Me and My Gang by Rascal Flatts

Me and My Gang, Rascal Flatts' fourth album for Lyric Street, hit stores on April 4, 2006, and it catches the Nashville trio at full gallop. Dann Huff produced them for the first time, and he gives Gary LeVox's soaring lead, Joe Don Rooney's guitar and Jay DeMarcus's bass and harmonies a big, buffed country-pop-meets-rock sheen built for stadiums and minivans in equal measure.

The numbers were ridiculous: the biggest US debut of the year at 721,747 units, three weeks atop the Billboard 200, the best-selling country album of 2006 and, in time, a four-times-platinum certification. "What Hurts the Most" went to number one on both the country and adult contemporary charts, the title track reached 6, and "My Wish" and "Stand" both went to number one. Later pressings added their cover of Tom Cochrane's "Life Is a Highway", borrowed from the Cars soundtrack, which climbed to 18 on the country charts without ever being sent to country radio.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.