If You're Going Through Hell

If You're Going Through Hell
If You're Going Through Hell
Studio album by Rodney Atkins
Released	July 18, 2006
Studio	Curb Studio (Nashville); Cartee Day Studio (Nashville); Country Q (Nashville); The Bonus Room (Old Hickory); Ridgetop Studio (Baxter)
Genre	Country
Length	36:04
Label	Curb Records
Producer	Ted Hewitt; Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins chronology
Singles from If You're Going Through Hell
	"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"; Released: January 9, 2006; "Watching You"; Released: September 18, 2006; "These Are My People"; Released: March 19, 2007; "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"; Released: October 1, 2007; "Invisibly Shaken"; Released: April 21, 2008;

If You're Going Through Hell is the second studio album by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It was released on July 18, 2006 by Curb Records. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after selling at least one million copies in the United States.

ReleasedJuly 18, 2006

StudioCurb Studio (Nashville)
Cartee Day Studio (Nashville)
Country Q (Nashville)
The Bonus Room (Old Hickory)
Ridgetop Studio (Baxter)

Length36:04

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The album's first four singles — "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)", "Watching You", "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" — all reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 2006 and 2008. In addition, "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows" and "Watching You" were declared by Billboard as the Number One country songs of 2006 and 2007, respectively. The song "Invisibly Shaken" was originally recorded by Lee Greenwood on his 2003 album Stronger Than Time. Atkins' version of that song was released as the album's fifth and final single in early 2008 and peaked at No. 41.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"These Are My People"	Rivers Rutherford, Dave Berg	3:34
2.	"About the South"	Rodney Atkins, Tom Hambridge, Shane Minor	2:58
3.	"Watching You"	Atkins, Steve Dean, Brian Gene White	3:55
4.	"Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"	Casey Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman	3:46
5.	"In the Middle"	Atkins, Berg, Sam Tate, Annie Tate	3:11
6.	"A Man on a Tractor"	Kent Agee, Michael Lunn	4:08
7.	"Wasted Whiskey"	Atkins, Ted Hewitt, Danny Simpson	3:42
8.	"Invisibly Shaken"	Atkins, Billy Kirsch	3:46
9.	"Angel's Hands"	Atkins, Nicole Witt, Bobby Tomberlin	3:29
10.	"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"	A. Tate, S. Tate, Berg	3:36

Chart (2006)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[7]	3
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[8]	1

Chart (2006)	Position
US Billboard 200^[9]	196
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[10]	38

Chart (2007)	Position
US Billboard 200^[11]	58
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[12]	10

Chart (2008)	Position
US Billboard 200^[13]	167
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[14]	27

Track listing

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	US Pop	CAN
2006	"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"	1	33	57	—
2006	"Watching You"	1	36	57	—
2007	"These Are My People"	1	42	96	—
2007	"Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"	1	40	83	84
2008	"Invisibly Shaken"	41	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[15]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.