# If You're Going Through Hell

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| About.com | |
| Allmusic | |
| Country Standard Time | (positive) |
| Plugged In | (positive) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| USA Today | |
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.
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.

## Chart performance
### Weekly charts

| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
| US Billboard 200 | 3 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 1 |

### Year-end charts

| Chart (2006) | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 196 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 38 |
| Chart (2007) | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 58 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 10 |
| Chart (2008) | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 167 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 27 |

### Singles

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | 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 ||||||

## Certifications

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

## Personnel

From If You're Going Through Hell liner notes.

### Musicians

* Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
* Jim "Moose" Brown - piano
* Skip Cleavinger - Uilleann pipes
* Larry Franklin - fiddle, mandolin
* Rob Hajacos - fiddle
* Ted Hewitt - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
* Angela Hurt - background vocals
* Mike Johnson - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
* Julian King - percussion
* Troy Lancaster - electric guitar
* B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
* Brent Mason - electric guitar
* Gordon Mote - piano, Hammond organ
* Larry Paxton - bass guitar
* Gary Prim - piano, Hammond organ
* Scotty Sanders - pedal steel guitar
* Steve Sheehan - acoustic guitar
* Wanda Vick - banjo
* John Willis - acoustic guitar, banjo
* Lonnie Wilson - drums
Crowd noise: Aaron Bowlin, Justin Luffman, Jenn Poppe, Kathryn Vieira, Steven Sheehan, Tammy Jo Atkins, Natalie Stout, "GiGi", Karla Hewitt, Angela Hurt, "Angela Hurt's mom", Clayton Bozeman, Kevin Rapillo, Sandi Harrison, James and Tecia Hedden, Lindsey Herren, Danielle Chaffin, Rhonda Chaffin, Doug Barnard, Colin Campbell, Belinda Smith, Marianne Mashburne, Terje Bratsveen, Charlie and Nicole Miralez, Jenny Tackett, Shawn and Kelly Pody

### Technical

* Rodney Atkins - producer, engineering
* Billy Decker - mixing
* Tony Green - recording
* Ted Hewitt - producer, engineering
* P.T. Houston - recording
* Julian King - mixing
* Craig White - recording
* Hank Williams - mastering