Brantley Gilbert - "Heaven By Then" (with Blake Shelton)

[sabre14]

Artist: Brantley Gilbert and Blake Shelton (feat. Vince Gill)
Single: "Heaven by Then"
Writers: HARDY, Brock Berryhill, Jake Mitchell
Label: Valory Music Co./BMLG
Release Date: November 10th, 2022

Confirmed in Country Aircheck's Fall issue, the new Brantley Gilbert single with Blake Shelton. Features Vince Gill.

It's a tremendous song, Brantley's best since "One Hell of an Amen."

[recordyear]

HARDY co-wrote again huh. What role does Vince Gill play in this song?

[.indulgecountry]

Oct 14, 2022 11:02:44 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

It's a tremendous song, Brantley's best since "One Hell of an Amen."

Between this affirmation and Blake Shelton's name being slapped onto it, I'm expecting this to be a push to get him back on track with country radio after a string of missteps. I'm looking forward to hearing it if it's on a similar wavelength to "Amen," which is indeed one of his best songs, if not THE best.

[recordyear]

Pre-save is up. Will impact radio on November 14th according to AllAccess.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

The snippet has a great instrumental production. Excited for this. And I know it won't happen, but I wish Blake Shelton would just drop boring No Body upon this release.

[recordyear]

[CoJoFan]

I have a feeling this is gonna be a big hit for Brantley.

[phil1996]

I enjoy it for sure, but it is just me or has Brantley lost a ton of vocal strength? Not that he had much to begin with, but it sounds like he’s struggling to even sing now

[CoJoFan]

Debuts at #29 on Country Airplay.

[.indulgecountry]

Nov 10, 2022 13:26:38 GMT -5 phil1996 said:

I enjoy it for sure, but it is just me or has Brantley lost a ton of vocal strength? Not that he had much to begin with, but it sounds like he’s struggling to even sing now

I've noticed him sounding rougher as his career progresses as well, and it doesn't really help that he's dueting with Blake Shelton here who has a pretty characteristically 'strong' voice. It wasn't as noticeable when he was singing next to someone like HARDY on his last single, lol.

[recordyear]

Most added with 59 adds and total historic adds this week.

[rowdawg21]

Brantley Gilbert, Randy Montana, Hunter Phelps, and Taylor Phillips are also credited as writers on this song.

[.indulgecountry]

After three straight #1 country albums, Brantley's So Help Me God debuts at a paltry #35 on the charts. 🥴

This song also debuted at #29 and then fell all the way back to #54 on the charts (where it holds in its third week). Things continue to not look all that promising for Brantley reigniting his country career.

[recordyear]

Nov 28, 2022 21:44:18 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

After three straight #1 country albums, Brantley's So Help Me God debuts at a paltry #35 on the charts. 🥴

Dropping on a random Thursday with absolutely no hype doesn't help.

[dm2081]

Had no clue the album was even out. Just went to preview the album and they already screwed up the single choices. “Miles of Memories” is phenomenal and sounds more current. “Heaven by Then” isn’t bad but it’s just not the type of song to generate much buzz. Honestly wonder if Brantley would be better off going the rock route, as his harder sounding songs seems like a fit with Active rock radio.

[phil1996]

Nov 28, 2022 21:44:18 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

After three straight #1 country albums, Brantley's So Help Me God debuts at a paltry #35 on the charts. 🥴

This song also debuted at #29 and then fell all the way back to #54 on the charts (where it holds in its third week). Things continue to not look all that promising for Brantley reigniting his country career.

“Fire’t Up” was the beginning of the end for BG. And honestly, it’s deserved after a decision that bad.

Not releasing “17 Again” or “Lights of my Hometown” to radio from that excellent 2013 album will always puzzle me.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

^I was about to comment the same. Fire't Up is one of the worst single choices in history, and killed all the momentum. I mean it was not like he was connecting really well with "What Happens in a Small Town", but he was still constantly scoring decent hits. If he went with the obvious choice "Man That Hung the Moon," things may have played out very differently. 

[countryfan43]

I’m glad this is finally near the top 40 and I see this probably having a really long run that gets in into the top 30 or 20 like “Hard days” had. This might be the best song in my opinion on the radio right now even though I can tell Brantley is struggling a bit vocally. I hate to say this but I doubt we ever see his name at the top spot anymore.

[countryman87]

Apr 26, 2023 20:35:24 GMT -5 countryfan43 said:

I’m glad this is finally near the top 40 and I see this probably having a really long run that gets in into the top 30 or 20 like “Hard days” had. This might be the best song in my opinion on the radio right now even though I can tell Brantley is struggling a bit vocally. I hate to say this but I doubt we ever see his name at the top spot anymore.

I don't think this would have made it this close to the top 40 without Blake Shelton on it. If it was just Brantley ft. Vince Gill, it would've already flopped imo.

[dm2081]

Should have just released the Jelly Roll feature. Feel like that could have at least stream/sold well and made some noise.

[.indulgecountry]

Apr 26, 2023 20:35:24 GMT -5 countryfan43 said:

I’m glad this is finally near the top 40 and I see this probably having a really long run that gets in into the top 30 or 20 like “Hard days” had.

Which would be annoying since it already debuted at #29 and that'll probably be its peak or the best it can hope for is just a little higher than that, but honestly I don't think it'll top its #29 start tbh.

[countryfan43]

Apr 26, 2023 21:13:26 GMT -5 dm2081 said:

Should have just released the Jelly Roll feature. Feel like that could have at least stream/sold well and made some noise.

It’s a great song but it would need to get heavily censored to be played on radio so I’m assuming they won’t release that

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

Not that I dislike this song a lot or anything, but I just think that this is a waste of a chart spot. As indulge pointed out, there is little chance of this outpeaking #29, considering that there is literally no buzz around this song. Surely having Blake is helping Brantley, but even Blake as a solo artist has been missing the top 10 recently, so I must predict that this would go to recurrent in 4 months or so when it was stalling around #32. I would rather see this song giving up the chart spot for a newer artist and speeding up the chart run, instead of clogging the chart for nothing.

[raylatch98]

Eh I do like this song and while it's not lighting the charts on fire, it's doing fine? Has made it up to #38 on Billboard and #40 on Mediabase in 25 weeks which isn't good, but by 2023 standards is fine enough and I doubt Valory wants to let this go anytime soon since it may be a while before Brantley Gilbert reaches even Top 40 again. 

[recordyear]

Music video.

[.indulgecountry]

@ Blake Shelton not even bothering to show up for the music video.

[austin]

May 5, 2023 18:14:31 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

@ Blake Shelton not even bothering to show up for the music video.

This video is SUPER awkward without him LOL

[countryfan43]

This fell off this week after a debut and peak of #29. I enjoyed this song a lot being that Brantley is the lead vocalist but after seeing it not make gains for a few weeks I understand the decision to pull it. Hopefully Brantley releases something new to radio soon but it could be a little while due to his lack of success with this one.

[bdrm87]

Radio doesn’t seem too interested in Brantley these days. Has he had a hit since What Happens in a Small Town?

[countryfan43]

Jul 21, 2023 16:39:38 GMT -5 bdrm87 said:

Radio doesn’t seem too interested in Brantley these days. Has he had a hit since What Happens in a Small Town?

No big hits his highest charting song since was “Hard Days” that peaked at 27.