Fully Loaded: God's Country

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Fully Loaded: God's Country
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Compilation album by
ReleasedDecember 13, 2019 (2019-12-13)
Genre Country
Length43:00
Label Warner Nashville
Producer Scott Hendricks
Blake Shelton chronology
Texoma Shore
(2017)
Fully Loaded: God's Country
(2019)
Body Language
(2021)
Singles from Fully Loaded: God's Country
  1. "God's Country"
    Released: March 29, 2019
  2. "Hell Right"
    Released: August 16, 2019
  3. "Nobody but You"
    Released: January 21, 2020

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.

Contents

Content

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]

Critical reception

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]

Commercial performance

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]

Track listing

Fully Loaded: God's Country track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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)
  • Akins
  • Copperman
  • Gorley
  • Hayslip
3:38
10."Turnin' Me On" (from Texoma Shore , 2017)4:49
11."Jesus Got a Tight Grip"
  • Akins
  • Alexander
  • Shelton
  • Chase McGill
3:20
12."Tequila Sheila" (non-album cover, 2018)4:24
Total length:43:00

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic [6]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Fully Loaded: God's Country
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [15] Gold40,000
United States (RIAA) [16] Gold500,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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