Cole Swindell

Cole Swindell (* the 30th June 1983 in Glennville , Georgia , as Colden Rainey Swindell ) is an American country musician.

biography

Swindell attended the same university in Georgia as Luke Bryan , with whom he also performed. When Bryan went to Nashville and was successful there, he also brought Swindell to the country capital. First he worked as a songwriter, wrote several songs for Bryan and had two minor successes as co-writer of Water Tower Town by Scotty McCreery and Outta My Head by Craig Campbell .

His parents are William Keith Swindell and Betty Carol Rainey. His father died unexpectedly at the age of 65 on September 2, 2013. Cole Swindell dedicated the first single from the second album of the same name You Should Be Here to him . Cole Swindell has two brothers.

He had his first own hit with the song Chillin 'It . Without a record deal only via internet propaganda, it sold over 100,000 copies, which immediately brought him a contract offer from Warner . The song made it to number one in the country charts and number 28 in the official Hot 100. His debut album, released in February 2014, reached number three in the album sales charts. On May 6, 2016, Cole Swindell released his second album.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2014	Cole Swindell	US3 platinum (99 weeks)US	Country2 (96 weeks) Country
2016	You Should Be Here	US6th gold (68 weeks)US	Country2 (94 weeks) Country
2018	All of It	US7 (6 weeks) US	Country1 (33 weeks) Country

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2014	Down Home Sessions	US36 (1 week) US	Country8 (4 weeks) Country
2015	Down Home Sessions II	US43 (1 week) US	Country11 (2 weeks) Country
	Down Home Sessions III	US36 (1 week) US	Country5 (3 weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2013	Chillin 'It Cole Swindell	US28 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (40 weeks) Country
2014	Hope You Get Lonely Tonight Cole Swindell	US50 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country7 (37 weeks) Country
	Ain't Worth the Whiskey Cole Swindell	US43 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country3 (29 weeks) Country
2015	Let Me See Ya Girl Cole Swindell	US59 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country9 (31 weeks) Country
	You Should Be Here You Should Be Here	US31 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
2016	Middle of a Memory You Should Be Here	US46 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (31 weeks) Country
2017	Flatliner You Should Be Here	US56 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country10 (32 weeks) Country
2018	Break Up in the End All of It	US49 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country4 (34 weeks) Country
2019	Love You Too Late All of It	US49 gold (14 weeks)US	Country7 (35 weeks) Country
2020	Single Saturday Night	-	Country42 (5 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	Should've Ran After You Down Home Sessions II	-	Country27 (1 week) Country
2016	Stars You Should Be Here	-	Country41 (1 week) Country
	Remember Boys You Should Be Here	-	Country27 (1 week) Country
	Broke Down You Should Be Here	-	Country28 (1 week) Country
2018	Somebody's Been Drinkin All of It	-	Country49 (1 week) Country
	The Ones Who Got Me Here All of It	-	Country50 (1 week) Country
	Reason to Drink All of It	-	Country48 (1 week) Country
	Dad's Old Number All of It	-	Country33 (1 week) Country
	All of It All of It	-	Country49 (1 week) Country

swell

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/coleswindell/status/351519121747361793
2. ↑ Who is Cole Swindell? ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. , Country Outfitter, October 17, 2013  
3. ↑ Cole Swindell Rides' Chillin 'It' to Label Deal , Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, July 23, 2013
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: US

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Cole Swindell at Allmusic (English)