Chris Young (country singer)

Chris Young (2010)

Chris Young (born June 12, 1985 in Murfreesboro , Tennessee ; real name Christopher Alan Young ) is an American country singer .

Career

Young's grandfather Richard Yates had already appeared in the country music show Louisiana Hayride and Chris Young followed in his footsteps. Even while he was still in school, he also appeared in clubs around Nashville and released albums he had produced himself . He studied at college in Nashville and his hometown Murfreesboro and still completed up to 150 gigs on the side.

In 2006, he finally took part in the talent show Nashville Star and won the competition, which earned him a recording deal. In the same year his self-named debut album was released, which immediately made it to number 3 on the country charts. It was three years before his next album The Man I Want to Be . It was just as successful as its predecessor. It contained the song Gettin 'You Home , with which he had his first number one hit on the country song charts and a Top 40 hit on the official charts.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2006	Chris Young	US22 (6 weeks) US	Country3 (27 weeks) Country	First published: October 3, 2006
2009	The Man I Want to Be	US19th platinum (53 weeks)US	Country6 (78 weeks) Country	First published: September 1, 2009
2011	neon	US4th platinum (52 weeks)US	Country2 (95 weeks) Country	First published: July 12, 2011
2013	AT THE	US3 gold (30 weeks)US	Country2 (83 weeks) Country	First published: September 17, 2013
2015	I'm comin 'over	US5 platinum (27 weeks)US	Country1 (77 weeks) Country	First published: November 13, 2015
2016	It must be Christmas	US48 (3 weeks) US	Country4 (11 weeks) Country	First published: October 14, 2016
2017	Losing sleep	US5 (5 weeks) US	Country1 (37 weeks) Country	First published: October 20, 2017

EPs

• 2010: Voices (First released May 25, 2010)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2006	Drinkin 'Me Lonely Chris Young	-	Country42 (17 weeks) Country
2007	You're Gonna Love Me Chris Young	-	Country48 (12 weeks) Country
2008	Voices The Man I Want to Be	US53 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (53 weeks) Country
2009	Gettin 'You Home (The Black Dress Song) The Man I Want to Be	US33 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (38 weeks) Country
	The Man I Want to Be The Man I Want to Be	US48 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (31 weeks) Country
2011	Tomorrow neon	US36 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)US	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
	You neon	US34 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (31 weeks) Country
2012	Neon neon	US92 gold (4 weeks)US	Country23 (23 weeks) Country
	I can take it from there neon	US63 gold (12 weeks)US	Country16 (24 weeks) Country
2013	Aw Naw A. M.	US45 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country4 (26 weeks) Country
2014	Who I Am with You A. M.	US48 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country8 (26 weeks) Country
	Lonely Eyes A. M.	US50 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country4 (27 weeks) Country
2015	I'm comin 'over, I'm comin' over	US33 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)US	Country8 (36 weeks) Country
2016	Think of You I'm Comin 'Over	US53 platinum (32 weeks)US	Country14 (26 weeks) Country	feat. Cassadee Pope
	Sober Saturday Night I'm Comin 'Over	US47 gold (11 weeks)US	Country4 (39 weeks) Country	feat. Vince Gill
2017	Losing Sleep Losing Sleep	US60 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country17 (38 weeks) Country
2018	Hangin 'on Losing Sleep	US63 gold (13 weeks)US	Country8 (40 weeks) Country
2019	Raised on Country	US54 gold (13 weeks)US	Country10 (28 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:
2017	Setting the Night on Fire Kane Brown	-	Country45 (1 week) Country	with Kane Brown
	Where I Go When I Drink Losing Sleep	-	Country45 (1 week) Country
2019	Drowning	US- gold US	Country18 (27 weeks) Country

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sources for awards ( gold / platinum ): US

Web links

• official website (English)
• Chris Young at Allmusic (English)