"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached No.1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972. Davis wrote it when the record company demanded he write a tune with a "hook".
The song was also a modest country hit concurrent with its pop success, reaching No. 26 shortly after the peak of that success in the pop realm. It was featured on an episode of The Muppet Show that Mac Davis was hosting.
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (1972)PeakpositionAustralian Go-Set Chart1Australian KMR2Canadian RPM Top Singles2Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks1Canadian RPM Country Tracks1New Zealand (Listener)3UKUK Official Charts, 11 April 197229US Billboard Hot 1001US Billboard Easy Listening 1US Billboard Hot Country Singles 26
Year-end charts Chart (1972)RankAustralia KMR25Canada RPM Top Singles9US Billboard Hot 1008US Cash Box Top 10017
Certifications
Covers Blaine Larsen, on his 2006 album Rockin' You Tonight Liza Minnelli, on her 1973 album The Singer Rascal Flatts, used for their 2009 compilation The Vault
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