Honesty (Rodney Atkins album)
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Honesty is the first album released by American country music
artist Rodney Atkins
, released in 2003 on Curb Records
. It is the second album that he recorded, as a self-titled album in 1997 was recorded for Curb but never issued.
Honesty produced four chart singles for Atkins on the Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
) charts: "Sing Along" (No. 36), "My Old Man" (No. 37), "Honesty (Write Me a List)" (No. 4), and "Someone to Share It With" (No. 41). A fifth single, "Monkey in the Middle", failed to chart. This song and two others on the album were co-written by Brian Gowan, who recorded on Curb in 1997 in the duo Blake & Brian
.
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...
artist Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins
Rodney Allan Atkins is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart that year, but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty, which included the number 4 hit "Honesty ".If You're Going Through Hell, his second...
, released in 2003 on Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
. It is the second album that he recorded, as a self-titled album in 1997 was recorded for Curb but never issued.
Honesty produced four chart singles for Atkins on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
) charts: "Sing Along" (No. 36), "My Old Man" (No. 37), "Honesty (Write Me a List)" (No. 4), and "Someone to Share It With" (No. 41). A fifth single, "Monkey in the Middle", failed to chart. This song and two others on the album were co-written by Brian Gowan, who recorded on Curb in 1997 in the duo Blake & Brian
Blake & Brian
-Track listing:#"If Guitars Were Guns" – 2:21#"Why, Why, Why" – 2:33#"Saving My Love" – 3:43#"The Wish" – 3:44...
.
Track listing
Album
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 50 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers | 47 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
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| 2002 | "Sing Along" | 37 | — | ||||||
| "My Old Man" | 36 | — | |||||||
| 2003 | "Honesty (Write Me a List)" | 4 | 57 | ||||||
| 2004 | "Someone to Share It With" | 41 | — | ||||||
| "Monkey in the Middle" | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||