felt like I was hearing that song at that moment for a reason." Shelton duets with Lambert on the album's title track. The song was originally recorded by Ray Stephenson, who co-wrote it with Buddy Owens. Shelton has said that his decision to cover the song was inspired by a time three years before the album's release when he and Lambert briefly broke up. Shelton duets with Martina McBride on "I'm Sorry", which had first been pitched to Shelton for one of his earlier albums, but Shelton was initially unsure if he was the right vocalist to record it. Calling it "a hard song to sing", he explained, "Once we got in there and cut it, I realized I can be comfortable with this." Shelton wanted Red River Blue's third single to be "one of the rowdier songs on the album" and considered "Get Some" before "Drink On It" was chosen. "Drink On It" was the last song Shelton recorded for the album. The album's fourth single, "Over", was written by Paul Jenkins and David Elliott Johnson, who originally planned on recording the song themselves for a rock band they were going to start together. They wrote the song at least a decade before Shelton recorded it. Reception Commercial The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number one with 116,000 sold in the US in its debut week. It is Blake Shelton's highest charting album and his first album to reach number one on this ch"art. As of March 2015, the album has sold 1,240,000 copies in the US. In 2016, it was certified double-platinum with sales of 2,000,000 units. Critical Red River Blue received a mixed to postive response from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 9 reviews. The positive reviews came in from About.com, American Songwriter Entertainment Weekly, Nashville Country Club, Roughstock, Taste of Country, Urban Country News and the USA Today. Critic Scott Sexton of About.com rated the album a four out of five stars, and called this effort "Blake Shelton being at the top of his game". Critic Allen Morrison of American Songwriter rated the album a three and a half out of five stars, and evoked how "Red River Blue should do nothing to slow his momentum." Critic Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly