''Reba #1s'' is a double-disc compilation album released in 2005 celebrating Reba McEntire's thirty years in the music industry. It is the first compilation of her career to include tracks from her early

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years along with her MCA recordings. The album features all of McEntire's solo number one hits spanning her career. The thirty-five-track compilation features twenty-two ''Billboard'' number-one hits, eleven non-''Billboard'' number ones and two new tracks, "You're Gonna Be" (re-titled "You're Gonna Be (Always Loved by Me)" when released as a single) and "Love Needs a Holiday", which respectively reached 33 and 60 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Both of the new tracks were accompanied by videos. The album debuted and peaked at number four on the '' Billboard'' country album chart and number twelve on the ''Billboard'' 200. It has sold over 1 million copies and has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA because it is a double-disc compilation album. The album's total figure of 33 includes all major United States country music charts. Twenty-two of the 33 songs reached No. 1 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart, with the remainder having topped either the country charts of '' Radio & Records'' or '' Gavin Report''. The compilation and the two new tracks were produced by McEntire and

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. The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard country chart and number 12 on the Billboard 200 selling 110,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 1,195,800 copies in the United States as of April 2017.

Track listing

Personnel

The following musicians performed on "You're Gonna Be" and "Love Needs a Holiday": *Bruce Bouton – steel guitar *Spady Brannan –

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*Perry Coleman –

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

on "Love Needs a Holiday" *Eric Darken –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

*Kenny Greenberg –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

*Tommy Harden – drums *Jim Kimball – acoustic guitar * Reba McEntire – lead vocals *Jerry McPherson – electric guitar *Greg Morrow – extra drums on "Love Needs a Holiday" *Jimmy Nichols –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, background vocals *Larry Paxton – extra bass guitar on "Love Needs a Holiday" *

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– fiddle on "Love Needs a Holiday" *Doug Sisemore –

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*Jennifer Wrinkle – background vocals on "You're Gonna Be"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Certifications and sales

References

{{Reba Mcentire 2005 greatest hits albums Reba McEntire compilation albums Compilation albums of number-one songs MCA Records compilation albums