Icon | |
Type: | compilation |
Artist: | Josh Turner |
Cover: | JoshTurnerIcon.jpg |
Released: | March 22, 2011 |
Genre: | Country |
Length: | 40:28 |
Label: | MCA Nashville |
Producer: | Frank Rogers, Mark Wright |
Prev Title: | Haywire |
Prev Year: | 2010 |
Next Title: | Punching Bag |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Icon is a compilation album by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released on March 22, 2011. It is part of a series of similar Icon albums released by Universal Music Enterprises. The album includes Turner's four number-one singles ("Your Man," "Would You Go with Me," "Why Don't We Just Dance" and "All Over Me") as well as album tracks "As Fast as I Could" and "Backwoods Boy". This album was also released under the name Best of Josh Turner.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Thom Jurek of Allmusic notes the album "is all one needs for a definitive Turner playlist without any filler."
Icon debuted at number 20 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 114 on the Billboard 200,[6] selling 5,144 copies in the first week.[7] It received a boost in May 2011 after an appearance by Turner on American Idol with Scotty McCreery, with 3,086 copies sold,[8] and climbed to number 98 on the Billboard 200.[9] The album continued to sell, peaking at number 93 on Billboard 200 on chart dated December 8, 2012 based on Black Friday week sales of 12,990 copies.[10] It was certified Gold by the RIAA on June 3, 2019. As of October 2019, the album has sold 506,100 copies in the U.S.[11]