Brett Young

Brett Young (2015)

Brett Young (born March 23, 1981 in Anaheim , California ) is an American country singer.

Career

Brett Young grew up in California and learned to play the guitar as a teenager. In high school, he helped with school services and did the musical design when the musical director couldn't be present. Mostly he was a successful baseball player during his school days , on the high school and college teams and was already under observation by the professional teams when an elbow injury ended his sports career.

Then he took Gavin DeGraw as a musical role model and began writing songs. His appearances expanded across California and in 2007 he recorded a first EP . Two more EPs followed in 2011 and 2013. By then he had made a name for himself in his home country, played in the most famous event halls and had opened with performances by musicians such as Colbie Caillat and Katy Perry .

Since his musical development was mainly towards country and country pop, he decided to go to Nashville in the mid-2010s . Another self-produced EP brought him a record deal with the Big Machine label and in February 2016 he released his first real EP there. It hit the official US charts straight away . The song Sleep Without You was particularly successful and made it into the top 50 of the single charts and number 3 on the country charts. The single was awarded gold . It took another year before his debut album Brett Young was finished and released. He reached number 18 in the album charts and number 2 among the country albums. The song In Case You Didn't Know became another chart hit and a top 10 hit in the country charts. It went platinum (equivalent to 1 million units sold).

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2017	Brett Young	US18th platinum (132 weeks)US	Country2 (... weeks) Country	First published: February 10, 2017
2018	Ticket to LA	US15 (15 weeks) US	Country1 (... week) Country	First published: December 7, 2018

More albums

• 2012: Brett Young
• 2013: On Fire
• 2013: Broken Down

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2016	Brett Young EP	US189 (3 weeks) US	Country30 (19 weeks) Country	First published: February 12, 2016

More EPs

• 2007: Brett Young
• 2011: Make Believe
• 2011: Acoustic
• 2012: Supposed to Be
• 2015: Country in California
• 2019: The Acoustic Sessions

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2016	Sleep Without You Brett Young	US47 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country3 (33 weeks) Country	First published: April 11, 2016
2017	In Case You Didn't Know Brett Young	US19th × 5 Quintuple platinum (28 weeks)US	Country2 (52 weeks) Country	First published: January 9, 2017
	Like I Loved You Brett Young	US46 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (27 weeks) Country	First published: July 17, 2017
2018	Mercy Brett Young	US29 × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (34 weeks) Country	First published: February 20, 2018
	Here Tonight Ticket to LA	US42 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (33 weeks) Country	First published: September 24, 2018
2019	Catch Ticket to LA	US29 gold (17 weeks)US	Country5 (42 weeks) Country	First published: June 3, 2019
2020	lady	-	Country22 (... weeks) Country	First published: May 1, 2020
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:
2018	Don't Wanna Write This Song Ticket to LA	-	Country32 (1 week) Country	Chart entry: December 22, 2018

More singles

• 2013: Let It All In
• 2020: I Do (with Astrid S )

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2017: for the single In Case You Didn't Know  United States 2008: for the Mastertone It's Not Over ( Daughtry )

Platinum record  Canada 2008: for the author's participation It's Not Over (Daughtry) 2019: for the album Brett Young 2 × platinum record  United States 2019: for the author participation It's Not Over (Daughtry)

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	gold1	2 × platinum2	200,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	14 × platinum14th	15,000,000	riaa.com
All in all	3 × gold3	16 × platinum16

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: [1]

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Brett Young at Allmusic (English)
• Author participations at austriancharts.at