"Bubba Shot the Jukebox" is a song written by

Dennis Linde Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dee, March 18, 1943December 22, 2006) was an American musician and songwriter based in Nashville who has had over 250 of his songs recorded. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley song, "Burning Love", ...

, and recorded by American

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singer

Mark Chesnutt Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1990 and 1999, he had his greatest chart success recording for Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA and Decca branches, with a total of ei ...

. It was released in September 1992 as the third single from his album '' Longnecks & Short Stories''. It peaked at No. 4 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and at No. 14 on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart.

Chart performance

"Bubba Shot the Jukebox" charted for several weeks prior to its release, due to several stations giving it unsolicited airplay while " I'll Think of Something" was Chesnutt's active single. A column in ''

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'' described the song as "not thought to be viable for radio by some in both Chesnutt's and MCA's camps", but that the unsolicited airplay made it "destined" to be a single.

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References

Songs about jukeboxes Songs about prison 1992 singles 1992 songs Mark Chesnutt songs Songs written by Dennis Linde Song recordings produced by Mark Wright (record producer) MCA Records singles {{1992-country-song-stub