The Best of Chris Cagle is the first greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 album by 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...

 artist Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle is an American country music artist. Signed with Virgin Records Nashville in 2000, Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud...

. It was released on February 9, 2010 via Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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 Nashville. The album features Cagle's 5 top ten U.S. Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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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...

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Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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 of Allmusic rated the compilation four stars out of five, commending the album's non-chronological pacing by saying that it "open[s] and clos[es] with bursts of energy and spend[s] a lot of time riding a midtempo in the middle." He also thought that the compilation showed Cagle's artistic consistency.

Track listing

Chart performance

Chart (2010)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	34