| Believe | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Emerson Drive |
| Cover: | EmersonDriveBelieve.jpg |
| Released: | May 5, 2009 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 35:02 |
| Label: | Midas/Valory Music Group |
| Producer: | Teddy Gentry Josh Leo |
| Prev Title: | Countrified |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Decade of Drive |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
Believe is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music group Emerson Drive. The album was released in Canada on May 5, 2009 via Midas/Valory/Open Road. The album's first single, "Belongs to You," reached the top forty on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States.[1]
The album received mixed reviews from music critics. It received a three-and-a-half star rating from Todd Sterling of AllMusic, who said that the album was "slickly produced" and that it "sticks to the well-worn formula of the group's previous releases," but said that it had "every color of the musical rainbow."[2] Sterling cited "Your Last" as a standout, calling it a "lump-in-the-throat masterpiece."[2] Jim Malec of The 9513 gave it one star out of five, referring to the song's lyrics as largely cliché in nature and saying, "There is not a single song on Believe worth hearing. It is an entirely disposable album that is unoriginal, uninteresting and unnecessary."[3] Malec also criticized the album's sound, saying that the mixing of instruments and Brad Mates' vocals did not seem cohesive.[3]
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | US Country | ||
| 2008 | "Belongs to You" | 73 | 32 |
| 2009 | "Believe" | 73 | — |
| "I Love This Road" | 86 | — | |
| "The Extra Mile" | 96 | — | |
| 2010 | "That Kind of Beautiful" | 80 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
| Region | Date | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | May 5, 2009 | CD, digital download | |
| United States | April 2011 | digital download |