Different Man

Different Man
Different Man
Studio album by Kane Brown
Released	September 9, 2022
Genre	Country
Length	58:14
Label	RCA Nashville
Producer	Kane Brown; Dann Huff ; Andrew Goldstein ; Lindsay Rimes; Ilya Toshinsky ;
Kane Brown chronology
Singles from Different Man
	"One Mississippi"; Released: August 20, 2021; "Like I Love Country Music"; Released: May 6, 2022; "Grand"; Released: July 22, 2022; "Thank God"; Released: September 12, 2022; "Bury Me in Georgia"; Released: March 31, 2023;

Last updated November 23, 2024

Different Man is the third studio album by American country music singer Kane Brown, released on September 9, 2022, through RCA Records Nashville.^[1] Brown co-produced the album, which was preceded by the singles "One Mississippi", "Like I Love Country Music", and "Grand", with "Thank God", a duet with his singer-songwriter wife Katelyn Brown, which impacted country radio on September 12.^[2] The songs "Leave You Alone" and "Whiskey Sour" were also released ahead of the album.^[3] The album was promoted with the Drunk or Dreamin' Tour, which ran from September 17, 2022, to September 8, 2023.

Content

Brown co-produced one of his albums for the first time, which took time to adjust to, with Brown saying that "We went from a demo to a master recording to redoing everything. I was listening to the album and not liking the sounds. [...] We kept revamping things, working and finding the sound I've been looking for, adding in more rock and country sounds".^[4] The New York Times described Brown's duet with his wife Katelyn as a "folk-pop duet" and "Grand" as "post-Drake R&B", but that the album overall is "determinedly traditional", bookended odes to Brown's "rural Southern roots".^[5]

Commercial performance

Different Man debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200, including number two on the Top Country Albums chart with 46,000 album equivalent units.^[6] The album also reached number six in Canada and number 17 in Australia.^[7]^[8]

Track listing

*Different Man* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bury Me in Georgia"	Kane Brown Josh Hoge Matt McGinn Jordan Schmidt	4:01
2.	"Different Man" (featuring Blake Shelton)	Brown Christian Davis Hoge	2:55
3.	"Like I Love Country Music"	Brown McGinn Taylor Phillips Schmidt	3:54
4.	"Go Around"	Brown Zach Beeken Garrett Nichols Schmidt Ernest Keith Smith	3:23
5.	"Grand"	Brown Kameron Alexander Mike Posner	2:58
6.	"See You Like I Do"	Brown Devin Dawson McGinn Lindsay Rimes	3:09
7.	"Thank God" (featuring Katelyn Brown)	Davis Kyle Fishman Jaxson Free Hoge Jared Mullins	2:54
8.	"Leave You Alone"	Brown Jordan Minton Schmidt	3:34
9.	"Riot"	Brown Melvin Hough II Reese Thornton Rivelino Wouter	3:26
10.	"One Mississippi"	Brown Jesse Frasure Levon Gray Smith	3:34
11.	"Drunk or Dreamin'"	Brown Hoge Schmidt Smith	4:20
12.	"Losing You"	Brown Free Hoge	3:32
13.	"Whiskey Sour"	Adam Craig Free Hoge	3:31
14.	"Pop's Last Name"	Brown Hoge Jake Mitchell	3:33
15.	"Devil Don't Even Bother"	Brown Cary Barlowe Frasure Josh Thompson	2:49
16.	"Nothin' I'd Change"	Brown Hoge Schmidt Smith	3:33
17.	"Dear Georgia"	Brown Hoge Schmidt Smith	3:08
Total length:			58:14

Personnel

Musicians

Kane Brown – lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (1–4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15–17)
Josh Reedy – background vocals (1–4, 8–10, 12, 14, 15, 17)
Matt McGinn – background vocals (1, 6)
Ilya Toshinskiy – banjo (1, 4, 9, 15, 17), acoustic guitar (2–4, 7–17), ukulele (15)
Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar (1–4, 7, 9–12, 15–17)
Aaron Sterling – drums (1–4, 6–12, 14–17), percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 12, 17); congas, shaker (11)
Dann Huff – electric guitar (1–4, 8–10, 12, 14, 16, 17), programming (1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 16), synthesizer (1, 4), Dobro (3), piano (4), mandolin (3, 17), bass guitar (9), twelve-string guitar (10, 17), acoustic guitar (14, 16)
Derek Wells – electric guitar (1–4, 7–12, 14–17)
Lars Thorson – fiddle (1, 9, 17)
Charlie Judge – organ (1, 8–11, 15, 16), strings (1, 2, 8), synthesizer (1, 2, 4, 8–12, 14, 17); horn, timpani (2); piano (4, 8, 11, 15, 16), keyboards (7), celeste (16), whistles (17)
Justin Niebank – programming (1–4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14–17)
David Huff – programming (1–4, 7–9, 11, 12, 14–17), synthesizer (7), slide guitar (16)
Josh Hoge – background vocals (2)
Paul Franklin – steel guitar (2–4, 7, 10–12, 14–17)
Dave Cohen – organ, piano (3)
Jordan Schmidt – background vocals (4)
Stuart Duncan – fiddle (4, 10, 15)
Alex Wright – synthesizer (4)
Eric Arjes – background vocals (5)
Andrew Goldstein – guitar, keyboards, programming (5)
Solomon Philcox-Littlefield – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (6)
Devin Dawson – background vocals (6)
Lindsay Rimes – background vocals, electric guitar, keyboards, programming, synthesizer (6)
Justin Schipper – steel guitar (6)
Shy Carter – background vocals (7)
Craig Young – bass guitar (8, 14)
Jesse Frasure – programming, synthesizer (10, 11, 15); bass guitar (15)
Trey Keller – background vocals (11, 12, 16)
Natalie Stovall – fiddle (13)
Ernest Keith Smith – background vocals (16)

Technical

Kane Brown – producer (6, 13)
Adam Ayan – mastering (1–4, 6–17)
Dave Kutch – mastering (5)
Drew Bollman – mixing (1, 2, 4, 7–12, 14–17), recording (2–4, 9–11, 15, 16), engineering assistance (3)
Justin Niebank – mixing (1–4, 7–12, 14–17)
Adam Hawkins – mixing (5)
Jeff Braun – mixing (6, 13); vocal production, vocal engineering (5)
Buckley Miller – recording (1, 7, 8, 12, 14, 17)
Lindsay Rimes – recording, editing, overdub engineering, producer (6)
Ilya Toshinskiy – recording, editing, overdub engineering, producer (13)
Kyle Manner – recording (13)
Chris Small – editing (1–4, 7–12, 14–17), vocal engineering (3)
David Huff – editing (1–4, 7–12, 14–17)
Andrew Goldstein – editing, producer (5)
Eric Arjes – editing (5)
Simon Philcox-Littlefield – overdub engineering (6)
Dann Huff – overdub engineering (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14–17), producer (1–4, 7–12, 14–17)
Jaime Sickora – overdub engineering (2)
Russell Terrell – overdub engineering (3)
Trey Keller – overdub engineering (11)
Steve Marcantonio – overdub engineering (16)
Zach Kuhlman – engineering assistance (1, 7, 12, 17)
Eric Fleming – engineering assistance (2)
Kam Luchterhand – engineering assistance (2, 9, 15, 16)
Lucas Glenney-Tegtmeier – engineering assistance (2, 9, 15, 16)
Sean Badum – engineering assistance (3, 10, 11)
Jordan Reed – engineering assistance (8, 14)

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *Different Man*
Chart (2022)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[8]	17
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[7]	6
UK Album Downloads (OCC)^[9]	23
US Billboard 200 ^[10]	5
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[11]	2

Year-end charts

2022 year-end chart performance for *Different Man*
Chart (2022)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[12]	44

2023 year-end chart performance for *Different Man*
Chart (2023)	Position
US Billboard 200^[13]	76
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[14]	16

Certifications

Certifications and sales for *Different Man*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[15]	Platinum	80,000^‡
United States (RIAA)^[16]	Platinum	1,000,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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Discography
Studio albums	Kane Brown (2016) Experiment (2018) Different Man (2022)
EPs	Closer (2015) Chapter 1 (2016) Mixtape, Vol. 1 (2020)
Singles	"Used to Love You Sober" "Thunder in the Rain" "What Ifs" "Heaven" "Lose It" "Saturday Nights" "Good as You" "One Thing Right" "Homesick" "Cool Again" "Be Like That" "Worship You" "Famous Friends" "Memory" "One Mississippi" "Like I Love Country Music" "Thank God" "Bury Me in Georgia" "I Can Feel It" "Miles on It"
Other songs	"Ain't No Stopping Us Now" "Never Be the Same (remix)" "I Love My Country" "Next to You"
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