Beautiful as You (Thomas Rhett song)

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"Beautiful as You"
Beautiful as You - Thomas Rhett.png
Single by Thomas Rhett
from the album About a Woman
ReleasedMay 13, 2024 (2024-05-13)
Genre Country pop
Length2:43
Label Valory
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Thomas Rhett singles chronology
"Mamaw's House"
(2023)		"Beautiful as You"
(2024)
Lyric Video
"Beautiful as You" on YouTube

"Beautiful as You" is a song by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on May 13, 2024, as the first single from his seventh studio album, About a Woman . The song was written by Rhett, Rocky Block, Joshua Coleman, Alexander Izquiero, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, John Ryan and Zaire Kelsey, and produced by Coleman, Julian Bunetta, Ryan and Dann Huff.

Contents

Background and content

Rhett discussed "Beautiful as You" in an interview with iHeartCountry :

"This is an anthem for everybody who feels like they out-kicked their coverage, there was one day a couple years back when I was looking at my wife, and I was like, 'Why in the world did you choose me?' I get to be with someone who could easily be on the cover of a magazine, and I get to see her in all her forms — a partner, a mother, a friend, even a philanthropist. I just feel like I've got a first row seat at almost-perfection, if you will. And like the song says, 'Seriously, what is somebody as amazing as you doing with somebody like me?' [...] So much of my music is a reflection of the stage of life we are in — we’re in a very joyful season — and this song is just the tip of the iceberg to the rest of this next album." [1]

Rhett also noted that the reason for releasing this song as the first single was "just sort of reminded me of how I used to kind of start my records, sort of with a big swing, different sound, sonically different, melodically different, and a song that my kids just really, really enjoyed and danced to, so it seemed like the right first choice to us." [2]

The song was inspired by Rhett's wife Lauren Akins, and is a self-deprecating song about dating someone more beautiful than you. [3] [4]

Critical reception

Billy Dukes of website Taste of Country compared the song's pop style melody to Rhett's third studio album Life Changes . [5]

Chart performance

"Beautiful as You" debuted at number one on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart for the week of May 25, 2024. [6] After a four week stay on the charts, it debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100. [7]

This song topped the UK Country Airplay for three weeks. [8]

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [9]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Beautiful as You"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [18] Gold40,000‡
United States (RIAA) [19] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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