Released October 28, 2008 Length 51:54 Artist Rascal Flatts Label Lyric Street Records | Recorded 2000-2006 Greatest Hits Volume 1
(2008) Unstoppable
(2009) Release date 28 October 2008 Genre Country music | |
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Producer Various original producers Similar Rascal Flatts albums, Country music albums | ||
Greatest Hits Volume 1 is the title of the first greatest hits album released by the American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on October 28, 2008 (see 2008 in country music) on Lyric Street Records. The album contains 13 of the groups' biggest hits from their first four studio albums and also includes three newly recorded Christmas songs for a limited time.
Contents
- Track listing
- Bonus tracks
- Personnel
- Rascal Flatts
- Additional musicians
- Horn section on Jingle Bell Rock
- Chart performance
- Songs
- References
The album was reissued on October 6, 2009 with four new live bonus tracks, an audio interview with the band and a foldout poster.
Track listing
Sources
Bonus tracks
Note: These bonus tracks are on a separate second CD included in a limited edition foiled package for a limited time only.
Note: These bonus tracks are live tracks and are only available on the CD's October 2009 reissue for a limited time only. They are on a separate disc which also includes an audio interview with the band. The liner doubles as a foldout poster.
Personnel
The following musicians performed on the three bonus tracks.
Rascal Flatts
Additional musicians
Horn section on "Jingle Bell Rock"
Violins on "White Christmas": Carl Gorodetzky, Pam Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Alan Umstead, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, David Angell, Cathy Umstead, Cate Myer, and Karen Winkelman
String and horn arrangements by David Campbell, strings conducted by Carl Gorodetzky. Vocal arrangement on "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Mervyn Warren.
Chart performance
Greatest Hits Volume 1 debuted at number 2 on the U.S. Top Country Albums chart and number 6 on the Billboard 200, with 89,000 copies sold in the first week. In the second week, the album sold another 39,000 copies and remained number 2 on the U.S. Top Country Albums chart but dipped from number 6 to number 10 on the Billboard 200. It sold 620,000 copies in the United States up to May 2009. The album hit the 1 million mark on February 19, 2011. As October 18, 2012, it has sold 1,266,066 copies in the United States.
Songs
1Prayin' for Daylight3:38
2I'm Movin' On3:52
3These Days4:16