I'm Alright (Jo Dee Messina album)

I'm Alright
Studio album by Jo Dee Messina
Released March 17, 1998
Genre Country
Length 36:08
Label Curb
Producer Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw
Jo Dee Messina chronology

Jo Dee Messina
(1996)
I'm Alright
(1998)
Burn
(2000)
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I'm Alright is the second studio album released by American country music singer Jo Dee Messina. It was released in 1998. Her highest selling album to date, it has been certified 2× Platinum for U.S. sales of two million copies. The album produced the singles "I'm Alright", "Bye, Bye", and "Stand Beside Me" — all of which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts — as well as a cover of Dottie West's "A Lesson in Leaving" (titled "Lesson in Leavin'") and "Because You Love Me". Respectively, these last two singles reached #2 and #8 on the country charts.

Track listing

  1. "I'm Alright" (Phil Vassar) – 3:16
  2. "Stand Beside Me" (Stephen Allen Davis) – 3:41
  3. "Even God Must Get the Blues" (Dene Anton, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:52
  4. "No Time for Tears" (Steven Dale Jones, Jo Dee Messina) – 3:26
  5. "Lesson in Leavin" (Randy Goodrum, Brent Maher) – 3:39
  6. "Bye, Bye" (Rory Michael Bourke, Vassar) – 3:19
  7. "Silver Thunderbird" (Marc Cohn) – 4:09
  8. "I Know a Heartache" (Charlie Black, Rory Bourke, Kerry Chater) – 3:29
  9. "Because You Love Me" (Kostas, Sherrill) – 3:50
  10. "Cover Me" (Trey Bruce, Robin Lee Bruce) – 3:27

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1998) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 5
U.S. Billboard 200 61
Canadian RPM Country Albums 5
Canadian RPM Top Albums 96

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US CAN Country
1998 "Bye, Bye" 1 43 1
"I'm Alright" 1 43 1
"Stand Beside Me" 1 34 1
1999 "Lesson in Leavin'" 2 28 2
"Because You Love Me" 8 53 11

References

  1. I'm Alright (Jo Dee Messina album) at AllMusic