"No News" is the title of a song recorded by American

United States

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 country music band Lonestar

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. It was released in January 1996 as the second single from their debut album, Lonestar

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Lonestar is the self-titled debut album from the American country music band Lonestar. Released in 1995 on BNA Records , it features five singles: "Tequila Talkin'", "No News", "Runnin' Away With My Heart", "Heartbroke Every Day", and "When Cowboys Didn't Dance", of which "No News" was a Number One...

. "No News" reached the top of the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks

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 chart in April 1996 (see 1996 in country music

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), giving the group its first number-one single. It was written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, and Mark D. Sanders

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Content

The song is a moderate up-tempo in which the narrator tells of how his former lover has left him. Having not heard from her or her family, he says that he would "prefer a bad excuse to no news". In the verses, he offers several possibilities as to her disappearance, such as "Lost her car at the mall / Got locked in a bathroom stall". The radio edit replaces the line "Joined a cult, joined the Klan

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" with "playin' guitar with the band".

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard

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magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it "different, catchy, and utterly infectious." She goes on to say that the production is "first-rate" and that the performance is "right on the mark."

Music video

This was their first music video, and it was directed by Deaton-Flanigen Productions

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Chart positions

"No News" debuted at number 57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of January 13, 1996. The song was commercially released as a double A-side with "Tequila Talkin'"; this double-sided single reached number 22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.

Chart (1996)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	22
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

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