Me and My Gang is the fourth studio album from the American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on April 4, 2006. The album became the highest US debut of 2006, with 721,747 units[3] and went double platinum in the first month of release.[4][5] The album logged three weeks at #1 on Billboard 200. It was the second-best selling album (behind High School Musical) and the best selling country album of 2006. It has sold 4.918 million copies in the United States as of the chart dated March 24, 2012[6] and was certified 5× Platinum.[4]
On April 25, 2007 Rascal Flatts performed "My Wish" on American Idol as part of the special, Idol Gives Back.[7]
The singles released from this album included "What Hurts the Most", which was a Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. This was followed by the title track (which reached a peak of number 6), and then the Number One hits "My Wish" and "Stand". Later presses of the album also included a cover of Tom Cochrane's "Life Is a Highway" (a cover previously included in the soundtrack to the 2006 film Cars) as a bonus track. This cover, though not released to country radio, charted at number 18 on the country charts, overlapping with "My Wish". A video was made for "He Ain't the Leavin' Kind" though it was never released as a single. This is the group's first album to be produced by Dann Huff.
Strings on "My Wish" and "Words I Couldn't Say" arranged and conducted by David Campbell. Strings on "To Make Her Love Me" arranged and conducted by Charlie Judge.
^Me and My Gang (CD liner notes). Rascal Flatts. Lyric Street Records. 2006. 165058.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
