Now that Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour is finished, opening-act Rodney Atkins has a major project on his horizon: He's working to write and collect material for his next album.

Rodney's previous album, If You're Going Through Hell, launched four singles to No. 1, becoming the first album to do that since Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down accomplished the feat in 2001. Rodney's set his sights high — in fact, one of the models he uses in making an album is a Garth Brooks project that featured four chart-topping singles.

"No Fences," Rodney tells Dial Global. "That's always that album that's there in the back of your mind — if you can make one of those albums. And I've said this a thousand times: Modern Sounds In Country [and] Western Music, the Ray Charles album, that still kills me. I keep it there in front of me in my studio at the house. Those are the albums that are sittin' there that I'm lookin' at all the time."

For the record, the four Rodney Atkins songs that reached No. 1 are the title track, "Watching You," "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)." The four chart-topping singles from No Fences include "Friends In Low Places," "Unanswered Prayers," "Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House" and "The Thunder Rolls."