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If I'm Honest

If I'm Honest is the tenth studio album by American country music singer Blake Shelton. It was released on May 20, 2016 via Warner Bros. Nashville. The album was produced by Shelton's longtime producer Scott Hendricks and features collaborations with Gwen Stefani and The Oak Ridge Boys.

According to Shelton the album is very personal and addresses his high and lows of 2015 from his divorce from Miranda Lambert in July 2015 and met and started dating Gwen Stefani in November 2015. Shelton said of the album, "I don’t even know how to talk about this album as a piece of music as I do just kind of a timeline. As country artists go, I think we’re supposed to sing about our life experiences, and I’ve done that before, but not to this extent."

Shelton said about the process of choosing an album title, "I was like, I need a title that represents a timeline, like 12, 13 months of my life. Like if somebody just took those months and wrote a story about it, that's what I want the album to represent." What If I Tell the Truth was the album's working title but was changed as it was deemed too similar to Stefani's album This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

One of the album's tracks, "Green", was previously included on Shelton's 2008 album Startin' Fires.

The album's tenth track "Friends", is the theme song to the 2016 film The Angry Birds Movie, which was released on the same day as the album. The song is also featured on its corresponding soundtrack.

Shelton has said that "Every Goodbye" was written with him in mind, explaining, "It’s so dead-on with where my life was when I first started making the record. It’s basically telling you how things got rolling in my personal life again." He said that one of the songwriters told him, "Well you know, we tried to put ourselves in your spot."

"Came Here to Forget" is the album's first single, and it was released on March 8, 2016. The song debuted at number one on the Country Digital Chart and has sold 136,000 copies as of March 2016.

The second single from the album, "Savior's Shadow", was released on April 8, 2016. This song impacted Christian radio on April 11, 2016 in addition to the country format.

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