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Post by sabre14 on Oct 13, 2014 14:10:50 GMT -5
Artist: Dustin Lynch Single: "Hell Of A Night" Writers: Zachary Crowell, Adam Sanders, Jaron Boyer Album: Where It's AtLabel: Broken Bow Impact Date: November 3rd, 2014 SourceChart Run: 50* - 47* - 44* - 41* - 42* - 41* - 40* - 40* - 37* - 37* - 37* - 36* - 33* - 33* - 31* - 30* - 27* - 25* - 24* - 24* - 22* - 20* - 19* - 18* - 17* - 15* - 15* - 12* - 11* - 8* - 7* - 6* - 4* - 3* - 2* - 1* - 6 - 15 (Mediabase) Listen
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Post by zjames on Oct 13, 2014 14:18:43 GMT -5
Well that is very disappointing. I was hoping for either "Mind Reader" and "Your Daddy's Boots".
This sounds just like quite a few songs off his album: it's a weekend night, a truck, a girl, some alcohol, and Dustin is gonna show her a good time. Very disappointing choice.
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Post by Markus Meyer on Oct 13, 2014 15:52:34 GMT -5
"Your Daddy's Boots" would have been my choice, simply because it's far and away the best song on the album.
This is lame, not exciting at all.
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Post by Dustin J. on Oct 13, 2014 16:04:40 GMT -5
Predictable? Yes.
My Choice? No.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 16:20:22 GMT -5
A little confused as to why people thought Your Daddys Boots was going to be released, after all it's slow and has an acoustic guitar(gasp!) I agree its the one of the better ones on that album though. This was pretty predictable i knew if it wasn't this one it would have probably been To The Sky. Either way this is the same old song we've been hearing and should do well at radio
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Post by zjames on Oct 13, 2014 16:28:29 GMT -5
A little confused as to why people thought Your Daddys Boots was going to be released, after all it's slow and has an acoustic guitar(gasp!) I agree its the one of the better ones on that album though. This was pretty predictable i knew if it wasn't this one it would have probably been To The Sky. Either way this is the same old song we've been hearing and should do well at radio Well he released "Your Daddy's Boots" as a promotional single and he achieved his breakout hit with a slower song "Cowboys andย Angels", so I thought he might try that again. If he had to release a truck, beer, Friday night song, I think "Right Where We Want It" is a much stronger choice. The chorus of "Hell of a Night" sounds pretty weak. I'm just surprised the second single isn't "Mind Reader". It sounds like the biggest hit on the album besides "Where It's At".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 16:38:55 GMT -5
Oh i didn't know this was realeased as a promotional single, but still Cowboys and Angels was released 2012 B.C as i like to call it (before Cruise) back when the males didn't sing only truck and beer and "love" songs and plus i think it climbed because people had him pegged as the new neo-traditional guy which i think people liked. Anyway as long as What You Wanna Hear isn't releases i'm fine witj Dustin
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Post by hosssulpizio on Oct 13, 2014 16:42:20 GMT -5
I was hoping for "After Party" to be the next single but "Hell of A Night" is still good. I'm just a little disappointed he didn't choose another song first before "Hell of A Night".
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Post by samsager3 on Oct 13, 2014 17:54:18 GMT -5
This a good song but honestly they couldn't have went wrong on this album. I didn't care for his first album outside of cowboys and angels but this album has the potential to turn Dustin lynch into a superstar in my opinion.
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Post by dm2081 on Oct 13, 2014 18:59:33 GMT -5
Wow is this disappointing. If they didn't want to release "Your Daddy's Boots", or feared it was too slow, then "Mind Reader" seemed like a no-brainer. It appealed to the current trends in country radio and was at least different from the first single. "Hell of a Night" is pretty weak, and I agree with others that the chorus is really lame and uninspiring. This isn't even the best bro song on the album. I doubt this song will be catchy enough to sell well, so I'm not sure why they chose this song. Sucks because a song like this isn't going to show how strong Dustin's voice is.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 19:52:51 GMT -5
Honestly, when I was listening to the album after it came out, I was very unimpressed. Aside from a couple tracks, they all sounded pretty much the same to me. I could switch song to song and feel like it may have been different parts in the same song.
Dustin is better than these songs, but I wonder if it just suffers from the production (over-produced, in my opinion. Surprise, surprise).
Saw him live earlier this year and he managed to take a small venue and make it seem like it was a huge arena. He could be huge but I'm not sure who he is trying to cater to with songs like this. I don't think this is really him.
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Post by Kentucky25 on Oct 13, 2014 21:22:01 GMT -5
This has to be one of, if not, the weakest song on the album so I can't say I'm too excited for this being released.
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Post by kw9461 on Oct 13, 2014 22:17:05 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe this is the same guy that gave us Cowboy's & Angels. This is just 100% bro country all the way. At least he has a nice voice, which gives him a leg up on FGL, but other than that I have nothing positive to say about this - it's just plain terrible. Dustin is far from A-list, so this should be a good litmus test to how willing radio still is to play bro country. I suspect it will do just fine, though I'd like to think it would fall short of #1.
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Post by jonathanalan on Oct 14, 2014 6:04:05 GMT -5
Great single choice, IMO. I agree there are much better songs on the album, but he needed to put out a song like this to keep the momentum up. Plus it's a great song to include in his live set. I'm sure Mind Reader will be the third single followed by YDB.
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Post by jrekk on Oct 14, 2014 14:35:23 GMT -5
I think he's making a HUGE mistake not releasing Halo! That song would elevate him to superstar, every person I showed this song to liked even if they normally don't like country...the catchy chorus, the tones down verses, the production everything about this song screams hit! One of my favorite country songs this year, please tell me someone else agrees?!
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Post by jonathanalan on Oct 14, 2014 15:56:56 GMT -5
Honestly, I think he has so many choices for great singles.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 18, 2014 13:21:59 GMT -5
Well Dustin got 9 adds this week. He got 10 last week and 28 on add day. He hasn't cracked the top 55 on MB yet only moves from 57 to 56 with an increase of 180k in audience on Billboard.
If you compare this to Cole Swindell who is also coming off a #1 single, and went for adds on the same day; "Ain't Worth The Whiskey" got 8 adds this week, 16 last week, and 40 on add day. Cole is up to #42 on MB and #39 on Billboard (with a 4.1 million audience) while "Hell Of A Night" is not even in the top 55 on either chart (with just 850k in audience on Billboard).
It seems that country radio is not too enthusiastic about Dustin's latest single and its just not garnering enough buzz for stations to add it or put it in medium rotation. There is the fact that "Where It's At" got selected as the second pick for iHeartRadio's "On The Verge" program which certainly helped make that song a #1 single. Plus Dustin still is on BBR and if you remember, his second and third singles did considerably worse than his debut "Cowboys And Angels". It's still very early on here with "Hell Of A Nights" chart run, but I feel that this wasn't the best single choice and I think that this one might not hit for Dustin.
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Post by mus1cr0w on Nov 18, 2014 13:27:35 GMT -5
I feel like this could be the litmus test for radio's "bro" tolerance.
This song is straight up "bro". Cole's label was smart enough to release more of a relationship song with "Whiskey" but it seems BBR tried to sneak in one more. I think this will meet heavy resistance.
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Post by gurustu on Nov 18, 2014 13:47:21 GMT -5
Bunch of non-sense if you ask me; same crap different day. I agree, ever since "Cowboys and Angels" (which I loved!) I have fallen off the Dustin bandwagon... quick! Just not a fan. Sometimes I really wonder about BBR's choices. They've got a GENUINE non-bro Country Singer on their roster in James Wesley and won't do anything for him. But they will push Aldean and Lynch all day long. I actually like Houser too and would prefer to hear more Houser and Wesley over Aldean & Lynch; but that's me (I understand that's not everybody).
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 18, 2014 14:04:39 GMT -5
Bunch of non-sense if you ask me; same crap different day. I agree, ever since "Cowboys and Angels" (which I loved!) I have fallen off the Dustin bandwagon... quick! Just not a fan. Sometimes I really wonder about BBR's choices. They've got a GENUINE non-bro Country Singer on their roster in James Wesley and won't do anything for him. But they will push Aldean and Lynch all day long. I actually like Houser too and would prefer to hear more Houser and Wesley over Aldean & Lynch; but that's me (I understand that's not everybody). Jason and Dustin have gotten multiple hits though while James hasn't even gotten a single to the top 20 with no "official" album release. BBR wants to make a profit right now and it'd be insane not to push your breadwinner (Aldean) and an artist who has gotten a top 5 debut with another #1 single this year. Broken Bow probably loves Aldean and Lynch's music output even if you and I think its substandard. James is one of my favorite artist on any label right now. "Jackson Hole" remains my favorite song from 2010 and "Real" and "Didn't I" were terrific as well. James just has not been clicking with country radio lately as his last two singles did next to nothing. My guess is they will launch another single in 2015 from him. The good news is that BBR really believes in him, with the fact that he's still on their roster as proof. He just might be an artist who never takes off for whatever reason. If I could wave a magic wand and make his next single go straight to the top I would but right now the label is putting their money into guarantee, or at least the closest thing to guarantee on the roster right now.
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Post by gurustu on Nov 18, 2014 14:49:31 GMT -5
Agreed Sabre.... James really needs his next single to take off and from what I heard out of the new batch of songs BBR can pick from, then they've got some winners with "See You On The Radio", "Running" and "The You I Wanna Know" (which were all performed this year at Fan Fair). Any one of the songs in my opinion would make for a good "next" single. BBR and Benny Brown just need to do it to it! :)
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Post by zjames on Nov 18, 2014 16:27:29 GMT -5
I just don't understand this single choice at all. "Mind Reader" has by far the most streams of any Where It's At trackย on Spotify and it's radio-friendly, but also sounds unique enough to stand out at country radio. It really seemed to be the obvious choice for second single.
Even if the BBR insisted that they had to release a "bro" song, "Hell Of A Night" isn't even the best choice on the album. "Right Where We Want It" sounds a lot better than this, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it would have made.
Dustin Lynch is just really frustrating, and I'm not surprised at all that this is struggling. He clearly has a great voice and can record some great songs ("Cowboys & Angels", "Your Daddy's Boots", "She Wants A Cowboy"), but his single choices are perplexing to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 20:03:37 GMT -5
I have a suspicion that Broken Bow thought this having a similar name (and theme) to the Luke Bryan smash hit "That's My Kind of Night" would draw some more attention to Dustin Lynch and his single, but if that was their intention it doesn't seem to be working well. This came out two weeks ago (Nov. 3) and had fewer than one million audience impressions on Monday's Billboard airplay chart. This might end up taking over 30 weeks just to peak in the teens.
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 18, 2014 20:25:24 GMT -5
This to me what clearly the wrong choice. Seeing how there is an influx of solid country songs on radio right now, it would have been good timing to release "Your Daddy's Boots", which I think could be a big wedding type of song. If they didn't want to risk something slower, "Mind Reader" was clearly looking pretty popular gauging from it's iTunes debut. And if they really wanted a bro song, there are way more catchier songs. I like "After Party" much better than this one.
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Post by zaclord ๐ on Nov 19, 2014 10:56:35 GMT -5
I only listened to his album once when it came out, but I clearly remember some great sounding songs on it. This was not one of them. I hope it'll be a hit just so some of these other great songs can become singles, but this was not a good choice of a single after "Where It's At" really kicked up his momentum with radio.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 21, 2014 16:49:00 GMT -5
Anyone else think the intro to this sounds a lot like an amped-up version of "Strange" by Reba McEntire?
I actually like this, and I enjoyed "Where It's At" as well. Dustin Lynch has a great voice and I enjoy his charisma a lot on songs like this, which elevate them beyond being your typical radio fodder, plus his voice just sounds country. It's a shame he can't put out more "Cowboys and Angels"-type songs though that show his talents off more, but I understand he's still very much trying to find his footing with radio and I'd rather see him stick around than release the wrong songs and have his career bomb. I haven't heard anything else off the album beside this single and its predecessor so idk if this was his best choice, but it's unfortunate this one looks like it's getting lost in the shuffle so far. It doesn't quite have the same punch as "Where It's At," but I do hope this can start to do something.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 12, 2015 7:27:56 GMT -5
Top 40 on Mediabase:
44 40 DUSTIN LYNCH Hell Of A Night 762 739 23 3.59
Just listened to this song, and this is nothing special. In fact, we've seen this song hit Top 5 last year in the form of Chase Rice's "Ready Set Roll". This is tolerable, but it is not the best on the country chart.
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Post by jdbowman on Jan 12, 2015 11:12:47 GMT -5
I hope this slow rise doesn't kill the album era. Really want "Middle of Nowhere" to be released.
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Post by bjer127 on Jan 12, 2015 13:22:19 GMT -5
As I've stated before, I think this song is one of many forgettable songs on this album. Seems like Dustin should be more of a traditional artist, but the label makes him record nonsense filler songs. Honestly, "Halo" would have been the perfect follow up. It's a mid-tempo song, with a very catch hook/melody and chorus. Woudld have done great in the winter months. "Mind Reader" and "Your Daddy's Boots" were both Itunes pre-order singles, and did very well on the charts. If this tanks, I can see them continuing with this era and going with the safe choice "Mind Reader" maybe we get "She Wants A Cowboy", very George Strait sounding song.
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Post by dm2081 on Jan 23, 2015 0:43:22 GMT -5
At this point, I'm wondering if this can even scrape the top 20. If has just been stagnant in the 40's, not doing much of anything. They have to be regretting their choice as the second single, especially with many of his peers all choosing to release more rootsy country type songs.
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