If You're Going Through Hell | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | July 18, 2006 | |||
Studio | Curb Studio (Nashville) Cartee Day Studio (Nashville) Country Q (Nashville) The Bonus Room (Old Hickory) Ridgetop Studio (Baxter) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 36:04 | |||
Label | Curb Records | |||
Producer | Ted Hewitt Rodney Atkins | |||
Rodney Atkins chronology | ||||
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Singles from If You're Going Through Hell | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
About.com | [1] |
Allmusic | [2] |
Country Standard Time | (positive) [3] |
Plugged In | (positive) [4] |
Robert Christgau | [5] |
USA Today | [6] |
If You're Going Through Hell is the second studio album by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It was released on July 18, 2006 by Curb Records. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after selling at least one million copies in the United States.
The album's first four singles — "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)", "Watching You", "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" — all reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 2006 and 2008. In addition, "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows" and "Watching You" were declared by Billboard as the Number One country songs of 2006 and 2007, respectively. The song "Invisibly Shaken" was originally recorded by Lee Greenwood on his 2003 album Stronger Than Time. Atkins' version of that song was released as the album's fifth and final single in early 2008 and peaked at No. 41.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "These Are My People" | Rivers Rutherford, Dave Berg | 3:34 |
2. | "About the South" | Rodney Atkins, Tom Hambridge, Shane Minor | 2:58 |
3. | "Watching You" | Atkins, Steve Dean, Brian Gene White | 3:55 |
4. | "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" | Casey Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman | 3:46 |
5. | "In the Middle" | Atkins, Berg, Sam Tate, Annie Tate | 3:11 |
6. | "A Man on a Tractor" | Kent Agee, Michael Lunn | 4:08 |
7. | "Wasted Whiskey" | Atkins, Ted Hewitt, Danny Simpson | 3:42 |
8. | "Invisibly Shaken" | Atkins, Billy Kirsch | 3:46 |
9. | "Angel's Hands" | Atkins, Nicole Witt, Bobby Tomberlin | 3:29 |
10. | "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" | A. Tate, S. Tate, Berg | 3:36 |
Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [7] | 3 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [8] | 1 |
Chart (2006) | Position |
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US Billboard 200 [9] | 196 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [10] | 38 |
Chart (2007) | Position |
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US Billboard 200 [11] | 58 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [12] | 10 |
Chart (2008) | Position |
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US Billboard 200 [13] | 167 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [14] | 27 |
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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US Country | US | US Pop | CAN | ||||||
2006 | "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" | 1 | 33 | 57 | — | ||||
"Watching You" | 1 | 36 | 57 | — | |||||
2007 | "These Are My People" | 1 | 42 | 96 | — | ||||
"Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" | 1 | 40 | 83 | 84 | |||||
2008 | "Invisibly Shaken" | 41 | — | — | — | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [15] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
From If You're Going Through Hell liner notes. [16]
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