Fully Loaded: God's Country | ||||
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Released | December 13, 2019 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 43:00 | |||
Label | Warner Nashville | |||
Producer | Scott Hendricks | |||
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Singles from Fully Loaded: God's Country | ||||
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Fully Loaded: God's Country is a 2019 compilation album by American country music singer Blake Shelton. It was released on December 13, 2019, via Warner Records Nashville. The album includes his most successful singles from Shelton's two previous albums, If I'm Honest and Texoma Shore , along with four new songs and a cover. Among the new songs are "God's Country" and the Trace Adkins duet "Hell Right" and also Gwen Stefani Duet "Nobody but You" both released as singles. Fully Loaded: God's Country reached the number-one position on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Shelton announced the album in October 2019, by which point the blog The Boot had revealed the track listing. The album consists of the singles (except "Savior's Shadow") from Shelton's two previous albums, If I'm Honest and Texoma Shore , plus four new songs and a cover of Bobby Bare's "Tequila Sheila". [1]
Rating it 3.5 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "the new cuts are strong enough, and when they're paired with the hits...it amounts to a pretty solid Blake Shelton album, albeit one that feels like the holding pattern it was intended to be." [2]
Fully Loaded debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums, which made this Shelton's seventh No. 1 on the chart. It also debuted at No. 2 on Billboard 200, having accrued 96,000 album-equivalent unit in the first week, 83,000 of which are in traditional album sales. [3] It has sold 156,800 copies in the United States as of March 2020, [4] and 1,106,000 units consumed. [5]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "God's Country" | 3:25 | |
2. | "Hell Right" (featuring Trace Adkins) |
| 3:28 |
3. | "Nobody but You" (with Gwen Stefani) | 3:14 | |
4. | "Came Here to Forget" (from If I'm Honest , 2016) | 3:41 | |
5. | "She's Got a Way with Words" (from If I'm Honest , 2016) |
| 3:12 |
6. | "A Guy with a Girl" (from If I'm Honest , 2016) | 3:11 | |
7. | "Every Time I Hear That Song" (from If I'm Honest , 2016) | 3:36 | |
8. | "I'll Name the Dogs" (from Texoma Shore , 2017) |
| 3:03 |
9. | "I Lived It" (from Texoma Shore , 2017) |
| 3:38 |
10. | "Turnin' Me On" (from Texoma Shore , 2017) |
| 4:49 |
11. | "Jesus Got a Tight Grip" |
| 3:20 |
12. | "Tequila Sheila" (non-album cover, 2018) | 4:24 | |
Total length: | 43:00 |
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [15] | Gold | 40,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [16] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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