Hootie and The Blowfish are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Cracked Rear View, this year. The monumental record is currently the tenth best-selling album of all time U.S., certified 21x Platinum by the RIAA since its 1994 debut, as well as the best-selling debut album of all time. The band – Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim “Soni” Sonefeld – recorded Cracked Rear View at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with producer Don Gehman. Released on July 5, 1994, the album became a musical phenomenon, topping the album charts in Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S., where it reached #1 five different times during 1995. The album generated four massive singles: “Hold My Hand,” “Only Wanna Be With You,” “Time,” and “Let Her Cry,” which earned Hootie and the Blowfish a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group and also saw them recognized as Best New Pop Group by the Grammy Awards.