Rodney Atkins

By fusing the driving sound of Tim McGraw with an everyday appeal, Rodney Atkins racked up a series of country chart-toppers. Although he signed with Curb in the late '90s, his rise started in 2006 with the title-track to If You're Going Through Hell, a song that pushed the album to number one on the Country chart and snagged him Top New Male Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music. Between 2006 and 2008, he racked up five number one country hits, highlighted by the sentimental smash "Watching You." Both 2008's "It's America" and 2011's "Take a Back Road" also reached the t...