Don't Look Back (Boston album)
Introduction


***Don't Look Back*** is the second studio album by American [rock](/wiki/Rock_music "Rock music") band [Boston](/wiki/Boston_%28band%29 "Boston (band)"), released in 1978 by [Epic Records](/wiki/Epic_Records "Epic Records"), as the band's last album on the label. It was produced by [Tom Scholz](/wiki/Tom_Scholz "Tom Scholz"). The album reached No. 1 in both the US and Canada, and No. 9 in the UK. The [title track](/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Back_%28Boston_song%29 "Don't Look Back (Boston song)") helped with the album's success, reaching No. 4 in 1978 on the [US *Billboard* Hot 100](/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100 "Billboard Hot 100") and remains one of the band's biggest hits. The album sold over one million copies in the ten days following its release and was certified [7× platinum](/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification "Music recording sales certification") by the [RIAA](/wiki/RIAA "RIAA") in the US on April 11, 1996\.

The album's two\-year gap from [its predecessor](/wiki/Boston_%28album%29 "Boston (album)") marks the shortest between two of the band's studio albums to date; guitarist, producer and primary songwriter [Tom Scholz](/wiki/Tom_Scholz "Tom Scholz") claimed that Epic executives pushed him and the band into releasing the album before they felt it was ready. He also felt that the album "was ridiculously short". Their next album, *[Third Stage](/wiki/Third_Stage "Third Stage")*, was not released for another eight years, by which time the band and record label had parted ways and fought a courtroom battle that Boston ultimately won.


Was the certification of 7x platinum a reflection of the album's commercial success or critical acclaim?