Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw

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Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw
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ReleasedOctober 17, 2014 (2014-10-17)
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Label RCA
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Gavin DeGraw chronology
Make a Move
(2013)
Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw
(2014)
Something Worth Saving
(2016)
Singles from Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw
  1. "You Got Me"
    Released: July 28, 2014
  2. "Fire"
    Released: August 12, 2014

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]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."I Don't Want to Be"DeGraw Mark Endert 3:38
2."Not Over You"DeGraw, Ryan Tedder Tedder, Noel Zancanella, Jerrod "Skins" Bettis3:38
3."Follow Through"DeGrawEndert3:59
4."In Love with a Girl" (Max Martin unreleased version)DeGrawMartin3:19
5."Chariot"DeGrawEndert3:59
6."We Belong Together"DeGrawOliver Leiber4:30
7."Best I Ever Had"DeGraw, Martin Johnson Johnson, Kyle Moorman [a] , Brandon Paddock [a] 3:46
8."Finest Hour"DeGraw, TedderTedder, Zancanella3:41
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
Notes

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [2] 95

Personnel

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