Caught Up in the Country (song)

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"Caught Up in the Country"
Rodney Atkins - Caught Up in the Country (single cover).png
Single by Rodney Atkins featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers
from the album Caught Up in the Country
ReleasedMarch 4, 2018 (2018-03-04)
Genre Country
Length2:40
Label Curb
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Rodney Atkins singles chronology
"Eat Sleep Love You Repeat"
(2014)
"Caught Up in the Country"
(2018)
"Thank God for You"
(2019)

"Caught Up in the Country" is a song recorded by American country music singer Rodney Atkins, featuring vocals from the Fisk Jubilee Singers. It was written by Connie Harrington, Jordan Schmidt, and Mike Walker, and was released in March 2018 on Curb Records. The song is the lead single and title track of his 2019 album of the same name.

Contents

Content

The song is an "upbeat salute to rural life", featuring vocals from the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Atkins aid that "It's organic and it's got a lot of energy...It represents what I've been caught up in." [1]

Chart performance

For the week of April 13, 2018, the song debuted at number 59 on the Country Airplay chart. The song spent 57 weeks on the Country Airplay charts before achieving a peak of number 21, setting a new record for the longest chart run in that chart's history. This record has since been broken by Jimmie Allen's "Make Me Want To" (59 weeks) in March 2020. [2] The same week it achieved this feat, it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [3]

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [10] 2× Platinum2,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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