A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album)

A Place in the Sun
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released May 4, 1999
Recorded Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length 54:04
Label Curb
Producer Byron Gallimore
Tim McGraw
James Stroud
Tim McGraw chronology

Everywhere
(1997)
A Place in the Sun
(1999)
Greatest Hits
(2000)
Alternative cover of Japanese release (w/ obi)
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A Place in the Sun is the fifth album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on May 4, 1999. "Please Remember Me" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy awards. "My Best Friend" was nominated in the same category the following year. The CD was originally available with a limited edition booklet that had two transparent sleeves inside. Subsequent releases have all the same information, though without the transparent pages.

This album produced the singles "Please Remember Me", "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", "My Next Thirty Years" and "Some Things Never Change"; "Please Remember Me" was originally recorded by Rodney Crowell on his 1995 album Jewel of the South, and was a #69 country hit for him that year. Except for the #7-peaking "Some Things Never Change", all the singles on this album reached number one on the Hot Country Songs charts; "Seventeen" and "Señorita Margarita" also reached the lower regions of that chart from unsolicited airplay.

Track listing

  1. "The Trouble with Never" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin) – 4:14
  2. "Seventeen" (Chris Lindsey, Bill Luther, Aimee Mayo) – 3:18
  3. "She'll Have You Back" (Deryl Dodd, Allen Chancey) – 3:25
  4. "Somebody Must Be Prayin' for Me" (Frank Vinci, Kris Bergsnes) – 3:52
  5. "My Best Friend" (Bill Luther, Aimee Mayo) – 4:39
  6. "Señorita Margarita" (Bob DiPiero, George Teren) – 3:50
  7. "Some Things Never Change" (Walt Aldridge, Brad Crisler) – 3:56
  8. "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (Greg Barnhill, Kim Carnes) – 3:42
  9. "Something Like That" (Rick Ferrell, Keith Follesé) – 3:03
  10. "Please Remember Me" (Rodney Crowell, Will Jennings) – 4:55
  11. "Carry On" (Mark Collie, Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens) – 3:22
  12. "My Next Thirty Years" (Phil Vassar) – 3:37
  13. "Eyes of a Woman" (Rory Michael Bourke, Steve Mandile) – 3:47
  14. "A Place in the Sun" (Lindsey, Steve Dukes) – 4:18
    • Track 1 on Japanese version

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1999) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 1
Canadian RPM Country Albums 2
Canadian RPM Top Albums 12

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US CAN Country
1999 "Please Remember Me" 1 10 1
"Something Like That" 1 28 1
"My Best Friend" 1 29 1
2000 "Some Things Never Change" 7 58
"My Next Thirty Years" 1 27

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Preceded by
Ruff Ryders Ryde or Die Vol. 1 by Various artists
Billboard 200 number-one album
May 22–28, 1999
Succeeded by
Ricky Martin by Ricky Martin
Preceded by
Come on Over
by Shania Twain
Top Country Albums number-one album
May 22 – June 4, 1999
Succeeded by
Come On Over
by Shania Twain