"They Rage On" is a single recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Dan Seals

Dan Seals

Danny Wayland "Dan" Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including...

. It is the third and final single from his 1988 album Rage On

Rage On

Rage On is the seventh studio album released by Country Music artist Dan Seals. The Album charted at number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart, his second highest charting album since Won't Be Blue Anymore in 1985...

. It peaked at #5 on the 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...

country charts in 1989, thus breaking his streak of number-one hits. It was his first single to miss the #1 spot since his early-1985 single "My Old Yellow Car

My Old Yellow Car

"My Old Yellow Car" is a single released by American country music artist Dan Seals. It is the third and final single released from his 1984 album San Antone. It peaked at #9 in early-1985.-Content:...

", which peaked at #9.

Music video

The music video was directed by Neil Abramson. This video, in particular, played on the song's theme of the irony of small-town values with the depiction of an inter-racial relationship. In it, a white teen-aged boy falls in love with a Chinese girl, angering the boy's friends to the point they vandalize the boy's car; one boy attempts to assault the girl's father by hurling a beer bottle at him (the bottle misses).

Chart positions

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	4