Dan + Shay

Dan + Shay

Dan + Shay are an American country pop duo.

Band history

Daniel Smyers is from Pennsylvania in the northeastern United States, Shay Mooney from the southern state of Arkansas. Both made music from their youth and also wrote their own songs. Both went to Nashville after school , where they met in December 2012 and formed a duo.

The following year Dan + Shay signed a record deal with Warner and released their first single, 19 You + Me, written together with Danny Orton . This not only made them into the top 10 of the US country charts right away, but also to 42nd place on the official single charts . The song sold over a million copies and went platinum . In April 2014 they released their debut album Where It All Began and reached number one position in the country charts. It brought two more chart singles, including the top 5 hit Nothin 'like You , which was awarded a gold record.

The duo released their second album, Obsessed , in mid-2016, making it their second Top 10 album on the Billboard 200 . In the country charts they missed their second number one by one place. With the song From the Ground Up they advanced to number 3 in the country charts and achieved their third single award with a gold record.

At the CMA Awards , from 2014 to 2016, they were nominated three times in the category singing duo of the year , but received no distinction.

In 2020 they received the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo / Group Performance at the Grammy Awards for the single Speechless .

Members

• Daniel Smyers (* in Wexford , Pennsylvania )
• Shay Mooney (* in Natural Dam , Arkansas )

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2014	Where It All Began	US6th gold (13 weeks)US	Country1 (47 weeks) Country
2016	Obsessed	US8 (15 weeks) US	Country2 (48 weeks) Country
2018	Dan + Shay	US6th platinum (… Where.)US	Country1 (... week) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2013	19 You + Me Where It All Began	-	-	-	-	US42 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country7 (26 weeks) Country
2014	Show You Off Where It All Began	-	-	-	-	US- gold US	Country29 (27 weeks) Country
2015	Nothin 'like You Where It All Began	-	-	-	-	US51 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country5 (37 weeks) Country
2016	From the Ground Up Obsessed	-	-	-	-	US48 × 2 Double platinum (16 weeks)US	Country3 (30 weeks) Country
	How Not To Obsessed	-	-	-	-	US57 platinum (14 weeks)US	Country7 (37 weeks) Country
	Already Ready Obsessed	-	-	-	-	-	Country44 (1 week) Country
2017	When I Pray for You The Shack: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture	-	-	-	-	-	Country39 (3 weeks) Country
2018	Tequila Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	US21st × 5 Quintuple platinum (50 weeks)US	Country1 (66 weeks) Country	Grammy ( Country Performance )
	Speechless Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	US24 × 4 Quadruple platinum (40 weeks)US	Country1 (56 weeks) Country	Grammy (Country Performance)
	Alone Together Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	-	Country39 (2 weeks) Country
	Keeping Score Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	US- gold US	Country32 (2 weeks) Country	feat. Kelly Clarkson
2019	All to myself Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	US31 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (... weeks) Country
	10,000 hours	DE47 (5 weeks) DE	AT18 (5 weeks) AT	CH21 (9 weeks) CH	UK19th silver (9 weeks)UK	US4th × 3 Triple platinum (30 weeks)US	Country1 (31 weeks) Country	with Justin Bieber
2020	I Should Probably Go To Bed	-	-	-	-	US43 (... weeks) US	Country9 (... 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:
2014	What You Do to Me Where It All Began	-	-	-	-	-	Country39 (5 weeks) Country
2018	What Keeps You Up At Night Dan + Shay	-	-	-	-	-	Country50 (1 week) Country

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2016: for the single 19 You + Me 2016: for the single Nothin 'Like You 2020: for the single Alone Together 2020: for the Single Keeping Score Platinum record  Canada 2017: for the single From The Ground Up 2020: for the single All To Myself 2020: for the album Dan + Shay

3 × platinum record  Canada 2020: for the single Speechless 4 × platinum record  Canada 2020: for the single 10,000 Hours 5 × platinum record  Canada 2020: for the single tequila

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	4 × gold4th	15 × platinum15th	1,360,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	3 × gold3	20 × platinum20th	21,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	7 × gold7th	35 × platinum35

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1. ↑ 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. 
2. ^ Dan + Shay Win Best Country Duo / Group Performance For "Speechless". Grammy.com. January 26, 2020, accessed on January 29, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Dan + Shay at Allmusic (English)