What is "chances are"

adv. (context idiomatic English) It is likely that, it is probable that

Chances Are was a compilation album by Bob Marley released in 1981 by WEA International throughout the world (and specifically through the Cotillion imprint of Atlantic Records in the U.S.).

Chances Are may refer to:

• "Chances Are" (song), a 1957 song written by Al Stillman and Robert Allen, popularized by Johnny Mathis
• Chances Are (film), a 1989 romantic comedy
• Chances Are (album), a 1981 album by Bob Marley
• "Chances Are", a song by Bob Seger and Martina McBride from the film Hope Floats
• "Chances Are", a song by Invertigo from Forum
• "Chances Are", a song by Sheryl Crow from Wildflower
• Chances Are: Adventures in Probability, a 2006 book by mathematics educators Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan

"Chances Are" is a popular song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was published in 1957. The song was one of a large number of compositions by the Stillman-Allen team that were chart hits in the 1950s. It was listed on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" survey for Johnny Mathis, charting in 1957, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998. The song reached No. 4 on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores survey, along with its flip " The Twelfth of Never", which Mathis initially disliked. It became a gold record. The song was also included on the 1958 Mathis compilation Johnny's Greatest Hits.

Mathis re-recorded the song in 1996 as a duet with Liza Minnelli for her album Gently.

Chances Are is a 1989 romantic comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.