"Angels Among Us" is the title of a song written by Don Goodman and Becky Hobbs, and recorded by the American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Alabama

Alabama (band)

Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...

. The song was released in December 1993 as a Christmas single from the band's 1993 album Cheap Seats. It charted twice on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts. The song features backing vocals from the Sanctuary Choir and Young Musicians Choir of the First Baptist Church of Fort Payne, Alabama

Fort Payne, Alabama

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. Hobbs also recorded the song on her album The Boots I Came to Town In.

Alabama lead singer Randy Owen

Randy Owen

Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...

 has said that the band received "hundreds of letters from all over the world saying that the song was a blessing."

Critical reception

Tom Roland of New Country magazine wrote that "even when the members of the band get schmaltzy with the kiddie chorus[…]they stop short of going overboard."

Chart performance

"Angels Among Us" debuted on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

charts dated for the week ending December 25, 1993. The song spent six weeks on the charts and peaked at #51 in January 1994. On the chart dated for the week ending December 31, 1994, it re-entered and went on to peak at #28 in January 1995.

Chart (1993–1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	51
Chart (1994–1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	28
Chart (1996)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	22