Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Rascal Flatts album)

Greatest Hits Volume 1 is the first greatest hits album released by American country music band Rascal Flatts. It was released on October 28, 2008 by Lyric Street Records. The album includes thirteen of the group's biggest hits from their first four studio albums as well as three newly recorded Christmas songs for a limited time.^[2]

Greatest Hits Volume 1
Compilation album by Rascal Flatts
Released	October 28, 2008
Recorded	1999–2008
Genre	Country
Length	51:53
Label	Lyric Street
Producer	Various original producers
Rascal Flatts chronology
Still Feels Good (2007) Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2008) Unstoppable (2009)
Alternate covers
Limited Edition Re-release Cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album was reissued on October 6, 2009, with four new live bonus tracks, an audio interview with the band, and a foldout poster.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Prayin' for Daylight"	Steve Bogard, Rick Giles	Rascal Flatts	3:38
2.	"I'm Movin' On"	Phillip White, D. Vincent Williams	Rascal Flatts	3:52
3.	"These Days"	Steve Robson, Jeffrey Steele, Danny Wells	Melt	4:16
4.	"I Melt"	Gary LeVox, Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley	Melt	3:55
5.	"Mayberry"	Arlos Smith	Melt	4:34
6.	"Feels Like Today"	Robson, Wayne Hector	Feels Like Today	3:21
7.	"Bless the Broken Road"	Jeff Hanna, Bobby Boyd, Marcus Hummon	Feels Like Today	3:48
8.	"Fast Cars and Freedom"	LeVox, Thrasher, Mobley	Feels Like Today	4:23
9.	"Skin (Sarabeth)"	Doug Johnson, Joe Henry	Feels Like Today	4:22
10.	"What Hurts the Most"	Robson, Steele	Me and My Gang	3:34
11.	"My Wish"	Steele, Robson	Me and My Gang	4:07
12.	"Stand"	Blair Daly, Danny Orton	Me and My Gang	3:28
13.	"Life Is a Highway"	Tom Cochrane	Cars/Me and My Gang	4:36
Total length:				51:53

Bonus tracks

Bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	3:25
2.	"Jingle Bell Rock"	Joe Beal, Jim Boothe	2:58
3.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Walter Kent, Kim Gannon	3:27
Total length:			9:50

Note: These bonus tracks are on a separate second CD included in a limited edition foiled package for a limited time only.

Bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Take Me There" (live)	Kenny Chesney, Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher	4:40
2.	"Winner at a Losing Game" (live)	Jay DeMarcus, Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney	4:29
3.	"Me and My Gang" (live)	Jeffrey Steele, Jon Stone, Tony Mullins	3:44
4.	"Summer Nights" (live)	LeVox, Brett James, busbee	4:37
Total length:			17:30

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.^[4]

Rascal Flatts

• Jay DeMarcus – bass guitar, background vocals
• Gary LeVox – lead vocals
• Joe Don Rooney – lead guitar, background vocals, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

• Keith Carlock – drums on "Jingle Bell Rock"
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Shannon Forrest – drums on "White Christmas"
• Jon Gilutin – piano

Horn section on "Jingle Bell Rock"

• Mikey Haynes, Steve Patrick, Jeff Bailey – trumpets
• Barry Green – trombone
• Sam Levine, Dennis Solee, Mark Douthit – saxophones

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[5] The album hit the 1 million mark on February 19, 2011.^[6] As October 18, 2012, it has sold 1,266,066 copies in the United States.

Weekly charts Chart (2008) Peak position Canadian Albums (Billboard)[7] 11 US Billboard 200[8] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[9] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2008) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[10] 43 Chart (2009) Position US Billboard 200[11] 52 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[12] 11 Chart (2010) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[13] 56 Chart (2011) Position US Billboard 200[14] 197 Chart (2017) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[15] 67 Chart (2018) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[16] 52 Chart (2019) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[17] 38 Chart (2020) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[18] 36 Chart (2022) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[19] 39