"Baggage Claim" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country

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...

 artist Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut...

. It was released in August 2011 as the lead-off single from her fourth studio album, Four the Record

Four the Record

Four the Record is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Miranda Lambert, released on November 1, 2011, through RCA Records Nashville...

. It was written by Lambert, with Natalie Hemby and Luke Laird.

Content

Its lyric is a play on the term "emotional baggage," comparing them to the baggage that an unfaithful man is picking up at an airport baggage claim.

The song features a backing vocal from Josh Kelley

Josh Kelley

Joshua Bishop "Josh" Kelley is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Kelley has recorded for Hollywood Records, Threshold Records and DNK Records as a pop rock artist, and has had four hit singles on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart...

.

Reception

Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song 4½ stars out of 5, calling it "an exercise in attitude done right." He praised the song's production and the "clever use of emotional "baggage" as a play on words for the baggage that her man's being sent off with." Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave it 2 out of 5 stars, finding fault in the song's use of baggage claim as a metaphor and unfavorably comparing the song to something Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood

Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005...

 might record.

Music video

A live performance of "Baggage Claim" on the 2011 CMA Awards on November 9, 2011 served as the song's music video.

Chart performance

"Baggage Claim" debuted at number 33 on the U.S. Billboard 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...

 chart for the week ending August 20, 2011. It is Lambert's highest-debuting single. It also debuted at number 67 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of August 27, 2011, and at number 92 on the Canadian Hot 100

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...

chart for the week of October 8, 2011.
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Chart (2011)	Peak position