Hard Candy (Counting Crows album)

Hard Candy
Studio album by Counting Crows
Released	July 7, 2002 (2002-07-07)
Genre	Alternative rock, jangle pop
Length	59:30
Label	Geffen
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Counting Crows chronology
This Desert Life (1999) Hard Candy (2002) Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...) (2003)
Singles from Hard Candy
"American Girls" Released: June 18, 2002 "Miami" Released: July 9, 2002 "Big Yellow Taxi" Released: November 11, 2002 "If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" Released: June 16, 2003

Hard Candy is the fourth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2002, and the following day in the United States.

The album features the hidden track "Big Yellow Taxi", a Joni Mitchell cover. This was one of their biggest radio hits from the album; re-releases were revised to mention the song. Originally the song did not include Vanessa Carlton and the standard version caught the ear of a producer who added it to the movie Two Weeks Notice adding Carlton's voice to the track. This version topped the VH-1 charts and American Top 40 for a while.^{[citation needed]} A new version of the song "Holiday in Spain", recorded as a duet in English and Dutch with Dutch band BLØF, became a number-one hit in the Netherlands.