40-Hour Week

{{short description|1985 album by Alabama}}

{{other uses|40-hour week (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = 40-Hour Week

| type = Studio

| artist = Alabama

| cover = Alabama - 40 Hour Week.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1985|01}}
{{start date|1990|10|25}} (re-released)

| recorded = {{start date|1984|09}} at The Music Mill, Nashville, TN{{cite AV media notes |title=40-Hour Week |others=Alabama |year=1985 |type=LP |publisher=RCA Records |id=5339}}

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 39:48

| label = RCA Nashville

| producer = Alabama
Harold Shedd

| prev_title = Roll On

| prev_year = 1984

| next_title = Christmas

| next_year = 1985

| misc = {{Singles

| name = 40-Hour Week

| type = studio

| single1 = There's No Way

| single1date = January 20, 1985

| single2 = 40 Hour Week (For a Livin')

| single2date = April 17, 1985

| single3 = Can't Keep a Good Man Down

| single3date = August 9, 1985

}}

}}

40-Hour Week is the ninth studio album from American country music band Alabama. Released in January 1985, the album included three songs that topped the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and continued the band's dominance during the 1980s. The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Country Albums chart and number 28 on the Billboard 200.

Two of the No. 1 tracks — "There's No Way" and the title track — became milestones in Alabama's recording career during 1985. When it reached the top of the chart on May 4, "There's No Way" became Alabama's 16th consecutive No. 1 single (excepting for the 1982 Christmas single "Christmas in Dixie"). The feat allowed Alabama to tie Sonny James' 14-year-old record for most No. 1 songs in as many consecutive single releases. Then, on August 3, "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" topped the chart, becoming Alabama's 17th-straight chart topper and allowing them to surpass James' record.

Among the album tracks, several of them praising the South, 40 Hour Week also features the ballad "I Want To Know You Before We Make Love", which became a major hit for Conway Twitty in 1987.

This was Alabama's only album from which all the singles had accompanying music videos.