Brett Eldredge

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Brett Ryan Eldredge (born March 23, 1986 in Paris , Illinois ) is an American country singer .

Career

At the age of 16, Brett Eldredge became a fan of Brooks & Dunn and brought him to country music. In addition, his cousin Terry Eldredge was first in the backing band of Dolly Parton and then became a member of the successful bluegrass band The Grascals . After college in Chicago, he followed Brett his cousin and moved to Middle Tennessee State University to be able to make music in the Nashville area while studying .

There he was discovered and supported by Byron Gallimore . A contract as a songwriter followed shortly after a performance in Nashville, a record deal with Atlantic Records . With his debut single Raymond , he had a hit in 2010 that stayed in the US country charts for over six months . However, the career took off slowly and it was not until the third year that the third single Don't Ya had the real breakthrough. The song became a number one hit on the country radio charts and a million seller. It reached number 30 in the official single charts . This paved the way for the first album: Bring You Back was released in 2013 and reached number 2 in the country charts and contained two more hit singles, Beat of the Music and Mean to Me . The releases also earned him three more gold records . He was also named "Best New Artist" at the 2014 CMA Awards .

The following year Eldredge went on tour with Darius Rucker and released his second album Illinois . It reached number 1 on the country charts and number 3 on the Billboard 200 . With Lose My Mind it contained another gold single. Wanna Be That Song was his fifth number one hit in the radio charts in 2016. In the same year he took part in the Artists of Then, Now & Forever project , in which 30 country musicians sang a medley of three country classics. The single came to number 1 on the country charts. At the end of the year he also released the album Glow with Christmas carols. It reached number 2 on the country albums. His duo Baby, It's Cold Outside with Meghan Trainor became a number one hit on the adult contemporary charts.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2013	Bring you back	US11 gold (19 weeks)US	Country2 (76 weeks) Country
2015	Illinois	US3 gold (41 weeks)US	Country1 (76 weeks) Country
2016	Glow	US29 (9 weeks) US	Country2 (23 weeks) Country	Christmas album
2017	Brett Eldredge	US2 (6 weeks) US	Country1 (30 weeks) Country
2020	Sunday Drive	US42 (1 week) US	Country5 (... weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2010	Raymond Bring You Back	-	-	-	Country23 (33 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, B. Crisler
2011	It Ain't Gotta Be Love	-	-	-	Country46 (12 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, B. Daniel, W. Battle
2012	Don't Ya Bring You Back	-	-	US30th platinum (20 weeks)US	Country5 (34 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, C. DeStefano, A. Gorley
2013	Beat of the Music Bring You Back	-	-	US44 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country6 (32 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, R. Copperman, H. Morgan
2014	Mean to Me Bring You Back	-	-	US53 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country4 (30 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, S. Carusoe
2015	Lose My Mind Illinois	-	-	US48 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, H. Morgan, R. Copperman, B. Burton, TD Callaway, GF Reverberi, G. Reverberi
	Drunk on Your Love Illinois	-	-	US35 platinum (15 weeks)US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, R. Copperman
2016	Forever Country	-	-	US21 (4 weeks) US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	Medley sung by 30 country musicians as part of Artists of Then, Now & Forever
	Wanna Be That Song Illinois	-	-	US46 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (35 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, R. Copperman, S. Carusoe
2017	Somethin 'I'm Good At Brett Eldredge	-	-	US- gold US	Country22 (24 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, T. Douglas
	The Long Way Brett Eldredge	-	-	US65 platinum (12 weeks)US	Country7 (35 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, M. Rogers
2018	Love Someone Brett Eldredge	-	-	US52 gold (10 weeks)US	Country8 (33 weeks) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, R. Copperman, H. Morgan
2020	Gabrielle Sunday Drive	-	-	-	Country29 (6 weeks) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2015	Just a taste of Illinois	-	-	-	Country44 (1 week) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, B. Crisler, T. Douglas
2016	Baby, it's cold outside glow	CH59 (1 week) CH	UK84 (1 week) UK	-	Country26 (5 weeks) Country	featuring Meghan Trainor Author: F. Loesser
2017	No Stopping You Brett Eldredge	-	-	-	Country50 (1 week) Country	Authors: B. Eldredge, T. Douglas

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Gold / Platinum awards in the RIAA database (USA)
2. ↑ Database of the CMA Awards ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Brett Eldredge in the US charts (Billboard)

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Brett Eldredge at Allmusic (English)