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{{Infobox album
| name         = <nowiki>#</nowiki>7
| type         = Studio
| artist       = [[George Strait]]
| cover        = number7strait.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = {{Start date|1986|05|14}}
| recorded     = January 1986
| venue        = 
| studio       = The Castle (Franklin, TN) and Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, TN).
| genre        = [[Neotraditional country]]<ref name=AllMusic/>
| length       = {{Duration|m=26|s=48}}
| label        = [[MCA Records|MCA]] <br/><small>MCAD-5750</small>
| producer     = {{plainlist|
* [[Jimmy Bowen]]
* George Strait
}}
| prev_title   = [[Something Special (George Strait album)|Something Special]]
| prev_year    = 1985
| next_title   = [[Merry Christmas Strait to You!]]
| next_year    = 1986
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = <nowiki>#</nowiki>7
 | type        = Studio
 | single1     = [[Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her]]
 | single1date = April 21, 1986
 | single2     = [[It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You]]
 | single2date = August 25, 1986
}}
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r94280|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2Score = C+<ref>[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=george+strait Robert Christgau Consumer Guide]</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3Score = (average)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071203011818/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/georgestrait/albums/album/285682/review/6068324/number_7 Rolling Stone review]</ref>
}}

'''''#7''''' is the sixth studio album by American [[country music]] artist [[George Strait]]—his seventh album including his ''[[Greatest Hits (George Strait album)|Greatest Hits]]''—released on May 14, 1986, by [[MCA Records]]. It is certified [[RIAA certification|platinum]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] and it produced two singles: "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" (which had previously been recorded by [[Dean Dillon]] in 1980), and "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You", both of which reached Number One on the country charts in 1986.  "Deep Water" is a cover of a 1948 [[Bob Wills]] and His Texas Playboys song.  "Cow Town" is a cover of a 1962 [[Webb Pierce]] song.

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side 1
| title1 = Deep Water
| writer1 = [[Fred Rose (songwriter)|Fred Rose]]
| length1 = 2:31
| title2 = [[Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her]]
| writer2 = [[Dean Dillon]]
| length2 = 2:50
| title3 = Rhythm of the Road
| writer3 = Dan McCoy
| length3 = 2:16
| title4 = I'm Never Gonna Let You Go
| writer4 = [[Clay Blaker]]
| length4 = 3:08
| title5 = You Still Get to Me
| writer5 = McCoy
| length5 = 2:03
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side 2
| title6 = Stranger Things Have Happened
| writer6 = David Chamberlain
| length6 = 2:48
| title7 = [[It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You]]
| writer7 = Dillon, Royce Porter
| length7 = 2:49
| title8 = Why'd You Go and Break My Heart
| writer8 = David Anthony
| length8 = 2:39
| title9 = My Old Flame Is Burnin' Another Honky Tonk Down
| writer9 = [[Mack Vickery]], [[Wayne Kemp]], [[Bobby Borchers]]
| length9 = 2:55
| title10 = Cow Town
| writer10 = Hal Burns, [[Tex Ritter]]
| length10 = 2:49
| total_length = 26:48<ref name=AllMusic/>
}}

== Personnel ==
* [[George Strait]] – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
* [[John Barlow Jarvis]] – pianos
* [[Richard Bennett (guitarist)|Richard Bennett]] – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* [[Billy Joe Walker, Jr.]] – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* [[Reggie Young]] – electric guitar
* [[Paul Franklin (musician)|Paul Franklin]] – [[steel guitar]]
* [[Johnny Gimble]] – [[fiddle]], [[mandolin]]
* [[David Hungate]] – bass guitar
* [[Eddie Bayers]] – drums
* [[The Jordanaires|Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young]] – backing vocals

'''Production'''
* Jimmy Bowen – producer 
* George Strait – producer 
* Willie Pevear – recording
* [[Chuck Ainlay]] – overdub recording 
* Bob Bullock – overdub recording 
* Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
* Tim Kish – second engineer
* Keith Odle – second engineer
* Russ Martin – second engineer
* Ron Treat – mixing
* Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
* Peter Nash – photography
* Simon Levy – art direction
* Camille Brown – design
* Erv Woolsey – management

==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1986)
! scope="col"| Peak<br /> position
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|126|artist=George Strait|rowheader=true|access-date=June 9, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardCountry|1|artist=George Strait|rowheader=true|access-date=June 9, 2021}}
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1985)
! scope="col"| Position
|- 
! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1986/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1986|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 9, 2021}}</ref>
| 16
|}
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==References==
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{{George Strait}}

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