Meat and Candy

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Meat and Candy
Old Dominion - Meat and Candy.png
Studio album by
Old Dominion
ReleasedNovember 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)
Genre Country
Length35:51
Label RCA Nashville [1]
Producer Shane McAnally [2]
Old Dominion chronology
Old Dominion
(2014)		Meat and Candy
(2015)		 Happy Endings
(2017)
Singles from Meat and Candy
  1. "Break Up with Him"
    Released: January 20, 2015
  2. "Snapback"
    Released: January 11, 2016
  3. "Song for Another Time"
    Released: June 20, 2016 [3]

Meat and Candy is the debut studio album by American country music band Old Dominion. It was released on November 6, 2015 by RCA Nashville. The album includes the single "Break Up with Him", which has charted No. 1 on Country Airplay. The album's second single, "Snapback" released to country radio on January 11, 2016. The album's third single, "Song for Another Time" released to country radio on June 20, 2016. [3]

Contents

Background

Prior to Meat and Candy, Old Dominion released a self-titled six track EP on October 7, 2014. Four of the EP's tracks, "Break Up With Him", "Nowhere Fast", "Beer Can in a Truck Bed", and Wrong Turns", were reissued as part of Meat and Candy. [4]

Conception

Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally came up with the album's name, using the words "meat and candy" to suggest the "heftier songs" and "lighter fare" respectively. [2] For the album cover, the band found photographer Michael Elins, to create an image of a female soda jerk before a table covered with meat products and candy. Lead singer Matthew Ramsey told Rolling Stone that the album cover "shows our personality without showing us, and it definitely shows that we're trying to do something different". [2]

Critical reception

Giving it an "A−", Tammy Ragusa of Nash Country Weekly wrote that "The combination of catchy rhymes, clever lyrics, Matt Ramsey's warm, strong voice, and the band's subtle but delicious harmonie will have you singing, clapping, and dancing along." [1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying that "this is a sharper, savvier variation of Rascal Flatts: crossover pop as suited for an office as it is for a make-out session. That's an endorsement, not a dismissal: it's hard to sound this light and easy, but Old Dominion do it with aplomb and they're such talented craftsmen that Meat and Candy sounds better on the fifth play than it does on the first, and it sounds mighty fine that first time through." [5]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and No. 5 on the Top Country Albums, selling 20,500 copies in its first week. [6] Within the first month of its release, on November 28, 2016, it was certified Gold by the RIAA. [7] It peaked at No. 3 on the Country Albums chart on its 17th week of release in March 2016 due to sale at both iTunes and Google Play stores, with 10,200 sold for the week. [8] The album has sold 192,900 copies in the US as of May 2017. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Snapback"
3:26
2."Half Empty"
2:51
3."Wrong Turns"
  • Jenkins
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
3:26
4."Said Nobody"
  • Tursi
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
3:06
5."Crazy Beautiful Sexy"
3:10
6."Nowhere Fast"
  • Jenkins
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
3:10
7."Beer Can in a Truck Bed"
  • Jenkins
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
3:22
8."Break Up with Him"
  • Tursi
  • Geoff Sprung
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
  • Whit Sellers
3:27
9."Song for Another Time"
  • Tursi
  • Jenkins
  • Ramsey
  • Rosen
3:12
10."Til It's Over"
3:28
11."We Got It Right"
  • Ramsey
  • Copperman
  • McAnally
3:13

Personnel

Old Dominion

Additional musicians

Charts and certifications

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [7] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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References

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  7. 1 2 "American album certifications – Old Dominion – Meat and Candy". Recording Industry Association of America.
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