Dan + Shay (album)

Dan + Shay is the self-titled third studio album by American country music duo Dan + Shay. It was released on June 22, 2018 via Warner Bros. Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Tequila," "Speechless," and "All to Myself." It was nominated for the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year.and American Music Award for Favorite Country Album.

Dan + Shay
Studio album by
Dan + Shay
ReleasedJune 22, 2018 (2018-06-22)
GenreCountry pop[1]
Length35:16
LabelWarner Nashville
Producer
Dan + Shay chronology
Obsessed
(2016)		 Dan + Shay
(2018)
Singles from Dan + Shay
  1. "Tequila"
    Released: January 10, 2018
  2. "Speechless"
    Released: August 6, 2018
  3. "All to Myself"
    Released: February 11, 2019

Background

The duo announced the track listing via social media in May 2018. In addition to lead single "Tequila", they announced that the album would contain a duet with Kelly Clarkson.[2] Group member Dan Smyers told Taste of Country, "I feel like this is the first time we really nailed it telling our story, saying what we want to say and putting the songs out that sound like we want to sound and how we want to be perceived. It feels really special, the whole body of work."[3]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Entertainment Focus
Rolling Stone
Sounds Like Nashville(Positive)
The Young Folks8/10

Cillea Houghton of Sounds Like Nashville reviewed the album with favor, stating that it "not only demonstrate how they've evolved musically on their self-titled record, but prove the purity that lives in their songwriting."[4] It received 3.5 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone, whose Jon Freeman wrote that the duo "maintain their low-key approach, delighting in simple, domestic pleasures and providing a reminder to pause and take a breath."[5] Rating it 3 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic was more mixed, saying that the album "may not be much more than aural wallpaper but that's all it's intended to be and, on that level, it's well executed: it's so slick and smooth, it doesn't make a single wave."[6]

Commercial performance

Dan + Shay debuted at number six on US Billboard 200 chart and number one on US Top Country Albums, selling 44,000 album-equivalent units (including 24,000 in pure album sales) in its first week of release.[7] The album was certified gold on March 6, 2019 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and then platinum on November 13, 2019 for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 1,000,000 units in the United States.[8] The album has sold 167,400 copies in the United States as of December 2019,[9] and 1,280,000 units consumed in total as of February 2020.[10]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Alone Together"
2:51
2."Tequila"
3:16
3."What Keeps You Up at Night [lower-alpha 1]"
  • Chase Foster
  • Jordan Minton
  • Reynolds
3:21
4."All to Myself"
  • Smyers
  • Mooney
  • Reynolds
  • Galyon
2:49
5."Keeping Score" (featuring Kelly Clarkson)
  • Smyers
  • Reynolds
  • Laura Veltz
3:40
6."Make or Break"
  • Smyers
  • Mooney
  • Reynolds
  • Emily Weisband
2:35
7."Speechless"
  • Smyers
  • Mooney
  • Reynolds
  • Veltz
3:33
8."Stupid Love"
3:14
9."No Such Thing"
2:59
10."My Side of the Fence"
  • Mooney
  • Benjy Davis
3:39
11."Island Time"
3:19

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[22] Gold 40,000
United States (RIAA)[8] Platinum 1,280,000[10] / 167,300[9]

^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Notes
  1. Keith Urban plays an uncredited guitar solo
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References
  1. Freeman, Jon; Reeves, Mosi; Johnston, Maura (June 22, 2018). "10 New Albums to Stream Now: The Carters, Nine Inch Nails, Kamasi Washington and More Editors' Picks". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  2. Brickey, Kelly (May 18, 2018). "Dan + Shay Share News of Self-Titled Album, Reveal Tracklist". Sounds Like Nashville. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  3. Houghton, Cillea (June 22, 2018). "DAN + SHAY CHALLENGED THEMSELVES WITH NEW ALBUM: 'THIS FEELS LIKE US'". Taste of Country. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  4. Houghton, Cillea (June 19, 2018). "Album Review: Dan + Shay's Self-Titled Album". Sounds Like Nashville. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  5. Freeman, Jon (June 28, 2018). "Review: Dan + Shay Kick up a Quiet Country Storm on Self-Titled LP". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  6. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Dan + Shay". Allmusic. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  7. Caulfield, Keith (July 1, 2018). "Panic! at the Disco's 'Pray for the Wicked' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
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  9. Bjorke, Matt (December 9, 2019). "Top 10 Country Albums in Pure Sales: December 9, 2019". Roughstock. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
  10. Bjorke, Matt (February 10, 2020). "Country Music's Most-Consumed Album Chart: February 10, 2020". Roughstock. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
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