Tangled Up (Thomas Rhett album)

Tangled Up is the second studio album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on September 25, 2015, via Valory Music Group.^[1][2][3] The album's lead single "Crash and Burn", was released to radio on April 27, 2015. The album's second single, "Die a Happy Man" was released to country radio on September 28, 2015, but was available for download as a pre-order for the album on September 18, 2015.

Tangled Up
Studio album by Thomas Rhett
Released	September 25, 2015 (2015-09-25)
Recorded	2015
Studio	Starstruck Studios, Major Bob Studios and Sub-Level 03 (Nashville, Tennessee); Atlantic Studios (Hollywood, California); Elysian Sound (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Country, Pop
Length	44:21
Label	Valory
Producer	Thomas Rhett Jesse Frasure Dann Huff Chris DeStefano Joe London Julian Bunetta Jaren Johnston Lindsay Rimes Carl Falk
Thomas Rhett chronology
It Goes Like This (2013) Tangled Up (2015) Life Changes (2017)
Singles from Tangled Up
"Crash and Burn" Released: April 27, 2015 "Die a Happy Man" Released: September 28, 2015 "T-Shirt" Released: February 16, 2016 "Vacation" Released: June 13, 2016 "Star of the Show" Released: October 3, 2016

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Billboard	[5]

Critical

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic thought that the Thomas Rhett's second album feels like an album "where the singer/songwriter comes into his own" and rated the album 4 stars out of 5. He thought that Rhett "displays an omnivorous cultural appetite" in the album where Rhett might be "dropping passing allusions to Guns N' Roses and Third Eye Blind" to using disco beat. He judged Rhett to be "a true pop artist, harnessing the trends of his time and turning them into music that's hard to resist."^[4] Billboard also picked up on the disco influence, noting that songs in the album, such as "Tangled", "sound as Saturday Night Fever’d as anything recorded by a male country star in decades", but wondered whether "country radio will fully embrace their Nashville disco or ignore it."^[5]

Commercial

Tangled Up debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 6 and Top Country Albums at No. 3, with 76,000 units sold, 63,000 of which are pure album sales.^[6] It reached No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart in its fourth week.^[7] The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on September 20, 2016.^[8] The album has sold over 598,900 copies in the US as of September 2017.^[9]

Track listing

Tangled Up – Standard edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Anthem"	Nicolle Galyon Shane McAnally Jimmy Robbins	Dann Huff Jesse Frasure	3:13
2.	"Crash and Burn"	Frasure Chris Stapleton	Huff Frasure	3:10
3.	"South Side"	Thomas Rhett Frasure Stapleton	Huff Frasure	2:51
4.	"Die a Happy Man"	Rhett Sean Douglas Joe Spargur	Huff Frasure	3:46
5.	"Vacation"	Rhett Thomas Allen Harold Brown Morris Dickerson Douglas Gerry Goldstein Leroy Jordan Charles Miller Lee Osker Andreas Schuller Howard Scott Spargur Ricky Reed John Ryan	Huff Frasure	3:43
6.	"Like It's the Last Time"	Rhett Rhett Akins Ben Hayslip	Huff Frasure	3:10
7.	"T-Shirt"	Ashley Gorley Luke Laird McAnally	Huff Frasure	3:45
8.	"Single Girl"	Rhett Akins Ross Copperman Hayslip	Huff Frasure	3:18
9.	"The Day You Stop Looking Back"	Jaren Johnston Laird	Huff Frasure	3:25
10.	"Tangled"	Chris DeStefano Adam Hoffman Matt Lipkins Josh Osborne Scott Schwartz	Huff Frasure	3:33
11.	"Playing with Fire" (featuring Jordin Sparks)	Rhett Akins Gorley	DeStefano	3:26
12.	"I Feel Good" (featuring LunchMoney Lewis)	Rhett Douglas Teddy Geiger Jacob Hindlin Gamal Lewis Charlie Puth Spargur	Joe London	3:16
13.	"Learned It from the Radio"	Galyon Gorley Robbins	DeStefano	3:39
Total length:				44:21

Tangled Up – Deluxe edition^[10]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
14.	"Star of the Show"	Rhett Akins Hayslip	London Julian Bunetta Rhett	3:02
15.	"American Spirit"	Rhett DeStefano Johnston	Frasure Johnston Rhett	3:38
16.	"Background Music"	Rhett Akins Hayslip Lindsay Rimes	Frasure Rimes Rhett	2:50
17.	"Playing with Fire" (featuring Danielle Bradbery)	Rhett Akins Gorley	DeStefano	3:26
18.	"Die a Happy Man (The Remix)" (featuring Tori Kelly)	Rhett Douglas Spargur	Carl Falk	3:29
Total length:				60:00

Personnel

Musicians

• Thomas Rhett – lead vocals
• Charlie Judge – keyboards
• Matt Stanfield – keyboards
• Jesse Frasure – programming
• Joe London – keyboards, programming, electric guitar, bass
• Chris DeStefano – keyboards, acoustic piano, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, steel guitar, bass, drums, backing vocals
• Charlie Puth – keyboards (12), backing vocals (12)
• Dann Huff – electric guitar
• Rob McNelley – electric guitar
• Chris Stapleton – electric guitar, backing vocals
• Derek Wells – electric guitar
• Danny Rader – acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Teddy Geiger – bass
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass
• Chris Kimmerer – drums
• Byron "Mr. Talkbox" Chambers – talk box
• Sean Douglas – backing vocals
• Russell Terrell – backing vocals
• Jordin Sparks – vocals (11)
• LunchMoney Lewis – vocals (12)
• Danielle Bradbury – vocals (17)
• Tori Kelly – vocals (18)

Technical and design

• Jesse Frasure – recording (1-10)
• Steve Marcantonio – recording (1-10)
• Chris DeStefano – recording (11, 13)
• Joe London – recording (12)
• Shawn Daugherty – recording assistant (1-10)
• Seth Morton – recording assistant (1-10), additional recording (4, 5, 9, 10)
• Russell Terrell – additional recording (1, 2, 4-10)
• Justin Niebank – mixing at Blackbird Studio (Nashville, Tennessee) and Hound's Ear Studio (Franklin, Tennessee)
• Drew Bollman – mix assistant
• David Huff – digital editing
• Sean Neff – digital editing
• Adam Ayan – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
• Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
• Laurel Kittleson – production coordinator
• Alicia Matthews – production coordinator
• Becky Reiser – art direction, graphic design
• Sandi Spika Borchetta – art direction
• Abbey Lanigan – graphic design
• John Shearer – cover photography
• Joseph Llanes – additional photography

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Tangled Up Chart (2015–2017) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[11] 77 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12] 2 UK Albums (OCC)[13] 80 US Billboard 200[14] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[15] 2

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for Tangled Up Chart (2015) Position US Billboard 200[16] 141 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[17] 27 Chart (2016) Position Canadian Albums (Billboard)[18] 41 US Billboard 200[19] 21 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[20] 7 Chart (2017) Position US Billboard 200[21] 59 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[22] 9 Chart (2018) Position US Billboard 200[23] 159 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[24] 19 Chart (2019) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[25] 24 Chart (2020) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[26] 45 Decade-end charts Decade-end chart performance for Tangled Up Chart (2010–2019) Position US Billboard 200[27] 169 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[28] 12

Certifications

Certifications for Tangled Up

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[29]	Platinum	80,000‡
United States (RIAA)[8]	2× Platinum	598,900[9]
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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