Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by American

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 rock band Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records. Nearly six years in production, Long Road Out of Eden is the first studio album from the Eagles since 1979's The Long Run

The Long Run (album)

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by the Eagles, released in 1979 . This was the first Eagles album not to feature founding member Randy Meisner, who was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit....

, and along with the four original tracks on 1994 Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over is a live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live for an MTV special. It went to #1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. It is the band's second live album behind their...

, and two records in 2003 and 2004 with "Hole in the World" and "One Day at a Time", the only original material since. The album produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts: a cover of J.D. Souther's "How Long

How Long (J. D. Souther song)

"How Long" is the title of a song, recorded and written in 1972, by rock music artist J. D. Souther. The song was included on his 1972 album John David Souther but not released as a single....

" and "Busy Being Fabulous", both of which were Top 30 hits on the country charts as well as Top 20 hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...

 charts. The album produced five straight hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts with "How Long", "Busy Being Fabulous", "No More Cloudy Days", "What Do I Do With My Heart", and "I Don't Want to Hear Anymore". The album debuted at #1 in the U.S. and won the band two Grammy awards for "How Long" and the instrumental "I Dreamed There Was No War". The album became the band's sixth #1 album and was the highest selling album of the year. It has since sold 3.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Being a double album with length exceeding 90 minutes, the album was certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America

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 for shipments of 7 million discs.

About the album

In 2006, a special edition exclusive to Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 of the DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 release, Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne

Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne

Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne is a double DVD by Eagles, released in 2005 .It was filmed in Melbourne, Australia at the Rod Laver Arena on the 14, 15 and 17 of November 2004, in the same name tour, featuring two new songs...

, included a bonus CD with three studio versions of songs from Long Road Out of Eden: "No More Cloudy Days," "Do Something" and "Fast Company."

On August 20, 2007, the song "How Long," written by J.D. Souther — who had previously worked with the Eagles co-writing some of their biggest hits including "Best of My Love

Best of My Love (Eagles song)

"Best of My Love" is a song written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. It was originally recorded by the Eagles , and included on their 1974 album On the Border. The band's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single in March 1975, the song also topped the easy listening chart for one week...

," "Victim of Love," "Heartache Tonight

Heartache Tonight

"Heartache Tonight" was revived four years later in a cover version by country music artist Conway Twitty. Released as the second single from his Lost in the Feeling album, Twitty's version reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1983.Twitty's version featured the...

" and "New Kid in Town

New Kid in Town

"New Kid in Town", written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther, is a song by the Eagles, from their 1976 album Hotel California. Released as the first single from the album, the song became a #1 hit in the USA, and #20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album...

" — was released as a single to radio with an accompanying online video at Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music

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 and debuted on television on CMT

Country Music Television

Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs...

 during the Top 20 Countdown

Top Twenty Countdown

Top 20 Countdown is a show on CMT.The show counts down the biggest videos in country music and was originally hosted by Lance Smith. Top Twenty Countdown airs every Friday at 11:00 a.m. and reruns on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Besides showing the biggest videos, Lance also shows...

 on August 23, 2007. The band performed the song as part of their live sets in the early to mid 1970s, but did not record it at the time due to J.D. Souther's desire to use it on his first solo album.

The Deluxe Collector's Edition of Long Road Out of Eden was released on November 20, 2007, featuring two bonus tracks, "Hole in the World" and "Please Come Home for Christmas." This version of the CD is wrapped in a red linen cloth, screen printed with panoramic imagery, and includes a 40-page booklet with lyrics, credits, exclusive photos and desert scenes from the making of the "How Long" video.

"No More Walks in the Wood" is a song using the words from "An Old-Fashioned Song," a 21-line poem (without choruses either in the poem or song) by John Hollander

John Hollander

John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

. The song is in four-part harmony with guitar chords, but mostly sung a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

.

In a 2007 interview with CNN

CNN

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, band member Don Henley declared, "This is probably the last Eagles album that we'll ever make." When questioned about the possibility of a follow-up album in November 2010, band member Timothy B. Schmit said, "My first reaction would be: no way. But I said that before the last one, so you never really know. Bands are a fragile entity and you never know what's going to happen. It took a long time to do that last album, over a span of years, really, and it took a lot out of us. We took a year off at one point. I'm not sure if we're able to do that again. I wouldn't close the door on it, but I don't know." In a 2010 interview with undercover.fm, Joe Walsh said that the band might be able to make one more album before the band "wraps it up".

At the 2009 Grammy Awards, the album won Best Instrumental Pop Performance. The album received three more nominations: Best Pop Vocal Album; Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for 'Waiting in the Weeds'; and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for 'Long Road Out of Eden'.

"Guilty of the Crime" was covered by The Bellamy Brothers and The Bacon Brothers

The Bacon Brothers

The Bacon Brothers is the American musical duo of Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Although they have played music together since they were boys, the brothers have only been a working band since 1995....

, whose version was released as a single in June 2009.

In 2009 "I Don't Want to Hear Any More" was released as the fifth single from the album. The song's writer Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...

 had already cut his own version in 2007.

For the first year after the album's initial release, the album was available in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 exclusively via the band's website, or through Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

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 and Sam's Club

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 retail stores.

Disc one

1. "No More Walks in the Wood" (Don Henley, Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
   
   , John Hollander
   John Hollander
   John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...
   
   ) – 2:00
2. "How Long
   How Long (J. D. Souther song)
   "How Long" is the title of a song, recorded and written in 1972, by rock music artist J. D. Souther. The song was included on his 1972 album John David Souther but not released as a single....
   
   " (J. D. Souther
   J. D. Souther
   John David Souther is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. He has written and co-written numerous hits songs recorded by artists such as Linda Ronstadt and Glenn Frey of the Eagles.-Singing career:...
   
   ) – 3:13
3. "Busy Being Fabulous
   Busy Being Fabulous
   "Busy Being Fabulous" is the second single by the American rock band Eagles from their 2007 album Long Road out of Eden. Released in January 2008, it is their third Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.-Song:...
   
   " (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
   
   ) – 4:19
4. "What Do I Do with My Heart" (Glenn Frey, Don Henley) – 3:54
5. "Guilty of the Crime" (Frankie Miller
   Frankie Miller
   Frankie Miller is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter, who had his biggest success in the 1970s. Miller was raised at Colvend Street, Glasgow with his parents, Cathy and Frank, and elder sisters Letty and Anne. Miller attended Sacred Heart Primary school. He was an altar boy in Sacred Heart Chapel...
   
   , Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:43
6. "I Don't Want to Hear Any More" (Paul Carrack
   Paul Carrack
   Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...
   
   ) – 4:21
7. "Waiting in the Weeds" (Don Henley, Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith
   Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
   
   ) – 7:45
8. "No More Cloudy Days" (Glenn Frey) – 4:02
9. "Fast Company" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 4:00
10. "Do Something" (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit
    Timothy B. Schmit
    Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...
    
    , Steuart Smith
    Steuart Smith
    Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
    
    ) – 5:12
11. "You Are Not Alone" (Frey) – 2:22

Disc two

1. "Long Road Out of Eden" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit) – 10:17
2. "I Dreamed There Was No War" (Glenn Frey) – 1:38
3. "Somebody" (Jack Tempchin
   Jack Tempchin
   Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known for writing the Eagles classic "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and co-writing their hits "Already Gone", "The Girl From Yesterday," "Somebody," and "It's Your World Now."...
   
   , John Brannen
   John Brannen
   John Brannen is an American Roots rock/ Heartland rock, singer-songwriter whose song, “Somebody,” appeared on the most recent Eagles record, Long Road Out of Eden...
   
   ) – 4:09
4. "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Steuart Smith) – 5:46
5. "Last Good Time in Town" (Joe Walsh
   Joe Walsh
   Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
   
   , John David Souther) – 7:07
6. "I Love to Watch a Woman Dance" (Larry John McNally) – 3:16
7. "Business as Usual" (Don Henley, Steuart Smith) – 5:31
8. "Center of the Universe" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Steuart Smith) – 3:42
9. "It's Your World Now" (Glenn Frey, Jack Tempchin) – 4:22

Bonus tracks on the Deluxe Collector's Edition

10. "Hole in the World
    Hole in the World
    "Hole in the World" is a song by the Eagles, written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, released in 2003....
    
    " (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 4:13*
    
11. "Please Come Home for Christmas
    Please Come Home for Christmas
    "Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine...
    
    " (Charles Mose Brown, Gene C. Redd) – 2:58
    

* Bonus track also included in the standard UK edition.

Eagles

• Glenn Frey
  Glenn Frey
  Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey formed the Eagles after he met drummer Don Henley in 1970 and the two eventually joined Linda Ronstadt's backup band for her summer tour. The Eagles formed in 1971 and...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Don Henley
  Don Henley
  Donald Hugh "Don" Henley is an American singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. Henley was the drummer and lead vocalist for the Eagles from 1971–1980, when the band broke up...
  
   – drums, percussion, guitar and vocals
• Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
   – guitar, keyboards and vocals
• Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...
  
   – bass and vocals

Musicians

• Steuart Smith
  Steuart Smith
  Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington, VA.]].-Current work:...
  
   – guitar, keyboards, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  
• Scott Crago – drums and percussion
• Richard F.W. Davis – keyboards and programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  
• Michael Thompson – keyboards, accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
   and trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Will Hollis – keyboards
• Al Garth - alto sax
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
   and violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Bill Armstrong – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Chris Mostert – tenor
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   and alto sax
• Greg Smith – baritone sax
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
  
• Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...
  
   – pedal steel
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
  
• Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...
  
   – percussion
• Luis Conti
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
   – percussion

• Orchestration
  Orchestration
  Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
  
  s by Richard F.W. Davis and Glenn Frey
• Horns
  Horn section
  In music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a...
  
   arranged by Greg Smith and Don Henley

Production

• Produced by Eagles
• Co-Producers: Steuart Smith, Richard F.W. Davis, Scott Crago, Bill Szymczyk
  Bill Szymczyk
  Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though he retired from the music business by 1990...
  
  
• Engineering: Chris Bell, Mike Terry
  Mike Terry
  Mike Terry is a music producer, recording engineer, and mixer residing in Los Angeles, California. Terry grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Terry eventually moved west in the mid 90's and landed his first jobs at L.A.'s The Village, and Sound City recording studios as an assistant...
  
   , Jim Nipar, Mike Harlow,
• Mixed by Elliot Scheiner
  Elliot Scheiner
  Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of...
  
   at The Doghouse, Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
  , California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  
• Digital Editing: Blade
• Recorded at The Doghouse, Los Angeles, California and Samhain Sound, Malibu, California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  
• Additional Studios:
  • O’Henry Studios, Burbank
    Burbank, California
    Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
    
    , California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
    
    
  • Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
    
    
  • Mooselodge, Calabasas, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
    
    
  • The Panhandle House, Denton, Texas
    Denton, Texas
    The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...
    
    
  • Luminous Sound, Dallas, Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
    
    
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....
  
   at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
  Portland, Maine
  Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
  
  
• Art Direction and Design: Jeri Heiden
• Logo: Nick Steinhardt / SMOG Design, Inc
• Photography: Olaf Heine

Album

Chart (2007)	Peak position	Certification	Sales
Australia ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...  Chart	1	3× Platinum	210,000+
Austria Media Control Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...  Album Chart	2	Platinum	20,000+
Belgium IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...  Album Chart	8	Gold	15,000
Denmark IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...  Albums Chart	2	2× Platinum	60,000+
Finland IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...  Album Chart	6		16.000
France SNEP Album Chart	9
Germany Media Control Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...  Album Chart	2	Platinum	200,000
Greece IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...  Album International Chart	1	Gold	10,000
Hong Kong Album Chart	1
India Album Chart	1
Ireland IRMA Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:...  Album Chart	4	Platinum	15,000
Italy FIMI Album Chart	4
Japan Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...  Albums Chart	7		83,132
Korea Hanteo Album Chart	9		2,597
Malaysia Album Chart	1
Netherlands MegaCharts MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...  Album Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Album Chart	1	2× Platinum	30,000
Norway IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...  Album Chart	1
Poland OLiS OLiS OLiS is the official list of the highest selling music albums in Poland. The list exists since October 23, 2000 and is provided by ZPAV....  Album Chart	4	Platinum	20,000
Russia RASC RASC RASC may be:* Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing, a specialized reconfigurable computer for high-performance computing* Research and Advocacy Standing Committee, part of the Singapore Children's Society...  Album Sales Chart	1
Singapore Album Chart	1
Spain PROMUSICAE PROMUSICAE Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry...  Album Chart	13
Sweden GLF Swedish Recording Industry Association Grammofonleverantörernas förening , or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of Sweden...  Album Chart	2	Platinum	40,000
Switzerland Media Control Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...  Album Chart	2	Gold	15,000
Thailand Album Chart	1
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	1	2× Platinum	800,000+
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	1	7× Platinum	3,500,000+
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard European Top 100 Albums European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100...	1

End of year charts

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Country
! Chart
! Rank
|-
| 2007
| Germany
| IFPI
| #78

Singles

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Song
! colspan="5"| Peak chart positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="35"| US Country

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

! width="35"| US

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

! width="35"| US Main
! width="35"| US AC

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...

! width="35"| CAN

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...

|-
| 2005
| align="left"| "No More Cloudy Days"
| —
| —
| —
| 3
| —
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2007
| align="left"| "How Long"
| 23
| 101
| 38
| 7
| 76
|-
| align="left"| "Busy Being Fabulous"
| 28
| —
| —
| 12
| —
|-
| 2008
| align="left"| "What Do I Do with My Heart"
| —
| —
| —
| 13
| —
|-
| 2009
| align="left"| "I Don't Want to Hear Any More"
| —
| —
| —
| 23
| —
|-
| colspan="10" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart
|-
|}

Wins

{|class="wikitable"
! Year
! Winner
! Category
! Award
|-
| 2008
| Long Road Out Of Eden
| Best International Rock Album
| Fonogram – Hungarian Music Awards

Hungarian Music Awards

The Hungarian Music Awards have been given to artists in the field of Hungarian music since 1992.The Awards - formerly known as the Golden Giraffe Awards - has been made by Mahasz, the Hungarian music industry association...

|-
| 2008
| "How Long"
| Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

The Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded from 1970 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1970 the award was known as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group...

| Grammy Awards (50th)

50th Grammy Awards

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008. Kanye West received the most nominations, with eight. Amy Winehouse was the big winner, winning a total of five awards. Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year,...

|-
| 2009
| "I Dreamed There Was No War"
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was awarded between 1969 and 2011.*In 1969 it was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental*From 1970 to 1971 it was awarded as Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance...

| Grammy Awards (51st)

51st Grammy Awards

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, jointly winning five awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year...

|-
|}

Nominations

{|class="wikitable"
! Year
! Nominee
! Category
! Award
|-
| 2004
| "Hole In The World"
| Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals was awarded between 1966 and 2011...

| Grammy Awards (46th)
|-
| 2008
| Long Road Out Of Eden
| Best International Album
| BRIT Awards (28th)

2008 BRIT Awards

The 2008 BRIT Awards was the 28th edition of the biggest annual music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 20 February 2008 at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. The ceremony attracted 6.1 million viewers, 800,000 more than the...

|-
| 2008
| Eagles
| Best International Group
| BRIT Awards (28th)
|-
| 2008
| "How Long"
| Wide Open Country Video of the Year
| CMT Music Awards

CMT Music Awards

The CMT Music Awards is a fan-voted awards show for country music videos and television performances. The awards ceremony is held every year in Nashville, Tennessee, and broadcast live on CMT. Voting takes place on CMT's website, CMT.com.-History:...

|-
| 2008
| Eagles
| Top Vocal Group
| Academy of Country Music Awards

Academy of Country Music

The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...

|-
| 2009
| Long Road Out Of Eden
| Best Pop Vocal Album

Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop music albums...

| Grammy Awards (51st)
|-
| 2009
| “Long Road Out Of Eden”
| Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1980 and 2011.The award was discontinued after the 2011 award season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...

| Grammy Awards (51st)
|-
| 2009
| "Waiting In The Weeds"
| Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
| Grammy Awards (51st)
|}

External links

• The Billboard Q&A: The Eagles' Glenn Frey, Billboard
  Billboard (magazine)
  Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
  
  , October 12, 2007
• The Billboard Q&A: The Eagles' Don Henley, Billboard, October 12, 2007