Rodney Austin Atkins (born March 28, 1969, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records since 1997, Atkins charted his first single on the Billboard country charts that year, but did not release an album until 2003s Honesty (Honesty (Rodney Atkins album)), which included the Top 5 hit "Honesty (Write Me a List)."

If Youre Going Through Hell, his second album, was released in 2006. Its first two singles, "If Youre Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" and "Watching You (Watching You (Rodney Atkins song))", each spent four weeks at the top of the country music charts. Both songs were also named as the Number One country song of the year by Billboard magazine ("If Youre Going Through Hell" in 2006, and "Watching You" in 2007). The album, which has since been certified platinum in the United States, has produced two more Number One singles in "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" as well as "Invisibly Shaken" which peaked at #41. A twelfth single, "Its America (Its America (song))," was released in November 2008 as the first release from his third album Its America and the song became his fifth Number One on the chart dated May 2, 2009.