"Dancin' Away with My Heart" is a song recorded by American

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Lady A Lady A, known until 2020 as Lady Antebellum, is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006. The group is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals, guitar ...

ntebellum. It was released in December 2011 as the third single from their album ''

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Hillary Scott Hillary Dawn Scott-Tyrrell (born April 1, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the co-lead vocalist of the country music group Lady A. She is signed to Big Machine Records. In collaboration with her family, Scott re ...

Charles Kelley Charles Burgess Kelley (born September 11, 1981) is an American musician who is the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the country music trio Lady A, which was formed in 2006 and are signed to Big Machine Records. Early life and career Ke ...

Dave Haywood David Wesley Haywood (born July 5, 1982) is an American country musician and songwriter. He is one-third of the American country music band Lady A, in which he plays guitar, piano and mandolin, and sings backing vocals. Early life Haywood's fat ...

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Josh Kear Josh Kear is a multi-Grammy Award winning songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2007, Kear co-wrote Carrie Underwood's hit " Before He Cheats" with Chris Tompkins. The song dominated the US Hot Country Songs chart for five weeks and earned ...

. It became a top 5 hit, and it features lead vocals from both Scott and Kelley.

Critical reception

Billy Dukes of ''Taste of Country'' gave the song three and a half stars out of five, saying that it "aims right down the country-pop middle but leaves one wanting for a little more depth." Kevin John Coyne of ''Country Universe'' gave the song a D, writing that "it isn't bad enough to be offensive" and "it doesn't exist enough to be bad."

Music video

The music video was directed by Adam Boatman and premiered in February 2012. This was the back up video after the high-budget original video was shot in December, which was never released.

Chart performance

"Dancin' Away with My Heart" debuted at number 57 on the U.S. ''

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chart for the week of December 24, 2011. It soon peaked at number 2, behind " Drink on It" by

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