Nashville, TN — January 12, 2024 — Multi-platinum, global entertainer Chris Young is readying his highly anticipated ninth studio album, Young Love & Saturday Nights, releasing March 22nd on Sony Music Nashville. Led by the Billboard and Mediabase top 40 and rising title track “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” written by Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley and Josh Thompson with a posthumous songwriting credit to David Bowie, the project is Young’s first new album since 2021’s Famous Friends. The forthcoming record also includes previously released sides, “Looking For You” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven.”
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At 18 songs, Young Love & Saturday Nights is Young’s most ambitious release yet, the result of countless writing and listening sessions. Young is a writer on 15 of the album’s 18 sides and is the sole producer on three songs. He shares co-producer credits with longtime creative partners, Chris DeStefano and Corey Crowder.
Instead of chasing trends, Young turns things up — emotionally, sonically, stylistically. The ballads hit harder, the rowdy tunes are more raucous, and the anthems hit new highs. “This is what this album felt like it needed to be for me,” he says. “It’s a little louder, a little more raw. Even the stripped-down songs are heavier. I love creating music and I love making it and the fact that I get to do that for a living is a pretty incredible thing.”
TRACK LISTING: Chris Young - Young Love & Saturday Nights
1. Looking for You
2. All Dogs Go to Heaven
3. Young Love & Saturday Nights
4. Don't Call Me
5. What She Sees in Me
6. Country Boy's Prayer
7. Double Down
8. Call It a Day
9. Drink to Remember
10. Don't Stop Now
11. Fall Out
12. Fire
13. Gettin' Older
14. Right Now
15. Million Miles
16. Everybody Grew Up
17. Knee Deep in Neon
18. Down
Download Chris Young Young Love & Saturday Nights liner notes HERE
Among the new tracks on the project is “Right Now,” available everywhere today. “With a pounding pulse, sweeping strings, and a desire-filled delivery, ‘Right Now’ exudes strong-and-steady confidence,” declares Nashville Lifestyles in its January cover story on the prolific singer/songwriter. Co-written by Young with Chris DeStefano and Josh Hoge, “Right Now” imagines a couple trying to define where they are headed. “You’re in that in-between phase of a relationship going, ‘It’s late, I can’t sleep. I’m wondering where you are and you’re wondering where I’m at. Let’s not wonder about it anymore. Let’s be in the same place,’” Young says. The official music video was directed by Running Bear’s Alexia Stone and Stephen Kinigopoulos and filmed in Nashville – watch HERE.
The new album’s title track & Young’s current single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” a “vivid love letter to summertime weekends, old trucks, dive bar bands, and crushes” (Associated Press), is currently climbing the country charts at #36 on Billboard Country Airplay and #39 on Mediabase/Country Aircheck. Tune in tonight as Young performs the single, along with several other songs, at 10p/9c on “CMT Campfire Sessions.”
As revealed via his socials earlier this week, Young is gearing up to head out on his headlining “Young Love & Saturday Nights 2024 Tour.” Dates kick off in April, spanning the spring and are on sale starting today at chrisyoungcountry.com.
CHRIS YOUNG’S “Young Love & Saturday Nights 2024 Tour”
April 25 Tulsa, OK River Spirit Casino Resort
April 26 Fort Worth, TX Billy Bob’s Texas
April 27 Fort Worth, TX Billy Bob’s Texas
May 2 Toledo, OH Huntington Center
May 3 Columbus, OH KEMBA Live!
May 4 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
May 9 Rama, ON Casino Rama
May 10 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion
May 11 Indianapolis, IN Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
May 17 Maricopa, AZ Harrah’s Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino
May 18 Albuquerque, NM Boots In The Park
*Dates subject to change, please check chrisyoungcountry.com for the latest information.
For more information and to catch a Chris Young show on the road, visit chrisyoungcountry.com and join @ChrisYoungMusic and his more than 6 Million fans on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.
ABOUT CHRIS YOUNG:
Multi-platinum global entertainer Chris Young has accumulated an impressive list of accomplishments, including membership in the iconic Grand Ole Opry, over 5 Billion on-demand streams, 13 career No. 1 singles, 24 R.I.A.A. certified projects and numerous ACM, AMA, CMA and Grammy nominations, as well as wins for Performance of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards. These milestones and more landed the RCA Records Nashville artist among Billboard’s top country artists of the decade.
Young’s 9th studio album, Young Love & Saturday Nights, is set to release March 22 on RCA Records Nashville. The project features 18 songs, 15 of which Chris had a hand in writing. He is the sole producer on three of the songs and shares co-producer credits with longtime creative partners, Chris DeStefano and Corey Crowder. The album’s title track and current single leans into David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” signature guitar lick, making the legendary rocker a writer on the song. The new single follows his latest Top 15 hit, “Looking For You.”
Named “one of his era’s finest traditionalists” by the Associated Press, Chris is an international ambassador for country music, performing to capacity crowds around the world. With a hit-packed set that highlights his thirteen chart-toppers — including back-to-back No. 1s “Famous Friends” and “At The End Of A Bar” — the Grammy and ACM nominated vocalist’s most recent headlining tour played to over 400,000 fans in 3 countries. He'll launch his "Young Love & Saturday Nights" headlining tour in April with twelve shows spanning the spring.
For more information and to catch a Chris Young show on the road, visit chrisyoungcountry.com and join @ChrisYoungMusic and his more than 6 Million fans on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.
