Rascal flatts

Rascal flatts
Rascal Flatts, Crawford County Fair 2005
General information
Genre (s)	Country
founding	2000
Current occupation
singing	Gary LeVox
guitar	Joe Don Rooney
Electric bass	Jay DeMarcus

Rascal Flatts is an American country band.

It was founded by cousins ​​Jay DeMarcus (born April 27, 1971 in Columbus , Ohio ) and Gary LeVox (born July 10, 1970 in Columbus, Ohio). Later guitarist Joe Don Rooney (born September 13, 1975 in Baxter Springs , Kansas ) joined them.

Band history

Jay and Gary were already making music in their family circle , but while DeMarcus joined Christian music band East And West in 1992 , LeVox was pursuing a civil profession. In 1997 he was persuaded to also get into the music business. While playing in Chely Wright's backing band , they met Joe Don Rooney. When their backing guitarist was canceled at a gig by Jay and Gary, Joe Don stepped in, and the Rascal Flatts had found each other.

Lead singer Gary LeVox, at a USO event in Iraq in 2005, at Baghdad Airport

successes

They came to the Disney Music Group's Lyric Street Records label and released their debut album in 2000. The album Rascal Flatts and the first single from it, Prayin 'for Daylight , went straight to number 3 on the country charts. Their musical mixture of country, pop and rhythm and blues made them interesting for a wider audience and so they were able to land respectable successes in the pop charts.

The follow-up album Melt was their first country number one album. Even the excitement about short nude scenes in the video for the single I Melt , which only subsided after the release of an adjusted version, did not detract from their success.

With the third album Feels Like Today they could conquer number 1 in the Top 200, the official US album charts. Almost all of her singles reached the top 10 of the country charts, five of them number 1, eight made it into the top 40 of the pop charts.

In 2006 the band contributed the song Life Is a Highway , originally by Tom Cochrane , to the soundtrack of the Pixar animated film Cars . In 2009 two of her songs were part of the soundtrack for Hannah Montana - The Movie .

Awards

Rascal Flatts received a total of seven CMA Awards from the Country Music Association between 2002 and 2008 , including six years in a row as Vocal Group of the Year . Between 2000 and 2008 they also received ten ACM Awards from the Academy of Country Music . For Bless the Broken Road they were awarded the 2006 Grammy for Best Country Song. In January 2008 they won the " People's Choice Award ".

Her first album went double platinum , Feels Like Today went five times platinum, and her 2006 album Me and My Gang entered the charts at number 1 and was once again sold over a million in two weeks. With the first single from it, What Hurts the Most , which already reached the British charts in the version by Jo O'Meara (Ex- S Club 7 ), they penetrated the top 10 of the US pop charts for the first time.

Trivia

In episode 14 of the 10th season of CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators, the band's bass player is electrocuted during a stage performance. The song they play in this episode is Unstoppable .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2000	Rascal flatts	UK64 (1 week) UK	US43 × 2 Double platinum (65 weeks)US	Country3 (106 weeks) Country	Chart entry in UK: February 16, 2008
2002	Melt	-	US5 × 3 Triple platinum (104 weeks)US	Country1 (104 weeks) Country
2004	Feels Like Today	-	US1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (105 weeks)US	Country1 (105 weeks) Country
2006	Me and My Gang	-	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (91 weeks)US	Country1 (91 weeks) Country
2007	Still Feels Good	-	US1 × 2 Double platinum (68 weeks)US	Country1 (79 weeks) Country
2009	Unstoppable	-	US1 platinum (63 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country
2010	Nothing Like This	-	US6th platinum (56 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country
2012	Changed	UK87 (1 week) UK	US3 gold (56 weeks)US	Country1 (79 weeks) Country	Chart entry in UK: July 20, 2013
2014	Rewind	-	US5 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (50 weeks) Country
2016	The Greatest Gift of All	-	US60 (7 weeks) US	Country7 (10 weeks) Country
2017	Back to Us	-	US11 (4 weeks) US	Country2 (7 weeks) Country

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2008	Greatest Hits Volume 1	-	US6 (136 weeks) US	Country2 (... weeks) Country
2010	14 Love Songs For The 14th	-	-	Country41 (2 weeks) Country

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2009	Unwrapped	-	-	Country44 (4 weeks) Country
2014	Rewind	-	-	Country40 (3 weeks) Country

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2011	The Best Of Rascal Flatts Live	-	US167 (1 week) US	Country32 (13 weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2000	Prayin 'for Daylight Rascal Flatts	-	US38 (20 weeks) US	Country3 (31 weeks) Country
	This Everyday Love Rascal Flatts	-	US56 (14 weeks) US	Country9 (30 weeks) Country
2001	While You Loved Me Rascal Flatts	-	US60 (12 weeks) US	Country7 (24 weeks) Country
	I'm Movin 'On Rascal Flatts	-	US41 (19 weeks) US	Country4 (34 weeks) Country
2002	These Days Melt	-	US23 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (36 weeks) Country
2003	Love You Out Loud Melt	-	US30 (20 weeks) US	Country3 (25 weeks) Country
	I Melt Melt	-	US34 (20 weeks) US	Country2 (25 weeks) Country
	Mayberry Melt	-	US21 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (25 weeks) Country
2004	Feels Like Today Feels Like Today	-	US56 (13 weeks) US	Country9 (20 weeks) Country
	Bless the Broken Road Feels Like Today	UK41 (3 weeks) UK	US29 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (25 weeks) Country	Chart entry in UK: May 19, 2012
2005	Fast Cars and Freedom Feels Like Today	-	US38 gold (20 weeks)US	Country1 (25 weeks) Country
	Skin (Sarabeth) Feels Like Today	-	US42 gold (17 weeks)US	Country2 (37 weeks) Country
2006	What Hurts the Most Me and My Gang	-	US6th × 5 Quintuple platinum (51 weeks)US	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
	Me and My Gang Me and My Gang	-	US50 (16 weeks) US	Country6 (20 weeks) Country
	Life Is A Highway Me and My Gang	UK- silver UK	US7th platinum (20 weeks)US	Country18 (21 weeks) Country
	My Wish Me and My Gang	-	US28 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (24 weeks) Country
2007	Stand Me and My Gang	-	US46 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
	Take Me There Still Feels Good	-	US19 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Winner at a Losing Game Still Feels Good	-	US52 (20 weeks) US	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
2008	Every Day Still Feels Good	-	US45 (17 weeks) US	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Bob That Head Still Feels Good	-	-	Country15 (16 weeks) Country
	Here Still Feels Good	-	US50 (17 weeks) US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
2009	Here Comes Goodbye Unstoppable	-	US11 (16 weeks) US	Country1 (16 weeks) Country
	Summer Nights Unstoppable	-	US37 (18 weeks) US	Country2 (22 weeks) Country
	Why unstoppable	-	-	Country18 (11 weeks) Country
2010	Unstoppable Unstoppable	-	US52 (18 weeks) US	Country7 (23 weeks) Country
	Why Wait Nothing Like This	-	US48 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
2011	I Won't Let Go Nothing Like This	-	US31 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (22 weeks) Country
	Easy Nothing Like This	-	US43 platinum (23 weeks)US	Country3 (29 weeks) Country	feat. Natasha Bedingfield
2012	Banjo Changed	-	US51 gold (17 weeks)US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country
	Come Wake Me Up Changed	-	US52 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country8 (30 weeks) Country
	Changed Changed	-	US73 gold (8 weeks)US	Country25 (20 weeks) Country
2014	Rewind Rewind	-	US38 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country4 (22 weeks) Country
	Payback Rewind	-	-	Country24 (19 weeks) Country
	Riot Rewind	-	-	Country27 (24 weeks) Country
2016	I Like the Sound of That Rewind	-	US52 gold (16 weeks)US	Country8 (31 weeks) Country
2017	Yours If You Want It Back to Us	-	US71 gold (10 weeks)US	Country13 (28 weeks) Country
	Back to Us Back to Us	-	-	Country48 (1 week) Country
2018	Back to Life	-	-	Country28 (35 weeks) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2000	Long Slow Beautiful Dance Rascal Flatts	-	-	Country73 (2 weeks) Country
2005	Bless the Broken Road	-	-	Country50 (1 week) Country	Version with Carrie Underwood
	Oklahoma-Texas Line Feels Like Today	-	-	Country53 (6 weeks) Country
	Here's To You Feels Like Today	-	-	Country48 (17 weeks) Country
2006	Pieces Me and My Gang	-	-	Country57 (1 week) Country
	Ellsworth Me and My Gang	-	-	Country56 (1 week) Country
	Backwards Me and My Gang	-	-	Country54 (2 weeks) Country
2007	Revolution Still Feels Good	-	-	Country57 (3 weeks) Country
	Still Feels Good Still Feels Good	-	-	Country56 (1 week) Country
2008	Jingle Bell Rock Greatest Hits Volume 1	-	-	Country29 (5 weeks) Country
	White Christmas Greatest Hits Volume 1	-	-	Country32 (5 weeks) Country
	I'll Be Home For Christmas Greatest Hits Volume 1	-	-	Country34 (5 weeks) Country
2009	Forever Unstoppable	-	US53 (1 week) US	-
	Love Who You Love Unstoppable	-	US59 (1 week) US	Country59 (1 week) Country
	Thing That Matter Unstoppable	-	US85 (1 week) US	-
2010	Close unstoppable	-	-	Country55 (8 weeks) Country

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2000	Forever Country	-	US21 (4 weeks) US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	as part of "Artists of Then, Now & Forever"

Video albums

• 2004: Live (US:× 2Double platinum )

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources albums: Charts US UK
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources Singles: Charts US UK

Web links

Commons : Rascal Flatts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Band website (Engl.)