Rascal Flatts (album) explained

Rascal Flatts
Type:studio
Artist:Rascal Flatts
Cover:Rf cd cover.jpg
Recorded:1999–2000
Genre:Country rock
Length:43:20
Label:Lyric Street
Producer:Mark Bright, Marty Williams
Next Title:Melt
Next Year:2002

Rascal Flatts is the debut studio album by American country rock band Rascal Flatts, released on June 6, 2000, on Lyric Street Records. It sold 2,303,000 in the United States up to May 2009,[1] and has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA.

The album produced four singles on the Billboard country charts in "Prayin' for Daylight", "This Everyday Love", "While You Loved Me" and "I'm Movin' On", all of which charted in the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "Long Slow Beautiful Dance" (which featured them all on lead vocals) also charted in the lower regions of the charts based on unsolicited airplay. It is the only album of the band's career not to feature a number one single or to feature any songs produced by the band. While the band's contemporaries, such as Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, started with a neotraditional country sound, the band had a crossover-friendly country pop sound from the very beginning.

Personnel

Rascal Flatts
Additional musicians

Production

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart (2000)Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[2] 49
Chart (2001)Position
Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[3] 97
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] 26
Chart (2002)Position
Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[5] 38
US Billboard 200[6] 172
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 18

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
US CountryUS
2000"Prayin' for Daylight"[A]338
"This Everyday Love"956
2001"While You Loved Me"760
"I'm Movin' On"441
Notes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Trust . Gary . What Sold The Most . . May 1, 2009 . May 5, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829020626/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/ask-billboard/268747/ask-billboard . August 29, 2014 .
  2. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000. Billboard. October 24, 2020.
  3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20020701173700/http://jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2001_country.html. July 1, 2002. Top 100 country albums of 2001 in Canada. Jam!. March 28, 2022.
  4. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001. Billboard. October 24, 2020.
  5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20031204032208/http://jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_country.html. December 4, 2003. Top 100 country albums of 2002 in Canada. Jam!. March 28, 2022.
  6. Web site: Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2002. Billboard. October 24, 2020.
  7. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002. Billboard. October 24, 2020.