |date=1994-07-01 |issue=381 |page=9 |quote=from the debut album Cracked Rear View out July 5}}</ref><ref name="AM">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cracked-rear-view-mw0000115821 |title=Cracked Rear View&nbsp;– Hootie & the Blowfish |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]] |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |access-date=December 1, 2010}}</ref>
| recorded = November 1993&nbsp;− March 1994
| studio = [[NRG Recording Studios|NRG]], [[North Hollywood, Los&nbsp;Angeles|North Hollywood]], California, US<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Cracked Rear View |author=[[Hootie & the Blowfish]] |year=1994 |type=CD liner |publisher=[[Atlantic Records]] |id=82613-2 |location=[[United States]]}}</ref>
| genre = {{hlist|[[Alternative rock]]|[[heartland rock]]|[[roots rock]]}}
| length = {{Duration|m=46|s=36}}
| label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| producer = [[Don Gehman]]
| prev_title = [[Kootchypop]]
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = [[Fairweather Johnson]]
| next_year = 1996
| misc = {{Singles
 | name = Cracked Rear View
 | type = studio
 | single1 = [[Hold My Hand (Hootie & the Blowfish song)|Hold My Hand]]
 | single1date = July 18, 1994
 | single2 = [[Let Her Cry (song)|Let Her Cry]]
 | single2date = December 17, 1994
 | single3 = [[Only Wanna Be with You]]
 | single3date = July 17, 1995
 | single4 = [[Time (Hootie & the Blowfish song)|Time]]
 | single4date = October 24, 1995
 | single5 = [[Drowning (Hootie & the Blowfish song)|Drowning]]
 | single5date = November 1995
}}
}}
'''''Cracked Rear View''''' is the debut studio album by [[Hootie & the Blowfish]], released on July 5, 1994, by [[Atlantic Records]].<ref name="AM" /> Released to positive critical reviews, it eventually became one of the [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|highest-selling albums in the United States]], and also one of the [[List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums worldwide]], with over 20 million units.