Greatest Hits (Sara Evans album)
Encyclopedia
Greatest Hits is a 2007 compilation album from American country music
singer Sara Evans
. It features ten of her greatest hits from her second through fifth albums, as well as four newly recorded tracks. As of March 2009, Greatest Hits had sold 354,000 copies.
, 2000's Born to Fly
, 2003's Restless
, and 2005's Real Fine Place
. All of the selections from these albums reached Top 20 or higher on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts. (No tracks are included from her 1997 debut album Three Chords and the Truth, which did not produce any Top 40 country hits). Among the previously released tracks are her four Number One hits: 1999's "No Place That Far", 2001's "Born to Fly", 2004's "Suds in the Bucket", and 2005's "A Real Fine Place to Start".
In addition to the previously released tracks, Greatest Hits includes four previously unreleased tracks: "As If", "Love You with All My Heart", "Pray for You", and "Some Things Never Change". In mid-2007, "As If" was released as the first single from this album, reaching a peak of number 11 on the country charts. "Some Things Never Change", a celebration of home, family and such simple pleasures as seeing the kids get off the bus at the end of the school day, was released in early 2008 as the second single. The song's hook "some things never change" is based on the central character's realization that, while things may change in the world around her, the basics of love between family will never change. It reached number 26 on the country charts. "Love You with All My Heart," the album's third single, failed to land on the chart after its release on June 23, 2008.
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...
singer Sara Evans
Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans is an American country singer and songwriter.Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has made five No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by...
. It features ten of her greatest hits from her second through fifth albums, as well as four newly recorded tracks. As of March 2009, Greatest Hits had sold 354,000 copies.
Content
Greatest Hits chronicles the highest-peaking singles from Evans' second through fifth studio albums: 1998's No Place That FarNo Place That Far
No Place That Far is the second album released by country singer songwriter Sara Evans. The first single, "Cryin' Game", only made it to number 56. This single also included a non-album track titled "Wait a Minute". However, it produced Evans' first number one country hit in its second single, the...
, 2000's Born to Fly
Born to Fly
Born to Fly is a country music album by Sara Evans, released October 10, 2000. It is her highest-selling album to date, having earned 2× Platinum certification by the RIAA for U.S. sales of two million copies. The lead single, "Born to Fly," reached number one on January 19, 2001. The album was one...
, 2003's Restless
Restless (Sara Evans album)
Restless is a Country music album by Sara Evans, released August 19, 2003 on RCA Records Nashville. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA....
, and 2005's Real Fine Place
Real Fine Place
Real Fine Place is a country music album by singer/songwriter Sara Evans. It is her fifth studio album and the follow-up album to the platinum Restless. The album has been certified platinum for U.S. shipments of a million copies...
. All of the selections from these albums reached Top 20 or higher 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 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. (No tracks are included from her 1997 debut album Three Chords and the Truth, which did not produce any Top 40 country hits). Among the previously released tracks are her four Number One hits: 1999's "No Place That Far", 2001's "Born to Fly", 2004's "Suds in the Bucket", and 2005's "A Real Fine Place to Start".
In addition to the previously released tracks, Greatest Hits includes four previously unreleased tracks: "As If", "Love You with All My Heart", "Pray for You", and "Some Things Never Change". In mid-2007, "As If" was released as the first single from this album, reaching a peak of number 11 on the country charts. "Some Things Never Change", a celebration of home, family and such simple pleasures as seeing the kids get off the bus at the end of the school day, was released in early 2008 as the second single. The song's hook "some things never change" is based on the central character's realization that, while things may change in the world around her, the basics of love between family will never change. It reached number 26 on the country charts. "Love You with All My Heart," the album's third single, failed to land on the chart after its release on June 23, 2008.
Promotion
Evans has been promoting the album with her The Greatest tour from late 2007 through late 2008.Track listing
Album
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 3 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 8 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
US Pop Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
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| 2007 | "As If As If (song) "As If" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country artist Sara Evans. It was released in June 2007 as the lead-off single to her 2007 Greatest Hits compilation... " |
11 | 62 | 74 | 81 |
| 2008 | "Some Things Never Change" | 26 | — | — | — |
| "Love You with All My Heart" | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||