On Purpose (album)

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On Purpose
ClintBlack OnPurpose.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2015 (2015-09-25)
Genre Country
Length52:00
Label Thirty Tigers
Black Top Records
Producer Clint Black
Clint Black chronology
When I Said I Do
(2013)
On Purpose
(2015)
Still Killin' Time
(2019)

On Purpose is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released on September 25, 2015 via Thirty Tigers and Black Top Records. Black wrote all of the album's fourteen tracks. The album was produced by Black.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time for That"Clint Black, Frank Rogers 3:30
2."Better and Worse"Black, Rogers2:42
3."Summertime Song"Black4:30
4."One Way to Live"Black, Steve Wariner 4:40
5."Doing It Now for Love"Black, Hayden Nicholas 4:04
6."You Still Get to Me" (duet with Lisa Hartman Black )Black, Victoria Shaw 4:01
7."Right on Time"Black, Wariner4:11
8."Still Calling It News"Black, Nicholas3:40
9."Making You Smile"Black2:54
10."Stay Gone"Black, Phil O'Donnell3:32
11."Breathing Air"Black, Rogers3:18
12."Beer" (featuring Big & Rich )Black, Bill Anderson, Bob DiPiero 3:41
13."The Trouble"Black3:22
14."The Last Day"Black, Nicholas3:48

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [1] 13

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