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Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, released on October 17, 2014, by RCA Records. [1] It contains songs from all his studio albums except Free (2009). It also includes the two new tracks "You Got Me" and "Fire". According to the press release a new song titled "Not Our Fault", written by DeGraw, Jake Gosling, Chris Leonard, and Harry Styles, was intended to be included on the album but did not make the final track listing. [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I Don't Want to Be" | DeGraw | Mark Endert | 3:38 |
2. | "Not Over You" | DeGraw, Ryan Tedder | Tedder, Noel Zancanella, Jerrod "Skins" Bettis | 3:38 |
3. | "Follow Through" | DeGraw | Endert | 3:59 |
4. | "In Love with a Girl" (Max Martin unreleased version) | DeGraw | Martin | 3:19 |
5. | "Chariot" | DeGraw | Endert | 3:59 |
6. | "We Belong Together" | DeGraw | Oliver Leiber | 4:30 |
7. | "Best I Ever Had" | DeGraw, Martin Johnson | Johnson, Kyle Moorman [a] , Brandon Paddock [a] | 3:46 |
8. | "Finest Hour" | DeGraw, Tedder | Tedder, Zancanella | 3:41 |
9. | "Soldier" | DeGraw | Butch Walker | 3:31 |
10. | "Fire" | DeGraw, Johan Carlsson, Ross Golan | Martin, J. Carlsson, Peter Carlsson [b] | 3:48 |
11. | "You Got Me" | Diane Warren | Johnson, Moorman [a] , Paddock [a] | 3:47 |
Chart (2014) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [2] | 95 |
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