Icon (Gary Allan album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Icon

| type = compilation

| artist = Gary Allan

| cover = GaryAllanIcon.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 6, 2012

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 40:21

| label = MCA Nashville

| producer =

| prev_title = Get Off on the Pain

| prev_year = 2010

| next_title = Set You Free

| next_year = 2013

}}

Icon is a compilation album by American country music artist Gary Allan. It was released on March 6, 2012. It is part of a series of similar Icon albums released by Universal Music Enterprises.

Track listing

{{tracklist

| title1 = Watching Airplanes

| writer1 = Jim Beavers, Jonathan Singleton

| length1 = 4:03

| title2 = Man to Man

| writer2 = Jamie O'Hara

| length2 = 3:41

| title3 = Life Ain't Always Beautiful

| writer3 = Cyndi Goodman, Tommy Lee James

| length3 = 3:44

| title4 = Best I Ever Had

| writer4 = Matt Scannell

| length4 = 4:06

| title5 = Her Man

| writer5 = Kent Robbins

| length5 = 2:44

| title6 = Smoke Rings in the Dark

| writer6 = Rivers Rutherford, Houston Robert

| length6 = 4:18

| title7 = Tough Little Boys

| writer7 = Don Sampson, Harley Allen

| length7 = 3:56

| title8 = The One

| writer8 = Karen Manno, Billy Lee

| length8 = 4:18

| title9 = It Would Be You

| writer9 = Dana Hunt Black, Robbins

| length9 = 2:56

| title10 = Right Where I Need to Be

| writer10 = Casey Beathard, Kendell Marvel

| length10 = 3:04

| title11 = Nothing On but the Radio

| writer11 = Byron Hill, Brice Long, Odie Blackmon

| length11 = 3:31

| total_length = 40:21

}}

Critical reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Leggett|first=Steve|title=Icon review|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2394548|pure_url=yes}}|work=Allmusic|accessdate=April 19, 2012}}

}}

Steve Leggett of Allmusic notes the album is "a great introduction to a woefully unsung American artist."

Charts

Icon debuted at number 29 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 200 on the Billboard 200.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2394548/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|title=Chart listing for Icon|work=Allmusic|accessdate=April 19, 2012}}

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Chart (2012)

! Peak
position

U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums

| align="center"| 20

U.S. Billboard 200

| align="center"| 151

References