Chris Stapleton - 'Higher'

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1. What Am I Gonna Do [Chris Stapleton & Miranda Lambert]
2. South Dakota [Chris Stapleton, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Dave Cobb]
3. Trust [Chris Stapleton & Steve McEwan]
4. It Takes A Woman [Chris Stapleton, Ronnie Bowman & Jerry Salley]
5. The Fire [Chris Stapleton, Morgane Stapleton, Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure & Derek Mixon]
6. Think I'm In Love With You [Chris Stapleton]
7. Loving You On My Mind [Chris Stapleton, Kendell Marvel & Tim James]
8. White Horse [Chris Stapleton & Dan Wilson]
9. Higher [Chris Stapleton]
10. The Bottom [Chris Stapleton & Lee Miller]
11. The Day I Die [Chris Stapleton & Carolyn Dawn Johnson]
12. Crosswind [Chris Stapleton, Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure & Derek Mixon]
13. Weight Of Your World [Chris Stapleton, Tim Larsson, Tobias Lundgren & Johan Fransson]
14. Mountains Of My Mind [Chris Stapleton]



Focus track is What Am I Gonna Do.

[dm2081]

“The Bottom” needs to be a single at some point, excellent song. “Higher”, “What Am I Gonna Do” and “The Day I Die” all stood out too. Think this era could have decent radio success with the right single choices.

[CoJoFan]

Haven’t listened to the album yet but I did buy the CD and vinyl of it at Walmart this morning. Him and Cody Johnson I could listen to all day. Would love to see a duet between with them two someday.

[zdm1998]

I read that "Higher" the song was one of the first songs he wrote when he moved to Nashville, and was written like 21 years ago. I always think it's really cool when an artist circles back to songs that they wrote earlier in their careers. He said he was kind of afraid of it, and that he didn't know if his voice could still be able to pull it off at the age he is now, compared to 21 years ago. Here's the full artical.

americansongwriter.com/chris-stapleton-reveals-why-took-him-so-long-record-higher/

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Nov 10, 2023 11:32:24 GMT -5 zdm1998 said:

I read that "Higher" the song was one of the first songs he wrote when he moved to Nashville, and was written like 21 years ago. I always think it's really cool when an artist circles back to songs that they wrote earlier in their careers. He said he was kind of afraid of it, and that he didn't know if his voice could still be able to pull it off at the age he is now, compared to 21 years ago. Here's the full artical.

americansongwriter.com/chris-stapleton-reveals-why-took-him-so-long-record-higher/

He also says he actually raised the key in the studio recording according to Genius annotation.

[phil1996]

White Horse and Higher are my 2 favorites by a long shot. What Am I Gonna Do is another killer song that I’d like to see get a shot at radio.

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Predicted to have 80-90k SPS first week. Should be #1 country album and 6th highest country album SPS debut this year (behind Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Zach Bryan, Luke Combs and Jelly Roll).

[jasper0102]

This is a really good album! I’d say “What Am I Gonna Do” and “South Dakota” are my favs from this besides “White Horse”, though “Think I’m In Love With You” and “The Bottom” are also standouts.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

Weight Of Your World is actually my favorite. One of the nicest melodies I heard from Stapleton, but it is not a good candidate for a radio single.

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57k sales and 90.5k SPS first week. #1 country and #3 overall.

Chris Stapleton notches his fifth consecutive top three-charting album – the entirety of his charting efforts – as Higher bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 90,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 57,000 (boosted by its availability across six vinyl variants), SEA units comprise 32,000 (equaling 41.54 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500.

[someguy]

Such a good album. There are so many standouts here, but I'm hoping that "What Am I Gonna Do" is the next single, as I think that it has the most hit potential.

"Higher", "The Day I Die", "South Dakota" and others are such great songs too though.