Dan + Shay (album)

Dan + Shay is the third studio album by American country pop 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
Released	June 22, 2018 (2018-06-22)
Genre	Country pop[1]
Length	35:16
Label	Warner Nashville
Producer	Scott Hendricks Dan Smyers
Dan + Shay chronology
Obsessed (2016) Dan + Shay (2018) Good Things (2021)
Singles from Dan + Shay
"Tequila" Released: January 10, 2018 "Speechless" Released: August 6, 2018 "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
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Entertainment Focus
Rolling Stone
Sounds Like Nashville	(Positive)
The Young Folks	8/10[4]

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."^[5] 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."^[6] 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."^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[9] The album has sold 167,400 copies in the United States as of December 2019,^[10] and 1,280,000 units consumed in total as of February 2020.^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Alone Together"	Dan Smyers Shay Mooney Jesse Frasure Hillary Lindsey	2:51
2.	"Tequila"	Smyers Nicolle Galyon Jordan Reynolds	3:16
3.	"What Keeps You Up at Night"	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"	Smyers Mooney Jon Nite David Hodges	3:14
9.	"No Such Thing"	Smyers Mooney David Lee Murphy Matt Dragstrem	2:59
10.	"My Side of the Fence"	Mooney Benjy Davis	3:39
11.	"Island Time"	Smyers Mooney Jimmy Robbins Andy Albert	3:19

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic^[12]

Dan + Shay

• Shay Mooney – lead vocals, background vocals
• Dan Smyers – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming, synthesizer, background vocals

Additional Personnel

• Jessica Blackwell – violin
• Kelly Clarkson – duet vocals on "Keeping Score"
• Matt Dragstrem – electric tenor guitar, piano, programming, slide guitar, synthesizer horn, background vocals
• Chris Farrell – viola
• Chase Foster – programming, synthesizer
• Jesse Frasure – percussion, programming, synthesizer
• Nick Gold – cello
• David Hodges – percussion, programming
• Charlie Judge – conductor, string arrangements, synthesizer
• Jimin Lim – violin
• Gordon Mote – keyboards, piano, string arrangements, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
• Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
• Jordan Reynolds – hammer dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, programming, synthesizer
• Jimmy Robbins – programming
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Abby Smyers – background vocals
• Bryan Sutton – banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, hi-string acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Ilya Toshinsky – banjo, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Keith Urban – electric guitar solo on "What Keeps You Up at Night"
• Derek Wells – electric guitar
• Nir Z. – drums, percussion, programming

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2018) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[13] 15 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[14] 11 New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[15] 6 Scottish Albums (OCC)[16] 62 UK Country Albums (OCC)[17] 2 US Billboard 200[8] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[18] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2018) Position Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[19] 48 US Billboard 200[20] 115 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[21] 15 Chart (2019) Position Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[22] 10 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[23] 38 US Billboard 200[24] 26 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[25] 2 Chart (2020) Position Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[26] 19 US Billboard 200[27] 94 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[28] 8 Chart (2021) Position Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[29] 31 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[30] 26 Chart (2022) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[31] 61

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[32]	Platinum	80,000‡
United States (RIAA)[9]	2× Platinum	2,000,000[11]
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

References

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