The "Chirping" Crickets

The "Chirping" Crickets is the only studio album credited to the American rock and roll band the Crickets from the period when they were led by Buddy Holly. It was also the only album released under the group's name during Holly's lifetime. It was issued by Brunswick Records in the U.S. on November 27, 1957, and by Coral Records in the UK in March 1958. It was re-released by Coral Records in 1962, under the title Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

The album contains the group's U.S. and UK number one single "That'll Be the Day", along with the U.S. Top 10 hit "Oh, Boy!" and the U.S. Top 20 hit "Maybe Baby". Writing for the AllMusic website, critic William Ruhlmann described the album's three singles, along with the tracks "Not Fade Away" and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love", as being "among the best rock & roll songs of the 1950s or ever, making this one of the most significant album debuts in rock & roll history."

In 2012, the album was ranked at number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It also appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In July 2019, the album was the subject for the BBC Four documentary Classic Albums: The Crickets: The 'Chirping' Crickets.

After being out of print for many years, The "Chirping" Crickets was reissued as a remastered CD in 2004 with bonus tracks. In 2023, the album was reissued by Rollercoaster Records as The Alternative "Chirping" Crickets in a CD package containing remixed mono and stereo versions of the album, along with the twelve tracks in stereo without the backing vocals by vocal group the Picks, which the Crickets felt were intrusive and inappropriate.