Believe is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 group Emerson Drive

Emerson Drive

Emerson Drive is a country music band founded in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada in 1995. The band is Brad Mates , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , Dale Wallace , and David Pichette .Early on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge, the first Open...

. The album was released in Canada on May 5, 2009 via Midas

Midas Records Nashville

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Open Road Recordings

Open Road Recordings, a division of Maple Core Ltd., is a Canadian country music record label established by Ron Kitchener in 2003 and distributed through Universal Music Canada.-Open Road artists:* Ridley Bent* Dean Brody* Doc Walker* Emerson Drive...

. The album's first single, "Belongs to You," reached the top forty on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Songs

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 chart in the United States.

Critical reception

The album has been met with mixed reviews. It received a three-and-a-half star rating from Todd Sterling of Allmusic, who said that the album was "slickly produced" and that it "sticks to the well-worn formula of the group's previous releases," but said that it had "every color of the musical rainbow." Sterling cited "Your Last" as a standout, calling it a "lump-in-the-throat masterpiece." Jim Malec of The 9513 gave it one star out of five, referring to the song's lyrics as largely cliché in nature and saying, "There is not a single song on Believe worth hearing. It is an entirely disposable album that is unoriginal, uninteresting and unnecessary." Malec also criticized the album's sound, saying that the mixing of instruments and Brad Mates' vocals did not seem cohesive.

Track listing

1. "That Kind of Beautiful
   That Kind of Beautiful
   "That Kind of Beautiful" is the title of a country music song written by Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson. It was recorded by the Canadian band Emerson Drive on their 2009 Believe.-Music video:...
   
   " (Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey
   Hillary Lindsey
   Hillary Lindsey is a country music singer-songwriter. As a songwriter, she has written songs with or for Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, and Tim McGraw. One of her compositions, Underwood's Number One hit "Jesus, Take the Wheel",...
   
   , Gordie Sampson
   Gordie Sampson
   Gordie Sampson is a singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada.He has written songs for Carrie Underwood , Martina McBride , LeAnn Rimes , and George Canyon and produced and sound engineered...
   
   ) - 3:11
2. "Believe" (Josh Leo
   Josh Leo
   Josh Leo is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer active in Nashville, Tennessee.Leo was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1973, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and subsequently became a guitarist of the short-lived Eddie Boy Band...
   
   , Shawn Colvin
   Shawn Colvin
   Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
   
   ) - 3:50
3. "Belongs to You
   Belongs to You
   "Belongs to You" is a country music song written by Dave Berg, Rivers Rutherford, and Tom Shapiro, and recorded by Canadian country music band Emerson Drive, who released it as a single in November 2008...
   
   " (Dave Berg
   Dave Berg (songwriter)
   Dave Berg is an American country music songwriter. His credits include the Number One country hits "Somebody" by Reba McEntire, "If You're Going Through Hell " and "These Are My People" by Rodney Atkins, and "Moments" by Emerson Drive...
   
   , Rivers Rutherford
   Rivers Rutherford
   Rivers Rutherford is an American country music songwriter. Active since the mid-1990s as a songwriter, he has penned several Number One country hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn, which was the Number One country song of 2001 according to Billboard...
   
   , Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...
   
   ) - 3:48
4. "I Love This Road" (Brad Mates, Tommy Lee James
   Tommy Lee James
   Tommy Lee James is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, he is originally from Roanoke, Virginia. He graduated from Northside High School then attended Radford University where he studied voice...
   
   ) - 3:46
5. "Livin' It Up" (Marty Dodson, Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers is an American country music artist. After several years of touring the United States in his family's band, Sellers joined the road band of Ricky Skaggs. By 1997, he was signed to a recording contract with BNA Records, for whom he recorded two studio albums: 1997's I'm Your Man and...
   
   , Jimmy Yeary) - 3:04
6. "Your Last" (Lisa Carver, Laird) - 3:43
7. "Life Down Here" (Mates, Leo, Tim Nichols
   Tim Nichols
   Tim Nichols Tim Nichols Tim Nichols (born in Portsmouth, Virginia is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since the late 1980s, Nichols has written for several country music singers, including Keith Whitley, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jo Dee Messina, and Alan Jackson...
   
   ) - 3:07
8. "The Extra Mile" (Bonnie Baker, Paul Sikes) - 4:09
9. "Too Much" (Danick Dupelle, Mates, Adrienne Follesé, Keith Follesé
   Keith Follesé
   Keith Follesé is an American songwriter and co-founder of Midas Records Nashville.Early in his career, Follesé recorded with his wife, Adrienne, on A&M Records. They never released an album, and moved to Los Angeles, California...
   
   ) - 3:18
10. "That Was Us" (Dupelle, Mates, Berg, Mike Mobley) - 3:06

Chart performance

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Canadian Albums Chart	39

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Canada	May 5, 2009	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
United States	April 2011	digital download