# A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album)

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | link |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− link |
| Los Angeles Times | link |
| Q | link |
| Robert Christgau | link |
A Place in the Sun is the fifth studio 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 album's compact disc version was originally available with a limited edition booklet that contained 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.

## Personnel
### Musicians

* Tim McGraw – lead vocals
* Steve Nathan – keyboards
* Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
* Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
* Mike Durham – electric guitar
* Michael Landau – electric guitar
* B. James Lowry – electric guitar
* Brent Mason – electric guitar
* John Willis – electric guitar
* Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
* Paul Franklin – steel guitar
* Mike Brignardello – bass
* Glenn Worf – bass
* Lonnie Wilson – drums
* Glen Duncan – fiddle
* Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
* Bergen White – string arrangements and conductor (8, 10, 14)
* Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor (8, 10, 14)
* The Nashville String Machine – strings (8, 10, 14)
* Greg Barnhill – backing vocals
* Kim Carnes – backing vocals (8)
* Patty Loveless – backing vocals (10)
* Kim Parent – backing vocals
* Chris Rodriguez – backing vocals
* Curtis Wright – backing vocals
* Curtis Young – backing vocals

### Production

* Byron Gallimore – producer
* Tim McGraw – producer, creative director
* James Stroud – producer
* Rich Hanson – engineer
* Julian King – tracking engineer
* Ricky Cobble – second tracking engineer
* Jed Hackett – second tracking engineer
* Glenn Spinner – second tracking engineer
* Aaron Swihart – second tracking engineer
* Russ Martin – string engineer (8, 10, 14)
* Amy Hughes-Frigo – second string engineer (8, 10, 14)
* Rob MacMillan – second string engineer (8, 10, 14)
* Dennis Davis – overdub engineer, vocal tracking, digital editing
* Erik Lutkins – overdub engineer, vocal tracking, digital editing
* John Van Nest – digital editing
* Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
* Mike Dy – mix assistant
* Rob Hoffman – mix assistant
* Doug Sax – mastering
* Ann Callis – production assistant
* Doug Rich – production assistant
* Missi Gallimore – song assistant
* Michelle Metzger – song assistant
* Kelly Wright – creative director
* Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, design
* Russ Harrington – photography
Studios
* Additional recording at Essential Sound Studios (Houston, Texas); The Tracking Room and Loud Recording (Nashville, Tennessee); Studio 56 (Hollywood, California)
* Mixed at Image Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
* Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)

## Chart performance
### Weekly charts

| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 84 |
| Canadian Country Albums (RPM) | 2 |
| Canadian Albums (RPM) | 12 |
| US Billboard 200 | 1 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 1 |

### Year-end charts

| Chart (1999) | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 48 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 4 |
| Chart (2000) | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 47 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 4 |
| Chart (2001) | Position |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) | 54 |

### Singles

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Year | Single | US Country | US | CAN Country |
| 1999 | "Please Remember Me" | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 1999 | "Something Like That" | 1 | 28 | 1 |
| 1999 | "My Best Friend" | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 2000 | "Some Things Never Change" | 7 | 58 | 1 |
| 2000 | "My Next Thirty Years" | 1 | 27 | 6 |

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Canada (Music Canada) | Platinum | 100,000$^^$ |
| United States (RIAA) | 4× Platinum | 4,000,000$^‡$ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. $^‡$ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |||