Song · Sheryl Crow
“Leaving Las Vegas” by Sheryl Crow
From the album Tuesday Night Music Club (1993)
“Leaving Las Vegas” by Sheryl Crow appears on 19 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1994 and 2023. It was first released in 1993 on the album Tuesday Night Music Club. Its best result is #36 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #74 alternative song of 1994 and #2,642 alternative song of all time.
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"Leaving Las Vegas" comes from Sheryl Crow's 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, and it borrows its title from John O'Brien's semi-autobiographical 1990 novel. O'Brien was a good friend of David Baerwald, who is among the song's co-writers along with Crow, Bill Bottrell, Kevin Gilbert and David Ricketts, the loose circle that gave the album its name and helped write most of it.
Bottrell produced, and the track has the easy, smoky roll of a late-night jam: a slow-burn groove, a desert-highway haze, and Crow singing like someone who has already packed the car and is only half sure she wants to go. It went out as a single in April 1994, and David Hogan's video picked up an award at that year's Music Video Production Awards in Los Angeles.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 104 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 | 107 |
| 1994 | 36 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 | 106 |
| 1994 | 97 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 | 101 |
| 1994 | 64 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1994 | 100 |
| 1994 | 49 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994 | 94 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1035 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 1316 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 273 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) | 500 |
| 2000 | 1316 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1321 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1320 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1305 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1305 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1305 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1941 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2010 | 369 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2021 | 790 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2023 | 717 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2023 | 482 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
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