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{{Infobox song
| name       = Bubba Shot the Jukebox
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Mark Chesnutt]]
| album      = [[Longnecks & Short Stories]]
| B-side     = "[[Blame It on Texas]]"<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=92|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref>
| released   = September 15, 1992<ref>[http://music.aol.com/album/bubba-shot-the-jukebox/385215 AOL Music profile] for "Bubba Shot the Jukebox"</ref>
| recorded   = 1991
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Country music|Country]]
| length     = 3:05
| label      = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| writer     = [[Dennis Linde]]
| producer   = [[Mark Wright (record producer)|Mark Wright]]
| prev_title = [[I'll Think of Something]]
| prev_year  = 1992
| next_title = [[Ol' Country]]
| next_year  = 1993
}}
"'''Bubba Shot the Jukebox'''" is a song written by [[Dennis Linde]], and recorded by American [[country music]] singer [[Mark Chesnutt]].  It was released in September 1992 as the third single from his album ''[[Longnecks & Short Stories]]''.  It peaked at number 4 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and at number 14 on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart.
==Content==
The song is an uptempo, in which a man named [[Bubba]] shoots a jukebox when he hears a song that makes him cry, which causes a scene. Bubba is taken to jail.<ref>{{cite book|last=Randall|first=Alice|title=My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NkOoBwieD8C&q=%22bubba+shot+the+jukebox%22&pg=PA79|year=2006|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc.|isbn=1-59555-860-8|page=79|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
==Chart performance==
"Bubba Shot the Jukebox" charted for several weeks prior to its release, due to several stations giving it unsolicited airplay while "[[I'll Think of Something]]" was Chesnutt's active single. A column in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described the song as "not thought to be viable for radio
by some in both Chesnutt's and MCA's camps", but that the unsolicited airplay made it "destined" to be a single.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=August 15, 1992|title=Country Corner|magazine=Billboard|page=27|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1992/Billboard-1992-08-15.pdf}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1992)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
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{{singlechart|Canadacountry|14|chartid=1864|publishdate=November 28, 1992|accessdate=August 15, 2013}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardbubbling100|21|artist=Mark Chesnutt}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|4|artist=Mark Chesnutt}}
|}
== Certifications ==
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|refname=RIAA|award=Gold|certyear=2022|title=Bubba Shot The Jukebox|artist=Mark Chestnutt|type=single|digital=true|access-date=October 6, 2022|relyear=1992}}
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==References==
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[[Category:Songs about jukeboxes]]
[[Category:Songs about prison]]
[[Category:1992 singles]]
[[Category:1992 songs]]
[[Category:Mark Chesnutt songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Dennis Linde]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Mark Wright (record producer)]]
[[Category:MCA Records singles]]
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