Greatest Hits (Sara Evans album) explained

Greatest Hits
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Sara Evans
Cover:	SaraEvansGreatestHits.jpg
Released:	October 9, 2007
Recorded:	1998–2007
Genre:	Country
Length:	58:04
Label:	RCA Nashville
Producer:	Various
Prev Title:	The Video Collection
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Stronger
Next Year:	2011

Greatest Hits is a 2007 compilation album by 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.

Content

Greatest Hits chronicles the highest-peaking singles from Evans' second through fifth studio albums: 1998's No Place That Far, 2000's Born to Fly, 2003's Restless, and 2005's Real Fine Place. All of the selections from these albums reached the Top 20 or higher on the US 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 first 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, and it peaked at number 11 on the country charts. "Some Things Never Change" was released in early 2008 as the second single. This song reached number 26 on the country charts. "Love You with All My Heart," the third single, failed to chart after its release on June 23, 2008.^[1]

Promotion

Evans promoted this album with her The Greatest tour from late 2007 through late 2008.

Personnel on new tracks

• Paul Bushnell - bass guitar
• Dan Dugmore - pedal steel guitar
• Matt Evans - background vocals
• Sara Evans - lead vocals, background vocals
• Vince Gill - background vocals
• Charlie Judge - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano, programming
• Abe Laboriel Jr. - drums
• Hillary Lindsey - background vocals
• Chris McHugh - drums
• Jeff Rothchild - drums, programming
• John Shanks - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, background vocals
• Ashley Evans Simpson - background vocals
• Jonathan Yudkin - banjo, upright bass, cello, fiddle, harmonium, mandolin, viola, violin

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[2]	63
Chart (2008)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	38

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country ^[4]	US ^[5]	US Pop	CAN
2007	"As If"	11	62	74	81
2008	"Some Things Never Change"	26	—	—	—
	"Love You with All My Heart"	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

1. Web site: Add Dates. Country Aircheck. June 16, 2008.
2. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2007. Billboard. November 23, 2020.
3. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008. Billboard. November 23, 2020.
4. Web site: Sara Evans Chart History: Hot Country Songs. Billboard. February 7, 2018.
5. Web site: Sara Evans Chart History: Hot 100. Billboard. February 7, 2018.