Being a double album with length exceeding 90 minutes, the album was certified 7× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 3.5 million albums.Īccording to Henley, Bill Szymczyk, who had produced their previous albums, was a producer on the album, although Henley described Szymczyk's role as that of 'a mediator, a consigliere, a ringmaster' since they (Frey and Henley) had already learned how to produce records themselves. It has since sold 3.5 million copies in the US alone. 1 album, and was the highest selling album of the year.

The album became the band's sixth consecutive No. 1 in the US after a last-minute rule change by Billboard (which also blocked Britney Spears' highly anticipated Blackout from topping the chart) and won the band two Grammy awards for 'How Long' and the instrumental 'I Dreamed There Was No War'. 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'. Souther's ' How Long' 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 charts. The album produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: a cover of J.D. It is the band's first album released following the dismissal of Don Felder in 2001, as well as their final album with Glenn Frey before his death in 2016. In between that time the band recorded four original studio tracks for the live album Hell Freezes Over (1994), ' Hole in the World' for The Very Best Of (2003) and the Joe Walsh-penned 'One Day at a Time' for the Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne DVD (2005), which Walsh later re-recorded for his 2012 album Analog Man. Nearly six years in production, it is the band's first studio album since 1979's The Long Run. Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records as their first ever double album.

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